Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-03-26
porrELLE's FATE.

Charge 'em Ajax Boutslle enjoys the
| distinction Of being the only man In
Congress who voted against the bill re-
healing the statute which rendered ineli-
gibie TO hold commissions in the naval or
mlita.y service of the United States per-
sons who held such commissions at the
outbreak Of the civil war, and who subse-
| quently served in the Confederate army.
| In this respect the man from the north
eastern suburbs Of .he United States
stands forth solitary figure, wrapped
! in the mantle Of sectionalism, and with
his brow bound with the remnant OF she
| bloody-shirt. No turbanned, bowling der
wish hermit Of the sands OF the Lybian de-
/ sert was ever more all by himself with his
| fanaticism than this isolated leader OF
war on the South.
In conjunction with other South-haters,
Charge 'em Ajax Boutelle has aforetine'
and often times. made a record of fear
| that some southern brigadier would pop
a cap but rot until Tuesday was the OPP
portunity afforded him of being the whole
detachment Of quaker gun, without a
vestige Of support.
The bill in question was introduced In
the Senate by Senator Hin during the
height Of the Venezuelan excitement. and,
as was said on the floor of the House
Tuesday, 1t passed the upper body after
Eve minutes of consideration. on reach
ing the House IT was referred TO the
Committee on Military Affairs, from which
il was reported favorably, and no one
baf .
with the slightest opposition in the lower
branch. But alas for human calculations.
Charge em Ajax Boutelle was loaded.
and proceeded 10 deliver himself Of a
gush Of loyalty" that must have made
the names of dead issues caper i'm ghoul-
ish glce. Charge EN- Ajax Boutelle saw
his opportunity to make a more unmiti-
gated donkey Of himself than ever before.
and he went for it thar and then" His
object was to stir up a hornets nest.
and he succeeded, but all Of the hornets
were of the Republican, and, save one, Of
the northern variety. The Democrats and
the southern men, with the one exception
noted, viewed the conflict with a spirit
akin 10 that with which the old woman
watched the fight between her husband
and the bar.
Charge 'em Ajax Boutelle dehed the
lightning Of his own party. however, to
the end, and we are dramatically told by
a Washington correspondent that his soi-
tary mo" resounded through the House
like the noise of cannon. There is some
thing very suggestive in this, for that
mo" will 90 resounding down through the
ages as typical Of wfat a negative guam
tity sectionaism has become. 1t tells
that the occupation Of the stirrer-up Of
strife is vanishing. No doubt, despite the
lesson OF Tuesday, Charge 'em Ajax Bou-
tele's voice will stll be for war. But
whom can he fight in order to keep bright
his brilliant genius for venomous attacks
on the South? He cannot afford TO fight
his own party. and the Democrats evil
IDENTIFY do not propose to take any fur
Their notice of him. His venom. there
fore, foreshadows a fate outlined by But
Ter:
"The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty.
For want of fighting was grown rusty
And ate into itself for lack
OF somebody to hew and hack"
Bye bye, Charge 'em Ajax Boutelle. Our
advice TO you is that you HE to some
boundless contiglity of shade in the lum-
Der regions of Maine. where. away from
the maddening indifference of the press
and the public TO your outbursts, you can
hug unmoested the delusion that you are
a leader OF your party.