The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1898-05-21
The PerniciOus Changing of Congress-
men.

A letter has been received from
General Catchlngs, stating that
the sundry civil bill has passed.
and that this district Will again re-
ceive as much as has been expect
ed This is the best answer which
can be made to the many efforts
to belittle the work accomplished
by Mr.. Catchings for the district
IN the past, and which, as shown
nv the letter mentioned. will be
continued in future while he IS
our representative. 1t would be
impossible for any greater graft
6cation to be felt by Mr.. Catch
mos and his friends than that at
forded by the extraordinary inter
est which is taken in his re-eIec-
ton, not only in his own district,
Int over the whole state, and even
bevond if. Indeed, during the past
week the necessity for his return
tocongress has been made the SUD
1ect of leading editorials in all the
most powerful and Influential!
papers of the lower Mississippi
Valley. The Times-Democrat, OF
New Orleans, the leading free
silver paper of the Sou Invest ur-
ges his reelection in a manner
which leaves no room for argu-
ment on the subject. The Com
mercial-Appeal, the leading paper
of Memphis, is equally strong IN
urging upon the people OF the
Third District that in the return OF
Cstchings tits not only the vel
fare e the delta which Is at stake,
but that Of the whole alluylal re
gion. These editorials will be 1
given to the readers of THE TINES
as space can be found for them,
but today the admirable plea pre-
sented is formed Of extracts from
a powerful but lengthy article in
the Picayune, which voices
the thought Of many in this
regard, and indeed must APP
peal powerfully to all who have
given the subject any degree Of
consideration.
1t is one of the peculiarities of
the Southern Democrats that as
soon as they get a Representative
in Congress who acquires a knowl-
edge of men and things in Wash
ington that enables him to be Of
real use to his State and constit-
uents they turn him out and put
and put in a new man who is
wholly ignorant and wholly pow
erless to do any good in the inn
portant situation to which he has
been so suddenly raised.
In the Northern States, among
he Republicans, the rule is diff
terent. Hungry as they are for {
public spoils and plumber, they ]
inow the benefit of keeping tried ,
md able men in Congress. a
Probably this is one of the rea- /
ons why the Republicans have d
,een so generally able to dominate j
he Government b
As an evidence Of the little =,
,eight and influence new mem !,
ers exert in the councils of the n
alton may be cited the fact of the :,
wv places they get on the stand +
lg and special committees and of "
re comparatively unimportant .
Dmmittees upon which they are -,
laced. ~ ~
th
Many an ambitious fellow thinks "
at if he were only in Congress a. a.
: would shake up the dry bones ~ ~
I'll make Rome or some other Of -
c worlds capitals, like Washing
n, for instance. howl. When he
Is there, and after much patient III
liting and the enduring of many of
ubs and sneers is finally ac- or
rded an opportunity to deliver q,
mself of his great speech, pre- !.
red and pondered over with III
lch painful effort, he is Mortified WI
d mortified to see how little it th,
s regarded; how few members val
tened to him and how unutter- oo.
" fiat it all fell, and at last real P'
S how smell an atom he is in an