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Show SENATOR TELLER. ifJj'S H Congratulating Senator Teller on his re-elec- .r'" it ' l tion to the Senate, the Commoner expresses the j ,1m H hope that "the country may have the benefit of 'Pi ;B Senator Teller's services for many years to Jf v, fM come." We gravely doubt whether those ser- P,"' j vices will be valuable to the country or not. JL i They have been of no valuo for three years past. Ij't fjfl When a man reaches that point in life when a !ift:iH ,party or personal disappointment is sufficient to jH so embitter him that he turns against all that he i ' iH ever before professed, his services thereafter are ' ' ,a j ' M liable to be simply a brake on progress in any . j'TJjj. jB form. ''"'H In common with a few other gentlemen, upon , '.J jjB whom the Republican party had heaped honors t5 rM without stint, Senator Teller abandoned , the ( ' -l party of his youth and strong manhood. No one yl fH object to that. When a man's convictions 'lil'l'l' 1 1 change, if he is honest, he admits the change and jHr HB readjusts himself accordingly. But when he, ' h , , M with the change becomes a mere growler, suited t ' with nothing that Is done and still is unable to A t point out a better programme; when the bitterness ,.j' 'j-i'jB leads him away so far that he not only sets him- U J ; H self up in opposition to the government, but is 'rki ready to discourage the efforts of the soldiers of ('"V-- the government who, under orders, are uphold- J Ij 1 'M ing the country's standard on doubtful battle- j Vjlfl fields; then such a man, no matter how eminent ! ' ij his services may have been in the past becomes h i M merely an obstacle in the path of progress and f L& 'i should be retired. Such a man, if a soldier is ijjqjj Yfl relieved of his command. It should be the same $, u in civil life, and the unfortunate man should be llriivB given retirement wnereln to nurse and try to IjfaLj H'fl heal the heart-wounds that are consuming him. r B |