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Show SENATORIAL PURITY. , An arliolu ffiin ih'j N.:tf Yurie Ilcr-til Ilcr-til 1, wlii;U u'i:uro in a no t lie r column, with lln; caption ".Sanctify and Hm to the iHiiutu," L'umi'tt wall mure ttiao i ffi'iifj'c f'.!-;.; wh' f: Htj.'ilciiietite'i by tho Uut tlur, ily l,-:t.jitj yp,ter'.i.y, (!Ptiafir l';ni'T'y, of Kari-a.1, wan ar-ronUd ar-ronUd In Ins i.wii Htaic, by the lenis-laturt) lenis-laturt) wli'ti-o fitilfrujf-K fur rn elmiiuD hum st-ulun, ami hM to liail oo tho uliiirii; of jtiljt:iy. I'Ik; ui;tnin:r in which the ctiarff" w.i Lnmulit home to I'uiiicrny, hy York, of Mutififoraery C'jiiul y, mIi'iwi that, tlii latter fully nymir. lil. '1 with t h ft fcclintn and 0 iniuim (jl 'hie i:')ii-tiiu';:it3 relative to l'oiin-f'.y, wlii..!i tix.y (xrvwl when politely iul'friJiinK him lin y wuuld han lnui if he ventured to vote lor the reelection re-election of thu "piuNH old fraud-" l'nmi;niy haw buen twelve years io the inmate, hnviug been elected firt :n I Ml, and ro elected in 1m7. ile in a lt publican, an Kad.'ian heridri do tiling bine to fiongreri!,. lie flu right re-election aifuin, hiH present term expiring on Mareb 4th. It wi known before the meeting of the legislature of Kansas that money was to ho freely tiaed to Hceurc victory for hitn, and nuonerouH meetings and caucuses were held of Inn fricn Ifi and tlioso of bin oi'iioni.'ul.i, with branch moet-iiKH moet-iiKH to dinounn m do iisnefl, in tho nhapo of packages of greenbacks, with which it waa expected a heavy breuob eould bo made in the tanks of the I ei "i hi tors affecting enmity to the senator's oonlinuing in tho Beat he has ao long kept warm. That Pomeroy is guilty an charged no unprejudiced person per-son aequaiotcd at all with his history will doubt, and when hit. friends in Washington as-tort that the ohargo is basod on perjury, ihuir statement Booms vory liko a lant despairing effort to cover guilt and bolster up an overthrown over-thrown reputation. That it will affect tho Caldwell cano ecema scarcely possible, possi-ble, for if Ualdwell in not already doomed to expulsion by tho senate it ia hardly probable that any act of any other man could iufluonco a decision in thu ouho, an tho body that could retain hiiu ait a pure member would Hoem to have lot all scnaa of impurity and venality. Tho Credit Mobilior investigation has blackened tho reputation and suc-ooHbfully suc-ooHbfully impeached tho voracity of the vioc-preaidoiit of the Uuited States, of Nowman'.s "great, good man" ex-scerotary ex-scerotary of 1I10 interior and senator Oanieu llarlau, of Liwa, senator Patterson, Pat-terson, and a number of momberp of tho houo of representatives. Senator Caldwell, of Kansas, ia on trial in tho shnpo of an investigation on tho ohargo of procuring pro-curing his election by oorrupt means; tho aauio charge is also made against Clayton, of Arkansas, and Robertson, of South Carolina, both of whose terms run to March 1877; while B igy, tho newly elected senator from Missouri, Mis-souri, has the Barao accusation made against h:ui; and of Jones, of Nevada, it ia said that his election oost him half a million, of which eum tho Chicago Tribuno iaya it ia assorted Nyo received lil'ty thousand dollars to withdraw from tho oontcst. This is not a very encouraging showing, show-ing, seeing that it affects tho highest lcginlativo chamber in tho Republic; and it springs tho question as to how, or by what means, theso senators expect ex-pect to havo tho money thus expended refunded, with a payiDg per oentago of iutorost for tho investment, as it is utterly ut-terly unreasonable to suppose that theso men aro thua lavish with their money merely for tho hocor of being U. S. t-onatorj.? Do thoy expect to teal tho amount in some way from tho public purse? Of do they sell their iutlutiDoe, which position and opportunity oppor-tunity givo them? Aud yet tho fact that thero are men in tho seuato against whom suoh charges can bo successfully maintained, is, of itself, not so alarming, as that so many State legislatures contain so many venal individuals, drawn directly from the rank of tho people and elected by them, who aro so open to bribery, so utterly lost to a sense of justice, patriotism, patri-otism, and the good of their constituents. constitu-ents. This argues ono of two things either that tho popular sense of honesty, hon-esty, honor aud high mindedneas is terribly blunted, or that tho caucus .system of nominations is cursing tho country with a blight as destructive as moral mildew. That tho latter is the cisc, and not tho former, wo believe there is sufficient evidence to show; aud to meet tho demand of the strong, honest pceso of the country at large, both branches of congress will do a wise and noble thing by expelling from their deliberative halls every mm igainst whom tho corruption charged can be proved, even if it compels the reelection re-election of half their members. |