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Show IN'DEPKNOIlN ff PFF.KFF.K. A. V e..hw -s a gery)r&-TuY ToiucTanil'1'! il '" MM office. He ihoii 1 null latly auif often and alwayslnTvain. Every newfangled new-fangled movement(brings to tho surface, sur-face, and sweeps into office, some independents inde-pendents mustering under diverse devices de-vices as reformers, mugwumps, laborers, labor-ers, and recently farmers, and after a span of brief authority they retire without with-out leaving anything behind them except a sense of disappointment on tho part of their constituents. Fvcn so able a man as David Davis hiado no impres- sion on the ssml prints ot Ms time when he essayed the part of an independent in the United States senate. Owing to the tie then existing ho was elected president pro tern., but with all this chance and prestige thus accorded, he Tailed utterly in carving out a worthy record for himself. Had he identilied himself w ith one or the other of the great parties his field of usefulness would have expanded to the full reach of his rare capacity. Next to David Davis the strongest independent in-dependent in the senate since the war was General Mahone, who with Kiddle-berger Kiddle-berger drifted in on the Virginia read-jusler read-jusler wave. For a time the two succeeded suc-ceeded in making considerable noise, but nothing else, And yet the senate of the United States offers the best opportunity op-portunity for the display of independence, independ-ence, because it is the most deliberative body and yet not too largo to sink tho individual in the multitude as in the house. What, then, is old man Pfeffer, whose whole, s.ile and only reputation consists in being tho successor of Ingalls, going to accomplish there? |