Show I THE SENATE Of all the men who have been chosen United States Senators during the past six weeks it may be doubted that one of them would have been elected if the people had had the choosing In New York there is a Democratic majority yet two Republicans represent the State in fhc Senate the awe is true of Connecticut Con-necticut and perhaps of other States Then the men made Senators by the Legislatures are not the men who would t bo chose by the voters ffhe Legislators Legisla-tors are dazzled by the display of wealth or are bought outright while the people h we neither confidence in nor respect for money bags As at present constituted and as it must necessarily be made up until the law has been changed the Senate is neither a representative nor republican body it is aristocratic in theory and is fast degenerating into au Asoejilion of money bags without brains Of the fccventyaix members not a score of them ha lepisltttive ability enough to sit in the common council of a fourth I rate city and perhaps there is not a dozen of them who would have been S thought of for the place had they been psor men Ever iiuce there has been a Senate there has ben a popular protest against the manutr of choosing the Senators that protest has grown louder with the years as the standard of ability education educa-tion and intelligence has been degraded and money has taken the place of brains in tbe Senatorial elections To I I such a disgraceful deireu has money the Senatorial seats I i ben used to get I thai there is a project of the eVIl I beib cured P nnsyvania leads offwitl a request fr a Constitutional amend rnnit making Dinted States Senator eective other States will follow and 1 I in the course of tmif the senate may I j ba presentawe anilepublican body of mil a l 1 a rir > l ncb of tbe egislativ I I dpdrimeit of government of which tll > uujiic may lie p oud The popJe d > not alwas iimke the best mrnina t tin nor eke tfe best ml n but thy d > not 111 a rule mistake money fi < j b ins and tin nin they elect usually I r present the people which cannot be ba said of the Senators today I |