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Show A SENATE OF NOTABLES. Gov. Cummins ought to be in the Senate, Sen-ate, but is his ruifortune to live in a State that is already well and ablv represented there by men to whom he is loyal His cause Brings attention to a thintc that in the mind of the writer has always been a defect in our representative repre-sentative system. The Senate should be a body of men made up of those leaders or public opinion best able to represent the political feeling and faith of their, constituents. As it is, it can not be so, because the man who is the ablest exponent of a policy to which the public opinion of a State is pledged may live and often does live in a State whose citizens in the main hold other views, while th State with which he is in accord must send to the Senate less capable men because within its own citizenship it cannot do better. The Senate should be made up of men who belong, so far as considerations considera-tions of residence are concerned, to the Nation rather than to the State. If it were possible for the people of a State to choose for the Senate men who had distinguished themselves bv the advocacy advo-cacy of politics which that State wished to advance, regardless of their place of residence, js in England, we should hafe a body of finer and more disinterested disinter-ested statesmen in the upper house. The country at large would then secure the services of such magnificent leaders lead-ers of men as Gov. cummins among Republicans, and William J. Bryan, among Democrats. At least it would be possible for the various political ideas of various commonwealths to be adequately and ably represented at Washington. Arena. |