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Show Statesmen in Love. The dispatches think it necessary to inform in-form us that Senator Wade Hampton has become infatuated with Mme. Rhea Senator Jones, of Florida, is considered insane ior snowing his love for an heiress. Senator Christiancy attracted universal attention when he became enamored of a fair Treasury clerk. In all these cases the prevalent idea has apparently been that a Senator differs in some respects I from other men that he should be proof against the darts of love, and that if he shows himself to be vulnerable it is a sign of an unbalanced mind. These assumptions are all unfounded A Senator is simply an ordinary man-generally man-generally a very ordinary man. Like other men, he is sometimes in danger of falling m love. Occasionally he even displays the prevalent affection for money. His tastes, m all respects, are those of I the masses. It is fortunate that this is sot ii a benator were a creature so different from his constituents as to be unaffected by their passions, how could they judge him, and know him when his actions were right and when wrong? Public men have sometimes been represented by cynics as mere money-making machines ma-chines destitute of all human feeling. In reality they are people subject to the ordinary temptations, which they resist. the-v. d0 resist, from the ordinary motives. Any man who can understand hlm78e!fi?an understand his Senator? We think, then, that the telegraphic s;nDm!g,ht Bpr? us the counts of SSnS naVyeaffairs- That Mr. Jones . SSi a E'etty W0Ian is no "uity. .mat ms admiration EmJi ,WO or three millions of unromantic dollars may be a reflection on h,s imagination, but not on bis ever? I JT1688 sense- If his opponents can find no more extravagant eccentricity to charge against himThia re-election oughtnot to be difficult, especially if he geta the heiress in time.-JL Francisco |