Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-11-11
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THURSDAY EVENING, NOV. IL. 1880.
The Flight Of the FleaS.

Georgia, since the election manifests his
customary inclination to leap wildly
about in search Of a fresh political perch.
The senator has been fastened down un-
usually long on Democratic ground, by
the force OF circumstances. but it would
have been very surprising if he had been
found disposed 10 withstand the buffeting
of the recent storm. He is on the jump
now ard is very likely to get down out
side the Democratic PARTY, along with
Mahonc, 4 free -booting politician with
much more method in his madness.
Hill is troubled just now with the solid
So,t'. and solid North phase of our poll
ties, and thinks the country is surely
ruined if it continues. lie proposes to
amend the situation by abolishing the
Democratic party which is hated by the
solid North and the Republican party
Whci, is in like disfavOr with the solid
South. This manifestation Of political
wisloHl he makes in a letter to Congress-
man Ciittende,,. Republican, Of Brook
lyn. TO whom he writes to express
his great regret that lie has been
deinatc,, for reelection. Evident
ly Mr.. Helps party ties sit light
ly on him; not only because he
has stomach to sympathize with de-
fea:e,l Republican, but because he is
so ready to whistle down the wind the
party which has placed him in theuSeD-
ate TO represent il. II would occur TO
any i.an Of ordinary sense and percep-
ton of the fitness OF things that
it would be becoming. in him to
hear from his constituents as to
whether they have suffered Il change of
political views before he announces his
readiness to tomahawk their party. Mr..
Hill does not seem TO be troubled with
any such thought of duty to his party.
He feels like a free lance who is COM
missioIcd to thrust his steel into the
body of Il friend Or foe rs seemeth good
to him. And maybe i,c has this right ;
but hardly while he is Il Democratic
senator II he wonli he thus free he
should resign. Then he may propose
what radical remedies he pleases for the
politica. evils he sees but until then he
should do his work with the Democratic
party and not over its dead body.
Mr.. Hill, besides being 4 traitor, may
safely ha denominatcd Il fool. The folly
OF asking tie ,liSl,andment of the Re
publican party, which has just renewed
its lease Of power, is instantly conSpicu-
Gus. bn; il; is hardly more SO than the
sane suggestion as to the Democratic
party. which has obtained an equal share
OF the popular vote. which has in every
state in the Union q strong following,
reaching in al tie great Northern states
very close to onc-llalf of the vote, which
has failed 10 elect its president 10y the
narrowcst possible chance, and which
holds the control of Congress. A party
SO strong in the North and with such Il
so!ii hold upon tho South is not likely to
commit i::sri kari ut the advice Of such
wild political !capers as Senator Hill.
No doubt. at the commencement of
another fnlr years term of wandering
in the wilderness. il will lose many Hills
and Mahoncs and that sort Of light and
mcrcvnary trash. 1t is quite possible that
the efforts of the Republican administra-
tion. if 80 directed, may erect Repnb-
ican party in the South. that will find
plenty "i' officers in men who will
Ia. n.,,:l, i,n,,,; OIL &C fha
Democratic party. The Republican
party l.a,i the opportunity at the
close nc the war to get the solid control
OF the south. but it had not the needed
sagaci;y. Il chose 10 forcib!y establish
itself l,y the ail Of the carpet-bag gov
ernnl;:ntS ai.si tn" negroes rather than by
coNciliatii:g the people who held the
sovereign power of the states and who
their autonomy WAS re-eStablislled. That
came in the course of Il few years and
then the Republican party went out, be-
cause it had not shown itself friendly to
the ruling people. That mistake
it is too late now to remedy,
but il Is sti in the choice Of the Republi-
cans to Use the patronage and power they
have again Won 10 build up their party
;n the South toa condition in which it
iGay threaten Democ ratio supremacy in
Some OF the states. 1t has good nucle-
us iii Virginia, where it already has
been in alliance with Malone. There is
hardiya doubt that this alliance will
continue and that Malone will act with
the administration in the Senate. He can
be had if his price is paid, and in the
close state OF that body he is worth any
price he may ask. Senator Hill seems to
be ready to aid the work in Georgia, and
though he is not freebooter like Ma
hone. the value of his vote i'm the Senate
and his natural disposition to go off at a
tangent may very possibly make him
the apostle of the new dispensation.
Tennessee has already a strong Republi-
can hOdyof a hundred thousand voters,
and there is Il chance that they may
even get Maynard, their Moses, into the
United States Senate. So there is an ex-
cellert showing for a itepub lican party
South.
There is certainly none for the disintc-
grafton Of either OK the great existing
parties. The sioughing off which the
Democratic party will suffer in the South
will benefit rather than injure ii. It is a
great advantage to Il party, as we'll as to
tie people, to have powerful opposition