Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-26
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SATURDAY EVENING. MARCH %, 1881.
The Comfortable Senators.

SAIO6OAX EVENING" AAHCa % l00ls
The Comfortable Senators.
The Republican senators must be be-
ginning to feel their alliance with Ma
hone TO be as uncomfortable as the shirt
of Nessus, while their Democratic as
sociates frolic gaily around them under
q pleasprab!e sense of relia from the
embarrassment of the Southern briga-
der. When the Republican planners of
the Malone purchase fully come to real
ize its cost, they will have good reason to
consider that they have paid very dear
for their whistle, or rather their jews
harp for it has very sharp sound 10
the public ear and has not called forth
for the performers any very hearty com.
mendation. To the Democratic party
it is a very valuable thing that the
Republican orators have so completely
cstopped themselves from any future
effort to attempt its prejudice in the
Northern mind by charging against it
its support by the soldiers Of the Confed-
eracy. This has been a favorite and ef-
fective weapon of offence in the hands of
our political opponents not simply in
the way OF exciting the prejudice of the
Northern voter, but in embarrassing the
Southern Democrat in his advocacy of
the party. He found that he could not
speak without misconstruction, and he
was not happy in the silence that was en-
forced upon him, and the position in the
background of political affairs that pru.
dence commended to him. In the future
be is free rs air. No longer need he re-
frain from the exercise of his right as An
American citizen to speak and act. No
longer will any one dare to seek to pre-
judice any portion Of the people against
him by reason of his rebellion record.
For the Republican party has taken
William Malone to its bosom, a rebel
major general, who to-day declares that
but for accident he would at one time
have destroyed the Union army and its
cause and who not only has upon him
the weight of this former disloyalty, '. but
also represents in his person the heresy
of reputation. The party which has
proclaimed its loyalty during the rebel
lion and its devotion to the preservation
of national and state credit to be the
foundation stones Of its existence, has
embraced and forgiven and made use of
an arch rebel and repudiator. No man
in the South exists to-day who is more
obnoxious to the prejudices which the
Republican party has for twenty years
past been intoxicating in the Northern
mind. And this man it has now
taken to he the head of the corner.
It has made him chairman of an i'm
portant committee, an unheard-Of
honor to a new member; and has given
him place on three other committees.
Ithas nominated for the Senate secretary.
ship the man who negotiated its alliance
with Malone. 1t has nominated, for the
second officer of the Senate, man pro-
posed by Malone, and who is known IL
fame as the author of the &" Riddleberger
bill'' which repudiates a large part OF
the debt of Virginia.
What could this party do more 10
close their mouth against the Southern,
brigadier? 1t can assail him neither fol
dislOyalty nor for the desire to repudiate
his debt, which has seized upon so many
. of those to whom wars hard fate left a
legacy Of poverty. We may, therefore
now consider the old things to have fairly
Tl,n In, st.E IL, n,
over: The bloody shirt has gone into
the rag barrel. That the Southern man
is as good as the Northern man and
standson an equal political footing. there
is no one hereafter to dispute. That
this is Il great advantage to the Demo
cratic party, whose Southern allies have
suffered SO severely under Northern
prejudice, no one will gainsay. The
Southern Democratic senators appreciate
it. They pour hot shot into their Re-
publican associates and rally them upon
their strange recruit in way which ties
tifies to their thorough enjoyment of the
situation. The Republican senators do not
enjoy it SO much. Mr.. HOar so far fOrgets
himself and his own record as to charge
treason upon Senator Brown for filibus.
tering. It came to him naturally to cry
treason. He has been crying it so long
that word rolled out of his mouth invol.
unfairly; and he suffered the neatest
sort of decapitation when Senator Brown
showed him that on a previous occasion
he had been himself guilty of this very
filibuStering which he now charged as
treason. Mr.. Hoar's head rolled right
off into the basket from the block and
under the knife which he had erected
for his brother senator, who was from
the South.
There is solid comfort in. Malone.
He is just where he can do the most
good. Who hired him to do the Demo-
cratic party SO much benefit? 1t is to
Mr.. Garfield and Mr.. Conkling, blind
leaders of the blind, that their political
foes owe this boon.
The acquittal of Kalloch, in San
Francisco, was clearly due to the public
sentiment that the newspaper, whose
proprietor was slain, had provoked his
fate. Kalloch, the mayor of San Fran
cisco, when preacher in Massachusetts,,
had so otransgressed the moral law as to
be driven from his pulpit. DeYoung