Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-03-16
Opinions of Gen. NIaf,one's Course


lclD party. HIS claim that he is 90 'odepen
dent" aud will vote as BIO pleasos, will b, un-
dersood as claim that ha has right to vote
with the republican parry"
The philadelphia Times says: He will stay
with ths republican side OF the Senate snd
serve 1t With bis vote, because he wants tho
federal patronage of Virginia to help aorg bis
| population Schemes
The New lork Times SAYS: Gen. Malone
| has mado bis fight 10 his State professedly Oh
the Ns1e OF population. If his present c.
operation with tho republicans involves the use
OF patronage 10 Virginia to promote that doc.
| triDc /! will be very dearly bought. Tho partv
carnot sustain tho public faith 10 The nation
and uurso reputation 10 State Such Gem.
promises arc tar-rcaohlng in their ithlepce,
and wherever 1t reaches that ilflltrc, IS vicious
md uuWbolesomc.
The New York World nays: Most of the
republican Senators expressed their opinions of
Gen. Msbone's conduct 10 eloquent silc1c,. TO
every sale there ara two parties Tho o6um of
selling his senatorial vote remains with Senator
Malone. but the odiup OF buying it belongs to
the republicans. The democrats 10 the Senate
have behaved throughout the transaction which
has resulted 10 the pcrchesu of Senator Malone
with dignity and respect fer their party and
inr themselves 10 the es!inatioo CT the country.
The republicans have made bad bargain
Tho Petersburg lndey-Appcal ssy:: The
circumstance Is pregnant with interest to TIE
| future OF Virgins, TOR it mag have the fleet OF
turniog her State government Gvir to the 70.
putlican party. General Mahono as q repubIi
can ID The Senate, AID success impossible TO the
reaCuicrs Id tho State without q c1alii9n with
me republicans mere, tho democratic party Of
! rain Ios T. i
ever If 1t would retain control of State end lcc,
governments.
| The L71ohburg Vireioian says: "Wo trust
! that Virginia conservatives nre now satisfied ns
to where the leadership Of lho rcadjuster ctief
would land them and that thos, Cf iLecl who
| havo been IN sympathy with him on the debt
| question, Will DO hoodwinked 40 longer. but
unite w'h the men Who, having saved The
State thus lar, are making an homes effort to
settl.a, The debt question and got it out of poll
licI."
The Washington Post says "Nei.her do no
Imagine that Whatever claim is made or assug-
arco 2iVen-auy considerable num5Cr of the ia'
tellgcni, reading portion Of tho people Of the
| UGited States will be induced to believe that
hlr. Mahono's courso is not tho result very
vulgar tradc-a trade which s,i!s and diserac,s
both parties.
The Baltimore Gaz,te say4: "We arc con.
sccus CT mora sorrow on Virgpias account
than, OF either Contempt or pity for Mahcnc.
No Senator from that State has evcr b.toro sur
rendered the trust reposCd 10 him to his psrty's
enemies. Mahono will discover that bis new
| friends will remain iruo to him 90 loog as his
vote IS worth their loyalty, % longer. ord tho
prospect before him is not of tho brightcs. We
venture TO predict, however, that whatever may
be The elect upoa the personal or poli!ic, fJr-
| tunes OF The Seostor himself. or upon the cause
OF tue reacu or of tho democrats 10 V!r-
glnls, the successor CT Mabouo will BIO man
as 10 whose fealty to tho democratic party there
will DO no shadow of doubt"
The Richmond Wbig Gays: "Evcn his enc.
mics must acknowledge that he was equal to
tho OCCASION, and that he snalched new laurels
from tho very circumstances prepared to in
tlmlda!e or 10 degrade him. Rising 10 the
height OF the emergency, he braveIy and graudlg
proclaimed Ills mission as ono for above mere
partisan ties and partisan aims. With Fl le
| SOLID OF tho party and sectional lash WELDED By
tho Georgian bluudcrborc, no reminded that
whpper 10 that he was not elected as demo-
crat, but rs rcadjustcr, He had been cits n
to represent liberal aid esCilstcr Vlguia
against the mRlsbaed and combined power aud
lrhleEce OF both pirtlcs-thcir allies ard thor
mechnes, 10 and out OF tho State. Ho must
| bs truly poor student OF the tim :a who Gao.
not comprehend that VIM. hlahoDe on Monday
last, 10 the Senate of thu United States. per-
formed 80 act OF herolsn, patriotism and
craftsmanship which wins him high nicho 10
tho American Pantheon, and which eurolIs bis
nsmo forever among tho most i!ustr!ous sons Of
Virgieia. As Patrick Kerry li7es ia rovcred
Immortality as the great Virgidian who rut tho
ball OF the revolution 10 molten, SO will Wm.
Mahono share his Immortality as tho g.cat Vr.
slnlau who dared to take the frs. STEPS 10 the
pacEcltlo1 aid reunion CT tn, esrapgcd and
.mbltur d Sections CT the cou1;ry."
The Richmond Sia.o lays: in lhaL years
election OF To st Legislature which elected him
Senator, MahCn3 lot stone unturned in his
| effort to provo that he wss 8 democrat, and
| would always be democrat ia national politics,
! bis friends proclaimed this upon every stump;
his newspapers published 1t from day " day; in
private Interviews he svo%ed it over ard over,
aid Virgins sets with I'll smsEament greater
thsn that Of the Georgia Senator TIA! he uses the
commission given him By one party in order to
serve for MS own purposes the ether party"
The Baltimore Emericsa says: ut is all very
well TO charge Gen. Malone with "Greachery,"
etc but his accusers ought 10 be little more
particular in defining what they mean by the
term. Senator Miahono was ignored by the
nstioEsl democratic comm!ttt O last fall and read
out OF the party. He certainly, therefore, owes
no allegiance to the democrats. So far as the
republicans are concerned he is az liberty TO
vote as he plcsses. No formal coalition or COM
promise between tho republicans and the 70.
a5juster Senator is to be thought Of for
moment. 10 has the right to vote ss has judg.
ment may dic.sto and his vots is Just ss ei9s.
tive as that OF hny other Senator
The Now York Herald says: I'VE arc ais.
posed TO emphasize the opinion exorassed BIZ
our special correspondent in his Washington
dispatch yesterday morning that the course Of
General Malone, the Senator from Virginia, is
not only honorable to kim but wise Tor the
South. go far as Senator Malone stands in the
Senate as the representative of the sn.i"Bour-
bon element in the South his position is an i'd.
mirable ono. Nor can we sec how, from thst
position, he could have entered into the demo.
! cratic caucus"
| The Philadelphia Record saya: "Eut for the
general conGdence in his democracy, Mr.. Ms.
none could never have rallied Large plurality
| OF The votes of Virginia 10 his support as he did