The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-04-02
Pleading the Baby Act.

The doughty Bourbons, who so
lorded it in the Senate two years age
that they proclaimed through Sena-
tor Salisbury, of Delaware, that they
were alone responsible for legislation,
and that no Republican need so much
as offer to amend any proposition,
are now duplicating for little Ion,
ger time at the public crib for the
officers and employees of that body.
They are so taken by surprise They
have no place to GO to! The Depart
ments are closed to them, SO one
Senator said. How are they to live
without office? They declare that
they did not know their days were
numbered. They had no idea that
General Malone would be true to
the men who sent him to the Senate.
They thought he weuld be false, as
Hill, of Georgia, who is here by the
aid of negro votes, added to the mi.
nority of the Democratic members
of the Legislature of that State.
They never mean what they say
when they pirate of accepting in
good faith the amendments to the
Constitution" and they hoped that
he did not. True. they knew that in
the campaign of 1879, which resulted
in the election of General Malone,
the members of the Legislature who
elected him never received a vote
from any man who did not vote
against the party which is recognized
by the Bourbon Senators in Congress
as the Democratic party. Every
Irregular" Democrat fought against
and voted against Malone, He has
been mathematical by the Virginia
regulars as fiercely as Ben Butler
ever was at New Orleans. Bayard
and Vance and Bayard and Barnum,
and the regular National Democratic
Committee, went into Virginia last
fall and accommodated him and all
the Readjusters from the national
organization. Every regular Demo
crat voted anti-mahone in 1879.
Every man elected to the Legislature
by the regular Democracy of Vir-
GINA that year voted against Malone
and in favor of With.rs. The only
hope the Bourbon party, North or
South, had Of General Malone was
that he might be base enough to de-
sert his folio wers. cowardly enough
to obey those who had yilified him,
and false enough never to have had
an honest conviction on the subject
of fair ballot.
Never was clumsier falsehood
than the pretense that the thirty.
seven Democrats and their Illinois
friend have been wronged by Gen
cral Mahone's refusal to train in their
company. They had full notice that
he was not of them. Every Bourbon
newspaper in Virginia announced il
when he was elected. When Indi-
ana and California elected Republi.
can Legislatures. everybody knew
the sceptre of power had departed
from the Bourbons in the Senate
The Georgia Overseer cracked his
whip, to be sure, to brighten Malone
after Democratic caucus committee
had failed to buy him with commit
tee positions: but, instead of stirring
up dough-faced cur. they walked g
tiger, and the prints of his teeth are
on the hands that laid held of him
and so they bawl and rant OF a bar.
gain, and of Mahone's wicked ways
on the debt question, although wher
they wooed him he was "a marvel.
Gus proper man." They swore they
had thirty-nine Democrats, and pit.
eously asked: "Who is going TO de.
sert?" General Malone was all the
Bourbon heart could desire if he
would only be Bourbon. But he
never deceived them for memsnt