Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-12-16

ates.
rae asshessng Ventures.
For the first time since the tidal
wave Of 1874 . Congress has as
.smbled In Warrington which is
In beth branches. I'll
10 true that 1t would not be Repub.
licAn In either branch were 1t not
for the presence, In both bodies, OF
! large purchAsable element-po-
lltical cattle We prefer to dub IT.
which 10 either Greenbacker, Re-
former, Rsadjuster. or is known by
some other fastastical and decep-
tive name. Two alternative desti.
MES awaited David Davis, Of
Illinois, who was elected to the pc.
sltion which he fills by
Democratic votes from the point
Of avoirdupois = viz, either to
be melted down In q soap fac.
tory, his three hundred pounds OF
adipese tissue enriching the lucky
establishment, or his inevitable
purchase by the Republicans. 1t IL
very doubtful az to which of these
alternatives would be the moss de-
grading. David Davis, resolved
into soft soap, or David Davis, Sc
duced by the bait of the Presidency
pro tenn. of the United States SEN
ate, joining the Republicans, is
proposition as to which the most
subtle Political economist would
be indifferent. The substantial
things, In this connection, are that
David Davis has approved himself
to be . political "gut"-may all
the osthstes, both In Europe and
America. forgive the vulgar term;
and that, repudiated by the men
who purchased his compliance by
the bribe Of position, Davis, with
his unexamplsd avoirdupois, will
soon disappear from public life.
Mean as the Republican party
10. from many staudpoints, 1t is
not mean enough to try to galvaH-
aniss David Davis Into any form
OF renewed political life. At the
next meeting Of the Illinois Lsgis-
iature he will disappear from the
United States Senate.
Dismissing this lsvisthan Of the
political waters to the obscurity
which will soon be bis without
contest or opposition-an obscurity
which will DO a. binding and
penumbrous 90 the blackness Of the
Cimmeria of old-ths next repug-
nant feature In the Republican cen.
troll Of the United States Senate 10
encountered In the person Of one
Malone, of Virginia. He is the per-
ssnsl antithesis Of David Davis,
Weighing about ninety poundr,
more or less. We notice one thing
about all these abnormally heavy
and light weight statesmen-frem
David Davis to Alexander a. Ste
phens and his gossamer append
age, Mahone-they are poor pee
pie to tic to. Nature has discrim-
mated against them all, aud they
repay the scurvy trick by fine
knack Of treachery to every ore
who trusts in them. Malone to-
day is chuckllng and exultant
over having prostltuted the name
Of the fine old Commonwealth Of
virginia-ovsr having trailed its
sacred earlier associations In the
dust. His light weight archstype,
Alexander Fl. Stephens, who is
man Of infinitely more ability
than Malone, after having accept
ed tho Vice-Presidency of the
Southern Confederacy, hamstrung
the movement from the word 60
by making . speech in which he
announced that slavery was the
cornerstone of the new projected
Republic, thus shocking every re-
spectacle idea Of the later days Of
the nineteenth century, and insur-
ing defeat to the cause with which
hs WAS Identified.
From this brief review any fair
minded man will distrust both the
heavy and the very light weights
Of our modern politics.
David Davis and Malone, by
their peculiar and selfish trsash-
cry, have given the Senate Of the
United States to the Republican
party. That energetic Organise
ton has put itself at the mercy Of
the meanest political trimmsrs
who have ever figured In the poll
tics Of the United States.
But deeper depths Of degradation
await the Republican party. In
the State Of Virginia the Repub-
licsns threw their whole strength
for Mahone's bastard ticket. With
out this help, embodied In the ig-
norant and irresponsible negro
vote, which the Republicans con-
troll, the Democrats would have
carried Virginia by overwhelming |
udds-by Q vote which would have
represented the integrity and hon.
Dsty Of that ancient and illustrious
oommonwealth. The telegrams,