Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-16
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WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAR. IS, 1881.
The Purchase of Malone.

How brazen it was in Conkling to az
raign his Democratic colleagues fer
pressing the organization of the commit
tees of the Senate and demanding that
they should delay until the arrival OF
Republican senators could make the
purchase of Malone effective! I! So far as
the Democratic senators knew, they had
a majority of the Senate when it was
full. Conkling knew otherwise. Ma
hone has been brought into the Republi-
can fold by men allied to him. The Phil
adelphia Press has been the Malone
organ and it is Conkling organ. Cor
ham, who was working for his old place
as secretary of the Senate, was the ne.
gotiator. He gets his reward, Malone
gets his, and Conkling his. Knowing
that by this purchased vote the Republi-
cans were to secure the organization of
the Senate, Conkling had the supreme
impudence to charge partisanship and
unfairness upon the Democratic sena-
tors for simply seeking to proceed with
the business of the Senate and to form
its committees as it was their right and
duty to do by virtue of their being in the
majority.
A Sun reporter interviewing Mr..
Samuel WilkeSOn as to his disastrous
connection with Henry Ward Beecher
in the Life of Christ, drew from him, as
illustrative of his opinion of Mr.. Beech
ers moral character, statement once
made to him 10y the famous lawyer OF
Albany, Nicholas Hill, about Caleb
Gushing. He described him as man of
great intellect who was organized
without conscience" The description
applies to many of our public men, and
conspicuously to Senator Conkling and
Senator Blaine. These men, personally
enemies, drawn awkwardly together by
party ties, unite to secure by utterly in.
defensible means the advantage to their
party which they expect from the or.
ganization of the Senate. The presi.
dent, whose organization has a con-
science but Il notably elastic and &c,
cOmmOdating one, aids the scheme with
the promise of the patronage upon which
it is based. He sends a bouquet OF
flowers to MahOne's desk; the Republi
cans senators cover him with the per
fume of sweet words of cOmmendatiOn
in which task the Republican press un
dertakes to help them. But the sinking
ness of this bargain between Malone
and the administration is too pronounced
to be disguised even in the concentrated
essence of altar Of roses. Republican
oratory and writing is inadequate to thu
task of persuading the people that thi'
bargain is Il decent one and honorable tt
any of the high contracting parties.
The Democratic party can more easil!
bear the loss of the Senate organization
than the Republican party can afford t.
have gained it in such manner. Here al
the very outset of this new administra
tiOn is its character exhibited, and tn,
fact demonstrated that it is ready t.
adopt any method to secure its aims
regardless OF its decency. The tone O.
the administration is fixed and it will
occur to every one that it is naturally
fixed, and just rs might be expected o
an administration in which Garfield ant
Blaine and Conkling are the elements il
the mixture. The president perjurer
the secretary Il thief, the senator al
adultereI