Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-15
BnlIE Malone.

Among the intimate personal friends
of "Mahone. Virginia" he has hereto
fore been known Familiarity as Billy"
Among those who have recently become
acquainted with him through the noto-
riety he has received by his course in
the United States Senate, he will hereafter
be known as Bully" Twice recently he
has attempted to play that role. a few
days ago he tried it with Senator Voor-
hees, of Indiana, but the Tall Syca-
more of the Wabash" at that time,
penned him up so closely that it was
thought he had been taught a
lasting lesson. Not so, however. Again,
on Wednesday last, because Mr.. Hill, of
Georgia, denied the assertion that the
Democrats ever had, or ever would have,
bought his vote for which they would
not have given a fig, the little Virginia
Repudiator swelled and clustered, and
asserted that 10 man less than a coward
would insinuate that his vote could be
bought.
1t is hard to see what connection
there can be between making such an in
situation as the above and cowardice,
since the making it is evident proof that
the man who does so is not at all afraid
of the little man from Virginia. Such
assertions on the part of this latter
individual, however, but tend to pre-
sent him in a very ridiculous light.
Mr.. Malone, if he is not blind
ed by insufferable vanity, must
see that every body of any intelli-
gence in the country knows that if he
had not voted with the Republicans in
organizing the Senate committees that
party would never, for a moment, have
thought of voting for either Gorham or
R~iddleberger for Secretary and Sergeant
at-Arns of the Senate, respectively. The
former had been read out of the Repub-
lican party, and the mere mention of the
name of the latter for such a position
as he aspires to would have been
instantly spurned with contempt,
he having been a Confederate officer,
a Democrat and a re~pudiationist, all
three Of which the Republicans have al
ways claimed to hold in special detesta-
ton. 1t is evident, therefore, that some
thing has occurred to work a great revo
luton in Republican sentiment, and the
country knows that nothing has occurred
except that Malone, the friend of those
two parties specially Objectionable to the
Republicans, consented to vote with the
Republican party. Actions speak louder
than words. Mr. Malone may deny it
until doomsday, but he can never
induce any sensible man in
the country to believe that his sudden
change of political base was not the
cause of the sudden ebullition of affec-
ton among the Republicans for Gorham
and Riddleberger, and that, therefore, if
his vote was not bought outright, it was
the subject of a bargain between the CON
tracing parties, and, further, that Ma.
hone having fulfilled his part of the con
tract, the Republicans are now endeavor-
ing to fulfill theirs, even at the expense
of the public welfare, and clogging public
business.
Mr.. Hills reply to Malone was very
appropriate and conclusive when he told
that diminutive repudiator that if che
thinks he a suppress gentlemen in dis
cussion in the Senate by assuming to
play the bully, he is mistaken" He will
find out that this is the case, and he will
also find it equally as true that if he un-
dertakes to call to account every man in
the country who is Of the opinion that
he has made an Infamous coalition with
the Republicans for selfish and ambitious
purposes, he will have his hands Sc full
that he viii sink exhausted under the
task.