National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-06
Concerning Mahone,s Vote.

Governor, was regularly sworn IN at the
opening of the present session without
objection from any quarter. He Is there
fore Senator of the United States, with
all and singular the rights and privileges
pertaining thereto. He is not Senator
by brevet, as some of the Bourbons of
that body appear to suppose; nor is he an
alternate, merely serving during some
Bourbon's temporary absence. He is, as
before remarked, Senator, with all the
rights and privileges of one. AS such
Senator he has, among other rights,
the right to vote on all ques-
tions just as he pleases, and to haze
his vote counted just as it was cast. This
is the point at which the Bourbon intel
lect in the Senate is confused. They
never count votes enough against them
selves at home to do any harm to their
side if they can avoid it. They live politi-
cally only by suppressing enough of the
majority to change it to minority. They
are bothered about this idea of Mahone's
that he may vote his own way instead of
their way. "Neyerr roars Hill. " 1t must
not be y says Brown. at is outrageous !"
busters Hampton. g 1t is treachery" says
Johnston, who knows that he and has
Democrats swore that Mahone's friends
were deserters from the Democracy and
forever communicated. sit is not to
be endured!" Says Call. Bargain and
corruption!" walls Morgan. How sec
tionalw raves Lamar" "Oh. my, the
bloody shirt p suggests George: "It ehills
my bloodr' says Jonas. "Iet us go into
executive session. says Harris. Let us
take a-walk!" says Beck. Anything
to drown our sorrowp say the remainder.
And up go their hands in horror
and their voices in execration because
the Virginia Senator does not ask
them how he shall vote. Mr.. Bayard
lent his very meekest and most
injured look yesterday while he de-
MED the right of General Malone to
vote against the Bourbons. When the
unco-righteous Bayard went into Virginia
last summer and turned on his calcium
light of honesty to enable him to find his
way among the wicked Readjusters he
was sure General Malone was not a
Democrat When Wade Hampton went
among the Virginians the same year and
regulated matters to his own satisfaction
by leaving General Malone out of all
Democratic calculations, he knew not
that Mahone's vote would change the
Senate. When the unhappy Barnum, the
Great Head of the Bourbon Church,
issued his final bull (of fexcommunication)
in china-shop against the sturdy Re
adjuster chief, he little dreamed
that the hated Malone would in few
months be wooed and begged to come
back, and no questions should be
asked" But in vain was the light
set in the window of the Bourbon
house to attract the wandering indie
pendent Readjuster. Fresh air and free
dom Of movement were more pleasing to
him, and SO he boldly votes against the
astonished and bewildered Bourbons
Was ever such assurance? Where did
he get his vote in the Senate? From the
anti-BourbOns of Virginia, in spite of all
the Bourbon regulars" could do. But
still the Bourbons he defeated whine for
his vote. He says they cannot have it.
He refuses to betray his anti-Bourbon
constituents. Not so very infamous, is it I?
But since the Bourbons cannot whip
into their traces the Senator they branded
as anti-Democratic, their virtuous indig-
nation runs like a river; and after long
silence and much gasconading by the
light-weights and much growing in deep
bass by the melo-dramatic heavy men, in
came yesterday the solemnly honest and
honestly solemn Bayard. He knits his
brows, and, agonizing with the wicked
ness of the world around him,
he tells how thirty-nine Senators
voted for Hancock, and how that fact
binds General Malone forever to the SER
vice of the Bourbon Enemy of mankind.
His argument seemed to be that if Ma
hone voted against his rightful masters,
the Bourbons, who had ingloriously failed
in their efforts to keep him out of the
Senate, it would be perfectly fair for them
to prevent any question on which they
differed with him from coming to VOTE
They probably think they have as good
right to filibuster and prevent an election
of officers in the Senate, unless Malone
will vote with them, as they have
TO keep negroes from voting at
4hn ,HnIIC -, tbair Stafao ,,.Ioa. +lo,,
will vote with. them: The plan is re-
simple. 1t introduces the
bull-dozing method into the Senate of
the United States. They tell the ma
jority: You may have vote on your
resolution if one of your number will
vote our way, and thereby give us the
majority. If You are going to defeat us
there shall be no election"
Is it not disgusting to see band of
blind Bourbons denying Senator's right
to vote as he pleases, and making his re-
fusal to obey them an avowed reason for
a deadlock and minority rule in the Sen
ate? Mr. Bayard's political conscience
must be of india-rubber if it can reach
such conclusions. Does he seriously
mean that any thirty-nine Senators are
bound by some obligation not to vote as
each deems best? What will his admirers
of the Independent-Yote school have to
say of his course? And yet we believe
he pretends to be rather non-partisan. Is
he humorist?
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The Way Out Of Ii.
1t has occurred to us that the best way
out ofthe deadlock in the Senate is for