Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-18
1ancaster fntellgenrer.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, NAY ls, 1881.


Things to be Told.
It would be interesting to hear some
thing just now from the friends of Ma
hone. The Philadelphia Press, as his
most conspicuous champion in this
quarter, could entertain its readers very
nicely with a few remarks on the sub
ject, and we are rather surprised that a
journal so energetic in the pursuit OF
news, and SO devoted to interviewing
ANYBODY that is supposed to know any
thing or think anything about anything
or anybody, does not print the thoughts
of its editor upon the present condition
of that Virginia child of promise. There
are several matters, indeed, about which
the editor of the Press could talk with
knowledge and feeling, but which his
modesty seems to keep him from open
ing his lips about. That dinner to Dor
sey at New York which he attended, for
instance. 1t seems Odd-perchance some
what contrary to the laws of hospitality
that a guest who has dined with another
to do him honor should he found de-
nouncing him within a few months as
no better than q pickpocket. The
Press has been very free and just in its
condemnation of Dorsey in his postal ir-
regularities but we'll Informed people
knew long ago that he was not a
saint, and that he enriched himself off
the government and that dinner was
given to him because of the peculiar abil-
ity he had manifested in raising and ap-
plying money to carry the Indiana state
election for the Republican party. A
man does not become wicked in a
night. And that one, who was so
lately highly honored and applaud
ed 10y distinguished Republicans,
should now he denounced by them
as a shameless peculatOr from the gov
ernment, in which he was a senator, is
sufficiently remarkable certainly to ex-
cite the attention of a first-claSs news
paper and to summon its conductor to
tell all he knows about it. There were
a great many people of high note at that
dinner who might consider the propriety
of unburthening their minds and con-
sciences about their participation in it ;
but the editor Of the Press is the hand
lest one to call upon to start the little
game of explanation and really owes it
as a duty to his readers to tell them all
he knows about this :; and about every
thing else, in fact.
Such as the reason why he, who was
SO lately the warm partisan of Senator
Conkling, even being led by him to de-
nounce untruly his neighbOr, ,SenatOrBay.
ard, has now turned against him. Times
change and men change with them, no
toriOusly; but really the Press has been
jumping about so actively lately in these
Dorsey, Malone, Conkling and various
other matters, that its readers must Ger
tainly be ut il loss how 10 know whether
they stand on their heads or their heels
or what they believe Or who they swear
by. If they did not learn to make their
Obeisance to Conkling as the greatest po'
litical light of the world, and to Malone
as the foremost regenerator-" read
juster of the day, then it was only be-
cause they were too stupid to profit by
their teaching.
Truly we would like to hear about
Malone. He seems to he a monkey
with his tail cut off-behind the ears,
too. Perhaps there is life still left in
him; but it would be gratifying to see
it exhibited, in just one kick, anyway.
His original patron has gone, in Senator
COnkling. His bottle-hOlder, who is
Cameron, is thoroughly demoralized.
His trainer. GOrhan, is away far off out
in the cold. The summer is over and
the harvest is not gathered. Malone, as
the deciding unit in the Senate, has dis
appeared. The frOwn of presidential
favor rests upon his friends, and all his
activity in lodging votes serves him not
The sun does not shine, and without it
his hay will not I've made, but mOulds
upon the field and loses all its succulence,
and when it is garnered even his starved
Virginia cattle will find no sustenance
in it. These affecting and tragical
occurrences ought not to he occurring
without inviting the mourning friends
to lift up their voices in wailing and
lamentation, and We invite the Press,
which is chief of the mutes to give
utterance to its pent-up feelings.
SOME newspaper correspondent says
that Speaker Randall remarked that it
would he a good joke if the Independ-
ents and Democrats in the New York
IaniSlaturf. would elect Robertson and