Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-04-02
lanraster E,,tcl!teenrer.
SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1881.
The Little and the Big.

does put on q very truculcnt ar: Dut; |
perhaps, it is an air rather natural to |
little men, though one would certainly,
on first blush, to think that it would lie
very becoming to avoid it. We see it,
however. in little dogs as in little men.
There is nothing more snarling than the
whiffet while tie mastiff, conscious of
its strength, growls but little. The
small creature feels its physical inferior
ity and is excited to consider that it
must make up in activity Of demon
stration what it lacks in dignity of ap-
pearance SO as not to be altogether
overlooked in the world in which it
wants to make an impression. Noise
is the natural resources of wea knesS as
an impressive device; and very good
one it is, if it is used at the right time,
on the proper subject, and not too i'm
moderately. The voice is an instrument
with which the little creature is as fully
armed as the big one. It brings the
two into equality and naturally is most
popular weapon with the weak. 1t is
currently believed that the wife often
ovsrcomes the husband with it, and the
example of Xantippe shows that the
deepest philosopher may be put to flight
byit.
Our little Malone is demonstrating
these ancient lessons to the world once
more in the elevated arena which is
vouchsafed to his snarliug righteousness
He seemed for while to lave the field
to himself and when so fiery South
erner as Den Hill WAS supposed to
he, permitted him to tel! him that
"this thing must stop right here"
although the thing" was nothing but Il
narrative Of Mahone's acts, people began
to think that the little bantam was a
game cock Of pure breed, who was
going to have the whole dung
hill left to him acn. con. But
the little fellow has come 10 grief. lie
crowed too loud just once. But once
was enough for Senator Voorhees,, who
advised him that lie was in the habit of
meaning what he said, and Senator Ma
hone could digest his utterances at his
leisure and get any aid from him that lie
desired. The small Virginia senator
had nothing better to say than 10 declare
his opinion that Senator VOORHEES, was
not an honorable man to repeat and en-
dorse the language Of the Philadelphia
Telegraph, denouncing Malone as a ren.
nr,nnorot ot ,:St.
Malone requested Voorhees, to "take
that and wear it,"
We are certainly Of the opinion that
that was very weak even for q crow OF u
very weak bantam. There was not q
show Of spur in it. The senator fron
Indiana would have fully met the sug-
gestion hy expressing his willingness 10
wear Mr.. Mahnne's opinion that he was
not an honorable man if it was strong
enough to stick to him, while expressing
his own conviction that it was not !:
and reminding the Virginia senator
that his opinion of what was
honorable conduct in Il senator WAS
one which he had any reason to expect
that the world would accept, out of re-
Spect to its source since he was 50 free
ly charged himself with dishonorab!e
conduct. MahOne'S retort 20 VOORHEES, i'll
fact WAS nothing better than the com-
mon one Of ''you're another" The
Philadelphia Telegraph charged Malone
with being dishonorable and with having
entered into corrupt bargain and sale
of his vote. That was biting charge
and none the less SO because everyone
knows it to be true. How then does
this little senator appear, in ruff,
ing his plumage before q fellow
senator who adopts the IelegrcNt's s
language, but coming no nearer
to refutation Of it than to charge
the man who charged him with dishonor
with being "another'' for charging it.
What a very miserable creature this is,
to be sure
And, by the way, what is going TO lie,
come Of our senator, Mitchell. Is he
another of those weak creatures who
can't for the life Of them so strai ght and
show themselves men when they are put
in places where only men should he :?
The complaints OF his weakness have
been getting numerous of late; and here
we find him making his very first ap-
pearance in the Senate to speak against
newspaper which has been the friend
Of his friends, in defense of man
who is the creation of Conkling
and Cameron; and to speak false
words, moreover. He said that the
Telegraph was Republican paper with
Democratic tendencies and moreover
was not a leading paper in the state. The
fact is that the Telegraph is a leading
paper, if ability and independence and
consideration for its judgment entit!e it
to that position, as they ought TO
and do. And its RepubIicanism is
of the independent kind of those
who elected Mr.. Mitchell to the Senate,
and which he surely has no reason to de-
nounce as of Democratic tendency. -
1t would have been more seemly in him
to have called it Republicanisin Of de.
cent tendency, since it is a foul bird that
fouls it own nest and poor creature
who needlessly depreciates friends. We
greatly fear that cur new senator is
indeed very poor creature.
And we are sorry to have an ass in the
Senate from Pennsylvania even if he be