New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-04-20
TIE SENATORIAL DEADLOCK.

found who fancy that 1t Is nothing else. but
Intelligent people of both parties perceived,
some time ago, that the contest must nave
some deeper meaning and larger Importance
The leading Republicans, men saw at length
were not foolish enough to eXpcnd much time
and effort, for no better object than to put
certain not especially meritorous persons INTO
Office in April rather than III December
Presently it was perceived that the DEBATE
the struggle, and the revolutionary resistance
of the Democrats were having a marked eject
upon public opinion at the South. Now Dem
ocratic leaders confirm the judgment OF Re
publicans by their comments on the situation
Some of these appeal TO their friends to stand
firm. because if they yield, the Democratic party
will 20 to pieces at the South Others pathet-
ically lament that their friends i'll the Senate
"have made asses of themselves once more
"and are making tho party odious as fast as
they can" These apparently conflicting
opiuions are both correct, and they EXHIBIT the
dilemma upon which the Democratic party has
impaled itself. 1t cannot hold on without
burtinr itself, and cannot let go without hurt
ing itself.
When General Malone determined to act
with the Republicans in the organization OF the
| Senate, and was welcomed 10y them us m ally,
| tbe democrats were placed in a difficult posi-
| ton. If they suffered this revolt to succeed
| with ease and impunity, they prepared the way
| for a general disintegration of the Democratic
| marty throughout the South. The time was
| ripe, and the public temper ready, Tor a gen
| e1al revolt against BourbOnism. The Demo-
| cratic party knows no way to prevent deser-
| tons except to shoot dcserters. Therefore II
WAS decreed that General Malone must he
politically shot he must he denounced as
| traitor to his party and to the South, accused
| of Infamous motives and conduct, revicd until
his name should become as odious as that
of any carpet Dagger and thus deprived OF IN
fiuence and of following among the Southern
neople But whether the Democratic leaders
realize it or not this course also involved dis
astrous consequences. These they now begin
In perceiye. Hence some of them are CON
WINGED that the contest was another fatal
blunder and are begging their friends to end
it as soon as possible.
For the attempt to extinguish this revolt by
abuse has fixed public attention upon several
important facts. Ii is seen that the South Is
kept solid by an Infamous system OF aSsaSSina-
ton of two kinds; some opponents are muir
dered bodily willie others are assasslnatcd IN
reputation and character II is seen that brave
and distinguished Confederate General, II he
ooposes Bourbon methods, il black guarded ~
yilely AZ were Governors Kellogg and Cham
bcrlain and other Northern men who settled
!, Southern States. Ii is seen that the very
same Democrats who depend upon the votes OF
Kcpudiators for personal success, and upon
alliances with RcrudIatOrs for political exis-
tence in several states, do not hesitate
IN bcrats a "Rcadjustcr" as the vilcst
of criminals when DC happens to in
| sist upon an honest vote and iMr
count. In short it is seen that the Demo
| cratic party does not dare 20 face IN honest
election, even at the south. ard treats as its
most deadly foe any man, WI yer his polltl-
cal course otherwise. who tri,> 10 secure free
voting and honest counting.
| Nor does the North fail To SO lat the Demo-
cratic marty resorts AT once 80 methods hostile
| to the Fundamental principles of free govern
ment. as soon as it is threatened with defeat.
As it threatened and tried to block the wheels
| of government, in order TO force repeal of
laws to secure fair elections, so it threatens
and tries to block the wheels Of government
in order to crush out any Democrat at the
| South VINO IhNOIH a IAN NOtt anu an """N9'
count Disloyal as ever, that party sticks to
methods of carrying elections which are utterly
subvcrsiye of all law, and, when any effort Is
| made to check it in these methods, Immediately
| threatens to break up all government if 1t Is
| not permitted to win and rule 10y fraud.
| This exhibition of the nature and conduct of
| the Bourbon Democracy will have it's effect.
The extra session and the revolutionary course
adopted then by the Democrats, proved ter
ribly effective against that party when the
elections came, and the performances in the
| Senate will have similar consequences. Demo-
| cratic Senators sncer at the prediction, just IA
| its leading wipers" sneered at the idea that
the attempt 70 repeal the election laws would
prove disastrous. Now, as then, they shouted
| "He that dallics is n bastard, and he that
| doubts is damned" But inhamed rhetoric
does not overcome cold facts. Decent men
mt the South are slowly waking TO the convic-
ton that they can never hope to get any good
thing done, for their States or themselves, I'M
| til they can cast off BourbOnism aud its chains
of Islander and assassination, Of fraud and
force. In truth, the Solid South begins to be
| a stencil in the nOstrils to sensible Southern
men. Meanwhile, the North becomes more
united and more firmly resolved 1t sees that
free government is an utter impossibilty if
one party is permitted to make sixteen States
solid by fraud, 10 vilify every public man who
protests, and to block the wheels of govern
ment whenever its ascendancy in certain States
gained and held by fraud, is seriously menaced
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