National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-06-02
Senator Buffers Views.

graphed from that point to the Charles
ton Is. c. Nenrs and Courier. He assures
those who look to him for facts and ad-
vice that Southern Senators have i'm
pressed the President with the Importance
of ignoring the unprincipled and incendi-
ary wing of the Republican party in
making appointments" OF course the
President will, it is fair to presume, learn
from these same Southern Senators who
are unprincipled and incendiary, and
thus by easy degrees the Senator'S
and not the President, will come to die
tors are Southern" This is as it should
| be. 1t restores the good feeling that e1-
| listed before the war between Southern
ers and all Northern men who were not
SO sectional" as to differ with them.
| We always supposed the incendiary and
unprincipled Republicans to be those in
| the South who were either niggers,
carpet-baggers, or scalawags these va
rieties embracing all there were Of the
political heretics calling themselves Re
publicans. Now, if there have been
saved out for Southern Senators uses
few superior Republicans who
are respectable" because they never diff
fer with the Bourbons, it will be well for
! the. latter. For Senator Butler thinks,
says his interviewer, That respectable
Republican placemen in the South will
not only rebound to the good of the pub
| lie service, but will give the Democratic
party more unity and stability by giving
it an opponent of some decency in the
| Southern States. Further than this he
was not interested in making the Repub-
lican party respectable"
1t would be strange if the Democratic
partyin the South could not win if South
ern Senators are to advise the President
how and through what agencies the Re-
publican party is to be organized.
Senator Butler was kind enough to tell
US that " the Administration is beginning
to recognize that the effort to build up
a new party cannot prosper. This re-
mark comes Immediately after predict
ing the defeat of the Readjuster party in
Virginia.
The Senator is a warm Administration
man-rather more pronounced than Gen
eral Malone was when he drew upon
himself the anger Of the Bourbon Sena-
tors. We quote:
He thinks that as far as the President acts in
his purely administrative capacity he should be
supported by Southern Senators. For this pur-
no baH no of
son as collector of the port of New York. Those
New York petitioners who opposed Robertson did
not do so because they were interested in the pub
lie service Personal and political grounds had
probably influenced them entirely. Such parties
had never been friends of the South nor had they
ever been identified with practical measures for
the good of the country. The South has no
sympathy with men whose sole policy is to act as
obstructionists to the Administration.
1t would appear from this that the
whole South has been Mahonized, and
that all it required as an inducement was
clusion from Office of all Republicans not
branded respectable" on the left hip by
their Bourbon owners. Is this ga cor
rupt bargain" and what has become of
the public virtue with which the Bour-
bons ached all the winter? Senator But
ler says:
The backbone of the party has been stiffened
and its prospects frightened every hand.
Especially in Virginia has the effect been sautary
and assuring. Virginia Democrats are confident
of carrying the State next fall over the Malone
element. The Readiuster movement, he said. has
tallnr1 aE rrle- tlo weight of ru,rtIpJ practIceS
and open bargains. The free ballot and fair count
sham did not deceive any one.
Here is the solution of the mystery.
The Malone movement, which every
black man in Virginia tells us gave him
political freedom, is waved aside as
sham" and its defeat confidently pre-
dicted. All the Republican members of
the United States Senate at the late ses-
sion welcomed it as glorious reality.
Only the Bourbons said it was a
" sham" And this Bourbon Administra-
ton Senator claims that the President is
with his side and against the Re-
publican side of the Senate. We
shall see. To-day the Readiusters assem-
bic in convention. They have the sup
port Of all the blacks, except few pro-
fesSional negroes, and nearly all the whites
not in Office. We shall probably have
their ticket and platform tomorrow. The
President will be able to contribute greatly
to the success of the Right if he takes the
anti-Bourb0n side, and does not also take
the Bourbon Side If he takes both sides he
will thereby aid the BourbonS more
than he could by direct support. If he
is heartily with the Readjusters and
counsels Republican office-holders to
cease efforts at making diversion with
a straight Republican ticket. which can /
only aid the Bourbons, he will deserve
well of the friends of law and order and
will break the backbone of the party
against which his party supposed they
had prevailed in November But if he
does this he will run counter to Senator
Buffers views" and cannot count on an
alliance with the Bourbons in the Senate.
We will report on the situation from time
to time.
King Vanderbilt on ConkIing.
We print the following extract from an
interview with Vanderbilt, the A.eat !
railroad king, for the purpose of showing
how exactly his words fit with those of |
his creatures in the New York Legisla- !
ture and the New York press. One !
would hardly think such small matters |
would interest this great parsonage. But
he talks off the administration rigmarole |
as glibly as one of the lower grade Bo- |
hemians on the New York Tribune:
Mr. Vanderbilt said. with great earneStness "Mr. |
Conkling made & great mistake in resigning is |
seat in the Senate. He left the Senate with the |