Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-25
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EVENING. NAY Is. 1881.
Sound the Loud Trumpet.
The Philadelphis Press does not ex-
fibit any eagerness to discuss the pre-
sent condition of Nahoneism and the
proper relation to It of the Republican
party, although this isa question OF the
hour which is engaging the immediate
attention of the Republican administra-
tion, in view of the assembling of Mr..
Mahone's convention in Virginia, on the
second of June, and it is one upon which
our cotemporary must have a very de-
cided opinion; unless, indeed, it has suf-
fered q change of heart since its hot
of Malone q month or
two ago. The Press iss progressive jour-
nal and has dropped out Of Conkling-
ism with great haste and decision /; and
has promptly thrown Dorsey, too, to the
dogs and it will be in very excellent
taste and judgment for il also to see the
error Of its ways as to Malone but,
as yet, it has made no sign of
recantation, and we have no right
therefore to claim its conversion, how
ever much we would like to do 50. We
invite it once more to hang its banner on
the outer walls, if it continues to be the
champion of Billy Malone. He needs
just now all the friends he can get, and
influential leaders of Republican opinion
are loudly called upon to declare what
they think their party should do about
him. Mr.. Blaine and Mr.. Garfield, it
is reported, are not agreed as to
what they shall do with the Virginia
appointments which q short while ago
Senator Malone was supposed to have
in his hands. Probably their hesitation
arises from Mr.. Mahone's failure to
make the Senate tight and comfortable
for the administration. He is not 50 i'm
portant a man as he was. Things in the
Senate are too mixed just now to enable
Mr.. Blaine to see that Senator Malone
is the pearl of great price that he once
thought him and prudence restraints him
from being willing to pay very lavishly
for him with Virginia patronage.
We are reluctant to intimate that 80
high-toned a leader of opinion as the
Press has been in any degree influenced
in its devotion to Malone by a consider
alton of his value to the Republican par
ty, and therefore it can hardly he that
the very marked subsistence in its enthu-
siasm, and in truth its total silence
about him, is due to his atrophy as a
Republican ally. The Press championed
Malone for very excellent reasons, OF
what sounded as such no doubt to its
readers, who must have been convinced
thereby il they were not very hard
headed, that Mr.. Malone was a very
virtuous leader in q very noble cause,
which was in fact no less than the regen-
Grafton of the South from the Bourbon
yoke, its attachment to the cause of lib.
erty, and its advancement in education,
material prosperity and moral grandeur.
The South is still there, and there
too, is Malone. No change has come
over the man or the work; but the Sen.
ate has adjourned, Conkling has resign
ed, Rlddelberger is out and Gorham il
killed entirely. Mr.. Malone is at liner
ty to 50 down to Virginia and activel,
begin his great work. His convention j:
about meeting and his admirers are
loudly called upon to bid him God-speed
But up here at the North, where the
words of encouragement were 50 pro.
fuse short while ago, not i sound
is heard. The silence is oppres-
sive, and even a funeral note would
be diversion. IF it is true that the dis.
enthralment of the South is a blasted
hope, and that Billy Malone is not the
Moses that is going to lead it upward
and onward to joy, peace and Republi
oanism, do let us know it. We beg Of
the Press, which firmly established itsell
as Pennsylvania stoutest and loudest
and most long, -winded champion Of Ma
hone, that it will tell us that its hope.
are blasted and what blasted them. Lei
us know the worst. Maybe we cal
bear it.
And when the Press finishes Mahonl
We would like it TO tell Us about Dorsey
and that dinner. The Cincinnati En-
gasi,rr fears that the dinner is falling ou
Of American politics, for nobody ha!
been dined since Dorsey, and the guest!
at that dinner seem to be falling out SC
very much that it would really be cheer
ing to know that it wasn't the dinner.
fault. If a suspicion of that kind should
get abroad it would be unfortunate. Be
cause politicians would get nervous ovel
dinner invitations and everyone knows
that good dinner, to be properly enjoy
ed and duly profited by, should be par
taken of with mind entirely at ease
The dinner to Dorsey was certainly un
healthy but was it Dorsey's fault d
the dinners ? or was it because it wa.
unpaid for 80 long or why else ? Tht
dinner is on trial and the opinion OF
experts is wanted.
A Kilkenny right.
A Washington correspondent tele
0raDhS that the president declared that