The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-29

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as the forum where great national dues
tons are discussed coolly and disposition
ately, and where courtesy In debate and |
polite treatment of political opponents |
always obtained. Nothing of this kind |
has characterized the treatment of Sem
ator Malone. He has challenged them |
to a discussion of the issues. but the |
only reioinder has been the foulest per.
sonal abuse, commencing with the
charge of venality, covertly and couse-
quently cowardly, made by Ben Hill,
and ending with the refusal to allow him
pair, which is tantamoiint to personal
ostracism. There has not been such q
cracking of whips, such an indecent dis |
play of plantation insolence and bonn
bast, such torrent of foul personal
abuse since the days of the Shareholders.
It has not been lessened by the fear of
the Bourbons to stand up in manly
fashion and make the charges squarely TO
his face. They have dealt IN innuendoes
and indirect illusions, always the ready
resort Of towards. They have cracked
their whips about him, but have been
careful not to hit him. They hardly
care to directly provoke man who has
proved his courage upon the battlefield,
but this does not lessen the infamy and
dishonor of their course. The game will
not work, however. Times have changed
within the last quarter of century.
Men have changed during the same time.
The old race of timid politicians who ac-
cepted the lash without complaint, or
obeyed Southern dictation to escape it,
has passed away. The war not only
emancipated the negro from slavery, but
THE North from the shareholders whip
flashing. The day has passed when North
ern men can he coereed by intimidation,
by personal threats, or by blackgriardism.
Senator Malone has held his ground
patiently, and yet without allowing any
imputation to rest upon his personal
courage. Much as the Southern Bour-
bons would like to provoke him into a
duel, if they we're sure they could take
his life, it is very doubtful whether they
will go to that length with man who
courageously defes the whole bowling
pack. Much and assiduously as they
have striven to intimidate the Republi-
can side, no white feather has yet been
shown. The ranks are unbroken, and
the Southern bombast and braggadocio
and ipsolence are wasted upon
the air OF the Senate chamber.
Meanwhile, these Democrats who
so violently object to Senator
Mahone's action with the Republicans.
make no objection to Senator Davis,
State, because he acts with them, and
Senator Davis, once Republican, and
owing all his political elevation to Re
publicans, is treated with ourtesy and
enjoys friendly intercourse with the Re-
publican side of the Senate chamber.
No whip is cracked over his portly form,
no taunt is hurled at him, no charge is
made that he sold out to the Democrats,
no Republican refuses to pair with
him.
The cause of this devilish treatment OF
Senator Malone is not difficult to find.
It is because he has dared to break with
Bourbonism. They are determined to
maintain the solid South and its corner
stone of State sovereignty, and that no
Southern man shall appear in Congress
as a Republican without losing his social
status and being branded and maltreat-
ed in such a manner that life in the
South would be intolerable and his in
huepce would be lost. This is the ami
mus of The attack upon Senator Malone,
and that attack has been all the more
virulent because Senator Malone ha
not covered beneath it. Without pro
claiming himself a Republican, ht
stands opposed toSouthern Bourbonism,
md will not accept it's brides or motto,
is threats, and in that position there l.
even more danger to the solid South
than if he had declared himself at the
outset Republican. It is an old, old
game the Bourbons are playing, but at
last they find it does not work. The
New York Tribune very APPLY character
ICES the situation in the following para
graph
cit is just this Bourbonism that Sen
ator Malone and his party in Virginia
have attacked in its citadel. It is Bour,
bonism that stands at bay to-day in the
Senate of the United States, obstructing
the regular order of proceedings and de-
laying public business for the sake of
putting down the only formidable insrr-
rection that has ever arisen in its own
ranks. The Bourbon Senators have a
very clear comprehension Of the situa
ton and of the peril to their power that
it involves. Up to the present time
they have had no difficulty in putting
down any symptoms Of rising against
them. When an individual protested
against continuing the control of the
politics of the Southern States in the
hands which had brought so much mis-
chief upon them, and were working in
the same direction with purposes IN
changed, they have either brought him
back, as Senator Brown, of Georgia,
virtually confesses that they did him
by making it uncomfortable and
unsafe for him, or they have
simply labeled him as Republican,
with the implication of renegade and
traitor which they have contrived tina.
the name shall carry--as in the case of
Longstreet and Mosby-and destroyed
his influence. They have apparently
settled one thing, and that is that no
man can as rule be safe in the pursuit
of his business, or have any social rec
ognition, or stanl az reputable citizen,
who is known as q Republican, or who
votes the Republican ticket"
The question of readjustment long
ago passed out of the controversy. til
now question of Bourbonism simply.
The Solid South and State-sovereignty
Bourbons see the danger ahead when one
man boldly breaks from the ranks and
has the courage to stay out, spite of ca
iolery and whip-cracking, and holding
both in equal contempt. Hence their
fury.
A Chicago Mans Notification of the
Bible.