The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-04-07
The Lost Malone.

Our sympathy goes out toward tho
Democratic party. But little while
ago it held a majority in the House, a
| majority in the Senate, and had strong
hopes of carrying the Presidential
election and gaining control of all de-
partments of the Government. There
| was time when acrobats like Beebe
went skylarking round on the tops of
the desks in the House exclaiming they
would never condone, and statesman
like Blackburn swung his obliterating
sponge threatening to wipe out the leg
| islatiOn of the past fifteen years, while
other statesmen like Bland threatened
| to wipe out the National debt; when
Senators like Salisbury announced that
the Democrats in that body would take
! when even the Doorkeeper of the House
introduced himself as ..biger man
than old Grant" Things have so
! changed. alas, within a few monthsi
The Presidency has slipped out of their
reach, they have lost the lower House
of Congress, and now, to crown all, the
Senate, with its patronage, honors and
emoluments, has passed out of their
hands. This was more than they had
expected. For after counting them
selves over several times very carefully,
they had made up their minds that they
had Just a majority; not a vote to spare,
but enough to give them the pickings of
patronage which they gained two years
ago and were in such q hurry to enjoy
that they forced an extra session in
order to lose no time. And they find
that after all they have not saved out of
the wreck even so much as this.
Senator Pendleton had counted them
overland made an easy Democratic ma
jority, including the Senators from 1lli-
nois and Virginia, who had been elect
ed by combination of Democrats and
Republicans. Mr.. Bayard had done the
same thing with similar result, and
he was anxious to organize the Senate
as a great public duty in order to con-
firm the nominations of a Republican
President. Mr.. Hill, of Georgia, had
made thirty-nine Democrats by his
count, which was a clear majority of
one, and was certain that all the world
knew his figures to be correct. And
vet it turns out that when it comes to
the actual pinch they can count on only
thirty-eight votes. leaving the Repub-
lican Vice-President to decide the tie by
his casting vote. 1t is hard to have
counted so surely and suffered such a
disappointment. MIR. Hill, bowling in
shrill falsetto his stridulous conun-
drums" Who has been taken and car.
ried awayp "Who did itP' "Who is
that onep" "Do you receive him with
affection?" "Do you receive him with
respcctp' els such a man worthy OF
your association?'-and SO on and or
with no end of them, is q spectacle fol
commiseration. Il evidently came upor
him suddenly and with the force of q
revelation that the party had lost a Sen
ator. Hence his shrieks of anguish an(
his wild calls for information as to wha
had become of him, who had got him
and whether they were going to have
the assurance to try to keep him. Mr.
4 Hill, however, was not kept long in ig
norance or suspense. The lost Senatol
gave him all the information he sought
and little more, within very. few
minutes after his call.
The matter concerns Republicans but
very slightly. Mr.. Malone is not theil
Senator, and they do not claim him
He himself claims to be Independent
1t is Democratic weakness to classif,
all Independents and all third-party
representatives. Greenbackers and 9th
ers, with themselves. In most case
the persons so classified practically sur
render to the Democratic claim, as dit
that powerful statesman, Mr.. Davit
Davis, who, claiming to be Repub
lican, votes with the Democrats. Blu
it is quite possible for our Democratic
friends to carry this business too far
That seems to be the present case
Senator Malone appears to have on
bond of sympathy, at least, with Re
publicans in his opposition to the hide
bound Bourbonism of Southern Democ
racy and the bulldozing policy of th'
party so beautifully illustrated by Sena
tor Hill. 1t does not strike us as bein:
at all strange, under the circumstances
that he pursues the course he does. W.
are sorry, of course, to see our Demo
cratic friends in such a plight; sorr,
they are so little able to bear disap
pointment and are so ready to make n
exhibition of themselves. But it reall,
seems to us that they ought to take
lesson fromit, and learn hereafter to b
little more reasonable in their expec
tations.-N Y Tribune.
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