New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-04-12
THE CHEAP JOINS SHOCKED.

THE "CHRAP JOHNS" SHOCKED.
The yirtuOus airs Democratic Senators are
giving themselves over the "bargain which
the Republicans are supposed to have made
with Malone could hardly be surpassed in n
Magdalene Asylum. Don't these gentlemen
know. and know that everybody else knows,
that the Democratic party, in whose name and
behalf this virtuous Indignation is Haunted is
painted and bcdizcncd trollop that has walked the
streets for thirty years trading with all comors
from the restless Free S0ier of 1890 10 the fresh
Grcenbackcr of today The party has not
earned an honest dollar in fifty years. Unpaid
labor supported the Southern wing of II before
the war, aud Northern Democrats always
bought the Offices they held 10y answering the
crack of the slavc-drycr's whip and yielding "a
boot-licking support to an institution they did
not and could not believe in. IhcV talk oi
bargains And with nose in the air! Why,
the hypocrites know there isn't u thing about
the old party that isn't for sale. And nothing
anywhere that it won't buy if it can only pay
in lottery tickcts-political chances of the Ken
lucky and Louisiana sort.
Thirty years ago this very year OF grace the
Democratic party was standing on its head for
iov over a successful dickcr in offices in Mas
sachusetis between themselves aud the Free
Soilcrs. they taking the Governor and giving The
Free SOilers the Senator. Perhaps the fact that
they got George :. Boutwell, for Governor IN re-
turn for making Charles Summer Senator rcdctmS
the memory of that transaction. They have been
standing IN the market place ever since. Trade!
Why the party il hung al over with placarl-
" For Sale" and top Of eycr,thine. the brNiilIng
1. .lt.,ft "A Uf
AK for it," There was never party - poor
in principle or weak in Numbers that the Dem
ocrats could not strike mp some sort OF trade
wth-it and IL might bc added. never party
that traded with them that did not get cheated
In hi. city. where they have at least two fac
tons always, there is never an election IN
which there isn't race between them to "c
which VIII get first TO market, aad the faction
that gets left inNariahl, lifts mp It's hands
and rolls mp its eyes ia horror At the idea OF
q "blrgain and sale"
There NAV bc States in The Union where
they have not traded or oiirIcd 10 trade with
the third party which. under various nance
" Labor Kcformcrs," "Grcubackcrs,' NJ
tiou.ls," etc. ctc.-has had votes Ia sell dminc
the past five or six wears. If there are, We do
not recall them. FaTant instances of this
sort Of bargaining are Maine and California,
where they sold out everything, aud ONO,
Indiana and other Western States, where
they undertook To divide the spells and 'inlly
fell to quarrclling over the division.
Indeed, 80 strong il the habit or
Observation-Disclosures ii is-of trade, which
possesses them, that they have been in some in
stances suspected even of trading with the Pro-
hibionists, which is about a. incredible a. thc
devils taking holy-watcr in n barter with the
priests. 1t was notorious that they traded con
stantly with the Grcenhackcrs in tho last Con
press. and were more than ready. in the event
of the Presidential election falling into the
House and the hands of the Rev. Mr.. De Ia
Matyr, to trade with that statesman upon al
most any terms. That they made advances to
Senator Malone no one doubts, aud il il not
improbable that we shall have before long the
particulars Of the negotiation from one Of the
parties.
In the face of these notorious facts Demo
cratic Senators pretend to be shocked at the
thought of bargain between the Republ-
cans in the Senate and the Virginia Anti
Bourbons. We published interviews with
few of them who happened to he in this city
in MOnday's TRIBUNE. Senator Jonas, of
Louisiana-wherc We presume political trading
is unkn0Nn-says the reason why the
Democrats are obstructng the pub
lie business is because they are
determined TO defeat as disreputalie bar
" gain as was ever made Senator Jones. of
Florida, says they are lighting to prevent the
delivery Of the goods in the Republican
bargain" putting it on very high ground.
Senator Mcpherson, Of New-Jersey, is equally
pronounced aud positive. lie says, with en-
pbass. that the Democratic Senators will not
&" give their express or implied sanction to what
" seems to bo a bargain while for his own part
he "wil never consent 10 any compromise
with wrong Senator Butler, of South Caro-
lima, who has been openly and frequently
charged with holding his seat in the Senate by
the terms of bargain" takes the same high
ground and says that, although they are anxious
to go into executive session and confirm the
nominations of the President, they will
"never be q party 10 one of the most
outrageous political bargains that was ever
made"
And 40 the political Cheap Johns go on.
Shocked beyond. measure, all of them, at the
idea of political bnrgain." What a queer
| spectacle il is, TO be sure. And they don't
seem TO know that their attitude is more
amusing than impressive.