Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1881-12-16

49, 49,
rae 0sshsssng ventures.
For the first time since the tidal
wave Of 1874 . Congress has as
sembled In Washington which 10
Rspublican in both branches. 1t
10 true that 1t would not be Repub.
llean in either branch were 1t not
for the presence, in both bodies, OF
. large purehasable element-Po-
litical cattle We prefer to dub IT.
which is either Greenbacker, Re-
former, Rsadjustsr. or is known BY
sems other fastastical and decep-
tive name. Two alternative desti-
mics awaited David Davis, OF
Illinois, who was elected to the po-
sition which he fills by
Democratic votes frem the point
Of avoirdupois = viz, either to
be melted down In q soap fac
tory, his three hundred pounds OF
adipese tissue snriching the lucky
establishment, or his inevitable
purchase by the Republicans. 1t IL
very doubtful IS to which OF these
alternatives would be tho mos de-
grading. David Davis, resolved
into soft soap, or David Davis, Sc
duoed by the bait Of the Presidency
pro tenn. Of the United States SEN
ate, joining the Republicans, is q
proposition % to which the most
subtle Political economist would
be indifferent. The substantial
things, In this connection, are that
David Davis has approved himself
to be = political ''gut"-may all
the asthstss, both In Europe and
Amsrica, forgive the vulgar term;
and that, repudiated by the men
who purchased his compliance by
the bride Of position, Davis. with
his unsxamplsd avolrdupeis, will
soen disappear from public life.
Mean % the Republican party
10. from many standpoints, 1t is
not mean enough to try to galvaH-
anise David Davis into any form
OF renewed political life. At the
next meeting Of the Illinois Lsgis-
iature he will disappear from the
United States Senate.
Dismissing this lsviathan Of the
political waters to the obscurity
which will soon be bis without
contest or oppositicn-an obscurity
which will be a. binding and
pennmbrous % the blackness OF the
Clmmeria Of old-ths next repug-
nant feature in the Republican cen.
troll Of the United States Senate 10
encountered In the person Of one
Malone, of Virginia. He 10 the per-
ssnal antithesis of David Davis.
Weighing about ninety pounde,
mere or less. We notice one thing
about all these abnormally heavy
ana light weight statesmen-from
David Davis to Alexander n. 6te-
phens and bis gossamer append
age, Mahone--they are poor pee
pie to tie to. Nature has discrim-
mated against them all, aud they
repay the scurvy trick by fine
knack Of treachery to every one
who trusts in them. Malone to-
day is chuckling and exultant
over having prostituted the name
OF the flne old Commonwealth of
Virginia-over having trailed its
sacred earlier associations in the
dust. His light weight archstype,
Alexander II. Stephens, who is .
man Of infinitely more ability
than Malone, after having accept
ed the Vice-Presidsncy of the
Southern Confederacy, hamstrung
the movement from the .werd 60
BY making . speech In which he
announced that slavery was the
corner-stone of the new projected
Rspublic, thus shocking every re-
spectacle idea OF the later days Of
the nineteenth century, and insur-
ing defeat to the cause with which
he WAS identified.
From this brief review any fair
minded man will distrust both the
heavy and the very light weights
Of our modern politics.
David Davis and Malone, by
their peculiar and selfish trsash-
cry, have given the Senate Of the
United States to the Republican
party. That energetic Organise
ton has put itself at the mercy Of
the meanest political trimmsrs
who have ever figured In the poll
tics Of the United States.
But deeper depths of degradation
await the Republican party. In
the State Of Virginia the Repub-
licans threw their whole strength
for Mahone's bastard ticket. With
out this help, embodied In the jg-
norant and irresponsible negro
vote, which the Republicans con-
troll, the Democrats would have
carried Virginia by overwhelming |
pdds-by . vote which would have
represented the integrity and hon.
Dsty Of that ancient and illustrious
Dommonwealth. The kilograms,
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