Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-02
A Heart Bat No Han1.

A Heart Bat No Hard.
Mr.. COnkling, amid his own troubles
at Albany, finds time to send a
sympathetic message to Malone at Rich
mond, who is now engaged there in try
ing to keep his party together under the
cold comfort of Blaine. Probably it is
Blaine's coldness that thaws out Conk-
ling; or, perhaps, it is fellow-feeling
with Malone in his misfortunes that
inspires the Albany victim of bad luck
to telegraph to the Richmond unfortun-
ate, that your every effort for the true
advancement of the South, and to make
elections real and fair, has my whole
heart" His heart is all that Roscoe has
to give, and it is screditable to him that it
utters an aspiration to make elections
free and fair though probably the Cir
cumstances attending the senatorial
election A. Albany make this a
peculiarly hearty aspiration from
the bosom OF candidate who finds
himself slaughtered by the influence
which the administration flesh-pots have
had in seducing from him his former
supporters. Mr.. Conklins does not con-
slider that he is being treated fairly no
man is apt to SO think when for tune is
running against him. Mr.. Mahn'e has
the same thought. After the pro misses
he mad Of administration support it is
rather hard to he turned out in the cold,
just as seven or eight hundred hun 'gry
Readjusters are meeting him in cow en-
tion ready to do his bidding provided a
reasonable hope is held out to them. Mr..
Malone would like to have had a few
words of encouragement from Mr..
Blaine. They would have been of a
good deal more account than from Mr..
COnkling. But we greatly fear that the
administration has concluded that Mr..
Malone and the Readjusters are no good.
The trouble is that there is a-Republi-
can party in Virginia, which party has
number of decent men in it who do not
believe in Mr.. Malone or his doctrines.
One Of its chief organs, the Valley Vir-
ginian, declares that the party can have
no alliance with the Malone party, and
that seems to he the we'll settled deter
minatiOn of its leaders.
Another trouble is that Malone can
not 60 into the Republican camp and
take his followers with him. He only
damages the Democratic party by claim
ing to he a Democrat. This being his
only strength it would be plain case of
suicide to proclaim himselfa Republican.
The third difficulty is that the Demo-
cratic party in the state cannot be heat
en- except by union against it Of the
Republicans and the Readjusters.
So that is the problem before Mr.. Will
liam Malone in his effort to hold himself
together in Virginia and to be of some
account. Evidently he needs sympathy
and the best of counsel. His friends
ought to flock around him with the best
they have of both Conkling offers SYM
lathy but no counsel /; probably he be-
gins to think he is not of much account
as a political counsellor. Blaine don't
seem to offer anything.
And even the Philadelphia Press,
which was Mahone's organ few months
ago, cannot be persuaded to say COM
forting word. The Republican news
papers generally are paralyzed by the ad-
ministration coldness so that really
there. does nOtseem to be anyone but poor
Conkling to pat poor Malone on the
back. The New York Times has, how
ever, few words of doubtful apprecia-
ton. 1t declares that Mr.. Malone els
ambitious and decidedly practical.
When his single vote constituted the
balance of power in the Senate he ranged
himself with the Republicans because in
no other way could he make himself
power and advance his purposes
1t must he admitted that Mr.. Malone
is in this sense very practical man in
deed and if he could only get the ad-
ministration to give him the control of
the federal Offices in Virginia, his practi-
cal talents might enable him to whoop
together the mean whites and blacks,
Republicans and Readjusters, of Vir-
ginia, against the Democrats in the en-
suing state election, Notwithstanding
he and his principles are so obnoxious to
the decent Republicans. But without
the offices Malone is in a very bad way
indeed, having nothing at all but his
usual very large stock of unsupported
hopefulness to run his campaign upon.
SENATOR CONKLING got only thirty
five of the Republican votes in the New
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