Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-30
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"WEDNESDAY EvE'o. MARCH 80, 1881
Not O Pleasant Dose:


We think Our Republican contempc-
raries are not taking hold of their Ma
hone case with sufficient cheerfnlness.
Their zeal is undoubted, but their Joy in
the work is not 80 apparent. Evidently
they feel as if they had gift elephant on
hand. Even the Philadelphia Press,
which is the original discoverer of Ma
hone as a debt-payer and lovely Repub-
lican ally, and which should therefore he
proud and exultant over the big figure
it's little protege is cutting, undoubtedly
finds him very heavy to carry. It is
doing its duty as well as could be
expected and hazarding its reputation
for sincerity and good judgment in the
most reckless way and yet it cannot
put the Malone business before its
readers in a light to make it at all at
tractive to them. The truth is it can't
be done. 1t isno reflection on the abil-
ity Of the Republican politicians and edi-
itOrs who are hard at work, hammer and
tOngs, to make the Malone alliance
creditable and comfortable, that they
succeed SO poorly in their work. It cam
not be hidden. to start with, that Ma
homes vote was bought His friend
Riddleberger- has now been held up by
the neck before the people for some time,
confessed to be one Of the pieces of sill
yer given in exchange for the Republi-
can chairmen Of the Senate committees.
It is not a pretty picture to Republican
eyes, and it is not getting any better
looking as the days pass on. Riddleber-
gers fame rests OH his attempt to expel
negroes from the Virginia Legislature,
and on the Riddleberger bill to repudiate
the state debt. Now, as Republicans
profess great devotion to negroes and
bonds, and have not heretofore been
asked by their leaders in this part of the
country to repudiate either, it is quite a
shock to them to lie asked to applaud
their senators for making sergeant.at-
arms out of man who proposed to do
both, and to SO honor him because lie
soproposed. The Republican ncwspa-
pers do not like to put Riddleberger be.
fore their readers in just this way
but there is no covering him up.
They see the mistake made in
bringing out So plain III expon.
ent Of Malone principles, but now
that 4! is done, it is too late to remedy
the mischief But they fight very Shy
OF Riddleberger, all Of them. They
would 80 much like to shake him off
Malone, the other day in the Senate, ac
knvwledging that the man was selected
for sergeant-at-arns as his representa-
tive and at his instance, declared that il
he could thus content his Democratic col
leagues he would he willing to withdraw
him. He would certainly like te
withdraw him, but he won't be asked to
do it to ob!ige tie Democratic senators
Nothing could suit them better, in Il
party way than to have Riddlebcrger ex
pose SO plainly the corrupt bargain be
tween Malone and the Republicans, and
the hypocrisy and lack OF principle ol
tina: party in embracing eagerly, for tht
sake Of political spoil, an alliance
with men whose principles they claim
to detcst, and who until the very mo
ment of alliance were the objects OF
their bitterest denunciation, and whose
record they used to cast Opprobriun
upon tie Democratic PARTY, in whose
cloak Malone and his followers have
masqueraded until tic latest hour. Tt
embrace the Southcrn brigadicr and re-
pudiator and negro hater, is the unpleas
ant duty suddenly assumed by the Re-
publican leaders and recommended to
their party bu! The dose is not kindly
swallowed and it looks rs though the
party would be very sick under the Ma.
hone prescription.