National Republican., 1881-11-02
Unconditional Surrender by Republi-
cans or Bourbons.

Unconditional Surrender by Republi-
cans or Bourbons.
The Post congratulates itself that the
Bourbon minority in the. Senate has
taught the Virginia anti-Bourbons that
the Presidents nomination for Office can
be defeated by filibustering. But the
lesson is boomerang. The refusal of
the Bourbons in the Senate to allow vote
to be taken on the Lynchburg post-ofiice
nomination was an admission by them
that they could not defeat the nomina-
tion in any other way than by dilatory
motions. This will at the regular session
bring to test the question of whether the
President can nominate and, by and with
the advice and consent of majority of
the Senate, appoint officers to transact
the public business, or whether minor
ity can, by delay and revolutionary
methods, harass the President into COM
plying with their demands.
Says the Washington correspondent of
a New York daily:
It is ntimated in Democratic circles that the
President may go just little too far in his efforts
to please Mr.. Malone, and that next session his
Administration might need the assistance ofDemo-
cratic support.
This furnishes q perfect explanation
of the policy of the Bourbon
Democracy rs exhibited in the re-
fusal of their representatives in
the Senate to allow vote on a contested
presidential nomination. The President
is to be intimidated by threat of Demo-
cratic opposition to his Administration
unless he abandons his friends. When
he desires to fill vacant place in Yer
mont or Iowa of course it will be smooth
sailing for any nomination he sees fit to
make. But let him beware how he in
vades the Solid South. Let him under
stand that if any people there raise the
standard of rebellion against the old
Bourbon dynasty he must not dare to
select one of them for u post-oflice. He
can take Republican vouched for by
Bourbons as respectable because harm
less, but ifany who have been confederate
Democrats attempt to escape from bond
age they are to be treated as fugitive
slaves and surrendered to their masters
on demand.
Malone must be treated as an outlaw
by the President, as he is by the Bourbon
Senators, because he has burst the bonds
and led corps ofthe Democratic army to
q patriotic position. The President is
notified that the public business shall
stop in the Senate unless Bourbons are
nominated by him for Office in Virginia.
To all of which the President might
we'll reply: "There can be no other pub
lie business cqualing in Importance the
settlement of the question whether the
Democracy ought to control the selection
of subordinates of President chosen in
opposition to them, especially when in
order to do so they are obliged to sup
press majority in the Senate by reyolu-
tionary distractions"
The Bourbons have no more excuse fol
antagonizing good men nominated by the
President for Office in Virginia than il
Vermont. That the nominee stands by
Malone in the support ofthe Administra
ton in Virginia is no better reason fol
opposllloh thuh Wouiu pe Sihiiii oupPoi
of Senator Hoar in Massachusetts. Th
President and The Senator'S Who believe u
political freedom 'riH either hare 10 lock horn
piM The Bourbon Senators lCho claim Mahon
as iheirrebellous Stare, or they triu hare 10 dd
NIT that support Of he national cause IN III
South rs a crime for Uhich The offender shoul
. be prescribed and outldwed By Republican
} as WeH as by Bourbons. The issue will b
met. The terms ofsettlement will be tn
unconditional surrender of the Bourboni
Any other course would disband the Re
publican party.