The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-02-18
"UnsoIidifying the South.n

We are glad that Malone has made
his Republican allies drain the cup of
their shame, humiliation and disgrace to
the very dregs. We are glad that he
has made them swallow Riddleberger,
without being sugar coated, or even
creased. We are glad he has done this,
too, in the face of and in violation of
his agreement with the Republicans,
that Lewis should be made Senator from
Virginia. He feels his power. And
knowing that his time is short, that no
matter how the change may come, as
come it will, that he will no longer be
able to dictate to them, he is driving the
Republicans under whip and spur, and
insultingly demanding fresh concessions
and additional terms whenever the
greed of his adherents makes it neces-
sary that he should furnish them with
more "pap." Again we say, we are
glad to find that the infamous bargain
made with Malone is bearing its legiti-
mate fruits and appropriate punishment.
The readers of the Times will remem-
Der, that we predicted months ago, that
this coalition of the Republican party
with Virginia repudiationists, would not
end with the campaign in Virginia; but,
that it would extend to other States, and
unless the people rebuked it at once,
that it would finally become National
question. Already the leaven is begin
ming to work, and Mahones in embryo
are making their appearance in other
States.
Having succeeded in Virginia, the
Republican leaders, elated over their
success, are anxiously negotiating with
all the elements of discomfort and dis
appointment in Democratic States with
view to the campaign next and the
following year. They are doing this
openly. The Republican leaders avow
it, the Republican press is advocating
it-combine, collude, conspire, confed-
crate with anybody, anywhere, at any
time to beat the Democracy! This is
the position voluntarily and deliberate
ly assumed by the Republican party to-
day. 1t deliberately abandons princi-
pie and leagues itself with dishonor in
order to perpetuate itself in power
saying virtually to the people, what is
party without office, and what are prin-
ciples without spoils?
Again, we give them Joy at the cap
ture made in Malone and Riddleberger.
Let them go, we want none of them,
and of their kind. We can speak in the
emphatic language of a valued contem-
porary:
IF the Democratic party can retain
power in the South only by submitting
to the domination of those who urge re-
pudiation, fiat money and other ruinous
and dishonest doctrines, we trust there
can be no doubt that the Democracy
will prefer defeat.
1.-The Republican party of the South
is almost wholly composed of negroes,
and it can bring no responsibility or
character to those who quit the Demo-
cratic party because there is too much
honor and decency in that party to give
them shelter. Z
"While such alliances, therefore, as
that with Malone and Riddleberger, and
the one in contemplation with Jones, in
Texas, may result in temporary sue
cesses, the ultimate result will be to the
advantage of the Democratic party,
which will be purified and strengthened
by the expurgation of this bad element.
What it will lose in the South, will be
more than compensated by the gains in
the North; and thus lead, eventually, TO
the utter humiliation of all sectionalism.
To those Democrats who want to follow
Malone we bid God speed"
And some will 60 of course. We ex-
pect it. A prominent politician, the
other day, put it very forcibly in this
wise: ''Mahone and his gang have
broken down the fence and are filling
themselves at the crib, and there are
some hungry fellows looking wistfully
over the fence, whose appetites will
overcome them yet, and they will go,
too" But the reaction is sure to come.
The present effort is only to re-establish
the supremacy of ignorance, as in the
days of the carpet-bag rule, which the
intelligence of the people, in time, fully
demanded should be superceded.-Kan-
sas city Times.