National Republican., 1882-10-17
The Bourbon Paralytic in Virginia.

The Bourbon Paralytic in Virginia.
Our morning neighbor had blue Mon
day yesterday, and the object of its i'll
nature was Malone, as usual 1t gets
more and more ill-tempered as the day
approaches when we shall call its atten-
ton to the third triumph Of Malone
over Virginia Bourbonism within three
years. Yesterday it said that the peo-
pie of Virginia sent Mr.. Malone to the
United States Senate as Democrat to
maintain the superiority Of the Demo-
Gratis in that body" So far from this
bearing any semblance of truth, the
campaign of 1870, which made Malone
Senator, was carried on by the Demo
cratic party on one side and the Read
iusters led by Malone on the other. IT
was q struggle between Bourbonism and
Liberalism, and Bourbonism lost. The
Readiusters elected black and white leg
isature from black and white party,
and the white Bourbons tried TO form a
copartnership with the black Readjusters
and were spurned. The white Bourbons
tried their level best 10 put a nominal
Republican in the Senate, but the Read
iuster Malone men Of the black race pre-
fcrred General Malone, and the Liberals
sent Malone to the Senate to break down
the superiority of the Bourbon Demo.
Gratis in that body. 1t was because Ma
hone would not betray the people OF
Virginia, and slink into the Bour-
bon caucus, that the crack OF
Ben Hills whip resounded in
the Senate chamber on the 4th oi
March, 1881. The habit of tyranny was
so strong in the political task-masters oi
the South that Bourbon Senators could
not realize that the people had dismissed
their party from power in Virginia. They
thought to draw on the old fear which
their frown had formerly inspired, ant
to whip in Mahone's constituents i'll Nir
ginia preparatory to taking him captive
They did not for six weeks debate Ma
homes right to vote rs he chose in the
Senate in the hope of making him afraic
of them. He made them to know
him better than that within two
minutes after he sprang into the
open space between the Senators desks
and with noble rage forever settled tn,
question as to their claim upon him. Blu
they hoped, by an appeal to old preju
dices among his white constituents, t
drive them BACK into the Bourbon cam
and thus either to leave him at the hea
of q negro party or compel him to go witt
them. They only made him more de
fiant, and aroused in Virginia spirit c
resistance to Bourbon dictation whic,
has proven to be a file they cannc
gnaw. The eX confederates of tn
Shenandoah Valley and the Soutl
west met the onset, and the Bourbo
} party suffered all the damage that wa
DONE In vain the Straightouts con
spired, as they are now doing, with th
Bourbons. In vain were fierce epithet
flung at the Liberals. Radicalism, negr
supremacy, and like slang went by tn
Readjusters as the idle wind. The Boul
bons
tiled like the chaif from the scourge that pur
| sued them"
and were ingulfed with their brother Re
publican Bourbons in Coalition maiorit
of 10000. That campaign ,ras made 8OleI
on the question Of indOrsing Malone for .fgh
ing the Bourbon Democracy IN the Senat
"The people of that State are not wor
to pardon duplicity in their politics
servants" So. says our contemporary
We supplement it by saying thf
they appear equally FFor disfhtettteeli shtettteeifty
their public servants. They have nc
only Endorsed Malone for spurning tn
Bourbons who thought him their slave
but they have given him gallant Harr
Riddleberger rs u colleague-Riddle
berger the choice of the coalition IN II
United States Senate for an office of higl
trust in that body! Obi the worl
moves.
And now that poor old debauche
thing, the Bourbon party of Virginia,
in disgrace under the stripes twice at
ministered-in 1879 and 1SSl-by tn
people of the State, and is about to Ii
down in the alternate embraces of
renegade colored Radical and renegad
white Readjuster-Dawson and Massey
Massey and Dawson. Shades of tn
mighty how are ye fallen. Ther
is no struggle now going on in Virgini;
A paralytic might as well contend with a
athlete as for old palsied Bourbonisr
there to attempt to stagger to its feetand
stay the onward progress Of old Virgini
herself, regenerated, restored, and proud
moving among equal States in y par;
mount Union. For our own part, we thin
it cruel for Northern Democratic paper
to add to the bitterness of Bourbo
humiliation in the Old Dominion by tn
mocking pretense of belief that tn
Malone Coalition can be overcome. TIL
day of judgment in that State has com
and gone, and the enemies of politici
liberty there have been cast into cute
darkness, where there is weeping an
wailing and gnashing of teeth.
THERE app ears to be no division anon
the Republicans of New York or Penn
sylvana upon Congressman, from whicl
; we argue that there will be no losses Q
Congressman in those States.
The EennSylVnnIn HicISers.
Mr.. Thaddeus Mahausa lawyer from Chamber
burg, thus expressed himself to NE: "Thc'
kickers can't get away with this State. We wei
in tighter squeeze than this in 1872. The nom
nation OF both tcwart and Pattison was dictate
by Aleck Mcclure, who used to live here and WI
alter sticking most of his friends In oil schem
ana mining Jobs. The object of his life Is