The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-29
By Telegraph.
MALONE.
The Towering Ambition OF the Little
Slant Of the Jeems River.
he Wants TO Fill the Ample Seat
Now Occupied by David
~ Davis ~

WAsHneroN, Dec. 27-Gossiping Virgin
isns talk q great deal about Malone, and what
he is going 10 do when the senate meets. viii
he be content to elect Gorham secretary Of the
senate? Aahones career in the past has not
created for him any reputation for modesty or
good faith The Readjuster combination holds
The balance Of power. 1t lis entirely in keeping
with the policy Of Malone to throw Gorham
overheard At the very last Gnoment, and de-
mand for himself the position of president Of
che senate, and the consequent succession to
the presidency. The Republicans would be
obliged to take Malone or Democrat This
embarrassing situation could be obviated in
one way, If the Illinois legislative fac
tons should compromise in the coming
senatorial fight and re-elect David Davis then
II is certain that he would command the vote
IN she senate for a reelection to the acting
vice presidency. Mr.. Davis has given great
satisfaction to both Sides He has been uni-
formly impartial 1t is the first time for many
years that senator has sat as Judge in the
chair Of the presiding officer. To look for
ward to the reign of Malone, and possible
ascendancy Of the Readjuster freebooter, is not
pleasant thought The senate is made up of
men who have peculiar codes for ths govern
ment or their affairs. BY tacit understand
ing, no Democrat speaks to Malone unless abb
solutely forced to do 30. Not single one Of
them would accept a social favor from him
The Republican senators do not treat him any
better. They do not speak to him unless they
want something No one ever gets up at his
approach to shake hands with him. He gen.
orally comics trailing in from the cloak room
an hour after the senate has opened, and goes
direct 70 his seat He rarely If ever takes part
an tho proceedings He is always the object Of
s0ne whispered consultation.
Mahone's whole business appears to be
plotting When Editor Gorham is not with
him, his sole privileged Virginia friend, Rid
dleberger, comes and goes, rehesrsing some
part he is to play after the 4th of March.
They are strange pair; Malone, small and
skeleton-hgured, in his odd flowing robed
coat, looks like O boy by the side Of the tall
and stalwArt Riddleberger Mahone's thin
feet, bony hands and small head give him
a look Of fragility when he is standing up in
She floor of the senate. 1t is wonder to the
average observer that those broomstick legs
do not break, and that they sustain the weight
OF this puny body. II Malone were to cut off
his hair, his flowing mustache and beard he
would at once lose his power No man with
head as small as his could command respect
or even attention. His number six head is so
adorned and padded out with hair that you
sneRagories that have larger heads. rs
brushes soft white felt hat down over his
tumbled gray hair; then twisting out his long
mustache, spreading his coat and walking very
wide, swapping his cruel black eyes, and
swearing as he goes, he manages to impress
his Virginia followers. Then he has money
and patronage His followers are all
hungry, and would follow the devil for such
pay as Malone can give them. Malone ia a
tyrant, and thoroughly interruptions in his
Virginia dealings. II is not to be supposed
that he would manage affairs much better if
he succeeds in gaining the presidency of the
senate; and just at the present he has more of
call upon the position than any one Malone
ss political gambler who never fears to take
desperate chances. He is also practical
gambler, IT is related of him that his first
start IN life came in gambling match be-
tween him and his father. The elder Malone
owned a country tavern where the present
senator was brought up, One day, when the
old gentlemen was in hard luck, the future
senator won the tavern, and ever after made
the old gentleman pay rent
Rlddleberger, the associate boss of the SEN
ate after the 4th of March, is tall, broad
shouldered and heavy in figure His face is
Rharp-featured and red, his eyes blue, while
sharp red goatee elongates and sharpens the
appearance Of his angular face. He has the
look of hard rider and hard liver. He deals
orstory, and speaks with the accent and twang
Of a coTn-feld negro Talk about Yankee
twang! The average senator from the sunny
south cannot talk except through his nose.
Barrow, the small young man at present en-
gagged in rafting around in Ben Hills shoes has
such a darkey sooent as to make the galleries
laugh every time the simple old-young man
gets up 10 make some of his fresh remarks.
Malone is also spurrod on in his present ambi-
tlon to fight for the succession to Arthur, by
the fact that Mosby is coming home all the way
from China to contest for supremacy with him
in Virginia. Mosby is very popular. He won
the first Republican victory in Virginia, after
the war, and afterward hasked in the hearty
friendship Of Gen, Grant Mosby hates Ma
homo, and has announced his intention of com
ing back, so as TO he here, at least when the
next presidential canvas is on. All this prom
Uses unusually interesting developments when
the senate meets in special session after the
18th of next March.