Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-04-17
MAHONElSM.
Psif, Not Principle, at the Bo,tom-Ho~ \
o. Has Resulted So Far-RepubIican I
Caucus-Election Cases. I.
THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE BILL

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:WAsKrsGroS, April l6.-There is no boubt
bnt there is widening breach Between the
President and certain factions Of the party
He has positively snubbed the, Massachu-
sets Senator's, has given the whole patron
age of Pennsylvania into the hands OF Don
Cameron, and Of Virginia, to Malone. The
TACT is that the Republicans of the entire
Sonth are disgnsted, and the President Is
directing himself entirely to the
49, -, Mahone Method.y a -
He wants to win the South by coaxing,
but he has dodge worth two OF that. He
has helped Malone to capture Virgins
and the result is that Malone commands
the Federal patronaSe Of the State. The
: sf,residsnk poinesfc thsss iseeA< N <8docs<
ment to Southern Senators and other polit-
ical leaders to become MahoneS in their re-
speotive States. They have been plainly
told that so long as they remain Democrats
they cannot hope to have nearly so much
influence with the Administration as they
had with the administration of Mr.. Hayes.
The hope is that their constituents, having
tasted of the sweet, of official favor, will
demand that their Senators and Represent
atiyes shall, by hook or by crook, in some
way, honestly or dishonesty, with or
without a loss OF self respect, retain for
them the places which they have or once
had.
PelE Not Principle.
The President is complacent and pleasant
with southern leaders. He courts their
society, but he lets them know that they
cannot share in the public plunder so long
as they remain Democrats. He asks them
to believe that he is very sorry for this
state Of affairs, but it is not his fault. 1t is
the fault of the men who were born Demo-
cratS, whose interests have fixed them all
the more firmly in the party, and who
obstinately remain as they have always
been. He shows them by numberless
courtesies that his heart yearns for them.
Whenever any of them, like Senator Brown
or Mr. stephens, become disafieCted, he
redoubleS his attentions. Whenever a
Malone hands in his adhesion he loads him
with patronage.
The Republican Party
must have the South in some way. 1t
would rather have it prosperous and ad-
vancing under the lead of it's best people,
than ruined and robbed under its old
plunderers, but it must have it, and rather
than not gain its old power there, it would
willingly see it ruined and robbed. This is
the New York ward politicians game. He
is is cOaxing Southern Democrats with
honeyed words, and with the enticing pic
ture of what he has done for Malone in
Virginia.
This political movement for the capture
of the South by bribery and threats in
wolves the ignoring of the old Republican
clement. Therefore, Is | said at the open
ing OF TrIS uTJprrvrT, rS,-Ss,--~A----EA-r-oA'-
can politicians are angry with the admins
tration. / met one of these people last
evening. He was one of the Republican
leaders in Virginia last year, and helped to
Mahoneize the State. When the Republi-
cans organized the House OF Representa-
tives he received q reward in the form Oh a
minor office 1t was not much, but 1t was
something. He was very angry when
saw him, and began at once denouncing
Malone, who. ne said, was conducting him
self in such a way a. to injure the RepuO-
Hcan cause everywhere outside OF Virginia.
why They Complain.
'"Whv," he said, ''its the first sectional
cabinet that any Republican President has
made since the close of the war. Grant
gave us Alderman, and even Hayes had the
grace to put Key in. Garfield propped
Hunt up in the Navy Department, but now
this stalwart adm ministration, notwithstand'
ing all it promises, slaps us IN the lace.
The South, that ought to have two places
in the cabinet, hasn't a counsellor to plead
her cause. Seven Northern men are taken,
and the South is left out in the cold. The
Southern Republicans won t stand 1t, he
continued, and there will be vigorous
protest" Mahone, this man says, is at the
bottom of this 1t is he who has prevented
the appointment of Southern Republican
10 q cabinet position, because he dreads
having any one between himself and the
President.
They Want the Loayes and Fishes.
The Republicans of the South claim that
they are entitled to the good offices OF the
President, which means that they want the
good offices in these States: that they have
borne the heat and burden of the fray, and
that consequently when the spoils OF victory
are almost in their grlSp,to see them handed
over 70 a man like Malone makes them
desperately mad, and they don't hesitate to
speak their minds freely. IT,