New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-26
sOrTBERN REPUBLICANTSM

SOUTHERN REPUBLICANISN
Whittier are we drifting in the South under
the lead of the Administration In Virginia
the control of the party has been handed over
TO General Mahone-with power over his prov
ince as absolute and unqucstioned as WAS
ever given to a Roman ProcOnsul who hap
peucd to be a favOrite with the reignmg En-
peror No office, high or low, throughout the
entire State can be filled except rs Malone
dictates The ordinary courtesy heretofore
shown to Republican Representatives. of ask
ing their advice in regard to appointment OF
postmasters in their respective districts has
been abandoned and Mr.. Dezer dorf, who has
fought "a heroic battle of Republic nlsm IN
Virginia, has been refused the slightest voice
in the appointment of postmaster even Ill his
own town. We have heard, though can scarcely
credit 1t, that Mr.. DezendOrf made u personal
appeal to the President on tho subject and was
answered that the matter had been left In the
control of General Malone. Under the same
control One-egged Union soldier, always
Republican, was turned ont of the Post Office
at Lynchburg, and a Confederate soldier-a
Democratic Readjuster-put in hlS place. by
the same dictatiOn an estimable lady whose
relatives have made great sacrifices for the
Union has been turned out of the Post Office nc
Manassas for the purpose of furnishing her
brother, who vcntured TO exercise his own
Judgment in opposition to tlat of Malone.
The circumstances Of this removal have been
given in detail. SO popular was the lady that
the patrons of the ofice-nearly four hundred
in numb&r-petitiOned, with only two excep-
tons, Tor her retention. and no one could be
IL; H. Of dali
enough to take her place. General Mahone
thereupon imported one of his tools, an ex-
Confederate from distance of fifteen miles,
to fill the Office. 1t appears that there was
shame enough left in the Administration to
halt and hesitate in this degrading business.
Mr. Elmer pigeon-hOled the papers while tenn
porary III charge of the Appointment Office,
and Mr. Howe. the Postmaster General was
reluctant to go forward on the path Of hui
initiation But Cabinet meeting, we are
told was held, and deliberately decided that
Malone must have his way, no matter how
disgraceful and dishOnOring his demands
might be.
In South Carolina we have all been made
to believe that one Colonel Cash was guilty OF
murders 80 atrocious that they shocked II COM
munity accustomed to scenes OF blood. But
Colonel Cash has quarrelled with his old Dem
ocratic conircres and seeks alliance with the
Republicans as a method of revenge. Forth
with the Administration adopts him, and its
patronage is gwen IN aid of his election. In
Mississippi General Chalmers of Fort Pillow
fame is running as an independent candidate
for Congress, and the Administration pledges
HIM Republican support. General Chalmers
was turned out OF the present Congress, where
he claimed to sit as Democrat on a certii-
cate that was utterly fraudulent He fought
desperately to hold his seat, bat his case was
so shamelessly bad that many decent Dem
ocrats refused TO sustain him. Angered and
Inundated by being turned ont, Chalmers at
once announced his resolve to run rs an Inde- |
pendent in order to get even with the "White- |
livcred Democrats of the North who would not
hold him in his seat in defiance of law and COM
mon honesty. ThereupOn as soon as Chalmers |
raised his independent standard the Admin |
istraton gave him its support. and the Repub-
licans of Mississippi are ordered to vote for |
him. He is the same Chalmers that as stained |
with the Fort Pillow massacre the same that |
has bulld0zed and outraged the Republicans of |
his district but @e are commanded to forget
all this, and to lend Republican support to !
him, in order that he may 1reak his malice |
on the honorable MEN OF his own party VINO |
would not uphold him in his political iniqutics. |
TO these serious and almost tragic designs
of the Administration it IL proper to add one
that is furclcal. In Texas the notorious Tom |
Ochiltree is the accepted leader of this new dis
pensation of affairs. We do not say that Tom |
is positively wicked will not affirm that he is
not 10 be preferred to Confederate Democrat
running against him but we trust it will not
hurt his feelings if we intimate that Tom is
not a strong man to stand rs the Representa-
tive of a National Administration in great
State like Texas, and that the party accepting
him as its exponent must lIneyitably inset
with disaster in the end.
These are seriOus matters. The old attempt
to govern the South by union of tho carpet
bag element with the negroes has largely
failed But tho attempt to place the negro
vote under the control OF the desperadoes OF the
South is ominous of evil. There is no moral
strength to such a movement. IL Is inherently