Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-09-01
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FRIDAY EVENING. SEPT. 1. 1854.
lahOne's Ways.

made familiar in pennsylvania by the
life and conversation of Robert w.
Mackey. He does not hesitate to avow
the practical methods which he deems
proper to take to secure the thing he is
after which is political mastery. He is
not troubled by sentimental samples.
He regards his partlsans as his servants
to be rewarded with Office and punished
with their deprivation according to their
deserts. He expresses his views on this
matter with considerable distinctness in
q letter which he has addressed to one
John w. Waltz, whom he had caused
to receive an Office and to be deprived of
it, for like reasons, viz {: fidelity and inf
deity to his political service. Mr.. Waltz
undertook to complain, and Mr.. Mahone
descends to explain. His language is in
some of its phrases somewhat tainted
with the euphoniousness politicians al
ways use to conceal their ugly meaning,
but on the whole it is remarkably frank
in its statement. There is no difficulty
at any rate in understanding what Mr..
Malone is trying to convey to the un-
unfortunate Waltz, and to all like him
inclined to rebellion against the COM
n,ands of their political boss. Mr.. Ma
hone had practical purpose in replying
to Mr.. Waltz. He did not care what
Waltz thought about his decapitation,
and would not have wasted words on
him. But these words are not wasted :;
they are intended to keep the Malone
ranks solid in Virginia, and to warn all
would-be kickers that they can't kick
and keep their places. If they are Amer
ican citizens, they are Mahone's Ameri-
can citizens and not free agents at all.
Mr.. Malone tells Mr.. Waltz that he
had perfect right to do what he did do
as citizen but while an employee
of the government hold such conduct to
be abusive of the Office and an improper
implication of the administration
1t is wrong to the party and All act
of injustice to the administration that
places of trust conferred by the support
of the one and the power of the other
should he thus employed, 10 oppose the
party and the administration" Mr.. Ma.
hone concluded by advising Mr.. Waltz
that it was the influence of the Read
juster party that secured him his office,
whose influence he was now using
against it and to defeat the election of
its candidate for congressman at-large,
That is a sufficiently clear statement
of the Malone doctrine which is not
peculiarly Mahcne's, but is equally held
and practiced by the other props of the
administration he supports. 1t is its chief
strength. 1t is the strength of the regu-
lar Republican organization in Pennsyl-
vania. The only popularity about Ma
hone is the frankness of his statement of
the theory and practice of this Stalwart
administration. Mackey left no one be-
hind him in Pennsylvania, not even Don
Cameron, equal to the boldness of this
declaration as he left no one equal to
him i'm the boldness and skill of his po-
litical performance.
We have heretofore expressed our be-
lief in the logical soundness of the posi-
tiOn announced by Mr.. Malone. We do
not think it can be successfully gainsaid
that SO long as political Office is held by
the practice of an administration to be the
reward of political services, the loss Of
ONCE SO gained must logically be held 10
be proper consequence of the reversal
nf csp0t, oorvyS0nS 50 ocspo,,1sy
and talk for babes and by babes to con
denim Malone for removing Waltz for
desertiDg him, while approving his ap-
pointment of him for serving him, The
Philadelphia Press, and journals of that
hypocritical class-and there are many
of them-while indulging in this sort of
cant need not flatter themselves that
their readers are SO stupid as to be taken
in by it.
Such acts as this of Malone will al
ways be done while the public patronage
is at the command of parties as it now
is. The frank declaration of this state
of affairs by Malone should be O. service
in exciting the attention of the people
to the great wrong that is being done
them by putting their civil service at the
mercy of this low class of political cut
throats. See how this man talks for the
administration, as though he held its
commission to distribute its office
and award its judgments in Vir-
ginia, though he only is commits
stoned as senator from the state.
Practically he has the power he claims.
It is certainly wrong that this so. 1t is
wrong that Malone in Virginia, Gamer
on in Pennsylvania, Conkling in New
York, and other agents of the admins
tration in the different states should be
able to use the offices, which are the peo-
pies, to influence and control the inter-
probation of the peoples voice. 1t is not
a true Democracy that will suffer this
nor a free people that will long endorse
it. The servants should not be made
the masters as they now are. The hor-
rid spectacle of a freebooter like Malone
rewarding and Furnishing citizens for
exercising their rights as citizens"
should not arise to offend us. Shall it
not be stoppedp
The DAILY INTELLIGENCER to-day
enters on the nineteenth year of its ex.
istence. Started toward the end of the
rebellion for the comfort and protection
of the small but vigorous contingent of