National Republican., 1882-11-02

Tor four or five years. II grievcd the
chivalry" terribly to have to swallow
Little Aleck" with his alleged sins, un-
washed, all unregenerate, unrepentant,
and defiant as he was. But Boss Joe
Brown, seconded by "Boss" Colquitt,
issued the decree that stephens must be
nominated, and Immediately the Atlanta
machine, with its ramifcations all over
the State, being well oiled and deXtrously
controlled, began its work, which never
ceased until Mn Stephens was elected
governor of Georgia.
Colonel Lamar made fight against
subserviency TO the Georgia bosses. That
was almost the single redeeming feature
of the late campaign in that boss-rid-
den" province. He is starting another
raid on the bosses that will surely come
to grief. Nevertheless we enjoy such
charming candor as is evnced in the fol-
lowing editorial paragraph of recent
issue Of Colonel Lamar's paper:
lift be true that the different State departments
In Atlanta are actively canvassing in the Interest
Of Culquitt for the Senate, then there will be no
need of any argument to show that Georgia is
hpuut as DHulg III Ol CIVIL beTNlCc
is the United States, under the manipulations of
the Arthur Radicals. The Georgia "machine"
| needs smashing The people will be compelled 10
smash 1t in selfdeensc.
Can it be possible that such profane
politics exists in Celestial Georgia-that
Mecca upon which the average Bourbon
mind gazes with such profound emotion
Bourbon editors and orators turn trip
pingly on the tongue such nice and
numerous phrases about Bosses and Boss
ism in Virginia, New York, and Penn
sylvania that the guileless masses would
never dream of there being such sys-
TEN of political enginery in the most
model of Bourbon households.
But Colonel Lamar has another confess
| sion to make, and he makes it with di-
rectness and vigor of expression. Quot
ing from a Detroit paper, which stated
that the Telegraph and Messenger had adj
vised the Democrats of North Carolina
and Virginia to draw and maintain the
color line" Colonel Lamar proudly says
The Telegraph and Messenger can well afford 10
disregard the ill-tempered snccr of its Michigan
contemporary, while rejecting that 1t was thefrst
Journal in the State to suggest the line upon which
the. Democracy could and dii win. If North
Carolina and Virginia will follow this lead they
will be saved, and Billy Malone will be shorn of
| the power given him by corrupt Federal admin
istration.
Exactly. We call the attention of
Northern Republicans to this honest
confession from one of the ablest and
most candid of Southern journalists, if
we are to take the judgment of him that
we have often heard Southern gentlemen
express. Democracy in Georgia means,
then, the "color line drawn and main
tanned" At the North, with all parties,
United States laws. True, Democratic
national platforms and Democratic Presi-
dental candidates and Democratic news
papers and speakers at the North affirm
the contrary. But Colonel Lamar knows
better, and he tells the country candidly
that Democracy in the South is undying
hostility to the organic law of the land.
Heed this, Republicans at the North,
while youare quarreling in factious strug-
giles which Pharisees and political "man.
milliners," are thrusting into the ranks
of your proud party.
A significant part of Colonel Lamar's
statement is the unconscious tribute he
pays to Malone in making him and his
policy in Virginia the very antithesis of
the revolutionary and un-Amercan plat
form and purposes of Georgia Democracy.
1t is true, and it is confessed. To be sin
cerely un-American and reactionary in
ones political hopes and associations is
to be a genuine Southern Bourbon. To
be the unrelenting and daring enemy of
these things is thework of Malone. How
easy to account for Bourbon hatred of
Malone! When his victory next Tues
day shall have demonstrated, how thor
oughly Virginia is consecrated to the
work of demolishing Bourbon dogmas
and relegating Bourbon methods to the
barbaric period to which they belong,
Malone will have the active sympathy
of thousands who to-day are less skeptics
as to his purposes than as to his power to
overthrow evils entrenched behind the
prejudices of nearly century's grow tn.