National Republican., 1883-06-04
Mr.. Biainc's Democratic Alliance Against
the Administration and Malone.


fellowism has been tho spring fashion
and the bourbon clever fellows have, as is
their custom, allowed tho soft-headed and
soft-hearted Of their opponents to do anything
for them that they panied done. As soon as IL
can be obtained we will publish correct
statement ofthe county offices that have been
lost by tho respective parties in the recent
election. Meanwhile We assure our readers
that the bourbons arc at their old game of ad-
vertising our victories as defeats and their
own defeats as victories,
And now as to the facts alluded to at the
outset. The most virulent bourbon papers of
the south and the democratic papers Of the
north are screaming in concert against Ma
hone with all those professed republican pa
pers at tho north which have Joined with
them in denouncing the present chief
magistrate of tho nation as "the Guiteau
president" Here is an illustration of the
tone and spirit of these paper1. 1t is from
the Macon, Ga, Telegraph
The slaylsh devotion OF THE NATIONAL RKPUB.
LIcAN TO the personal fortunes of Malone Is evil
denco OF capital understanding between the II T.
tie villain and the Guiteau administration. The
shameful fact can be explained In no other way.
That bargain will bo a losing ono for the repub-
lican party in the end.
OF course the Telegraph would rejoice if it
believed that the alliance with Malone would
damage the republican party. Its rawlings
q ~ hat fan har 30 h. L.. A.
the Scotch have it, the editor is but scratch.
ing where it itChes. Our own Washington
Post appears to have been erected expressly
for the convenience of bourbons who have to
scratch.
But if Mahone's repeated triumphs in vir-
ginia make tho bourbons shrek with pain,
what sort of republicans are they who join
them in the outcry9
Amid the wreck of matter and the crush of
worlds last November, when nine northern
states went over to the enemy under the lead
Of the republican rebukers, Virginia bour-
bonism, led by tho repudiator Massey, the
professional negro Dawson, and the patriot
Dczcndorf, and sustained by blast from Mr..
Blaine's own bugle horn, given in an inter-
view with him through the Chicago Tribune,
went reeling to the ground under the blows of
Malone, Riddeberger, Cameron, Wise, and
Paul, and their white and black republican
and readjuster associates, supported by the
administration. What reason was this for
grief in the souls of honest re-
publicans? Why should the New
York Tribune, the Philadelphia Press,
tho Cincinnati Commercial Gdsette, and all
the journalistic minnows which follow in
their wake, be so anxious now to make the
public swallow the silly bourbon canard that
the democrats have just won victory in
Virginia? Is there q republican in the land
SO demented as not to take these deserters
at their own word, and give them over
to the democratic party for which they
are thus openly doing battle2 The trou-
BILE with them is that they have failed
to make their mud stick to the Presi-
dent He is beyond tho reach of
their spent missiles. The people trust him
and despise the wretches who, less than two
years ago, were seeking his assassination by
brutal coupling of his name with Guiteau's in
the columns of such infamous papers as the
New York Tribune They now seek to assail
him over the shoulders of Malone, whom they
have hitherto themselves indorsod, and the
alliance with whom was inherited by Presi-
dent Arthur as a part and parcel of tho pro-
fesscd Garfield policy"
1t is important to keep in view the follow
ing facts: The good relations between the
Virginia republicans and the readjusters ex-
listed long before the election of Garfield and
Arthur, and resulted in the election of Ma.
hone to the senate in opposition to the demo.
Gratis and the administration of President
Hayes. As to Mahone's subsequent co-opera-
tion with republican administration in
Washington, it was Garfield who first made
advances to Malone and sent him assurances
two days after tho presidential election that
he had never alluded to him as "repu.
diator." 1t was Garfield who besought Ma
homes support of republican administra
tion, and volunteered to send him word by Q
Pennsylvania senator that "he would bt
treated by him in all respects as an admins
tration senator" It was Garfield who
at the same time declared TO the pres
ent editor Of the Philadelphia Pres
and three other persons that the Ma
hone statement of tho Virginia debt ques
tion was "an honest document" II was Gar,
field who, at Mentor, assured ex-senator
Lewis, Of Virginia, OF his entire sympathy
and support Of the Virginia coalition. 1t was
Garfield who, after he became president
urged Virginia republicans to join hand
with the readjusters,.
Then tho New York Tribune, the Philadel.
phia Press, and other sheets which now OK
ceed the bourbon papers in virulence against
Malone, were most obsequious in his support
and praised the honesty of the readjustmen
of the debt.
The premier" Of the Garfield administra
tion, in a conversation on the subject Of tn,
coalition, admitted that If the republicans o
Virginia were TO indorse the readjustel
nominations, it would be the duty of the ad
ministration TO support IT, His chief organ