The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-01-18
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Hallons.

Politically dead, damned, and disgraced,
little Billy Malone has gone to Join Benz
dict Arnold. And yet he was not an at
tractiye renegade. He burrowed. lie OPP
Grated from the centre OF all sorts OF little
secret rings, and all kinds OF specious little
conspiracies. For . tragedy there must
al ways be u real actor, and this man wss
simply q hountebsnk. To deny The COM
rad ship OF war; 10 kiss the hand which
had emitten his cheeks until the
red blood rushe, there in pro.
teststion; to debsss his own color for the
sake Of gain; to suppress the voice OF hu.
man nature; 10 abolish the immemorial
usages of decency and social intercourse; to
overthrow all the pride of birth and caste;
TO sully the very name OF fealty and devo.
ton: TO hire the vicious; to war upon
n ighbors and old time friends, to stab the
mother state and desecrate the graves oil
the dead who died that she might at least
be august in her terrible bereavement-to
do all these things we ssy, and do them
well, there should ut least be colossus o.
political scopndrelism; and yet this man,
Buly Malone, was only a railroad wrecker,
aud quite commonplace one ut that. lie
meant TO I'LL this bill to perfection,
and he did do the best he could
in each particular line that he knew
how; but the pattern OF tire man
was too shrimp aud bloodlese. Benedict
Arnold was giant. He bad voice like
war god He loved magnificent women
and magnificent ht rses. Battle transhs-
ured him. de charged like Knght err
rant, and fought lie a man-at arms. lie
was colossal in his treachery. lie would
have sold mis- country but he would have
b I'D an empire. He would have gone to
the devil, but not at snaiis pace, count
ing his profits cent by cent, aud hiegling
ere over postoilice. and there over the
division Of inferior spoils.
Crafty, buggy, pinched, tape.vormy,
weaselly, this cfeature Malone had no
horizon or heaven except an office. he was
cunning like the wolf. He knew how to
get food. Under certain conditions he
would have been mendicant: In Nir-
einia he had it in his power 10 be.
come a species of low aud vulgar tyrant.
AT first he utilized with some skill the
hate of that seryile crowd who find pri-
yate benefit in pubic disorders, and VINO
prefer always the favor OF IA master, 80 only
he is interruptions, 20 the memorable
equality of the law. All that was corrupt.
vensl, and ignorant in Virginia politics
came to him because they scented plumber
Shoddv from head to foot, as was
Malone, another unltteranly shoddy
thing called rspublicanisn, took
him up-a thing which Is one vast
sham one incarnate phsriseeism--a specu-
lator In opinion, an adventurer IN devices,
humbus IN ethics, nypocrite IN inoIhls.
a charlatsn in domestic economy, an intdel
In religion, n thief In ofiice-this com pound;
we say Of Grantism, Beecherism, aud ln-
gersollism, took up Malone and helped
him TO do the worst and the meancst
OF his deyilment. 1t was the slli-
ance OF two productivns-thst Of
assassination and that OF repudiation-and
when the bastard was born It was called
n shoneism. As 1t grew aud grew what
else could the thing do. made monstrous by
congenital scouDdrelism, except TO rob.
plumber, dsbsuch, deny decency, drag
down manhood, crush the state, beRet race
conflicts, poison the civil service and
finally die a dogs death and rot in the
pottsrs field.
When an open and honest antagonist is
stricken In the fore front OF the fight and
falls BY the standard all courageous men
smcng his opponents respect that valor and
sorrow for his overthrow. But when the
raidipg and footing mercenary gets the fs'ai
bullet in his back as he runs. his beggsrly
crew all about him, the rejoicing 10 such as
generally goes up over q band OF thieves
broken up or n lot of robbers extermiRa'ed
As Malone fell. 50 let him lie. The cornse
is fit for neither grave. shrould nor cofiin.
Isl. Joseph Gazette.