Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-01-16
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Gen. Malone Graphically Tekls what
1t Has Bone In the South. and
What 1t May DO In
the FUCure

SAO r. EUCuC0s
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3l.-Senator Malone has
given the correspor dent Of the Philadelphia
Press his views on the political outlook. BE
regards the situation as exceedingly grave, aud
even predicts another civil conflict.
II haven't even read C3eveland's civil service
reform letter to George William Curtis; but if
the preaident,elect could take little jaunt
through Virginia and see the bourbona there
air ady wrangling and Sighting over the offices
that they expect to be made vacant next March
he would be amused and instructed.
''The speech made by Blaine in Augusta,
just after the election, was one Of the ablest
presentations of the situation In the south
have ever read, and its words ought not to be
forgotten by the northern people. I. myself,
long ago called attention to the political
strength exerolaed by bourbon voters in the
south.
"After the Danville massacre" /" continued tho
General, Several of the senators, including
Sherman and Edmunds, pressed me to bring
this outrage to the attention of the senate and
country. agreed to do go, and one day, while
discussing the subject with Mr.. Sherman,
called his attention to some points involving the
treatment of the negro by the republican party
that have never been able to understand. !
said: Mr.. Sherman, when the republican party
mads the negro free. I, who hsd done all in my
power TO prevent It, thought emancipation ID
awful thing. Well, ~ years passed By, 1 i'm
proved, and now tho wonder is thai. having made
him free, the republican party will not protect
him in his freedom. believe that We will have
another civil conflict in this country, not over
the question Of slavery though. Although I
fought against the Union, declare would
never consent that those who attempted to
destroy it should again become it, rulers. II
the confederates had w:n,l l am very sure the
north woul not have been allowed to m manage
the federal government. ~ *
Il called Mr.. Sherman's attention to the con-
dition of affairs in the country. The south il
represented in the senate entirely by southern
democrats and believe thirty two of their
,hirty-six senators were confederate brigaaie,s.
Every year the number of republican repre-
sentatives in the lower house from the south is
d. dscressing, and it is only question of time
when the bourbons will have Is solid repre-
,entation as they have in the senate. This ID
due to the willful. deliberate, lawless overthrow
Of the rights won for the negro in the civil war
and guaranteed to him by the amendments to
the constitution. told Mr.. Sherman then
this was neatly q year before the election-that
the south coming to the front every four years
with l53 electoral votes would certainly, in the
course of time elect democratic president.
Some freak accident, or fraud in one of the re-
uublioan northern states would give the demo-
Gratis majority of the electoral votes. All this
I oui oted out to him, was due to the failure of
The republicans to insist that the negro should
enjoy the political rights conferred upon him
by the laws of the land.
81 told Mr. Sherman that when the Demo-
cratic party did get into power, as it was bound
CAPITALISTS and business men generally have
never manifested any confidence in the demo
cratic party. Its wild financial spfsms, and
general lack of conservatism, inspire public
listrust. Instead of the volume of the busi-
aess of the country being increased, new manu-
factories and workshops opened, and ventures
undertaken by business men, there will be
General contraction. A man who had money in
bank would want to 60 there quite often to seq
that he could get it. Men in business affairs
would curtail and keep a. close to the shore q
DOS sible, until theywere assured of thoroughly
reliable and conservative administration Of
affairs. Fl,
meanwhile there would be almost . financial
panic Mills, furnaces and factories would be
closed, and thousands of men and women
thrown out of employment The upshot of it
would probably be bread riots. fer when = man
10 hungry he doesn't always stop to think before
acting. In such state of affairs, you see, an
nnorganized mob Of Thousands of men moving
on Washington would not be altogether unnat-
ural and thus another conflict begins I did
not think whom I said this that the next admin
istration would be democratic. It may not
happen, and trust it will not. but there would
never have been an opportunity for catastrophe
of this sort if tho negroes Of the southern stasss
had been protected in their rights"
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