Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-12
HOAR AND MALONE.

H0AR AND MALONE.
Ex-Governor Chamberlain, of South Car.
DINA, writes vigorous letter to the Boston
Advertiser, which is in fact addressed to
Senator Hoar, in which he combats the re-
cent utterances of the Massachusetts Sena-
tor on the Southern question, and closes as
follows:
Whenever look at The real situation, and
the more look at it, l feel how deeply,
probably hopelessly, the spirit of Bourbon
ism possesses these men, and the words Of
Senator Hoar and Governor Long seem to
me less worthy of acceptance or heed than
the noise which vexed the honest and patri.
otto Roman when GHOSTS did Shrek and
squeal about the streets" of that old city.
But want now to paint little picture
from the South for Senator Hoar and Gov
ernor Long. I will draw it with a few
strokes and from life The colors shall all
be sober, and all truthful, 1.-THE cool, pas
sionless tones Of verify" as John Ruskin
says.
In the greatest, most venerable, nobest
{ tate of the South, mother of Presidents
and statesmen" birthplace, home, grave of
Washington, has existed since 1851 an or
eanized conspiracy called a political party,
for the purpose of grasping the offices and
emolumenls of that grand State and per-
petuating them in its own hands.
with ruthless hand it has struck down
from public employment every man who
would not be its slave. 1t has robbed the
public creditor made auction or plumber OF
all offices, and with its brutal foot on the
neck of decency and self-respect, has pro.
claimed itself the republican party of Vir-
al rfx ia. liar
Malone, fellow Senator with Mr.. George
f. Hoar, Of Massachusetts,, fellow delegate
at Chicago with Mr.. John D. Long, of Mas
sachuselts, and MIR. Henry Cabot Lodge, of
the same State. 1t is part of our recent
political history that this man Malone has
acted with Mr.. Hoar in the Senate, induced
thereto by the agreement of Mr.. Hoar and
his associates in the Senate that he should
have his price in the form of Senate or Pres
idantial patronage, IN agreement ratified by
President Arthur, and faithfully carried out
bv Senate and President. This man, too,
has mounted to power on the backs of the
negroes Of Virginia. He lets them vote, aye,
be makes them vote, and they do his bid
ding.
Now, Messrs. Editors, if either the sonor-
Gus trumpet of Senator Hoar or the melli-
iluous pipe Of Governor Long or the schol-
arly voice of Mr.. Lodge has ever been heard
in denunciation of this man and this mon
strous conspiracy against the first princl-
Piles of civil government itself, the sound
has never reached my ears. Why is this
Is the ballot more precious than all else? Is
moral degradation less offensive than physi
cal oppression No; the reason is that
William Malone has been hired to vote in
the Senate with George F. Hoar, and to
support Blaine with Long and Lodge !!
Senator Hoar cannot name a man in the
whole South to day who has done so much
wrong to the ballot and the negro as William
Malone, Meade, of Copiah, the alleged
; murderers of Danville, 'pale their netlect-
al fires" before this man. but the great,
long Springfield speech calls no attention to
these Southern outrages! Senator Hoar's
tongue strs not the air of Massachusetts in
denunciaton of these brutalities Malone
and Wise are party friends of Senator Hoar
and Governor Long Lee and Massey are
"rebel brigaders," voting the democratic
ticket Is it not time for men who have
tongues, hearts, and brains, TO cry, "Out
upon such stuff, come it from whomsoever
it may?"
You liken Hoar to Wendell Phillips. l
don't quarrel with this as you probably in
tended it, but it is we'll to remember that
Phillips was an agitator and iconoclast,
whose work was destruction, where no blow
could go amiss but protest in behalf of
the memory of the great orator that he
fought fight that was not then won and
never dug among expiring embers to fan up
a Fictitious partisan issue. Never!
Mr.. Hoar's tone is aggressive and conf
dent. He challenges all opponents to the
encounter. l am no match for the Senator;
no one knows this as we'll as do but say
to him, nevertheless, that will meet him
on any stump he may choose, in Massachu-
sets or elsewhere, on these issues, and be-
fore any audience he may choose. l will
maintain the thesis that he and all such as he
are political Bourbons, maligncrs, and false
leaders TO. day, and he may call Gov. Long
and Mr.. Lodge to his aid if he chooses.
In noting the above the New York Ecen.
ing Post says editorially:
Ex-Governor Daniel II. Chamberlain has writ
ten very pungent letter to the Boston ADVERTISER
in answer to Messrs. Hoar, Long, Lodge, and
others, on 'sthe bloody. shirt" question. He makes
the point which we made yesterday, that to con-
tinuc railing at and threatening the South, after
| tic republican party had voluntarily reinquish.
cd all attempt to control it, was bad and mischiev
| Gus politics. But he goes further than this, and
| fairly slaughters the unfortunate Hoar, by show
| ing that by the corrupt agreement which he and
his republican brethren in the Senate entered into
with Malone he helped to fasten the negroes
of Virginia far moro debasiDg yoke than any
imposed on them by the white bourbous in ether
States, besides helping to degrade the public SER
vice. Weextraet elsewhere portion of his most
pungent attack But we warn Mr.. Chamberlain
| that he need not expect to make Mr. Hoar vince
or retreat. Long years of stepping in scf-cstecm
have made him proof against all the arts of the
| rht torician. Even the exposure of his own self
contradictions move him no more than the cluck-
| ling of neghbors hen.
| DEATH FoREToLD BY A DEEAM.-Those who