The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-24
pInDLEBERGER QUIET.
gE IS DOING IN PRIVATE
WEE LIFE.

10" I'd Couldn't-A Glimpse Do"H
Him S4 ia wav. Where Politics Grows
Hot From, the Boston Globe.
- Aug. 2O.-At % Harrison
NA A,I,nsrgar came out of the war a cap
Il h - cavalry, and one of the most dash-
tan e. s-bters in the whole Tenth Legion.
ns hEus sa~s ago. at so, he addressed the
Flf'eeI pass Association at Richmond,
Virgll'a Ida of the young soldier boys, OF
be, tn7 - ambition, journalists, OF the
me y0u--5 Locates of the bar. He was
!J u.,7 orator. He had read a good deai
tsA. fashionable He had atine, deep
anu MS b,s figure was tall, and his presence
VoiO'' L., and he was a type OF
com inl9.-oI-6Is southern gentleman. he had
the en- 'S-I--ooTIrnmonwealth's attorney, and
serVei -. az haginning his brilliant career as
was t3e House of Delegates ana state
nleli.o or He had edited two or three papers
sena' 1rora influential in the valley. NOW,
lu"V he rroes to his home In Wooustock'
s5t:-,rodited by republicans and democrats
liz. and yet an ex-U mica states senator;
SnAs, NJ no man was ever coaxed ana
fruUaGGJ Piddleberger was. Probably no
cQd !lI S+ares senator ever spent six years
n NJ before without being Invited
.norother senator's house.
to an anI has cone home disguised with the re-
~ administration. Mr.. Cleveland
Puurjad him the courtesy of naming the
ac coluvS of Woodstock. He chose that
poSVl nn,, sloan incumbent, an old friend of
t tHe sbonld hold over. Gen. Harrison, he
niS, has not granted him that small prIvl-
80 A republican postmaster, 1t is certain,
b6s haen appointed in Woodstock who does
not sneak, and will not have his family
snoa- to the family Of the ex-senator. Mr..
Riddleberger = calls the recent Manone
and anti-Mahone arrangement by Whlch
g. administration promised to give both
"a "sIhstantial recognition" a mere sell
ont 70 tire "imperious little boss" and a
forernnner of more unprincipled mis-
,,1anagament than the Republican party of
+ba state ever saw before. Ex-Congress-
man Brady. he says, has simply gone over
- the other side for the small consideration
Of an internal revenue coilectorshlp, and Is
The only one of the anti-Mahonites who is
satisfied to bury the Ratchet.
As he himself has intimated, Harrison
Riddeberger is an authority on the debt
nnestion. The Riddleberger bill, which he
Introduced into the state Senate and de-
Tended with such ability and persistence,
made his reputation. 1t was the platform
of the readjusters. 1t proposed to pay
about S21,000, 900 Of the state debt The
straight democratic proposition was to pay
about S33. 900, 900, or two-thirds of il. The
democrats went into the state campaign of
1881 with John Warwick Daniel of Lynch
burg. the present United States senator,
WHO moves about with great celebrity, in
spite of his wounded leg and his re-
semblance to Edwin Booth, as their candi-
date for governor, and were beaten
all hollow by w. E. Cameron,
tae present ex-Gov. Cameron, who
has figured so much in the anti
Malone conference. Their platform was
the Mccullough bill. In 1888 the democrats
accepted the main features of the Riddle
berger till ami not only elected governor
on that ISSUE but redeemed the legislature,
which had elected William Malone senator
two years before. Malone had parted
company with the democrats in 1887, when
they failed to nominate him for governor.
He and John Warwick Daniel were the
princiual candidates before the state con-
vention. Col. Fred W. NJ. Holiday of
Winchester slipped in between them. Ma
hone helped Holiday and no was elected.
IN 1880, Tor some reason or other, Malone
ran separate electoral ticket for Hancock
and English. 1t polled 10000 votes.
Maj Daniel was elected to the United
States Senate in 1885. He played possum.
The people all wanted John S. Barbour,
because his efforts had carried the state in
1854; but while his efforts were carrying
the state, Major Daniel was piedging state
senator's and members of the House.
BARBOUR, SOMEWHAT DISGUISED,
sailed for Europe In the next state cleo.
ton Is 900 democrats STAYED at home. Then
the people yearned for Barbour. He re-
turned, carried the legislature, and was
elected g United States senator by accla-
nation.
The Malone and nti-Mahone quarrel is
an Old one. Riddleberger and the little
general were hardly seated in the Senate
together before they Quarreled. In the
distribution of patronage. Riddleberger
charged Malone "hoggedn everything and
sold out all his friends. The two readiuster
senator's were prevailed upon to make upin
Time ,al Tor the republican state convention OF
Iooo, and there on the platform, i'll plain
Sight oil every body, the tall captain and the
NIUE general actually Rugged each other
ana Kissed eacn other on the cheeks. After
that Fitzhugh Lee beat John S. Wise by
',oOQ. The deb question had been settled
long before, and many of the democrat,
Eau gone back TO their old love. Brady's
quarrel Is also older than the Chicago con
renIl9h. lie wouldn't step aside for the
HCIIe poss IN tue congress convention of
1901 III the Petersburg district, and Malone
ran another man.
IL isn't hal sh to say, in view of the credit
TO be given Senator Riddleberger, for his
good behavior since March 4 and for his
many admirable qualities, that he had
W UDsun 10 drink too much before he came to
washington, and was not able to resist the
W. niger temptations after he got here.
- ~ ne was rarely, even at the close of his
IITneOoilal term, In an unwieldy condition.
ale was never quarresome, never even dis
az ~ ieoaole, when he was partly "loaded. ,
a1o was always a gentleman. Some men
a more gentlemanly than others when
wy I'lluence OF the wine puts them on
TD ZANZIBAR terms with themselves.
In quarrels with his colleague ALWAYS
noInereu hlddleberger, ana there are those
Mat VINO are very free to say openly thai
r. -, uellperatey encouraged him
IVA. ullHA' SO that his powers and
!nnHence mighJ be undermined
Tlu his own domination made the stronger
1 men tne younger senator, and the
Iri, unreasonable, got his well-known
theI- no1tops into his head, and honest as
ma %ece 1hey were mewhat fantastical.
81: peing supported QuixoticalIv often.
da,l'%o,leu MN into new difficulties. The
tt o do OF course, would have nothing
u NJ w WY him. The republicans would
Tom Tone P o. MN except on necessary occ lsions.
nesr r i bowen, the senator from Colorado, a
man man sn of his upon the floor, and a
bearts somewhat n after the Virginian's own
toga was ABOUT the only person with a
oerger. The two men became coTrnan;ons
o onI last friends, and finally Bowen was the
enca + nan M IN Washington who could infiu.
- - Iue Nlrglnian to do ANYTHING. analnst