The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-03-04
MALONE AND MLAURlN IA PARALLEL.
Ben Hill SklfulIy Used a Surgeons Knife on Malone
Ben Tiuman Used a Broad Axe on McLaurin.


II -r- wears ago III TIE Seudlt "I1ilhli
,.-. who had been elected to the
j -.-.r. as Democrat, gave his vote to
l,-rubIicans to organize the Senate.
n. obtained the distribution of Federal
...-1aa and then and there became a
ranuuIioan.
rn. conflict between Senator Tiliman
..s senator McLaurin recalls the Ma
-... incident of twenty years ago. Nc
7.ar4n has followed almost step by step
+. ts. footprints of Malone. He was
...,rI TO the Senate as a Democrat, as
Malone, though Malone had re
...I Republican assistance while Nc
t...a had no Republican help. In an
-r.rgoncy whom the Republicans needed
.u.. vote to carry out thir plans, Mahone
..e. il to them. IN return he controlled
rfr distribution of Federal patronage.
Soon thereafter he threw off all disguise
aud called himself a Republican. In an
,-rrgcucy twenty years later, the Re
r|.lI.caus needed one vote III the Senate
N~.Iaurin gave it to them. Since that
limo he has been distributing Republican
ra1ronage in his State.
liz 1851. before Malone had disclosed
hs purpose to betray the party to which
ha rroIessed allegiance, Ben Hill uncov-
e.oI his treachery and he stood exposed
n his political infany before all the
world.
Last week, months after McLaurin had
made his famous speech against the
traaty-twhich by the way he stole from
ii New York preacher)-and then gave
the Republicans the necessary vote. Ben
Ullman denounced his party recreancy
i'm the United States Senate. And the
"le" and the blow followed. That is now
history.
Malone and McL.aurin occupied almost
an Identical position.
But there was a difference in the men
who uncovered their party treashery.
Ben Hill was a trained man who used
the surgeons knife with precision and
grace.
Ben TiIlman was an unframed man who
used the broad axe viciously and crudeIy.
Hill operated on Malone without the
violent bursting Of the blood vessels.
TilIman's broad axe brought the blood
surfing in every direction.
Hill was the surgeon in the we'll APP
pointed hospital.
FiIlman was the butcher with the
1olse. The grcans and running of warm
blood i'm the abattoir.
Il glance at the scene in the Senate on
March 18th, 1881, when Ben Hill "uncoy-
cred Malone" viii show McLaurin's true
position today. Extracts from Hills
#cech then will show the criticism justly
daa to McLaurin now.
From The Life OF Benjamin Hill this
statement is taken:
h< the Democrats had a majority
counting Malone and David Davis. as
sa"a as The Senate met on the morning o.
March 14th, a motion was made to or
Gau"ze and elect officers, and it was in
3' ttoatc growing out of this motion
0"i Mr.. Hill made his celebrated attack
4"ooFaTng The political traitor to his
parity and to- his state. The mere formal
t"'5.on Of officers did not interest
'-''' '"' ~ iiS'i " 'tCol II anu NtG-
+."Ht for political jugglery ana treach-
..E- and he saw i'll this conduct Of Ma
".H" an effort to form a coalition vita
"Ieral administration for the pur-
@i dividing the South, and by the
OF the negroes to get control OF
state governments. 1t now became
'+ar That such was the purpose Of the
".I.I"li.ans and Malone and his follow
If was expected by it's origination
'H.5 scheme would find supper.
among what was known as the Irdcpcn-
. Democrats Of the South, and that
State Of Georgia would furnish two
comment recruits who had been re-
"".H defeated for reelection to Con
gross Mir. Hius attack was the first
"Ifd by the Democrats against this
|lf coalition to divide the South, and
WAS SO terrible and effective that it
The scheme odious, defeating it in
'"ry inception"
"'''aE Of this speech at the time a
an2-on correspondent said:
NJ" wonder that the object of attack
.@ terrible denunciation of Malone as the
expressed it next morning-no
'" Senator Malone instinctivcIy
"... behind his desk, now and then
-."E &" one side or the other ner-
". as II he felt the talons of the
"a2o buried in his flesh. The
'.".E did not look at the Virginian,
-ny one else. but far away ard
Tire crowd, as if addressing an in
audience and arraigning an i'm
..|s .%HIprit.'
Rem. HILLS SPEECH.