Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1881 — Mahone & Co. [ARTICLE]

Mahone & Co.

Tlie Republican party in the Senate is the “Co.” Malione is the important and commanding member of the firm. The Republicans in the Senate of the United States have formed this partnership with Mahone, whom but recently they denounced as a “traitor” and “repudiator” at the opening of the Garfield administration, in order to give to the incoming administration the flavor of civil-service reform. We are not at this moment dwelling upon the infamy of Mahone, who was purchased by the Republicans, and who, by selling himself, lias lost his tenacious hold upon a large portion of the people of Virginia who have admired his courage and fearless independence. Mahone has been goaded by Democrats as well as bribed by Republicans. We will leave Mahone and his treachery to the criticism of others, to the State of Virginia, and to the comments of all men everywhere who love honor and hate treachery, and to the memories that hang about’ the fate of the man whose price was a mess of pottage. But Mahone’s partner and inferior in the firm consists of the Republican Senators of the United States. No Republican United States Senator can hereafter lift up his voice in denouncing repudiation. At the opening of this administration the Republican Executive and the Republican Senate are both placed upon record upon one important question. Garfield chose his Secretary of the Treasury, his Financial Minister, from the most flagrantly repudiating State of the Union, Minnesota; and Hie Republicans in the Senate, in a body, form a copartnership with the man whom they have all arraigned as a “vile repudiator.” The country will not fail to take not'ce of these facts. It is expected that many individual members of the Republican organization will be devoted singly to the spoils. It was not expected by the country that by notoTiously-corrupt methods the Republican members of the Senate of the United States, together with the re-cently-elected Vice President of the United States, and by his vote of doubtful legality, and by the sanction of the newly-inagurated President, whose inaugural address contained such beautiful words concerning the reform of the civil service, the purity of administration, the sacreduess of suffrage and idealism in government, w r ould, as one man, wade through corruption to a partnership which they have pronounced ignoble and dishonorable, to the seizure of some party spoils. The firm of Mahone & Co. will take a prominent place in our history, just as the theft of the Presidency, four years ago, will always be conspicuous in our annals.—Cincinnati Enquirer.