Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-07-16
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We perceive that an effort is being
made to connect Ex-Governor Walker
| with the late scandalous assault upon
Goy-Kemper We are wholly at a
loss to see what motive Governor
Walker coald have hal for entering
INTO this conspiracy against his succes
sor-who is not at all in his way, if, as
is supposed, he is an aspirant for Con-
gresslonal honors- and we are not
willing to believe that, as soma allege,
he instigated the Wedderburn publ,
cation, and shall not believe it until
indubitable proof is furnished Lynch-
Tirginian
Some such ideas and questions had
been running through our own head.
Not to be .irreterent, we would ask,
What the devil has Governor Walker
got to do with it? He and Kemper are
not rivals in aspirations; they are not
antagonistic nor do they cross each
others paths in any way that we know
OF. What motive, therefore, could
Walker have in aspersing Kemper?
None, we opine; and politicians are not
apt to do such things without motive
Is there a certain clique in Richmond
who think the present a good oppor-
tunity to break the wave Of popularity
which promises to watt the late Elk
ecutive into Congress? s.....->f.+
When the charge was firstmade over
a responsible name in the w ashinp-
ton Chronicle that the Governor of
Virginia had been guilty of base trea-
cherry to his party the Wine denounced
the charge as false, and gave a some
what detailed statement of the circum
stances connected with the trumped up
charges az ainst the Governor. In this
connection Ex-Governor WALKERS
name was mentioned as one of the par
ties instrumental in having published
grave imputation upon the loyalty and
good faith of Governor KEMPER. Our
authority for this statement, we at that
time asserted, was gentleman well
conversant with the facts, and of I'm
questioned veracity. His name we
proposed to give at any time Governor
WALKER denied the correctness of our
statement. But this Governor WAL
KER has never done, publicly at least,
so we have been and would have con-
tinued content to let the matter rest
there, notwithstanding accumulated
proof in our possession to establish the
fact that Governor WALKER ssacas per-
sistsnt in mgiug the publication of
Governor Hemper's priutste letters to
Colonel Nosty and that he said he
'ooat7d haze it done By Wedde,Jyrya.
We repeat, armed as we were with
proof to substantiate, or at least to
justify, all that we had said with ref
erence to Governor WALKERS copnec-
ton with the affair, we should have
kept silence until Gov. WALKERS de
NAL challenged our evidence but for
the intimation that there is ga certain
clique in Richmond who think the
present good opportunity to break
the wave of popularity which promises
to watt the late Executive into Con-
gress. Having been the first to make
the charge, we again repeat it, unin
huenced by any 'clique," for it was
made without consultation, indeed,
without the knowledge of one person
in Richmond, and when Governor
WALKER shall have denied it for him
self over his own signature, then he
will be confronted with witness the
correctness of whose statements we
will leave the public to pass upon as
we will the proprietary of our original
reference to the parties who are charg
ed with having been instrumental in
sowing the seed SO we'll calculated to
yield an abundant harvest of disafec-
ton in Conservative party. "What the
has Governor WALKER to do with
it" is just what the people are curious
to know. What he had to do with it
the public will know upon his denial of
any completely with 'it.-Rich. Wing.