Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-03-26
FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH 2e, 1880

STA pNTON. VA.
FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH 2e, 1880
Some two weeks ago the public mind
was attracted by a telegram from Wash.
inqton which appeared in, the Baltimore
ssSun,n to the effect that '.Gen. Malone
spent Saturday here in consultation with
prominent Republican politicians % This
allusion to a gentleman who has been SO
yehemently claimed on the hastings Of
Virginia as the person who founded the 4
Conservative party of the States and whose
sole political purpose. it-was Lately main
tanned by one Of his adherents in the leg
islature, was the reorganization of that
party, was somewhat pulling. Still, some
of his Democratic friends who had not yet
deserted his absurd plan of an 'ssunpledged'
electoral ticket, hopefully argued that his
consultation there might have been some
thing like that between military oppo-
nents, merely arranging terms for the sur
render of the Republican politicians. A.
late paragraph however dispels this hope.
It reads that to a newspaper interviewer
mot to the Republican politicians) tho
General declined to. state whether he
would support Grant or not, if nemina-
ted" Such q statement in connection
with the past founder and future reorgan-
izer Of the Conservative party Of Virginia
has staggered the Democratic Readjusters
in this section who have vainly waited for
some horitative cQltradi ton OF it. Still
more strange. in this connection. there
was printed last Monday in the Southern
Intellipencer,n Republican Read uster
organ of Richmond, published right under
the nose of the Richmond ,:..Whig,n. q
statement from its Washington CORES
poldent to the, effect that at, the visit
named Gen. Malone 'aYowed, his prefer
ence for Grant over ether Republicans and
his willingness to use his Readjuster Or
ganization in aiding in the election of
Grant delegates to the, State Convention,
which meets at Stanton And over this,
the correspondent adds, the friends Of
Grant are much elated. In the same issue
of the "Iptelligencer'' in which this letter
appears, to wit, last Monday, there is an,
editorial in which it is stated that the Re-
publican State Convention at Staunton in
April will adjourn the nomination Of an
electoral ticket until after the Readjusters
have met in council and determined their
course of action and "then the Republic
cans will join their forces to those Of Ma
hone" The bead on this last political pot
Of beer is the fact that the Richmond
"Whig" reproduces this editorial in its
columns without comment and, as that
journal is very prompt in contradicting
allegations which 1t regards as injurious
to its party, its silence carries with it the
weight of assent. :.
Looking at this picture, it is very clear
that the attempt is to be made, if indeed
the capture has not already bsen effected,
to get control OF the Republican State
Convention which is to meet here, and to
make the Presidential fight in this state on
an .sunpledged" electoral ticket. In other
words it will resolve itself into the old
fight that has been fought every four. years
in Virginia-the Republ icans on one side
ard the Democrats on the other. With
this difference, that the Democrats will be
reinforced by many prominent white Re
publicans who don't care to be-, sold out as
a bargain to Gen. Malone, and that the
Republican Tor "unpledged'') ticket will
be supported by those Of the Readjuster
leaders and privates who prefer to follow
the personal fortunes of Gen.. Malone. to
maintaining their place in the ranks Of
the National Democratic party. The. ire
suit will be the usual Democratic victory
The movement as far as developed seems
to be based on the supposition that the
Democrats who supported the Readjustel
movement in this state weren't really
Democrats atall, but merely dissatisfied
voters who only awaited an opportunity
to ally themselves with some new party;
that, the whole scheme of the State Debt
Readiustment was conducted by Demo
Gratis who participated in it as cover to
getting. s.control'' of the spoils of patron
age no matter how or by. what ends: that
the orators on. the lReadjuster side who
have been. declaring fto Democratic con-
stituencies that they were as true Demo.
Gratis as there were in the land, b ad always
been Democrats and weuld take the field
against Republicanisln ifit ever showed
its head in the state,p meant nothing by
what they said or if they meant anything
it was to deceive, and that the whole Re
adjuster campaign has but been "a process
of fattening the. simple Democratic OK on
ly to serve him up alta Republican feast.
But the superstition will come to naught
Every move that is made shows Demo.
cratic Readjusters more plainly the hol.
lowness OF the plea that in order to keep
their party in hand to be used in further
ance of the ReadjustmenJ Of their state
debt two years from now, it is necessary
that they should a,oao surrender their votes
into the keeping of a set Of men to be
thrown for Republican President. The
Readjuster party is comparatively new as
political organization but its Democratic
members are not quite SO fresh as to
swallow logic as raw as that. - -
That admirable religious newspaper, the
Religious Herald,'' of Richmond, an
nounces that it has secured the services OF
Rev. DIR. 81. II. Harris, for the last four
teen years Professor Of Greek at Rich