Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-04-27
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TUESDAY. APRIL 81, 1880.

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The Republicans Reject an Alliance with |
the Readjusters.
MALONE WILL ATTEMPT ANOTHER
sCHEME-READJUSTER TOO SENSIBLE |
TO BE ENTRAPPED.
The Radicals of this State, by the &C.
ton of their State Convention, have
proclaimed to the Readjusters that they
spurn an alliance with them, and will
accept their aid in the election of Re-
publican President, only on the condi-
ton that they become Republicans
They must come in the front door avow-
ing themselves Republicans-they will
not be allowed to sneak in at the back
door, ashamed to acknowledge they are
Republicans, whilst anxious to get to
the dining room to feast on the official
viands of the Republican host. The
leaders of the majority in the conven-
ton proclaimed, time and again, that
they were willing to receive the Read
djusters as Republicans, but only as Re-
publicans.
Democratic Readjusters will not be
disposed to force themselves upon the
Republican party-to commit political
rape upon the Republicans. They have
too much good sense and self-respect to
do that. They will vote for the nomi-
nees of the Cincinnati Convention, and
the Republicans will vote for the nomi-
nees of the Chicago Convention. The
action of the Republican Convention
pledges the Republicans OF the State to
vote for no electors except such as are
pledged to vote for the Republican can
didate for the Presidency, be he who he
may, SO that they will accept aid from
none except such as will vote for Radi-
cal electors, and go into their party as
Republicans. Democratic Readjusters
will not do this, but will cast their votes
for electors who will vote for the nomi-
nees of the Cincinnati Convention.
The Republicans spurn alliance with
the Readjusters, in speaking of which,
The State says:-
"That party will not accept this addi-
tiOnal burden-no, not for the vote of
Virginia,-and therefore the hopes of
the Mahonites in that direction are at
an end. 1t only remains for them to go
over to the Radicals, as the Radicals
have refused to come over to them !; but
we Opine even their leaders, including
the great Mogul himself, will hesitate
before taking this last fatal plunge, and
halt long upon the brink. They will
pause and consider we'll before packing
their baggage and burning their tents,
to take up that line of march and even
if they should finally decide upon it,
they will go naked and alone into the
camp of the enemy, as naked and al
most as solitary as Arnold, when he
rendered the name of traitor doubly
odious to loyal ears and wiped out by
one great crime all memory of his form
er greatness. They will go, if go they
do, to the Radicals as lonely as this arch
traitor, and accompanied by curses as
loud, as deep, and as lasting"
AS Malone has been defeated by the
"straight-out" Republicans in his pro-
ject to form fusion ticket with them,
he will probably try to effect his purpose
to secure the electoral vote of this State
for Grant by having separate Readjus-
ter ticket, by which he will hope so to
divide the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES vote
of the State betWe cen such a ticket and
the regular Conservative ticket, as will
enable the Republican ticket to carry
the State by plurality vote. He will
thus endeavor to effect in an indirect
way what he was unable to do in di-
rect way. No Democrat, who has sense
enough to see the effect of such q vote,
would vote for such a ticket unless he
wished to give the vote of the State to
the candidate of the Republican party
for the Presidency. It would be, in eff
feet, it matters not whose names might
be upon the ticket, vote for the Radical
party. Sensible Readjusters cannot be
thus inveigled into voting indirectly for
the Radical party.
The virtue of the Republicans was
strong enough to resist the seductive
Establishments of Malone, and we can.
not believe that the Readjusters have
less virtue than the Republicans. They
will have as much respect for their char
acters as Conservatives and Democrats
as the Republicans have shown for theirs
as Republicans, and they will not be
seduced into prostituting their political
principles to crafty the lust of personal
ambition and revenge of Gen. Malone
or "any other man." Unless we be
greatly mistaken in our good opinion of
them, they will have no hesitancy in
giving an earnest and cordial support to
the electoral ticket that will vote for the
nominees of the Cincinnati Convention.
To the willy tempter, they will say
"Get thee behind me- Satan."
INTERESTING TO REGISTRARS OF
ELECTIoN.-The registrars will open
their various voting places for the regis
tration of all qualified voters within