Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-04-15
Politics and Politicians,


There was another scene in the U. S.
Senate, Wednesday Senator Malone de-
manded to know of Senator Hill, of Ca,
if he had meant to charge that his (M's)
vote had been bought. Hill did not give
a satisfactory answer. Malone then said
that if II. did mean that it was false and
untruthful and that ''no man less than a
coward would make it," Hill replied that
Malone was powerless to insult anybody,
and that if he thought he could suppress
gentlemen in discussion by assuming to
play the bully he had made mistake.
There the matter ended.
We see that two or three of our Malone
contemporaries are speaking very contemp-
tuously of Mr.. Murphy, the Rockingham
Readjuster who denounced Gen. Malone 3
desertion from the Democracy. They say
he is ''only a hostler" at Bridgewater. =
Well if hostler was good enough to be
on the Readjuster County Committee, why
not good enough to express his opinion
about Malone? If the Malone party has
already commenced drawing class dlstinc-
tions and-holding men in contempt be-
cause their avocation is to attend to hor-
ses, it will hardly make much Roadway as
a peoples party.
A telegram from Harrisonburg says that
Hon. John Paul in a speech there April
9th, ssfully endorsed Gen. Malone 3
course. This will be blighting news to
the friends of the pew congressman who
had hoped to see him serve second term.
Col. Fulkerson also endorses Malone but
then he doesn't live in the seventh district.
To those who remember how vehemently
in the canvass for the last legislature.
some of the speakers in this Valley denied
that it was question about Malone at
all, the assertion now by that new Repub-
lican that his Senatorial election was made
an issue must be, to say the least, confus-
ing.
The Malone convention at Harrison
burg mas nominated John [. Wood for
Circuit Court Clerk of Rockingham, and
Chas. D. Harrison for County Clerk. The
present incumbents of these offices, and
who will also be the ineumbents we pre-
sumo after the election. are Jos. II. Shue,
Circuit Clerk and Jos. T. Logan, County
Clerk.
A correspondent of the Baltimore ''Sun"
writing from Richmond says that some of
the leading Democrats are in favor of
adopting programme for the approach
ing canvass which will leave the candi-
dates of that party for the General Assem-
bly, untrammeled on the debt question,
permitting each individual to make the
canvass on that issue to snit himself-a
pledge, however, to be required that such
candidate, if elected, will obligate himself
to vote for no aspirant for the United
States Senate who is not a consistent and
avowed Democrat. This policy, it is be-
leved, will be urged upon the State con-
vention by influential party leaders when
it meets there on the ;4th Of August.
Gen. James II. Williams, of Winchester,
IN an interview thinks the Mahone1tes are
all right now though II must confess that
when it was first announced that Malone
bad allied himself with the Republicans as
against the Democrats in the Senate, there
was right smart fiuttering in the flock
in Virginia."
Malone doesn It seem to be able to keep
the Gripsack- Funders out of the Offices as
yet. Peter K. Jones, (col.) has been ap-
pointed a Waterman in the Interior Depart
ment at Washington at a salary of $40.
Albion W. Tourgee the author of ga
Fools Errand,'' Is in Washington trying
to clean out the ''old Grant gang in
North Carolina. The name of Holden for
postmaster at Raleigh I'D term) was sent
in by the President but Tourgee got it
withdrawn and the name of John Nicoli
substituted for it.
Citizens of Petersburg, Va, propose
giving goid-headed canes to Senators Ben
Hill and voorhees,.
The Conservative Readjuster club of
Alexandria have resolved that ethe con-
troll of the federal patronage in this State
by General Malone and its distribution to
his friends, will not buy the Democrats of
the State of Virginia. and
4til. That in voting with the Republican
party, General William Malone has been
false to his past record, false to his repeat
Ted him and who he has betrayed, and
false to bis State. Of his conduct history
furnishes but one parallel and Shat in the
person of Judas Iscariot.e
Only sixteen Thousand copies of General
Mahone's speech were subscribed for by
the Republican Senators, and most Of
those were taken by the Senator himself.
The Republican legislature af Wiscon-
sin has just gerrymandered the state, 80
that it takes 81, lip Democrats In two
counties to elect a Senator, while 30,921
Republicans in another county are given
whole Senator to themselves. In Mil
YANKEE, 1924 Democrats elect one AS
semblyman and 1a,ose Republicans are
represented by two members. The auth
ors of this gerrymander' are the men 1ho
go round bowling that voters are exeiused
from the polls at the South.
The Republicans of Pennsylvania (the
Democrats and Independent Republicans
have voted to endorse the
present course of the Republican U. ..
Senators.
The notorious Ex-Governor, J. Madison
Wells, OF Louisiana, is still in Washing
ton. He is strong Malone man, and
says the administration must support the
General as the only way to break up the
damned rebels.'
In Fairfax county, the Coalitionists on