Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-09-02
Adnrdstrr E,,tclligenrer.
FRIDAY EVENING, SEPT. 2, 1881
The Revolt of Wfckham.

The Revolt Of Wfckham.
The persistent and determined refusal
of Gen. Wickham and many other Repub-
lican leaders in Virginia to endorse the
Malone ticket has not only rendered its
defeat most likely, but it has served to
direct the attention of Republicans
North to the insincerity Of the claims
put forth for the coalition and for Re
publican cOuntenance of it. Gen. Wick
ham, the ablest and most influential Re
publican in the state, plainly avows his
purpose to vote for the Democratic nom-
inees. Congressman-elect Dezendorf re-
pudiates the mongrel ticket, and, in an
swer to threats of party disfavOr at
Washington, gives notice that his vote
in the House is Of as much Importance
as MahOne's in the Senate. Mean-
time the MahOne candidate for
governor, Col. Cameron, is forced
to avOw himself Democrat on all
questions except that of the state credit
and the state debt, on which he is a re-
pudiatOr or eliminatOr, which according
to Wickham, means one of those who
propose to strike off from the indebted
ness of the state, and to refuse to pay
either principal or interest of some ten
or twelve millions of the debt OF the
state Gin addition to what has been as.
signed to West VirginiaI, which stands
to her debt Oh her Owa books, which
has been recognized as correct by her
state officers, and which has been sus
tanned by her highest court, and 10y the
supreme court of the United States itself,
a debt which, in the language OF the
platform of the Republican party of
Virginia, adopted by the Republican
convention at Lynchburg, on August T.,
1851, was created 6 for constructing her
internal improvements and charitable
institutions, which, permeating every
quarter of the state, bring benefits of far
greater value than their cost to the whole
people of Virginia. AS the doctrine
of repudiation has not been an article in
the creed of Virginia Republicanlsm
this avowal by Cameron is not enough
to give him good standing nor win Tor
him the support of the party.
1t was at first claimed that Mahone-
ism and fusion stood for better protec-
ton to the colOred man in the exercise
of his rights. As Cameron holds to be
Democrat he could hardly be better than
his party in Republican estimation, on
the question of the colored voters privi-
leges: but al examination of his public
record discloses that he is good deal
worse than the worst that is charged
against the Virginia Democracy. 1t has
only been few years since this doughty
champion of the self-styled g anti-Bour-
bons,'' who now proposes ito carry
Africa into the war;" was eloquently
eulogizing the Virginia Democrats for
breaking through the long rule Of negro
domination, " when, with serried masses
and unbroken tread, they marched upon
the despoilers and hurled them from the
seats of power which their ignorance and
dishonesty had dcfled." He loudly call
al then for "fusion of the whites
against the solid enmity OF the
blacks,'' and for the ''perpetual exclu.
sion of the negro from the polls,' and
denounced negro suffrage as a blud-
geon with which Congress armed newly
manumittcd slaves to BRAN the 'rhiteS Of
TIC South," giving notice that he would
"usc crcry mcans to arrcst 1t from them. !"
This is the Democrat who is put up to
get the Republican vote, while the call
didate for attorney general, Republi-
can, who is put up for Democratic sup
port, is notorious as the author OF the
proposition to "readjust :" the national
debt. Such an illy-constituted ticket,
even regularly endorsed by the Republi-
cans, would not likely command their
vote. But since they feel entirely freed
from any party obligations to vote it we
look to see large portion of them follow
the lead of Wickham: Dezendorf and
Yost, and make Daniels election sure.