Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-06-14
From Washington.

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From Washington.
Especial Correspondence of the Alex. Gazette.
WASHINGTON, D. c., June 6, 1881.
Several of the delegates to the recent
Malone Convention. in Richmond, are
in the city to-day on their way home
among them Mr.. Riddleberger. They
all look sad and disappointed. Major
Yost, editor of the Valley VirginiaI, the
republican organ of the State, and other
Virginia republicans are also here. The
Major says the republicans will hold q
straightout convention, and that their
State Executive Committee will meet
on Thursday next. He also says that
Col. Ash. Hartman, prominent and in
f1uential readjuster Of the Valley, pub
licly avows that he will not support the
Mahone ticket, as it is radical ticket
in disguise, and that when he wants to
turn radical he will have the openness
and the manliness to vote q straightOut
radical ticket. The Major likewise says
that Mr.. Riddleberger was right when
he stated i'll his speech to the convention
that the ticket with Lewis on it would
get no support west of the Blue Ridge.
It is understood that the meeting of the
Executive Committee has been called
for the purpose of fixing a day for q
State Convention, and also to expel ex-
Senator Lewis, the Malone nominee
for Lieutenant Governor, from his posi-.
ton as chairman of the State Central
Committee of the republican party"
Col. Asher Hartman Is strong Demo
cratic Readjuster, and he..was chairman
of the meeting that appointed delegates
to represent Augusta county in the Ma
hone Convention that nominated q
ticket that he cannot support-belng. as
he is represented as saying, "a radical
ticket in Disguise" In his position in
reference to that ticket, he represents
the feelings of the mass of Democratic
readjusters, not only In the Valley
counties, but throughout the State. 1t
will be hard for any Democratic read
ulster who will vote for that ticket to
convince any one that he is Democrat.
1t is ticket which neither Democrats
nor Republicans can support with any
consistency. Republicans cannot
support either Cameron or Blair,
and Democrats cannot support Lewis
~. s. Marshal, and chairman of
the Republican State Central Commit
tee. Lewis avows that he would like
to bury the Democrtic party SO deep
that the hand of resurrection could new
or reach it, and that is the way in which
he will bury the readjuster party.
If the Administration shall endorse
the Malone ticket. as we suppose it
will, as Garfield cannot well Ego back"
on the boquet he sent to Malone. when
Malone, in the Senate, acted with the
Republican party, then every Demo-
cratic Readjuster will be absolved from
all obligation to support it as readjus-
ter ticket. for it will then have become
the Republican ticket. AS soon as it
shall be known that the Malone ticket
is endorsed by the Republican Admin
istration, and is, in fact, Republican
ticket, receiving the support, not only
of Republicans, but of the Administers
ton and the Republican party as such,
then every Democratic readjuster will
understand that it is ticket which he
cannot support without stultifying him
self, unless he has determined to become
Republican in his party relations.
It will be notice to all Democratic
readjusters to hasten home to the Demo
cratic party.
There were some who wanted q ticket
made entirely of Democratic Readipst,-
ers; others insisted upon Republican
representation upon the ticket. There
was sharp competition for the Guberna-
torlal nomination and indications of Sc
rious dissatisfaction on the part of the
faction which should witness the defeat
of its favorite. Malone quietly deter
mined upon his programme and his
ticket in advance, and Doth were adopt
ed by the conventional dshinton Star.
Exactly, and just as we maintained
before, and have since, the nomination,
Malone fixed the ticket to suit himself,
and there was no use of a convention.
The calling of readjuster convention
is the merest mockery. That party is
controlled by the will of one man, and
he manages for himself alone-looking
exclusively to his own aggrandisement,
and he has nominated ticket about as
incongruous as the hell broth in the
witches cSuldron, as described by
Shakespeare In Macbeth -
"Fillet of Shiny snake,
| In the cauldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog.
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and blind.worms sting.
Lizards leg and owlet's wing,
| For charm of powerful trouble,
| Like a hell broth boil and bubble.
| Cool it with a babboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good"
For THE RICHMOND WHIG.-We
would inform the Richmond Wing that
whilst we exchange with the Alexan.
dria Gazette, we had not observed that
it had corrected the statement of its cor.
respondent that "Mahone was party
to the prosecution of Carmichael" upon
which we commented, and learned Of