Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-01-18
The Malone Party and the Repububli.
cans.

The efforts which Malone is making
to capture the negro vote of the Repub-
lican party give great concern to the
leaders of the Republican party in this
State, as shown by the action last week
of the State Executive Committee OF
that party, and the editorial in the Vol-
leg Virgimian of last week, from which
the following is an extract
1.-THE Republicans of Virginia have
not forgotten the black and base treach-
cry that was attempted to be practiced
upon them in the last hours of the re-
cent PRESIDENTIAL campaign. Nor will
they be very apt to forgive the parties
who sought to transfer them from the
support of their own national nominees
| to that of the Democratic candidates in
order to further the selfish ends of de-
signing place hunters. They will not
forget the despicable device, which con-
templated treachery to principle and
organization, and the qualification OF
every Republican in Virginia in the
abandonment of his party and its repre-
sentatives at the bidding of a conspiracy,
| which had not single rsdeeming fea-
ture in it. 1t was deliberate scheme, to
transfer, through Republican strength,
the electoral vote of Virginia from Gar
field to Hancock, cOncocted and at
| tempted to be executed in defiance to
the recognized Republican organization
of the State, and the instinct, honor and
self respect of every member Of it, who
chose to believe that Republican prin
ciples and the Republican candidates
were preferable to Democratic plots and
Democratic candidates. This remem-
brance of itself should warn Republicans
against all conditions or combinations,
which do not accept the name, the prin-
ciples and policies of the Republican
party. Gen. Malone owes his seat in
the United States Senate to Republican
votes in the Legislature. The whole
Readjuster regime in the basement of
fees of the State, and in the county
judiciary, is due to Republican votes.-
Where have Republicans been benefit
ted by these donations? Some half
dozen, in both of these lines of service,
had acted with the Republican party.
and the balance of them Readjuster-
Democrats. Now it is proposed that the
whole Republican party, by its last vote
1000, but with its strength equal to
100, 600, when fully qualified and brought
out, shall strike their colors and go over,
bag and baggage, to the 81 900 Readjus-
tiers, forsaking their party name, ident-
ity and principles, that they may con-
tribute to the promotion of those who
have from time immemOrial werred
against them, and had as much to do, if
not more, than any others. to place up
on the statute books, the unjust legisla-
ton, which discriminates against the
poor people of the Commonwealth, both
white and black, because they are poor.
Apart from the humiliating and dis
graceful position the Republicans of
Virginia would occupy by such sur
render, and apart from mere party pol
icy, there are other interests of equal
importance and dignity, which will en-
ter into the contest of 1881. The debt
question will be brought out as the con-
trolling. subject of discussion and de-
termination. Gen. Malone and his par
ty have planted themselves upon pro
position, the terms of which will not
meet the approval of many Republicans
| in this State nor secure the sanction of
the party out of the State. For the Re
pubIicans to accept the views and the
candidates of the Readjuster party-to
abandon their own OrganizatiOn-tO
subordinate their convictions of State
policy, and to blindly follow wherever
their new leaders and masters may
choose to direct, would imply degree
of moral turpitude unparalleled in the
history of parties, and justly entitle
them to scorn and contempt at home and
abroad"