The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-11-11
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Tho RoadJusler triumph In virginia.

the simple issue OF the debt the result
would have attracted very little attention
or sympathy from the outside world. Most
certainly the Northern people, who are
debt paying people, not excepting Min
nesota, would not have sympathized with
Malone. But the issue did not turn on
the debt. It turned on Mahone-on his
position in the United States Senate-on
his vote with the Republicans for the orga.
niAtion OF that body-on his position to-
ward the coIored people Of Virginia, and on
his general opposition to what is known as
Bourbonism in Virginia, The election thus
became one OF national interest, and the
sympathies OF hundreds Of thousands OF
people were enlisted in the result accord
ing to their party affiliations, The feeling
OF the country was much the same as in
Presidential year. The issue was not local,
but general.
Now that the election is over and Ma
hone triumphant it becomes question Of
interest as to "what will he do with it.
The victory is in his hands, but not the re-
suit. Eehasthrown thestons tntothe water,
but the waves that will spread from shore
TO shore are beyond his control.
There can not be a third party in this coun-
try as issues now stand. The voting pub
lie must find their place in one or the other
OF the two great parties, And this they
will certainly do, The Greenback issue is
dead and the Temperance movement draws
only small following from each party.
For the present there is no issue to divert
the people to any material extent from the
Republican and Democratic parties. There
fore Malone and his followers must affiliate
with the one or the other party. Which
will it beP
As we read the signs Of the times they
will hereafter act with the Republican
party, and the present indications are that
Virginia is now quite as likely to vote for
the Republican candidate for President in
1884 as is the State OF New York, This is
putting it mildly, for New York, owing to
New York city, is always an uncertain
State. We might say that she Is as likely
to vote that wayas is Pennsylvania. Penn
sylvaniN Is held to the Republican party
mainly by the tariff issue, and Virginia is
now an embryo Pennsylvania rs respects
that issue, There is great awakening in
Virginia in favor Of the development Of
the manufacturing resources Of that State
The free tade sympathies Of the Demo-
cratic party have for a long while past
been alternating large following in Vir-
ginia. This element is now pretty well
weaned of from the party. Even the
Richmond DhpdIch, Bourbon organ, has
lately come out in favor OF protection, but
ii has followed and NOTED public opinion
in this respect.
The fact Is that the people Of Virginia are
bursting their old trammds. They have
fed on the husks Of pride and poverty long
enough. They have found that the name
OF Virginia is no longer u magic spell
politically or otherwise. They have found
that their pretensons and Alterations were
an ollense to the country at large, and that
capitalists and immigrants avoided State
where the natives put on airs over more
intelligent, more energetic and more pro-
gressivc people.
An opportunity has long been wanting
in Virginia to crystalline this dissatisfied
and aliCnated element Of the Demo-
cratic party into MI effective opposi-
tion. The Republican party did
not attract It because It was under both po-
lltical and social ban in Virginia. Identi.
tlcation with that party was n matter Of
personal reproach, and people sensitive to
their business interests and social popu-
larity hesitated to cut loose from the dead
body OF Virginia Bourbonism.
The readjuster issue, led by bold man
like Malone, q native Of the State and a
Confederate general in the war, afforded
the preteSt that thousands had long sought
for cutting loose from the Democratic
party, and hence irrespective Of the debt
issue they gladly followed Malone. And
now that they have followed him despite
his alliance with tho Republican party in
the Senate, and despite the cry Of niger
that was raised in the canvass, II is alto