The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-06-30
The omoes.

papers OF Virginia to refer to Republicans who
maintain the policy of State party organiza-
ton, and the necessity of pronounced Re
publican ticket in the contest now upon us, as
greedy off1ce-holders and considerate for
nothing else but office. What are the facts to
justify such statements, or even to give the
coloring of truth to them? We know of
none. On the contrary the whole Federal in
fiuence and machinery in Virginia, and all the
Office expectants. inside and outside of the
Republican party, are with the Readjusters
To commence: The Marshalship of the
Western District of Virginia, ramifying in its
operations through nearly half of the counties
in the State, is held by the Readjuster candi-
date for Lieutenant Governor. The Office of
Collector of Internal Revenue at Lynchburg
is held by Capt. ]. 81. Rives, who has recently
declared for the Readjusters; that at Danville,
by Mr.. Fernald, who, as we have been in
formed, maintains similar relation to that of
Capt. Rives; the Internal Revenue Collectors
Office, at Petersburg, is held by Col. J. D.
Brady, who is pronounced in his sympathy
with the new movement, and went so far as
TO vote for Hancock on the Readjuster ticket
last fall Mr.. Bolts. Collector at Harrison
burg, is brother-in-law of the Readjuster
candidate for Lieutenant Governor, and while
he is one of the straightest of Republicans,
and does not believe much in compromise of
any kind. will not, we presume. take an active
part in the preliminary contest. The Post,
Dsob,,nnpd tbo hot hoe
much patronage that could be used for party
purposes. is occupied by Republican-Re-
adjuster, in favor Of the June ticket.
Strange as II may seem these Republicans
with the exception we have stated, prefer the
Readjuster organization in this contest to that
of the Republicans. and are exerting their in
fluence against q Republican candidate being
placed in the field. These are supplemented
by the influence of Genl Malone as U. s. Sen
ator, holding relations of antagonsm to Bour-
bon Democracy and giving quasi support to
the Administration, and thus enabled TO exert
an influence in behalf of his party and against
the Republican organization, through the
patronage of Republican Administration.
We do not raise any question as to the mo-
tives of the Republicans we have named.
Many of them were identified with the party
before we were, and have had acknowledged
influence in its councils heretofore. They
doubtless believe they are subscribing the in
terests of the Republican party in the course
they have chosen. We widely differ from them
and are well convinced in our own mind that
each and every one of them will live to regret
what he is now doing.
We refer to this matter to show how much
truth there is in the assertion that it is the
Federal office-holders who are contending for
the integrity of the Republican party and Re-
publican organization, and that the Readjuster
influence in the Republican party comes from
the ''peOple' who neither seek nor expect Office.
1t might reasonably be supposed that those
who have been recognized in the bestowal Of
official favor would be the last to interpose OPP
position to the effective operation Of agencies
that can alone contribute to- the success of the
Republican party. Such, however, is not the
case. The men whose purpose it is to bear
aIoft the Republican banner in the coming
contest are the men who love it for its own
sake; whose sacrifices outnumber the stars on
its square or the stipes of its folds; they are
those by whose efforts Republican ticket
was placed in the field last spring, in opposi-
ton to those who are now seeking, as they
then sought, either Willingly or unwittingly,
70 stab the party 10 its yitals. They are the
men who bore the brunt of the contest; who
sacrificed their time and their means with
neither desire for nor expectation Of official ia
vor; they are these who carried the Republican
banner and held it aloft where it had never
been held before; who gave of their means
and threw all of their energies into the con-
test, when those upon whom patronage had
been bestowed remained at their homes MAIN
tanning mastery inactivity while the contest
waged the hottest and the cry for help was
loudest They are Republicans because they
love Republican principles, and are willing
again, as they have dene before, to strike with
all of the energy God has given them for the
cause IN which their hearts are enlisted; to aim
a blow at their old enemy whether it appears in
the garb of open foe, or in the cowardly dis
guise of Jesse Scout"