Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-02-22
Party Of One Principle.

The Malone party, says the Lynch
burg Trgimiam, has but one cardinal
principle, "forcible readjustment," and
upon that. in their estimation. chang
all the law and the prophets" Any
other issues made by that party are only
side issues, raised to subserve their pri
mary Objectionable REIMBURSEMENT.
Abrogation of the prepayment feature
of the capitation tax; free suffrage;
abolition of the whipping post; and
their hue and cry about the public
schools-tnat nobody proposes to abol-
ish ARE all mere party devices, en-
ployed as means to an end-forcible re-
adjustment and partial reputation.
Gen. Malone and his party care MOTH
ing about these minor objects, that are
of secondary consideration with them,
and are only sandwitched into their
platform to secure the negro Republic
can vote. That is all. And yet, Judge
Hughes, who claims to have been, and
to be now, debt.paying Republican.
has the temerity to say: mo one
knows better than General Malone that
the Republicans as party do not agree
with him or his party in the views ha-
bitually ascribed to them on the subject
of the State debt" Do not agree with
them, eh ! on the cardinal doctrine OF
the party; and yet are willing to Co
operate with them to defeat 1.-THE Bour-
bons," and give the State to the party
of Reputation What logic What con-
sistency!
Now, it is very clear that the Repub-
lican leaders with few exceptions are
preparing to join their forces with those
of Malone, and that there will be but
two parties to the contest for Governor
and Legislature this year-the Demo-
cratic Conservative party, on the one
hand, and the Mahone-Republican par
ty on the other. The faithful allies"
as the leader of the Forcible Readjusters
called them, will rally to the standard
of the man who, Judge Hughes says !;
has fought the important fight against
the national nuisance" the Democratic
party. That shibboleth will rally all OF
"the party of grand moral ideas" in
Virginia to the standard of the ambi-
tious man who assumes that public Gre
ditors have no rights which the State
of Virginia is bound to respect, If 1t
shall subject her to the inconvenience
that even individual citizens often have
to encounter in the honest payment OF
their debts. What a spectacle this will
be for the National Debt-Paying Re-
publican party to contemplate! And
be sure, it shall often be thrown into
their teeth. that their party in Virginia
had not virtue enough to resist the
overtures for union with party of re-
pudiation, but marched arm in arm with
them, to place in power-that they
might share the spoils-a party whose
cardinal doctrine it is. that State be-
ing sovereign, may refuse to pay its ere.
ditors, or settle with them upon its own
terms.
In view of this coming event that
already casts its shadow before, we
would urge Conservatives, of every
shade of opinion on minor subjects, but
who are opposed to Radical supremacy
In Virginia, to stand ready to defeat
the foul |coalition that is now forming
in this State, to overthrow the white
mans supremacy, and substitute there
for such government as we overthrow
in 1869, and which would be more in
tolerable now than it was then.