Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-01-11
MahOne's Address to the Readjusters.
His real purpose.


Committee of the Readjuster party, of
which Malone is Chairman. Inspeak-
ing of it, The State says
1.-THE upshot of it is simply an appeal
TO the mongrel party of Malone to hold
the offices of the State of Virginia, all
which Senator Malone faithfully emu
merates, begging his people not to loose
or lose their grip on 1.-THE spoils." It
talks somewhat too, about the Funding
bill, which Finding bill this same Sem
ator Malone never opposed when on its
passage, and which he never found fault
with till long after its repeal, although
this same senator was at the time of that
passage, of that repeal, and for long after
wards, more concerned in and more pow
erful over public affairs than he is to-
day.
The real object of the paper is to try
to attract to the Malone faction such
number of Republicans as will in the
future give them the majority he conf
IDENTIFY expected, and disastrously failed
to get, last year. It uses q variety of
catch words, "Gripsack" Republican,
&C., g., all of which are intended to
loosen the ties between the mass of the
Republicans and their longtime lead
ers.
In short, Senator Malone wishes to
be such q Moses as the Rev. Hunni-
cutt."
The dispatch of the Washington cor
respondent of the Chicago Inter- Ocean,
a stalwart, Republican journal, under
date OF last Monday, in reference to this
address of Malone, throws flood OF
light upon the true purposes ofthat ad-
dress and of its willy author.
He says that address was prepared af-
ter consultation with leading Republic
cans in Washington that it was sent to
Garfield and approved by him; that it
is regarded as practically an offer to en-
ter the Republican party and unite with
that organization, as 1t is at present con-
stituted against the Bourbons that 1.-THE
new party [Mahone's] will in fact ally
itself to that wing of the Republican or
ganization of which Gen. Grant, Logan,
Conkling, Cameron and Carpenter are
conspicuous ornaments" that lit is
expected that some opposition to the
movement will be met from the local
Republican party of Virginia, whose
leaders will probably be jealous Of the
new accession, but it is thought that the
leaders in that State will be made to see
|ythat it is best for the country and the
organization throughout the Union"
How do the Democratic Readjusters
like the programme of Malone? Will
they suffer themselves to be made the
allies of the Republican party? There is
very large Thomas cat in the meal
tub, which is presented to the Readjus-
tiers in the form of a very plausible and
deceptive address, we'll calculated to
impose upon the honest and unsuspect-
ing.
The Washington Post of last Tuesday
says
"Ever since last June Senator-elect
Malone has been dickering with the re-
publican leaders. Mr.. Gorham, ex-secre-
tary of the Senate, and Senator Conk-
ling have each held repeated, and it is
said, satisfactory conferences with Ma
hone. The republican programme for
Virginia is as follows: To make Ma
hone the leader of the reorganized re-
publican party of Virginia, placing in
his hands the control of the Federal
patronage of the State. While the ne
groes will be encouraged and supported
to the best of Mahone's ability, they
will be given no important offices. The
carpet-bag republican element is to be
thrown overheard. In return for the
power conferred upon him Mahoneis to
act with the republicans in the Senate"
The Alexandria Gazette in comment
ing upon the above remarks of the Post
Says
ITO make Malone the leader of the
party in Virginia would, as republican
politicians are human, necessarily an
tagonize all the old and tried native, as
we'll as adopted republicans of the State,
such as Wickham, Rives, Yost, JOrgen-
sen and Dezendorf and hosts of others
upon whom he has made, and is still
making, active war, and who vigorous
ly repel his assaults. To give him the
Federal patronage would, of course, en-
able him to bestow as much of it as he
may choose upon his friends, and they,
as is well known, are not among the re-
publicans, and such disposition of it
would, of course, be eminently unsatis-
factory to the republicans, who natural
~ want the whole of it, and who, if they
don't get all of it, will be disposed to
retaliate for what they may justly look
upon as an unprovoked, undeserved and
unjust injury. If the negroes. the main
strength of the party, are, by special
Encouragement, to be excluded from all
the important offices, precious few Of
them will vote for the. men who offer
them such gratuitous insult"
INCREASE OF POPULATION IN WEST
VIRGINIA. doubt if any State in
the U. S. has increased its population in