Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-06-25
PUBLISHED DAILY & TRI-WEEKLY By
EDGAR SNOWDEN.
SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE %, 1881.
Msjor Yost. editor of the Valley Vngisi,n,

Msjor Yost, editor Of the Valley Virgi5i,n,
the abe ard acknowledged crSsn of the Vr-
GINA republicans, msy bs ruauiog "a wailicg
race, as the Mahons csI didae for Lieutenant
Governor says be is, tus if he really intends. as
MIR. Lewis sa5s u, docs, 10 i,in the Mahonites
g! the close. be will have o lorg disauc, to
make up, judging from what b, has said before
and from what be says in the last issu, Of his
paper. which is as follows:
Tae developm 20 of tbs canvass thus far
givo assurauce that there is but one way to
maintain tho integrity OF the rel 5licio party.
AID that is through til, acticn of 8 conven!iJn,
10 placing full republican ticket 10 the fsld.
Tho purpose has been too plainly manifested to
destroy tho reputl GIN organ ition by sb3orp-
ton into the read 1'ter party, and By thus
losing its distinctive party identity, forever
blot 1t out Of existence 10 Virgins. Evan this
fate might have beer contemplated with con-
pours If the principles AID policy for which
the republicans have con!endcd. could be as
suted. and the same ends ompished through
another organization and under another parry
name. ncc:ssltatins tho surrender OF repub
loan nomenclature. at least for tm3 Ba!
the best study We have been stlo to give the
situation aud the Developments bofOrc VI csds
Us TO the Conclusion thst defeat would follow
Gny coalition. that su,h an attempted !u5lou
would be ess Formidable than the republican,
party itself, SID that tho most I'll ,otlve method
10 suhserVo republican interests 10 Wig nla and
tho Union wtu'd be through strictly republi
can organization AID republican ticket.
The Norihsrn press AID macy of the leading
republicans CT thss scci,D, * end their a;d
aud couctecacoo to few political adventures.
who have ever been the blttcrest enemies aud
the mos. iuteGs, rcvilers Of the republican
parry. Ist Dtclu5c. having been kicked out of
The democratic parry by reason CT their greed
for power aud place. they fioG no other chance
ct CHEWING the desires of their souls. than by
ealing republican ideas and protesting e
liberalism in violation of all their ACTS and con
vic iols therefore,, withtu; the maolioess aud
courage to Identity themselves with the party
whose principles they assume TO embrace.
Their records against h, vital principles of ;be
republican party-their loose and ruinous idees
Of 6oslc', commerc, end industry are ignored
nj thor high sounding platitudes about Iiber'
slism accepted as sutcteut cause 10 give then
breteroLc: over republicans Eh0 have been
tried as with fire and nsVer faltcrcd. The
leaders n the movement hav, b,en The
most b tier and iv,terstc dcfsmers OF
repubic.os have never cast q rspu5.
licaa vote or uttered word 10 defers, OF
republican principles or republican orgsnizl.
ton. There political acts and associations had
all bean in direc. lantagonism to the srepu blican
party. Not CT offensive lew upon the statute
book tf,cting the rights OF the negro. and sboat
which now so much concern is III infested, but
what had been approved, supported and cham
pioned by them, against the earnest protest and
active opposition Of the rep Africans OF the State
At no time has there been public d. c!arstion
in favor of the republican party. or an intims.
ton Ct purpose to support republican organi-
z,tion. There is scsIcsly ono of their leaders
or opponents WHO is not on record sgsinst the
financial policy Of the republican party, and in
sympathy with the widest vagsries Of the e1.
ttemest OF the greeaback lunatcs, and that too
when the very life of republican policy as il
affects national integrity, was at issue"
The comet will have to come much nearer
the earth than it is before such talk as this will
souad like running "a waiting race