Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1882-09-06

have declined 10 afililate WIN etuer
party, aud 50 hold the balance power,
as General Malone had promised to do;
but we never meant TO be Incorporated
into the national Republican party, IN
whose last Convention Mr.. Conkllng
and other friends of Mr.. Arthur voted
10 subvcrt the Government By the elec-
ton of Grant TO a third term We nev-
er dreamed of DETECTION to those peo
pie. What, then, must have been the
feelings of every man of convictions, oil
consistency, of stability, when he saw
the Readjusters in the Legislature
BLINDLY FOLLOWING GENERAL MAJ
HOMES LEAD,
upon the degrading plea that the Re-
publicans would do moie for US than
the Democrats, and willing to commit
great fraud upon the representative
rights OF Virginia in earnest OF their
apostacy? For to district the State as
General Malone proposed would only
give two representatives TO l27,OOO
Democratic voters, mostly white, and
eight representatives to $4,000 voters.
mostly colored. 1t is strange that only
'the Big -Four" dared 10 resist, expose,
and defeat this great fraud aud Outrage
upon the State; strange indeed; and
only to be accounted for on the sup
posilion that some honest men must
have felt themselves fatally bound by
their seal and signature to that secret
pledge, some timld men bound as Flies
are in the SPIDERS web.
But where is the proof Of this alleged
superior
FRIENDLINESs OF THE REPUBLICANS
They never can have better opportu-
pity that they had at the last session oi
Congress: for they had about $50, ,OOU'-
900 surplus in the treasury. Nor can
we: for General Malone was necessary
TO them. Having the casting vote In
the Senate he was a man to be conclh'
ated; he held what wlist-players call
the thirteencr. 1t was great power;
it gave him great opportunity; ard
that does not often occur. And he had
been elected TO catch such opportunl'
ties, regardless Of party, pledged against
party entauglements, elected solely in
the interests Of his State. We eXpec-
ted him TO be a peculiar senator, Jealous
of good works for Virginia. What has
he done? Nothing. What might he
have done? Much. As how? The IN
tcrnal-revenue tax on spirits paid say
$50. OOO. .OO1' on tobacco. say $50, ,OOO,-
900. or total of sllQ,0O0,COO, 10 a
government that after giving up that
would still have had $40, ,0O0,OOO more
than it needed. Poor men in the noun
tains of Virginia, with but little to sell
and no outlet for anything bat In a
condensed form and value, make their
little crops Of apples, &C., into brandy.
We all know how they are harased by
the spies Of the internal revenue, haul
ed from their families, imprisoned,
pros ecuted, and punished for violation
Of this hard law, or escape with a
LAWYERS fee aud a bill OF costs which
emptes their pockets. What rellet did
General Malone seek TO obtain ior
these poor people, who gave him his
Readiuster majority in the Southwest
Let him answer.
All know that
THE TOBACCO INTEREST
has suffered from the war and from the
tax. What has the especial champion
of Virginia interests done for that? 1t
has been explained in the papers that
when in the House of Representatives.
motion was made to abolish the inter-
nal-revenue tax il came within one
vote of passing. That vote would have
been gwen by South Carolina Demo-
crat (Mr. Dibble,) if Mr., John Paul.
once Democrat himself, had not voted
to oust our friend and put in his place a
Republican opponent (Mr. Mackey) So
the bill was lost.
On the 25th Of July General Malone
in the United States Senate moved 10
reduce the tax on tobacco 10 eight cents
per pound. He was sustained by only
two other Republicans -oue of whom
(Cameron) lad voted to reduce the tax
on tobacco before General Malone
went 10 the Senate the other OF whom
(Kellogg Of L)uisiaua) wished to XII
the bill, which embraced also reduc-
non on sugar, tariiI-rrolected product
or his State. The vote for reduction
was Is Democrats to 3 Republicans;
the vote against it, l9 D5mocrls and
o. Republicaus-out of % Democrats
IS for: out Of % Republicans, p agaln'I
rel.et. Could General Malone have IN
Auenced this vote in our ta'or? 1t
nav. then what 10 he worth 10 Vr snit
IIfaye, why, then, did he no d. ~ l
is said he wants this whole
INTERNAL-REvENUE TAX
repealed. But the patronage OF Virs-
MA il based almost entirely on the tax
and General Mahene dlspsnses that pa
tronage. Does he want TO give 1t up
When it comes to that, might not "se ]
tine waycring bllance shake ?" BI!
does he expect the Republicans to re
naal il in face of the fact that his ir len
Mr.. Arthur WAITS it kept up, ani tna'
lately. when the whole question wa
before Congress, the only relief the Re
pabliclns proposed was to banks, wh'c'
always get all they ch1Ose to ask Tor
IN patent- Medicine men, whb dIi'l
noison thous ,nds Of q n people; aud Il