Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-08-19

between tnlS place ana BalClmOrc, our nat
ural market, five cents a bushel, or $50 on
every thousand bushels exported from this
county. This power to thus levy tax,
without notice, we say is great outrage,
and demands that the State should inter-
pose her sovereign power and correct it by
legislation. Suppose the Legislature does
interpose and corrects the evil in Virginia
bushel Of wheat to reach Baltimore from
this county must cross the States of West
Virginia and Maryland The railroad COM
pany, compelled thereto by law, RENTS the
tax III Virginia, and TO compensate for the
loss puts the same five cents or more on the
same bushe of wheat as soon as it reaches
! West Virginia or Maryland. The instant
this hushel of wheat reaches West Virginia
or Maryland the control of Virginia over
the right to charge ceases. This is the rea
son we want the Reagan bill that has been
sleeping III one of the many repositories of
| Congress for the last four years because Of the
bitter opposition of the railroads of the coun-
try to it. Touching the power Of Congress
| 10 pass such Il measure, every one of ordinary
intelligence knows that the power to regulate
| Interstate commerce is an express grant of the
Constitution OF the United States and it is folly to
talk about consolidation and "usurpation" when
| congress by such restrictions rs proposed bS
the Reagan hill, undertakes to act under an ex-
| press grant of power in the organic law. COM
| pctc and uniform system, which shall do justice
to both the farmer and the railroad can only be
effected by bath State and Federal legislation.
And the question which the farmers of this dis
trlct must consider aye in time. are bound to con-
slider and act upon, is whether Mr.. Barbour the
| President of one of the largest railroad interest
| IN the state anu bound by common interest to all
the others. is likely to he efficient in pressing the
dormant Reagan bill before Congress. The inter-
est OF the farmer demands that he should press it
the large interest of his great railroad and its
Stockholders demand that he should resist such
| legislation. He can't serve both. Who will he
neglect, the farmer or the stakeholder? We want
to know. We have the right to know his position
on this bill. Is he for against it? Is it an
irrelevant or nnimportant matter to farmer to
get five cents bushel for his wheat more than
he is now getting? OF course the railroad makes
no complaint that Mr.. Barbour's time is taken
from 1t Ill serving the people in Congress. 1t
would be surprising if it did Can't he serve it
better IN than oM of Congress: Can't he help to
defeat, for It, the "miquous" Reagan bill. 1t is
idle to ask if any one believes that Mr.. Barbour is
part OF the machine" 1t is cvading the uucs-
ton. though must confess that fail to see if a
railroad is machine" operated by stockholders
and managed by directory, how the president Of
It, both stakeholder and director can we'll avoid
being part Of it.
We repeat that the Valley is entitled to the
nomination; that Mr. Barbour is not entitled to
1t aud ought not to have it. Our people are be-
coming dissatisfied and am not prepared to saw
to what extent the party here will be effected by
continuation of the system of ignoring the Valley
anu hcr claims. VALLEY"
The Malone coalition convention at Mari
on, Smythe county, has nominated H. c.
Bowen for Congress. Fulkerson was not put
in nomination, nor was he present. The
platform failed to endorse Malone, but was
strong in the endorsement Of President Ar
thurs Administration. Strong speeches
were made against its Republicanism by
Judges Rhea and Ward, who dared the con
vention to endorse Malone. The split
leaves a divided Malone party in the
Ninth District. Messrs Newberry and
Bowen are the candidates thus far. Mr..
Bowen said Democracy was an empty name.
He was extreme in his Malone Arthur SEN
timents. Judge Strother said Democracy
was tomtoolery; that the Malone party
were now where the Republicans camped
last year, and that he was for Republcanism
as against Democracy. This speech was
loudly applauded. Fulkerson will run in
dependent, it is said.
Colonel Mayo, the coalition nominee for
Congress in the First District, in his speech
OF acceptance announced that he was a true
and staunch Republican !; he said he never
was Democrat, but Conservative, and
whom the party that formerly was known as
the Conservative party dropped Conserva-
tive and took up Democratic, he left the
rotten concern, and thanked God that he
lett before it had gotten so low. He said
that while in the legislature he stood as the
leader Of the cOlored race, and claimed to be
the best representative they had in that body
he said he always fought to place them in Of
lice when he found them capable. r. d.
Beckley, w. w. Laws, IT, Spicer Curlett and
w. II. Lewis say that Mayos nomintion
inslires Judge Garrison's election.
That old Bourbon struck the true note
when he said: Il would vote for the devil
before would vote for John f. Massie, but
would vote for Massey before woull for
John Wise"
Hon. George D. Wise has been nominated
by reclamation for rejection to Congress by
the democrats of the Richmond District
Right And he will be elected by a large
majority. Mr.. Wise is an able and enerret-
| &c representative.
The Richmond Democratic Convention
adopted the following resolution:
Resolved, That this convention desires 10
express on behalf of the people of this dis
trict their profound gratitude to those patri-
otic and courageous members of the Gener-
al Assembly, by whatever party name de-
signated, who at the late session refused n
servife surrender Of their freedom to Ma
hone and his caucus, and thereby saved the
State from being sold out to Stalwart Re-
publcanism, and postponed if they did not
prevent, the establishment in Virginia of a
degrading personal despotism as substitute
tor representative government and response
bilitV to the peOD]e."