Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-08-28

for Mr. Barbour as are also the delegates
elected at Middleburg.
On Saturday the friends of Maj. Conrad
received telegram from that gentleman
announcing his withdrawal from the contest
for the nomination
This is the way the Boston Post looks at
affairs in Virginia:
Had the Republican party, headed by
the President of the United States, deliber-
ately set at work to plant througout the
State of Eirginia-that Commonwealth of
| glorious history and traditions-the germs
Of smallpox or yellow-fever it would have
received, US it would have deserved, the ex-
ecration of every Christian people And
yet, had the Republican party done that very
thing, the cruelty of the act would hardly
have been greater than it was when it sys-
tematically set at work to deliver the Old
Dominion, bound hand and foot, into the
clutches ofthe repudiator and political free
booter Malone. The decent portion Of the
people Of Virginia claim, and with q show
Of reason that we are not prepared to gain
say that no other State in the Union is
cursed with such a lothsome species of Boss
tyranny as they are. That appears to Ire
true. There are bosses in plenty in other
States, but there are none more sly or cum
ming than Malone, none more desperately
INSCRIPTIONS, and none who in the past two
years have had the assistance Of the Nation
al Republican party with its influence and
its money, to the same extent as this dirty
social pirate. There does not seem to be a
single redeeming feature in his character, as
measured by his acts. He is as subtle as
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the jackal Turn O State over to such O
man, and God help the people Hardly a
day passes when he does not give some new
proof, not only of his ill-gotten power, but of
the detestable methods and motives which
help to defle his use of it. He has no use
for men of character or men of ability.
From his relations to the Republican par
ty and the Administration he is almost alb
sOlute in the distribution of patronage, and
he is filling up the list of appointments for
Federal ratification with the most abandon
ed political tools to be found in the whole
breadth of the Commonwealth. He is TAX
ing men from the gutter to displace men of
ability and good regulations in the postofi-
ces and other positions of responsibility and
profit. Like Arab Bey, heis calling around
his standing elements that he can keep and
make effective by opportunities for loot and
lust. He is without the instincts of civil
lied being, for he has passions and an ambi-
ton that civilization never elevates or
changes unless tointensify their base quality.
But It may be asked, Will not the people
rise in their might and destroy this moral
monster? Undoubtedly they will, but it will
take time. They could have taken care of
their State from the beginning had Malone
been obliged to carry forward his plans I'M
aided, but he had all the resources that he
, needed ready at his hand, placed there by a
republican President, and if q load of deep
political damnation does not await him and
his party for that treachery to great State,
then sjustice paralyzed as we'll as blind"
The following is an exact copy of a letter
addressed to R. M. Saunders, White Stone,
Lancaster county, Va, and which was read
in Republican meeting held at Lancaster
Courthouse on Monday last for the pur-
pose Of discussing the political siuation in
WASHINGTON, u. C.,
August 18th, 1881.
Dear Sir:
About the 10th day of July sent you a
circular letter asking you to- give me the name
: and postoficc address of one or two colored men
who would like to have employment in the Nor
folk navy yard as laborers-pay 81 so per day.
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cannot be that you would not be glad to secure
such employment for one two worthy colored
men of your county, and you must know that the
appointment is not likely to remain open for
? months. am very sorry you should not realize
the Importance Of prompt attention in such mat
tiers. Yours truly,
WIN MALONE, Chairman
A large number of the delegates who par
ticipated in the nominating convention
held last week in Fredericksburg have de-
clared that they will not support its nomi-
nee, upon the ground that the nomination
was secured by outside influences improp-
erly exerted, and that the voice of the par
ty itself was stifed The old-time Republi-
cans who have borne the heat of the day
for years, feel that their claims have been
ignored, and that they have been badly
treated and many of them will not support
Colonel Mayo, if an independent is run
Northern Neck Nems.
The following declaration of Mr.. Massey,
in his Danville speech doesn't look as if he
was afraid Of Capt. Wise Said he: my
appointments reach from now to the day of
election. Mr. Wise, knows, therefore,
where to find me whenever he wishes to do
so. and he shall be properly entertained
whenever he calls"
Capt. w. w. Mead, formerly chairman of
the readjuster executive committee of Bed
ford county, and three years ago a readjust-
er candidate for the State Senate, renounces
Mahoneism and will vote for Massey
Maj. John ". Daniel, Judge H. c. Allen
and Hon. John II. Harris have volunteered
their services to assist Col. Charles T..
O'Ferrall in his canvass in the seventh con-
gressional district
1t is announced that Mr.. J. T. Stovall,
who was the readjuster candidate for Con-
gross two years ago in the Danville district,
IS now using his influence for Hon. John F.
Massey for Congressman at large.
Hon. George T. Garrison was renominat-
ed for Congress on Friday, without opposi-
ton, by the Democratic Convention of the
First Virginia district, at Tappahannock.
Mr. Garrison will undouhtedIy her elect ad