Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1882-09-13

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necessary TO get rid OF Massey. Be-
sides that, Gen. Malone has shown
that he dosen't want any man ia the
party who has any manhood. (Crles OF
THAT'S so.' YOU have hit blm this
time and yocfrou, cleering.) Who
has any independence. (Crles OF
THAT'S s0,' aud rencsed applause.)
So lie crnlnued the war. Then came
on the dead lock. There were some
men IN that Legislature, God be praised
who could not submit TO the will of This
tyrant Malone. [Applause.l Then
came on The dead lock, followed by the
n. ost disgraceful scenes that have been
Witnessed III Richmond.
Af.er Malone entered the U. 5.
Senate lac sought to have his iayorlle
elected Sergeant.at-Arms of the Senate,
In this effort he was defeated. lap
plause.
As [ say, this was continued. Gen.
Malone did not return TO the U. ).
Senate himself after achieving this
wonderful feat of defeating Massey for
the Ssnate Of the U. s. Not at all.
But he etaid al Richmond. They said,
why this old man is ambi.lous; he
wants Office he will break up the party
but what he will yet II. Remember,
he was offered tie Auditors office,
though with conditions. lie was goo
enough for tha. Office; be could have
the office if he would only take it with
conditions. aud let the caucus furnish
him with his clerks, Malone being The
caucus. Had he doDe that he would
have been very good man. But being
man as he is, eveIy inch a man
loud applause be said, 4 do not want
the efIice with the degrading conditions,
and will not take it, [Applause.l
Thcrepon they said you are traitor; sou
are Arnold; YOU are Judas; you are
Gui,eau.' LLaughter.l Certainly that
was it. He could lave had the Office II
he had. like some other people, not
cared whether thieves aud .imbeclles
were selected as his clerks or not. Gen
tlemen, this Auditors office handles
nearly $4,000, 900 annually. All ofthe
revenues of the State go through this
office. Upon such an officer, with such
awful responsibility, sought this caucus
to impose clerks who might prove to be
robbers and imbecies, responsible to no
one: recommended by no one as 10
probity and efficiency.
Like q faithful, honest and efficient
officer, looking only 10 the welfare oil
the people and the responsibility oil his
office, Massey spurned the offer; resen-
ted the insult 10 himself aud the Stale
of Virginia. [loud app!ause.l and pre-
seryed his manhood and the respect oil
every true citizen. prolonged ar
plause.
As have said, came the deadlock
in the Legislature. There were some
members of tie Legislature who refused
longer 10 bow TIE knee to this iyrant.
Loud applause.l Instantly is the cry
raised of traitor A man was expected
to have no freedom Of thought; to ex-
ercise no judgment OF his o"n' Some
men, however, are so constituted that
thew cannot do this, and happily some
Of those men found their way into Tue
Legislature. For them, with the con-
sciousness of right on their side, the cry
of 'treaso ~ and traitor had no terror
Mahone was nog desperate: there
was the dead lock- II must be broken
| or all his personal schemes would iali;
ho Y could 1t be done; every means
conceivable that could possibly be re-
sorted to vas resorIed to, but all to no
purpose the evil character Of the man
an his dangerous propositions were dis
closed. and there was no help Tor him.
Still he persevered still he sought
ror means. At last he thought he
e.uied a way. Among other members
Of The Legislature was Mr.. Wingield'
repubhcan. Mr.. Wingfeld was
Gnder. He acted with the democrats
in preference to the readjdsiers, ana
voted with them. They wanted 10 get
Mr.. Wiusfeld's vote, and they thought
.hev could do il aud thus break the
deadlock. aud beat Massey. lie was
very small at first. TO beat Massey
they sent delegation to Nes YORK l"
see Mr.. Huntington, who is the Presl-
dent of the Chesapeake Gnd Ohio Ra''-
road aud they spent eight days WIZ
him. Mr. Wickham. Of Virginia. IS 1l'
Vice President Of the Chesapeake and
10 10 Railroad Co. Mr. Huntington
really owns The ro.d, or lis syhd!ca"
does. Mr.. Wickham and Mr. Winghe
lived in the same neishborhood. Mr..
Wickham has very great influence
with WincGeld. Allow me Ittle.-
As said there was a delegation semitic
lNew York to get Mr.. Huntington to
bring the power and dinfldcnce that The
presi leucy of the road gave him over
Mr.. wickham, the Eice-Presldent' TO
bear upoa Mr.. Wingicld to get him
over to the other side TO break tie
deadlock. Now mind you. Mr. Wick
ham Is a straight out republican iunder
of Virginia. and so is Mr.. Wlngli'ld.-
Aud here is combination formed W
Malone With wiclhaM and wlnghed
republican fuuders. To do what! why
to whip Massey. Then they go 10 M
Wingfeld and they get him oyer' All"
ha doe, voie with Them: they break the