Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1882-03-21
AMassachusetts Idea.

1tsWIll Do recalled C00t al luVlC0tAVA
to Senator Malone by the Republicans
bt Boston, begging that he would accept
reception at heir hands as recOgnl.
Jon OF his great work in bringing about
liquidation in Virginia, was made
much of at the time. The day fixed for
this demonstration was never revealed
by the committee -prObably because
SenatOr Malone was not able to give
Them any assurance that he could trust
1.-THE Virginia Legislature alone for any
spiyen period. II was therefore sug-
3gested that after he had arranged his
4 Legislature he would give the Massa
schusetts wOrshfppers Of successful repu
sdiatio nists due notice of his ability and
ainclin alton to accept the proposed hon
3or.
It appe ars, however, that the public
! has been laboring under delusion all
these weeks The invitation was in
tended as provision for duly celebrat-
/ ing Washington's birthday, though
why the Republicans of Massachusetts,
who, because they had succeeded in
dissraciny the Virginia of the present
should have refused to be satisfied un-
til they also disgraced the Virginia of
the past, is not entirely plain. But 1t
seems that when these very virtuous
gentlemen resolved to endorse stealing
they also thought it necessary to secu re
as much good company from the Old
Dominion as was possible. Hence the
effort to bring in George Washington
\ as coadjutor of Malone and his pecu.
A liar system and ideas.
\ But Mr. Malone found that the Vir-
/ GINA Legislature could not be trusted,
and he was, therefore, compelled to de-
cline the Invitation. This he did in q
letter bearing date February II. By a
| fiction peculiar to members of the Sem
ate, who may buy official stationery and
carry it to their respective homes, the
letter has at its head "Senate Chamber !,
Washington," although at the date
mentioned the Senator was at his home
menting his power by whipping back
the recalcitrart Readiusters known as
the 'Big Four"
4 In this letter the information is first
given to the public that the alleged
statesman was invited to speak upon
j ''The Present and Future of Virginia"
What direct connection these periods of
history have with Washington's birth
/ day is not set out in the bills, because,
If there is anything with which Wash
ington's name is linked 1t is the past
history of the Old Dominion in man
ner entirely honorable, while, If Ma
homes name has any important con-
nection with Virginia, 1t Is in manner
anything but creditable. ~,
But this aside and to the letter itself
1t is rapid Kaleidoscope succession OF
common places in which he seeks to
cover up the infamy of his real work by
,. yelled illusions to his demand for the
complete determination of people who
have heretofore d tfered in may things.
1t is remarkable more for what it fails
to say than for what it says.
1t contains nothing whatever empha-
sizing the cordial relations which ought
to exist between those people in Massa-
chusetts who were the owners of Vir-
ginia bonds and the men who at a single
stroke robbed them of nearly half their
value.
It does not undertake to convey any
idea of the filial. feelings which must
exist between those very good people
in Massachusetts, who are opposed to
corruption in politics, to political assess.
ments, to the appointment and removal
of men for purely partisan purposes and
to the use of all the powers of the Gov
eminent to influence elections, and the
men who, under the leadership of Ma
hone. violated all those ideas Of political
. decency and put the Republican vote
/ up at auction.
, The necessity for harmony and gooG
, feeling between the radical Republicans
of Massachusetts, who are always be
e wailing the fate of the negro in States
e far from home, and the man who inau-
: gurated and used The system of BULLDOG
ing and invented the tissue ballot fol
] the benefit of manlwho is now one o
D his most faithful henchlnen in Virgins
is not properly enforced, owing doubt
less to forgetfulness on the part of thu
f epistolary statesman.
f Mr.. Malone must, therefore, be gel
, down a failure as a letter writer. Re
, pudiation and political vallainy canno
be CLOSED over by weak commonplace
, principally expressed in words of foul
3 syllabies. When next the Republicans
. of Massachusetts desire to commemo
, rate their own shame, it is to be hopet
they will select men who will not avoit
, even the mention Of the very ideas ant
aims they celebrate. but one who will
9 at least comb inc bra vado with knave
+ ry..