Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1882-07-18
Corruption. The Legitimate Outcome Of
MahOneism.

The all.absorbing passion of General
Malone is sELF-AGGRANDIZEM
For this he works necessarily and in~
tensely. For this he uses every means
he can grasp; and when there is no
adequate means at hand, he labOrs
with skill and extreme energy to
create them. His cardinal principle is,
that, "every man has his price," His
constant and intense effort is to acquire
the means with which to hire men to
do, with unquestioning obedience, his
will; and when he has gotten control of
them, he requires them to work with
undivided devotion and unsparing en-
ergy, for the fulfilment of his selfish
purposes. Nothing is allowed to stand
in the way of accomplishing these
From being a Democrat of the strait
est sect, he has hired himself to Mr..
Arthur, the leader of the Guiteau stall.
wart wing of the Republican party, in
consideration of the Federal patronage
in Virginia; the whole of which Mr..
Arthur has put at his disposal. In the
exercise of the power thus conferred up
on him, he turns out of Office any one
who will not do his bidding, and puts
in others who will. He has caused to
be removed from the deaf and dumb and
the several lunatic asylums, skilled
teachers, nurses and physicians, of large
experience, for no other reason than
that they will not vote as he wants
He struggled with all his skill and en-
ergy during the last Legislature, to get
a law passed which would enable him
to turn out every commissions in CHAM
Gerry and every notary puDIic in the
State, who would not consent to wear
his collar and be his political scavenger
and ''shoulder hitter" and put in their
places others who would ; and also to
create by statute, an office of commits
sioner of sales in every county and city,
ian office unknown to the history of
Virginia. that he might keep, at the ex-
pense of the people, an army Of political
spies and drummers in every part of the
State. He also sought to modify the
law, SO that, through the appointment
of his Governor, he might, in like man.
mer, make every school trustee in the
State subervient to his will.
He has been, and is, thus seeking to
become the political satrap of the Gui-
teau Arthur wing of the Republican
party, in Virginia, and to rule her peo-
pie through his army of hireling office
holders. A more corrupt, and corrupt
ing scheme, was never invented by the
wit of man. Let it be successfully estab
lished and carried out, and society and
government will become thoroughly
corrupt "asat,ts ct IN cute" from heart to
surface, from top to bottom.
Will the people of Virginia be guilty
of the great criminal folly of dividing
up and fighting over the nomination Of
this or that man. or upon this, or that
party question, in the presence of this
the greatest of all questions, which is:
whether they are to govern themselves,
or be governed and corrupted by a hired
satrap of their bitterest enemies, and
has hirelings?
Freemen of Virginia awake to the i'm.
portance of this issue, which is now
upon you, and, laying aside every
other question, about which you may
differ, and meet and conquer this by an
undivided and unflinching front. To
this end, HARMONIZE AND ORGANIZE.
Charlottesville Jetersonidn.