Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1882-08-29

The reason given by Gen. Malone for
exacting this remarkable pledge of feal-
ty was that many of 1.-THE men to he
elected were so venal that they must be
bound by a sealed obligation or else
their opponents would buy them."-
What a commentary upon the party
that the Boss leads, and upon the men
who represented. it in the last General
Assembly. No wonder he found them
plant tools in his unscrupulous hands.
Seeing this precious "pledge" and
knowing that Mr.. Massey and other
friends would not submit to caucus
(alias Mahone's) dictation in the matter
of clerkships; feeling that Malone was
becoming rapidly an autocrat, Mr.. Ruff
fin addressed him letter demonstrating
against his course in this matter and al
80 declared that Mahone's levy of 10 per
cent. upon the salary of State deice-
holders was wrong in principle and to
be reprobated. The spoils committee
was appointed in Mahone's lodgings in
the Whig building Nov. 2S, 1881, its du-
ties being to divide the offices between
the various Congressional districts. ITO
this meeing Mr.. Massey went and was
at once asked to retire not being the
choice oAthat coterle for any place." and
Mr.. Allen having been selected in his
stead.
During all this Malone stayed in
Richmond to supervise the appoint
ment of committees to organize the CAM
paign, to dictate his colleague in the
United States Senate, Though Congress
was in session and the interests of Vir-
ginia, vital to some sections and impor.
tant to all, needed the best efforts of all
her representatives, and especially
claimed the service of such as had been
chosen upon pledges of peculiar devt
tion." Mr.. Riddleberger was not Ar
thurs choice at first nor that of the re-
adjusters. but was ordered to be elected
by the Boss, Governor Cameron finally
obtaining Arthur's consent therto.
OF MIR. Farr he says -
II do not stop to enquire into the par.
ticulars of the arrangement by whic
Mr.. R. r. Farr was appointed to tn
post of Superintendent of Public In
struction. Enough to know that he held
at the same time his seat in the House
of Delegates and the office to which he
was elected, though the lawyers of that
body of both parties decided deliberate.
ly and unanimously against him; and
that he is believed to be unable to con-
struct any but the plainest grammatical
paragraph, or spell any but the COM
monest words-thOugh he is Malone
man. And yet the education of the pe0-
people is announced in the platform of
the readjuster party to be one of its most
sacred duties"
And so through long letter he ex-
poses Malone. Coming from the pen
of stalwart readJuster, such a letter
proves, that which Virginians have
therefore, believed, that Malone is false
to his friends and to his State. Greedy
OF power and place and unscrupulous as
to the means by which he acquires them,
he is followed by gang of whom, to
quote his own language, it can truly be
said that "many of them are so venal
that if not bound by a sealed obligation
they could be bought"
| Just as the South was about to get
justice-get reduction of the tariff and
the abolition of the internal revenue
in steps Malone and starts q Southern
party to back and support Northern
stalwartism, and we go back to 1862
Lynchbatrg Advance.
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