Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1882-08-22
What Malone has Done.

The Alexandria Gazette says that all
the "cut and dried" resolutions adopted
at the Mahoneite meeting, now being
held in the several cities and counties of
the State, contain expressions of thank
fulness to General Malone for the great
benefits he has conferred not only upon
the Readjusters but upon the Srate at
large. AS the benefits referred to are
not mentioned, and as only a score or
two of Office holders seem to have ex-
perienced them, there appears to be a
great desire to know something about
them, so that the cause of the thankful
ness alluded to can be properly appre-
ciated. Are the Readjusters thankful
to General Malone for absenting himself
from tho U. s. Senate for months at
time, during which the bills to return to
Virginia the money she advanced the
Government were before Congress, and
when, if he had any influence, it could
have been exerted in their favor? Are
they thankful to him for defeating bill
that would have relieved the political
disabilities, incurred by the civil war, of
every man in the South? Are they
thankful to him for voting against
proposition to reduce the tax on tobacco
to twelve cents a pound? Are they
thankful to him for the course his lieu
tenant. Mr.. Paulspursued in the House,
which, by giving Democratic seats to
Republican contestants, defeated pro.
position to abolish the whole oppressive
and corrupt internal revenue system
Are they thankful to him for appointing
as postal route agents negroes who can't
read and write, and who, aware of their
inefficiency, try to swap their places off
for others they are competent to fill?
Are they thankful to him for refusing
to submit the Riddleberger bill to vote
of the people whose will he processes to
respect 80 much? Are they thankful
to him for bis personal fight with Mr..
Massey, by which he has disrupted his
party? Are they thankful to him for
meddling not only with the city and
county affairs, but even with those of
the magisterial districts in his State, and
for running Virginia as a boss does his
gang? Are they thankful to him for
the shame he has brought upon bis party
by the disgraceful affair of the Kendall
Bank Note Company? Are they thank.
full to him for his management of the
postal affairs in the State by which not
cross road postoffice can be estab-
lished, not the lowest grade postmas
ter be appointed without the ap-
proval? Are they thankful to him for
supporting the Arthur wing of the Re
publican party, which is so Indignantly
anti.Southern that no Southern Repub-
lican hates his section enough to entitle
him, in its estimation, to place in the
Cabinet? Are they thankful to him for
voting invariably with the ultra and
bloody shirt radicals in the South. and
against the friends of his own section
Are they thankful to him for his lack of
independence in failing to vote on the
question of sustaining the Presidents
veto of the river and harbor bill that ap-
propriates nine millions of dollars to the
South? He has done nothing better
than any of the things referred to since
he has been in the Senate, and if the
Readiusters can discover in them any
cause for thankfulness they have keener
perceptions than other people, and must
indeed be thankful for small favors.