Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-08-31

-haSSSy conceded to be the best auditor tho S,o+o
eyer haa, was faSs gaining Il hold on the hearts
OF the people, and becoming formidable eandis
anIe G.I rs senator, even against Malone himself
When he came to elect his own successor 1San
fore, it was necessary to get rid of Massey Re-.
sides that, Gen. Malone has shown that he doesn,t
waht any man in the party who has any man
mood. (Cries Oft That's so, "you have hit him
inns time" and rocitrrous chcering.) who has
any Independence. (CrieS of THAT'S so /" anJ
renewed applause,) So he continued the war
Then came on the deadlock. There were some
men III that Legislature, God be praised who
could not submit to the will of this tvrant Ma.
1"1 none applause Then came on the dead
have been witnessed in Richmond '>>''o' ''''''
After Malone entered the U. S. Senate bo
sought to have his favorte elected Scrgrant.at.
Arms OF the Senate. In this effort he WAS do.
teated [Applause.l Wy"
As say, this wns continued Gen, N,bono
did not return to the U. S. Senate himself after
achieving this wonderful feat of defeating Massey
tor. the Senate OF the U. s Not at all But he
stald ut Richmond They said, "Whv this old
n,,l Is amo1loas; he want; oiee he will break
he was offered tho Auditors office, though with
conditions. He was good enough for thnt Office.
he could have the office if he would only take it
with the conditions, and let the caucus furnish
him with his clerks, Malone being the caucus.
Had he done that he would have been a very
good man. But being man as he is, every inch
a man, loud applause, he said Il do not want
tho Office with the degrading conditions, and will
not NJ Of take it" Applausc,l Thereupon they said
are 0g guda yon % are Sa G"eau are ATod you
the Office if he had, like some other neo.
ple,., not cared whether thieves and i'm
beetles were selected us his clerks or not Gen
g, ,OOp 600 annually. All of the revenues of the
State go through this Office. Upon such an oil.
Ger, with such awful responsibility, sought this
caucus to impose clerks who might prove 10 he
robbers and inbccics, rcsponciblcto no one; re.
commended by no one as to probity and eili-
| cheney.
Like faithful, honest, and efficient officer,
looking only to the welfare of the people and tho
responsibility of his office, Massey spurned the of.
fer resented the insult to himself and the State
Of Virginia, loud applause,l and preserved his
manhood and the respect of every true citizen.
Prolonged applause.
| As [ have said came the deadlock in the Leg
islature. There were some members of the Leg
islnture who refused longer to bow the knee to
this tyrant. Loud applause. Instantly is the
cry raised of traitor a man was expected to
| have no freedom of thought; TO exercise no
judgment of his own. Somo men, however, are
SO constituted that they cannot do this, and hap
| PLY some of those men found their way into :hc
Legislature For them, with the consciousness
of right on their side, the Cry of ''trcason" and
| etraitor" had no terror
Malone was now desperate; there was tho
| deadlock; it must be broken or all his personal
| schemes would fail how could it be done; every
means conceivable that could possibly be resort
ed to was rcsorted to, but all to no purpose the
evil character of the man and his dangerous pro.
positions were disclosed, and there was no hclp
for him.
Still he pcIsevered; still he sought for means.
At last ho thought he espied way Among
other members Of the Legislature was MI
Wingaeld, republican. Mr.. Wngfeld was
funder He acted with the democrats in prefer
ence to the rTeadjusters and voted with them.
They wanted to get Mir. Wingfeld's vote, and
the deadlock, and bea! Massey. He was very
cation to New York to see Mr. Huntington, who
i, the President Of the Chesapeake and Ohio
MnlFoHa WcHsm and they spent eight days With him
sident of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Co. Mr.. Huntington really owns the road,
or his syndicate does. Mr.. Wickham- and Mr..
Wingfeld lived in the same neighborhood Mr.
Mickham has very great influence with Mr..
| Wingfed Follow me little. AS said there
WIS q delegation sent to New York to get Mr..
Huntington to bring the power and Influence
that the Presidency of that road gave him over
Mr. Mickham the Vice President, to bear upon
Mr Nngaeld to get him over to the other side
to break the dead lock Now mind YOU ~
Wickham is n straightout rcpubli an iundcr OF
Virginia, and so is Mr. Wing::cd And here is
Il combination formed by "ahonc with Wick
ham and ", ,Wingdeld, republican iunders 10 do
what? Why, to whip Massey. Then they 90
to Mr. Wingtcld and they get him over. and he
does vote with them; they braek the deadlock,
aud they elected Allen, Auditor Wha, did they
promise Wingfeld as an inducement for him to
vote with thcnl-that they would leave judge
on the bench in Richmond who was Il particular
| friend Of his
They failed to keep this promise however, and
Mr.. Wingheld seeing how they had proved t,.se
to him, refused longer to act with them; hcwent
back and remained with the democrats.
When Mr.. assey. the Big Four, and these
MS traitors: That may be treason prooably it
was. If they had any combinations between
them it was treason What is 70 be said then OF
the other side; Of General Malone when he goes
Mr. Wickham, and Mr.. Huntington, ans. Mr..
Wingfeld. There is no treason in that, / Sun.
| pose? IL is not treason for them, for 6en Ma
hone to combine with flinders aud republican
funders but treason for anybody else to do So
Now we 60 on Then was it for the combina-
tions with these republican funders that Gen
Malone is TO be endorsed in his conduct in bring
ing on this fight? They went on and in THIS
same line; thoS wanted to get the railroad inau-
cnce, and so GeI Malone forms an alliance witt:
what is known as the Clyde Syndicate, and they
were to lend him all The influence they had
This Legislature WAS pledged by him, as un-
derstand Isuppose it will not be denied that
he had pledged that railroad company all the
legislation it wanted FORTS influence That was
to bring III now the money power. As say they
promised them all the legislation they wanted.
What legislation did they want? Why, for
years the Danville Railroad, which is q part and
parcel Of the Clyde Syndicate had had Il bill be.
fore that Legislature asking the privilege Of
paying the debt it owed to the State OF $500, 900
or 500, 900 with the bonds Of the State That
was to let it go and buy up the bonds at 30 and
40 cents on the dollar, and pay its debt, which
would be done in few years with them. For
four or five years l stood up in the Legislature
and was one, with Others, to defeat the measure
when it came before this Legislature; however,
in order to defeat Massey combination was
made with that syndicate, by which they were
promised this legislation, and the bill was passed
by this Legislature in accordance with that un-
derstandiug, by means OF which the State lost
from 800, ,OOO to $500, ,0OO. l could tell a great
deal more about this, and I may have to do it
after awhile. There was lobby there every
year; lobby there at that Legislature to lobby
it through; heavy lobby.