Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-06-07
ALEXANDRIA, VA.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 7, 1882.

AT LAST, after months of preparation, the
address Of the readjuster members of the
Legislature to the people" has been issued.
As the fact Of its incubation had been for
gotten, its appearance was rs much sur
prise to the few readers among the Malone
ties as to the other people of the State. 1t is
verbose, windy and frothy, and similar in
style and matter to all the other productions
of its author. 1t begins with a dcnunciation
of bourbonism, though it is an acknowledge
ed fact that those to whom it applies the
term Bourbon are the industrious and enter
prisng men of the State, the men to whom
Virginia owes all the great and visible pro-
gress she has made since the war, while
among the ranks of the progressive liber-
ais" are found nearly all the drones beats,
croakers, disappointed politicians and those
who, too lazy to work, hope to make 4 liv-
Ing by otficcholding 1t attributes all the
blame of the delayed restoration of friendly
relations between Virginia and the North to
the democrats, and this, too, with the patent
and living contradiction OF the assertion ar
fordcd by Mcssrs. Edmunds, Dawes, Hoar
and other leading republicans, whose enmity
to the State is notorious and seems to DC i'm
pllcablc, 1t bcratcs the democrats for their
proscriplivcneSs, when nothing is better
known than the fact that of all the demo
Gratis the most proscriptive were those who
are now the leaders of the Malone party.
1t is loud i'll It's praises of Il free vote and 4
fair count, though General Malone wanted
to disfranchise the negroes Of Petersburg,
so inundated them rs to induce them to
call for U. S. troops, removed every one of
them on his road who failed to vote the
democratic ticket, and was the first man in
the State to recommend the use of tissue
ballots. IL attempts to belittle Mr. Massey
10y saying that he was only brought out ofhis
legitimate obscurity by means Of the read
Ulster movement, when but for that idcnti-
cal movement not IL single one Of the now
prominent Mahoneites would have ever
emerged from the political retirement to
which their imperfcctions had properly con-
signed them. II accuses the democrats of
untrendlincss to the public schools, though
they assumed the expense of those schools
years before they were required to do so,
and though they organized and conducted
the public school system in a way that re-
Elected credit upon the State and honor
upon the Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton, DR.. Rutlner, whom the Mahoneites re-
moved in order that they might give his
place to Mr.. Il. Il. Farr, of Fairfax 1t gives
great credit to the Mahoncites for rcorgan-
izing the charitable institutions of the State
though in that reorganization they removed
experienced and efficient physicians from
the upcrintendency Of the insane asylums
and replaced them with inexperienced and
therefore, temporarily ut least, incompetent
officials, and put men in charge of the deaf
and dumb asylum who do not even under
stand the sign language. 1t says that the
election of Senators Malone and Riddle
berger and the members of the Court of
Appeals is highly creditablc to the State,
though that assertion necessarily implies
that the credit of the State must have pre-
viously reached an extremely low stage
The defeat of the land sales bill it looks
upon in the light of an outrage, though the
democrats agreed to pass it if the Malone
ties, who profess to have so much regard
for the popular will, would allow the people
10 elect the commissioners. 4 large portion
Of 1t is taken up with denunciations of
Mr.. Massey and the "big four" though of
all the prominent men among the read
Justcrs they are the only ones who have
been consistent and whose acts have con-
formed to their professions. In slap at the
Hayes administration for opposing rcpudia-
ton i'll Virginia, it Internationally hits
Commissioner Raum, who, though now an
avowed Mahoncitc, then threatened Van
Auken with removal for reported sympathy
with that party. 1t applauds the present
Administration for its unsectionalism,
evidently forgetting that though in the two
preceding ones the South was represented
In the Cabinet, no Southern man has q voice
ut the Cabinet board now, and that of all the
sectlonalists the North affords the most
hVeteratc are Secretaries Howe and Chand-
Ter. 1t says that Arthursm and allegiance
TO Arthur are all that need be required in
the future platforms of any readjuster con-
Vention, omis all mention of General Ma
homes vote to exclude ex-Confederates
from the rank of commissioned officers in
the army, and then, for ''liberal'' produc-
ton, closes with the curious ayowal of
"relentlcss detestation and undyins and
unconquerable enmity" for the democrats,
who compose nine-tcnths of the white peo-
pie of the State. 1t is eminently character
lstic of the party by which it was issued, as
may we'll be imagined from the above
criticism of what fills over five columns of
General Mahone's home organ.
THE MAHoNEITEs expect great things in
the way of reputation when their Court of
Appeals shall come into Office next veor