Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-12-01

ical issue BY the resolution of the demo
cratic party at their last State Convention
to acquesce in the settlement made law by
the last Legislature, and pronounced consti-
tutional by the Supreme Court of the Uni
ted States, that question has been taken
out of politics in Virginia. With the re-
moval of this issue the only proper reason
for the existence of the read ulster party
disappeared.
What, then, could be more natural than
the immediate return of all the democrats
in its rank to their old party allegiance?
But that return was quickcued by the
spectacle of the unnumbered woes the am
bition Of one man had brought upon the
State, and the apprehension of worse evil
to come, from which accident alone had just
saved the, Commonwealth.
Legislature pledged by its majority i'll
advance to obey every mandate of party
caucus that caucus sitting only to register
and transmit the DEGREES of IFS master: the
executive and judicial offices greedily
seized by the dictator's personal adhcrents
blind loyalty to one man set up as the sole
test Of fitness for positions OF trust; the
asylums for the insane, those touching monu-
ments Of the public charity, and the free
school system, that nobler monument of the
public wisdom, thrown in TO swell the dirty
heap of party spois-so much of this wild
| revel of mock craftsmanship has passed into
| history What was Observation-Disclosures
ment of congressional districts and judicial
circuits repeal Of municipal charters usur-
patton Of the powers long vested in chancery
courts TO control, through their own com
missioners, judicial sales Of lands-al this
was intended to fix, confirm. and perpctuatt
the power Of the autocrat, this new DR.
| Francia.
Well, here arc the causes of the rcvolu
tion of public opinion among one eighth Of
the purest and best voters in the State. j.
not the Inference irresistible that the same
causes produced like change in the remain
ing seven eighths?
Why go about to look for secondary CAUSES
when these great primary calses are staring
all the world in the face?
The truth is that all the conditions con
Cured which thinking men recognized as
the necessary forerunuers of the downfall
of the coalition The uprising Of the pco
pie of New York and Pennsylvania last
yeas against "bossism' and other vicious
methods in politics; the marked success oil
the democrats in the local elections last
spring in this State; the recent democratic
triumph in Ohio; the steady and predes
tined march of the coalition party into tho
arms oflhe stalwalt republicans; the patrio
tic rrvor animatnS the democratic ranks
and kindlin in old and young Il very con.
tagion ofpublic spiritual the portents O
the political skies plainly forctoll that Nir-
Cinia would prove true to her democratic
traditions.
The peaceful revolution has come. re
doubt it's coming would have been to despair
of free institutions to doubt the justice o
the final judgment of the people.
| In the address of General Malone syste
matte murder and bloodshcd are charged in
Charles City, Halifax, Hanover, Floyd
Augusta, Madison, and Lee counties, aud in
the town Of Danvillc.
| In those counties Except Madisoul the
coaltionists polled 2,496 more votes than in
| 1889, us follows: