National Republican., 1883-03-10
National Politics I'm Virginia.

Only in state campaigns, and on the state debt
ISSUE has Malone been able to hold the dlscord.
ant elements of his party together On national
questions there is no sympathy between the DEM
ocratic ard republican wings Of that party Wash
ington Post
The organ of Parson Massey and of Jubal
Early orrs in tho above. Tho campaign last
fall was a.purely national one for the choice
of congressman. The state debt question was
not heard of, for the "debt payers traned'
under old Massey, who does not pretend that
he is not repudiator, and who fought in the
original readiuster caucus in favor of paying
just share of the old debt recognized in the
Riddleberger law. "The democratic and
republican wings" of tho readjuster party
presented national questions only and united
in indorsing the national administration of
President Arthur. There was not vote cast
at tho election for the readjuster candidates
that would not have been cast with equal
heartiness for General Arthur himself for the
presidency, if that Office had then to have
been filled. There was majority of six
thousand against the old hide-bound bourbon
democratic party and all its straight out bour-
bon republican and renegade readuster allies.
The reunion between the bourbon funder and
the readjuster democrats which Massey and
Fulkerson are promising so glibly took place
last summer and fall, so far as it ever will
take place. Massey reunited with Daniel and
Fullerson reunited with Jubal Early. Every
readjuster democrat who was sore.hcaded
and every one who preferred being whipped
back into the bourbon fold rather than stand
his ground against bourbon frowns, bowed his
head for the bride and felt his bourbon
riders spurs in his sides. On the other hand,
every republican was mustered into the bour-
bon service who ever can be used for so vile
purpose, for the so-called straightout leaders
had the cooperation, in their work, of infu-
ences at the north which, though claim,
ing to be republican, labored with might and
main for general political chaos. But these
combined forces of bourbonism, apostate re-
adjusterism, and democratic republicanism,
and the aid and comfort they had from north
ern treason to principle, all went down under
the superior numbers of the coalitionists, al
though thousands who would gladly have
voted for these were not prepared or had
ne elected to pay the dollar which tho bour-
bon constitution had made the price of voting
The Washington bourbon organ may depend
upon it that its friends in Virginia will never
again come as near to carrying that state as
they did last November. The ballot
is free now. The coalition between Goode,
Dezendorf, and Massey was as complete
then as it can be made in the future. Early,
Woltz, and Fulkerson could not win, oven if
some of their alleged republican allies at the
north were to take the stump in the cause
and inveigh against reputation from the
same stand with Massey. The coalition can
not be broken up at the bidding of all the
recreant republicans in or out of Virginia, nor
can it be beaten by all the fag-ends of faction
which now are, and have all the time been
arrayed against it. The truth of this is made
manifest by the wish of its enemies.