Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-02-05

GIVE A WHITE MAN CHANCE In New
Orleans, the other day, the colored coal
whe elers of that city organized strike and
demanded an increase of wages equal to 25
per cent. The matter was referred to q
trade organization established to arbitrate
such questions, and the decision was against
the strikers. Instead of abiding by the re-
suit the Negroes persisted in their claim,
and organized their strike on still broader
basis. Upon this the coal merchants sup
piled their places with white men, where
upon the strikers assumed a threatening at
titude, and the police had to be called on.
1t turns out that the coal dealers were able
at once to get as much white labor as they
required on short notice, or perhaps bet
ter form of expression is to say on no notice
from those who left their employment. And
this shows two things:
l. That there were white men in ample
numbers to do the work; and
H. That they were willing to do it for
the wages paid the Negroes, and against
which the Negroes had rebelled.
But it shows something more, namely,
that the turbulent colored hands had evil
IDENTIFY been preferred before the white men;
and the result proves that the coal dealers
were leaning on a broken reed. Every man
has a right to employ labor to suit himself,
but we take this occasion to say that in New
Orleans, or Norfolk, in Portsmouth or
Charleston the white man who is willing
and able to work should have fair chance,
and that an ounce of action in this direction
is better than ton of talk-NorfoHL Land
mark.
Poor Malone He got up from sick
bed yesterday to spit out his impotent
malice and venom against the people he has
betrayed, only to find that the speech which
he and George" and Mr.. Sims were so
long preparing, was stale, fiat and unprOf-
liable, and evoked no reply. 1t was un-
worthy of any response, and was treated with
the silent contempt it deserved. The reso-
lutions of the Virginia Legislature asking
| him to resign will reach the Senate in day
or two. They will more than offset his
speech, because what they contain is true,
while the statements he made are not true;
and they will show that though he COM
menced his speech with the words, SIN the
name of Virginia" he took her name in vain,
and that she scorns and repudiates him as
an unnatural son from whom she has sever
ed all ties and with whom she will hold no
more Communication. She has now no rep
preventative in the U. S. Senate, but it is
| infinitely better for her that it should be so
than that the two men there who hail from
Virginia should be the rightful and &C
knowledged representatives Of her people.
-AleG. Gazette, Jan. 30th.
There is so much work for the Legisla-
ture to do, and it has been so obstructed by
the Governors vetoes, that the session will
doubtless have to be extended for thirty
days, for which, fortunately, there will be
no extra pay. But before it adjourns, it
should, and it should not adjourn until it
does do it, so change the law with regard to
the appointment of election judges that
there shall not be at the next, as there have
been under the Malone sway, two Malone
judges and one Democratic judge at every
polling precinct. This outrage was perpe-
ira ed upon the audacious assumption that
of the three judges one was a republican,
one Mahoneite and one Democrat, when
, every body knew that the Mahoneite was
la Republican and the Republican a Malone
lite. 1t should also adopt some measure by
which the registration books shall be taken
out of the improper hands to which most
of them have been entrusted. With fair
registration and just election judges, Ma
honeism, which is already dead, will be
buried SO completely at the next election
that it will never be heard of again.-Aler.
Gazette.