Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-12-11
"liELPING MAHONE."
(From the New York Evening Post. J

The almost incredible announcement il
made that The republicans of the North
have decided TO make Mahone's cause IN
Virginia their own by sending money and
speakers TO his aid. Among the speakers
who are said to be going npon this extra
ordinary errand, are Judge Foraker, Gen.
eral Logan, Congressman Kelley, OF Penn.
sylvania, aud Senator Hoar's name il not
on the list, but il ought to be 10 make it
complete. Three of the men named,
Foraker, Shermnn, and Logan, are, next
to Mr.. Hoar, the republican leaders of the
North who are most deeply concerned
about the Importance oil the sectional
question and its hearing upon the "rights
OF the poor negro" They say that this is
the overshadowing issue in national poll.
tics, and that nothing will induce them to
abandon its agitation. Ye, they are go
ing to Virginia 10 help Malone, IN the
nnme Of the republican party; thus iheni-
Tying HIN aud his canse with the cause of
the republican party, thus making his work
in the South typical of what the rcpubli
can party would like 10 see sustained there
ii it were in power.
1t is not possible to say of these men,
especially of Messrs. Sherman and Logan,
that they do rot know what Malone
stands for in Southern politics, for they
have been in the Senate with HIM in the
disrepnlable political bargain by which
his vote was purchased for the republicans
in return for the absolute control OF the
Federal patronage OF Virginia. That such
bargain was made and kept is matter
of political history. Messrs, Sherman
and Logan are entirely consistent in still
standing by their old confederate: but
their audnciiy in doing it, in the present
state of public opinion, and in the fnce of
their sanctimonious uiterances about the
poor negro, is almost bewildering. Let us
zee what they are going to endorse in the
when they took mp Mahone's cause:
They must endorse his course as n
| repudiatoi from 1873 down to the present
time. When he appeared in the politics
of Virginia in 1873 the State was firmly
and apparently infexibly set against the
| repudiation tide which was submergng
the fair credit of other Southern States.
A small faction OF uninfluen,inl voters
were agilating for repudiation, bul they
! were overwhelmingly outnnmbered by the
| honest people Of the State. who stood I'M.
falteringly by their States honor. Ma
| hone began his agitation by insidiotIsly
arousfng pGblc sentiment in favor of re-
! padaiion, on the false ground tlat the
State waa over hui dencd with taxation and
could not pay it's debts. BY appealing 10
| the most ignorant white sentiment. and by
rallying in his support the solid negro
vote, he succeeded 80 well that during the
nine years between 1878 and 1882 he had
induced the State, through It's Legislature
frat TO repudiate one half the interest fri
nine Years on its refunded State debt nl
S30,00OO0O second, to repudinte outright
one-third Of the principal. reducing the
debt to Sl9,000000; and third. To rrpnhi
ale hall the interest on tlis Sl9 000, 600
This work was the aiepping-stOne tn Ma
homes sent TO the United States Senate
and il wna this which Senators IIoar
Sherman, Logan, and their party assoca
tes approved when they made their COM
pact with him.
2 They must endorse Mahone's me'hod,
with the negroes. These have been 10 a,,-
peal to their lowest race prcdjndices hy as
s,iring them cnsianiiy that nothing bat III,
persistent voting oi the Republican, ticke
will save them from II return To slavery
to teach them that there ia no slc!, tlip,
IA public faith or polric,l honesty ils
Office ia mere reward for party service
and that no Republican can hive or hole
Office who does not yield himself absolute
ly TO his boss and surrender his manhood
completely to hls dictation.
They must endorse as worthy Repnb-
lican iruit the crop which Mnhune's SOW
ing has yielded in Virginia-a RUNE,
public credit, public conscience 30 de
banched that all parties are open ant
shameless advocates CT reputation, act
ually competing in their zeal for diShon-
esiy, 70 that there is not in the South TO
day commonwealth which presents
spectacle more piliabie than the proud ole
"molher Of Presidents"
They must endorse the Confedernt,
Brigadicr who is Mnhone's candidate fo
Governor, The plank IN the Republican
platform which favors "such annual mp
propriatlons as may he adequate to provid,
for the care and support Of disabled Vir-
gina (rebeD soldiers who need such pro
Visions" and the daily declaration o
Mali0ne's newspaper organ that the Re
publicans in the last Virginia Legislatnr,
introduced hill appropriaiing S65,00l
for the relief of disabled rebel soldiers, ant
the Democratic members defeated il, III,
better friends TO rebel pension sche me
Than the Democrats are.
Why shonld the republican party of tn
North voluntarily, and for no obylou
gain whatever, either good or bad, ASSUME
such burden as dis? Yet we are gla,
to have them do ii, for il gives The lie Il
all their professions 0f devotion TO the ne
gro, the sanciiy Of the ballot, and all ih
rest of their sectional claptrap. Afte
helping Malone Messrs. Slrmnn and Lo
gan and the rest will have hard time o
il II they come back 10 The Moth and al
tempt to induce people TO accept seriousl.