Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-09-25
REPUBLICANS ON MALONE.

Correspondent; w HaL Is Lue sltuatiou III
Rockingham county?'
Mr.. Smith IT believe General Lee has
made many friends by his patriotic and lib.
eral speeches. While denounciDg Malone
as the tyrant and boss that he is, he declar
ed that be had great respect for the republi.
cans who were such from principle. Lee is
a good speaker, and certainly an honest,
straightforward one. I believe he will carry
the county, from what the leading cltlzens
tell me this evening"
"Will you support Fitz. Lee? DO you
hear of many republicans that will2"
81 shall support General Lee with all my
heart. He is to-day the only candidate who
will make an impartial and just Governor
of the whole people ofthe State. have yet
to see the first old republican who does not
tell me that Malone has ba5ely betrayed Us
and violated every pledge be made when
we coa!esced with him."
"Whst is your objection to Malone and
Wise?n
"They have taken up with the most ex
trame radicals of all the North, the same
people who attempted to pass the force Dill
and ciyil-rights bir better described as the
social-equality bill of 1S74-T5), and to read
all of us who wanted peace between the Sec
tions out of the republican party at that
time. Again, Malone is tyrant By nature
and would to-day reduce the freemen Of
Virginia to abject obedience. Malone owns
| Wise, body and soul. Tt would be Ma
hone government. Did you not notice how
he had his black slave denounce Governor
Cameron and Riddeberger in the lato con-
vention? 1t was because they tried to be
representative Virginians. A republican of
| to. day must be a slave TO Malone or moth
ing
"Well, I suppose your father-in-law, ex-
Senator Lewis, will be active in this can
yass?"
"This is g delicate matter. Governor
Lewis has clear mind, and while he may
| be lied to and deceived once, it cannot be
| repeated. Malone has deceived him by
sharp practice. The Mahoneites, knowing
their desperate condition, have almost fore
Mr.. d. S. Lewis Governor Lewis is anti
Malone, but q republican. He likes
Governor Cameron, and he Governor Cam
eron) has attempted to make him believe
Wise would be independent Of Malone. l
do not believe this can be done, and if it is
not done, John T. Lewis will not actively
support Wise. for he believes that it would
be ensaving his people to again put them in
| the power Of Malone and his satellites and
slaves"
do you believe in the Sherman politics
in Ohio ?"
"No. I have just returned from New
York State, and fully two-thirds Of the peo-
pie of New York want peace; and if such q
fight is forced it will destroy the republican
party. General Lees reception at the
Grant obsequies shows the war is over
North, and if our people but give the lie to
the Malone stories Of the Danville massacre
the Shermans and their Malone allies in
our State will be relegated to private life
forever come from Southside Virginia,
and know that one party is as much respon-
BILE for the riot as the other. Mahone's tao
tics in Southside Virginia is to array black
against white; and this caused the trouble,
and may cause more"
"What do you think Lees majority will
be in the State ?"
"While have consulted with people from
all parts of the State, have only travelled
in Soutbside Virginia, the Valley and sea-
will be somo thirty thousand Work is re-
quired, for Malone is sharp and unscrupu,
lous, and may start any yarn just before
election"
| "What, in your opinion, is Mahone's
greatest hope. Is it to carry the House ?"
cit is to trade the State ticket for the
House Of Delegates. Malone is bent on be-
| ing returned to the United States Senate,
and his followers tell him it can be DONE"
In n letter to the Charlottesville Jefferson.
ian, another original republican, exCol-
lector Rives, giving his reasons for opposing
Mahoneism, says:
| hot Ja
publican has been accomplished. The
democratic party has committed itself fully
to these principles in the two conventions
last held, and see nothing in the conduct
of the party or in the conduct Of its mem
bers to make me doubt their sincerity in
thus arraying themselves in support Of the
principles which made mo q republican.
| look around me in Virginia and find all
| the issues settled-nothing left of the party
but the name, and the hostile feeling, which
is generally created by party antagonism
still nursed in secret by some. The repub-
lcan name has been stolen and adopted by
| party, who was at the time most of these
questions were in issue, inside the ranks Of
| the democratic party, and are the most vio-
lent of our antagonists. Until recently they
were to democrats, better democrats than
Ben Hill, of purer strain, born of Jefferson
ian democracy ITO republicans, they were
better republicans than those who united
with the party soon after the war, and who
| had been consistent ever since in its support.
1t delighted their speakers to stand first on
one foot and then the other, as suited their
audiences, and thus to parade their want
of firm opinions and settled convictions.
Their creed simply is and was-I believe in
Malone.
"Whatever might have been said in favor
of this creed in the beginning cannot now
be said with any appearance of truth. The
administration Of public affairs by the read
juster party, dominated and controlled by
Gen. Mahone,is before the people of Virginia.
There is not one act of that administration,
which the warmest admirer can point out
that will illicit general commentator. No,
not one. There is much which has received
universal condemnation from all parties and
can be defended by no one. leave to others
to particularizs. I simply refer to letter
addressed by me to the public three years
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