Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-05-07
THE BRADY RESOLUTIONS.
What Senator Malone Says Of F!tz
Lees Charges.
National Republican.

National Republican.
Senator Malone was seen by
Republican reporter last night, anc
asked what OF the interview whicl
Richmond Dispatch man had
with Governor Lee, and in which
the Governor is reported to have
said, among other things "ThC
Brady resolutions | would not call
them, for | think an investigation
wonld show that Brady was the
supplejack who is jumping when
the hands of others pull the string.
| am told" said the Governor,
" that he grows particularly
virtuous when talking of the fund
ing bill of 1871. Ny information
leads me to believe that the
bill was passed by bribery
Malone was active in securing its
passage. Members of that legis-
lature have informed me that he
approached them in its interest"
"Well," said Gen. Malone, "the
utterances of Gov. Lee, as reported
in this interview, are as reckless,
ill.mannered, and wantonly unjust
and wide of the truth as his late
proclamation is pOmpOus and brain
less. The implication that | had
ANYTHING to do with the Brady res
olutiOns is the gratuitOus eyOlu-
ton Of torpid imagination-the
product of a self-conceit based upon
lamentable ignorance fed By an
inordinate and snpercilions vanity.
/ know nothing Of Col. Brady's
purpose in this respect, and TO this
day have not read the resolutions.
Col. Brady has capabllity and self
reliance for expression and main
tenance of any measure he under
takes. In his representative capac.
ity it does not appear that be needs
a counselor. If | mistake not a
manifest public judgment. it were
better for the welfare of Virginia
and for the credit of the high Office
into which Gen. Lee has been in
iected that he himself had some
sensible man to counsel him.
"There are interests of pressing
public concern which need thought
and intelligent action which are
not likely, as a discerning public
Judgment will conclude, to be con-
served by balderdash proclamatiOns
and interviews. The common sense
of the masses expect something
more at the hands Of an executive
than twaddle. Neither the saddle
of his uncle nor the relation Of
nephew to the great and good man,
while serving TO place him in the
executive mansion, with the aid Of
ballot box machinery which some
people believe was made to falsliy
the voice of an honest majority OF
the voting population Of the state,
will condOne for that lack of knOwl-
edge of the important interests
and institutions of the state, mat
ters OF finance, Of education, OF
labor and industries which it is ex.
pected an executive will wisely aud
intelligently bring to the cOnsidera-
ton and treatment OF these sub
jects.
"The statement that | was active
in securing the passage OF the fund.
ing bill OF 1871 that | approached
members of that legislature in the
interest of that bills false in
every sense and particular. ! was
not in Richmond at the time the
bill was under consideration, and
never approached by word, letter
or otherwise any man, in or out
side of the legislature, in its in
tercst nor do | believe that Gov.
Lee has any warrant for the state
ment. The man was never born
who can verify the contrary, or the
truth of the statement which the
governor is reported to have made.
Ii is well known of all men in that
day had no relation with the
author of the funding bill Of ISL
This insinuatiOn against me
does not come well from the man
who himself gave hearty support
to the measure which he says was
put upon the state by bribciy OF a
legislature, and who himself would
have read every man out of coun-
tenance that dared to oppose the
McCulloch bill, a bill which not
only recognized the amount OF debt
assumed by the funding bill OF 1871
and the tax-receivable coupon, but
obligated the state to pay gold ana
exempted the bonds under it to be
given, from taxation torerer.
Now, however, the governor would
boycott every citizen who dares
to exercise his legal right to pay
taxes in the very coupons which,
when convenient, be and his party
associates have held aud upheld
as a test of state faith and honora-
BILE duty and to avoid the recelya'
bility of such obligation, he now
invokes the people of Virginia 70 /
defy the law as adjudicated by the |
highest and ablest legal tribunal
IN all the land, and he sworn to
see to the execution Of the laws.
This may be heroic, but it's not
sense.