Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-06-08
ALEXANDRIA.
esDAY EVENING, JUNE 8.

York has proved B comPioIo al"
ure. A dispatch from that city in references
to it says: MANY of the old drivers ap-
nlied at the stables and begged to Dc taken
back. The uuvarying reply, however, was !:
.1t ia too late, we don't need you now.
President Lyon, of the Third Avenue roao'
said This is a general surrender OF the
knights that will mark the beginning OF
their 6nal dissolution, and they may lay the
whole blame to the incapacity and utter
lack of honor and honesty in their leaders
It is victory for the workingmen over Inc
tyranny of ignorant and avaricious men
whom they have allowed to lead them oy
the nose. We have beaten them at every
point-at the strike, at the boycott and at
the tie.up, and it has now become liked
fact that we run our road regardless OF their
dictates" Another dispatch says 1.-The
strikers now openly denounce their execu.
tive board as q set of rascals, who had LED
them to a strike and encouraged them TO
hold out for weeks when they might have
returned to work. One striker charges that
the whole transaction was a case OF boo
de- and that the executive board was paid
to declare this last tieup off" And so it
goes from generation to generation, from
epoch to epoch, and from cycle to cycle;
the same old unvarying story OF laborers
being duped and deceived, and then deserted
and betrayed by those who practice upon
their ignorance, prejudice and gullibility to
advance their own individual, selfish ends
But as human nature is always the same
and as there is nothing new under the sun
there will be the same sort of deceived and
deceivers until the end Of time.
GENERAL MALONE, through his organs
has made it practice to denounce and de-
cry the democratic judges of Virginia al
parts of the machinery by which the "bour
bons executed successfully their deliberate
" planned schemes of fraud and BULLDOG
ing" Even 80 late as last week the demo-
cratic Judge of the Petersburg circuit
court was so outrageously assaulted by Gen
eral Mahone's organ, now printed in Wash
ington, that he was forced to repel the at
tack from the bench. And yet that same
in Ice, has, by decision since rendered
continued the Mahoneites in control of Pc
t,rsburg, though, had he been so disposed
he could have found sufficient warrant fol
ousting them in the fact that they stormed
forcbly entered and took possession OF
polling precinct, drew pistols on the cleo
ton officers, and made it impossible fol-
them to count the ballots on the night Of
the election, as they were required to do by
law. Every body knows how different II
would have been had the democrats of Pc
tersburg assailed the polls and had the
Judge been a Mahoneite. Why, when they
were in power, their State electoral board,
composed of the highest officers in the State
in order to give Congressional certificate
to one Of their party, deliberately threw out
the vote OF an entire county, upon no other
ground than the fact that in stamping the
returns the clerk had used the seal of the
circuit instead of the county court, and
that, too, though he had previously always
used the former for similar purposes, as the
seal of the county court had been stolen by
the federal soldiers during the civil war,
and had never been replaced.