The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1886-04-29
Senator NJ ahoaaa snaa ks

The Washington Republican of the eth. con
tains the following interview with Gen ma.
hone:
senator Mahone was seen bya Republican re-
view which Richmond Dispatch mar, ~ ny,
! Gov. Lee and III which the governor IL rar,r y
to have said, among other things: "rhe BraSv
resolutions would not ca them. for I ti,i,si.
an investigation would show that Brady was
! the supple-jack who is jumping when the hands
OF others pull the string. am told - said ~
/ governor, THAT he grows particularly virHleus
| when talking OF the funding bill of 1871. My In
! formation leads me to believe that the bill was
! passed by bribery. Malone was active in Sc
/ curing its passage Members OF thatlegislature
! have informed me that h e approached them in
| its interest"
| 'tWell,' said Cen Malone 'sthe utterances OF
Coy. Lee, as reported this interview. as
reckless, 1ll-mannered, and wantonly unjust
and wide of the truth as his late proclamation
is pompous and brainless. The Implication
that had anything to do with the Brady reso-
buttons is the gratuitous evolution of n toroid
1maglnat1on-the product OF a Self-c0nceit based
upon lamentabe ignorance fed by an inordi-
nate and supereilous vanity. | know nothing
OF COL Brady's purpose IL this respect, and to
TINS day have not read the resolutions. Col.
Brady has capab1lity and selfreliance for ex-
preston and maintenance of any measure he
undertakes. In his representative capacity it
does not appear that he needs counselor. If [
mistake not manifest public judgment, it
were better for the welfare of Virginia and for
the credit OF Ihe high office into which Gen.
Lee has been injected that he himselfhad some
sensible man to counsel him.
There are interests OF pressing public con-
Germ which need thought and intelligent action
which are not likely, as a discerning public
Judgment Will conclude, to be conceived by
Daldefdash pfoclamations and interviews. The
common sense OF the masses expect something
more at the hands of an executive than twad-
die. Neither the saddle of his uncle the
relation of nephew to the great and good man,
while serving TO place him in the executive
mansion with the aid of a ballot box machinery
which some people believe Was made to falsify
the voice ofan honest majority of the voting
population of the state, viii condone for that
ImDAftant intpPaStg
ana institutions of the state, matters off1nanee,
of education of labor and industries which it is
expected an executive will wisely and intelli-
gentiy bring to the consideration and treatment
of these subjects
the passage of the funding bill OF lS7l-tlatl APP
preached 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 outside of the legislature, in it's in
terest; nor do believe that Gov. Lee has any
warrant for the statement. The man was
never born who can verify the contrary or the
reported to have made. 1t is we'll known of all
men in that day that I had no relation with the
author OF the funding bill of 1871.
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 bribery of q legislature and
who himself would have read every man out of
eount ten tina dared to oppose the Mccall
amount OF debt assumedb by the funding bill of
1871 and the tax-receivable coupon, but obli-
gated the state to pay gold, and exempted the
bonds under it to be given, from taxation for
ever.
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, he and his party associates
have held and upheld as test of state faith
and honorable duty; and to avoid the receiva-
bility of such Obligation he invokes the
people of Virginia to defy the law adjudi-
Gated by the highest aud ablest legal tribunal
in all the land, and he is sworn to see to the
execution of the laws This may be heroic,
but it is not sense.