The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1886-08-12
THURSDAY.
John Goodies Case.

pepIlc addreSS TO the DemOcratlc party Of
the Second Congressional District, de
clining the use of his name for Congress!
in that District. He makes it the occa
sion, also, to give his version of the rejec-
tion of his nomination by the Senate fol
the lucrative position of Solicitor General
and mass Of hate and bitterness poured
out upon Gen. Malone and Senators Ed
munds and Hoar. 1t is a weak ,pitiable ex-
hibition of chagrin and rancour, and is the
most conclusive evidence we have yet seen
that the Senate did the right thing in his
rejection, His reference to his success
full contest for the seat in Congress to
which the people had elected Hon. j. II.
Plat omits a very important fact in con-
nection therewi While he was awarded
the seat by a partizan vote. he carefully
abstains from mentioning that the Com.
mittee on Elections, a majority of whom
were Democrats, reported that he was not
elected, and not entitled to the seat in
controversy, and also that two Democratic
! members of that committee, one from the
North, Mr.. Thompson, OF Mass, and one
from the South. Mr.. House, of Tennes-
sac, we think, made speeches against his
claim, the former stating that to declare
him elected would be an outrage upon the
people directly interested and stigma
upon the House. AS to Senators Edmunds
and Hoar they can appropriately apply the
remark of BENZ. F. Butler to Sunset Cox,
''shoo fly, don't bodder me-" His venom
towards Gen. Malone is well understood
here in Virginia, and will be regarded by
all impartial men as the distempered utter
ance Of a baffied politician, of class of
modern statesmen who think no language
is too vile and no spirit too revengeful to
indulge against the man who led in the
movement which broke the back bone of
Bourbonism in Virginia. To say that
Gen. Malone betrayed Virginia, is Sc.
we're slap in the face of the present Demo-
cratic party and especially its leaders, as
they have accepted and endorsed every act
of legislation enacted by the party in State
affairs, of which Gen. Malone was the
leader. Indeed, no party has ever betrayed
more fiagrantly public trust, than that to
which Mr.. Goode now belongs. In Con-
gress its representatives have voted
against every measure which would pro-
mote Virginia interests and contribute to
her progress and prosperity. They have
been governed by no principle of public
policy consistent with the welfare of this
State. A realizing sense of this is being
felt all over the Commonwealth. and there
is no honest power to arrest Its asser-
tion in the fall election. Nothing
but the infamous Anderson Met ormick
Electoral BILL and the corrupt and dan
gerous influences it was designed to per.
petuate, can possibly save the Dem
ocratic party from an overwhelming de-
feat in the Congressional elections in No
vember next. And as to that the better
element of that party is becoming Of
Tended. if not Disguised. They know that
to secure success by fraud upon the ballot
box, as the rule. Is bringing upon the State
disgrace and infamy and endangering our
Republican institutions. They see and
feel the damage such indefens1ble meth
DDS are bringing upon Virginia, and that
unless the representatives in Congress from
each district in the State and in the Legis-
lature, can stand up with clean hands as
the reflection of the intelligent and free
and honest expression of the popular will.
the State must retrogale and her name he
come a by word and shame. There is
unrest, mutterings Of discomfort, sup
pressed wrath among the people all over
the Commonwealth, because OF The faith
lessness of the Democra. ic leaders to the
great concerns of the State, which cannot
be long smothered by passion and prejudice
or a sense Of duty pervei ted 10y the false
and malicious appeals OF interested dema
gogues. The day of retribution is ap-
preaching. The popular consciousness
will not always remain indifferent and re-
pose in slavish fear.
In concluding his bitter TRADE Of abuse,
under cover of declining Congressional
nomination. Mr.. Goode says: Permit me
to say that while the American people may
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an individual. they cannot close their eyes
| to the fact that the rights of the citizen
have been struck down in my person. In
the name of senatorial courtesy''a great
public wrong has been committed, which
foreshadows the rise of a dangerous caba
in the government. If we would pre-.
serve the constitutional balances OF our
system. and not pass under the yoke of an
Upper House of Lords, such wrong
should be vigorously assailed and de-
nounced. 1t behonves every patriot te
cry aloud and spare not until the evil and
| the plot are fully understood by the PEG
pie +"
This is certainly ref eshing, lament
coming from defeated politician, who {
prominence, i'll this instance. was giver
by as despotic Congressional cabal as
ever usurped power or used little brie
authority to prostitute the accident of sue
cess to personal : nd partizan ends. Herr
in Virginia, ruthless and reckless poll
cy of subordinating public interests II
partizan necessities was pursued with un
abating ylndictiveness and greedy hast e
in the face OF the Presidents utteraEc
to the contrary. and public officers wer
summarilv dismissed without known caus
and without the courtesy OF direct oiiicia
notice, as though they were the vilest OF
tenders against public decency. as we'll a
law. They were tried. convicted and sen
fenced, without knowing who their accu
sers were. or upon what grounds the
were designated for official vengeance, OF
Tending the Senate which had confirmed
them and violating the law under whlc
thew held commissions. These outrage
were instigated by the Virginia Congress
sinnal oabal and carried int o effect by thi
reform administration, Indifferent alike t
individual right and legal and constitution
al guards. Aud MIR. G0ode said amen to "a
of it. But now when the Senate. after Il p;
tient and careful review of his polite re
cord. has concluded that it cannot concu
with the President in his estimate of MI
Goode 'sclaims upon the government and fl
ness for high official position. and withhold
from him the certificate commission ca
ries with it, he discovers great wrong
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