Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-02-20
MALONE A BLAINE.

An Abusive Document Circulated Among
Virginia Republicans.
FREDERICKSBURG, VA, February lS.-
A number of circulars abusive Of Mr..
Blaine were recently circulated in Virginia
with the accompanying letter:
REPUBLICAN STATE EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE,
PETERSBURG, Va, Jan. "a, 1888.
"DEAR SIR inclose you herewith o
printed copy of q letter lately addressed to
a friend in respect to Presidential candi-
dates. I have since concluded to lay the
views that letter contained before you and
other of our friends. The information it
contains is for your consideration, and the
request is made that you do not allow this
printed letter to pass out Of your hands.
1t is committed to your confidence.
'Yours truly, MALONE"
The letter, which is marked personal
and confidential" and dated Petersburg,
after referring to the approaching contest
over the nomination for the Presidency,
says:
Remember that it was Mr.. Blaine who
bargained with the Democrats when l eD-
tered the Senate in 1881, to do nothing to
help Us here in Virginia in consideration
that the Democrats would help the Ad-
ministration to defeat Mr.. Conkling, and
up to the day of Mr.. Garield's death his
administration did nothing for Us. Dur
ing Mr.. Gar6eld's life as President / could
not get a Democratic petty postmaster or
route agent removed. Mr.. Blaine had bar
gained with the Democrats that nothing
should be done to help Us in Virginia to
promote the liberal movement. We had
~inaugurated the election of our State ticket
in 1881.
in 1884, when Mr.. Blaine was q candi-
date for the Presidential nomination, it
was he who got up that s~traight-out dele
CATION to Chicago headed by Wickham,
Parsons L Co., and OF which he turned
his back at Chicago when he found that our
admission there was the enthusiastic will
of the convention. Until then Mr.. Blaine
and his personal p~artisans were outspOken
in favor of the admission Of the Wickham
straight-out delegation. MIR. Blaine had
said before the convention met that there
was nothing worth fighting for in Virginia
except the twenty-four delegates to the
convention. That was then and is now
the measure of his concern for us-his
sympathy for our efforts to Republicanizs
the State. So it was that we had no help
and no recognition at the hands Of his Ma
tional Committee in 1884.
There was nothing then worth fight
ing for in Virginia, and the State was
given the gc-by and cold shoulder, Mr..
Blaine himself refusing to come inside the
State when he was as near as West Viz
ginis. If he be nominated now no one
should doubt that we shall be given the
cold shoulder rs in 1884, that we shall be
absolutely abandoned-given neither help,
recognition nor encouragement, unless by
the very solidity and manly department Of
our delegation at Chicago we compel these
considerations. This we may do if we
90 there as a unit, and it is our only safety
in the event of his nomination and cleo
ton.
A number of other reflections and charge
es are made against Mr.. Blaine. Malone
calls upon those receiving the circular to
have resolutions passed at meetings, to
elect delegates endorsing his course az
head OF the party, and ~instructing dele
| Sstes to vote as a unit and for Sherman.