Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-03-02


with q printed copy of letter late
" addressed to friend in respect
to Presidential Candidates; l have
since concluded to lay the views
that letter contained before you
and others of our friends.
The information it contains Is Tor
your consideration and the request
is made that you do not allow this
printed letter to pass out of your
hands.
It Is committed to your conf
dence. Yours truly, MALONE.
| personal AND CONFIDENTIAL.
PETERSBURG, VA, JAM, 1888.
DEAR SIR SO much does the
future of our Republican party and
the progress and welfare OF the
State depend on the Delegation we
shall send to the National COnven-
ton at Chicago, and the candidate
there selected for the Presidency,
that ! feel constrained by sense
of personal and political duty to in
vite your thoughtful consideration
to the certain facts and views fol-
lowing:
Remember that it was Mr.. Blaine
who bargained with the Democrats
when entered the Senate, in 'S1,
to do nothing to help as here W Vir-
giHid in consideration that the Dem
ocrats would help the administra-
tIon to defeat Mr.. Conkling, and
up to the day of his, Garfeld's
death, his administration did moth
ing for US.
During Mr.. Gsrfeld's life as
President, could not get Demo
cratic petty post master or route
agent removed. Mr.. Blame had
bsrgsined 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
candidate for the Presidential NOM
nation, 1t was he who got up that
Straight-out delegation to Chicago,
headed by Wickham, Parsons &
Co., and on which be 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 per-
sonal partizans were out.spOken IN
favor of the admission of the Wick.
ham Strsight-out delegation.
Mr.. Blaine had said before the
Convention met, that there aoGS nOth-
ing acOrth fighting for in Virginia,
ercept the ttoeHty. four delegates to
the Convention. That was then and
10 now the measure of his concern
for US, his sympathy for our efforts
to Republicanize the State. So it
was that we had no help and no
recognition at the hands of his Ma
tionaI Committee in 81. There was
nothing then worth fighting for in
Virginia and the State was given
the go.bY and the cold shoulder,
Mr.. Blaine himself refusing to come
inside the State, when be was as
near as West Virginia.
In November, 1881, (6) when we
had Just carried the State by 90.
600. and elected seven ~ members
OF Congress, there appeared in the
Tribune of the 18th of November, a
communication signed "Republican
of the Valley, attacking me and the
organization. This communication
was written in the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, New York, by II. q. Parsons
and at the iDstigation of Mr.. Blaine,
as have reason to believe. The
idea was then and there conveyed
that the defeat of myself and friends
in the election IN November last,
was necessary to make it possible
Tor Mr.. Blaine to get the delegates
which we are shortly to appoint
for Chicago. In that canvass Of
last fall we see the hands of Mr..
Blaine's henchmen in and outside
of the State, actively cOnspiring
for the defeat of our party and its
Legislative candidates. The North.
ern newspapers favoring his nomi.
nation bad no good word for Us all |
during the canvass, while his pre-
tended friends In Virginia were
OutspOKen, and the most OF them
openly active in their efforts to dc.
feat our candidates for the Legisla-
tuIe. II anywhere pretending to |
support our candidates, all the |
Same doing their utmost to defeat
them elsewhere.
Mr.. Blaine knew that our success |
and my election to the Senate |
would lessen the possibility of a
delegate for bin to Chicago, be.
cause he felt that knew he was
no friend of the party in Virginia,
and that he had no concern for Re
publican development Ia any South
ern State, no sympathy with their
efforts. He knew that was ia.
milisr with his hostility to us--his /
trade with the Democratic leaders
in '81-whereby, he agreed to
crush Us out that he might unhOrse
Conkling. He knew that if got
back TO the Senate and he should
be elected to the Presidency this
year, that would be In position to
compel satisfactory appointments
in Virginia, and protect our party
against the Vaccinations of kickers.
What, then, will be our situation
and fate If he should be the nomi.
nee at Chicago in June next The
National Committee, the members
who will conduct the campaign.
will be, as is always the case, desig.
mated by the candidate. As Mr..
Blaine holds that there is nothing
In Virginia worth fighting for but