Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-06-25
The Cause Of Mahone's Defeat.

The New York Tribune of Saturday had
the following special from Chicago:
Elk Editor George c. Gorham, who is
here in his familiar role Of political ghost,
makes the Malone contest the pretext for
an attack upon Mr. Blaine, which is, per-
haps, interesting because of its bitterness.
In the course of letter published, he says
"If the Malone delegation had been
friendly to MIR. Blaine they would have
been admitted without debate. No set OF
men in the republican party except the
Blaine destructives would betray q State
into the hands of the enemy because they
could not control its vote in the national
convention. General Malone never antago.
nized Mr.. Blaine until he had played the
traitors part of consniring with democratic
leaders to deliver Virginia back into the
solid South from which she had been res
cued under his (Mshone'-) leadership.
conferred with MIR. Blaine 10 1881 upon the
subject ofcoa'ition In Virginia, 10 the presence
OF stephen B. Elkins and William E.
Chandler. This WAS before the raid had
been made upon Senator Coukling. Mr..
Blaine said that the policy of promoting PC
litical affiliations between the Virginia re-
publicaus and Gen. Mahone's thirty odd
thousand white Confederate followers must
depend upon tho general opinion among the
Northern republicans. said to him that
the Northern republicans would form their
opinions necessarily upon the facts as pre-
sented to them through about dozen news
papers which he could control. His response
was "About eight" From the time demo.
cratic support became necessary to Garfield's
administration to enable him to break down
the unrivaled leadership of Mr.. Conkling in
New York, the leading newspspers-"about
eight"-wnich Mr.. Blaine controls pursued
Gen. Malone as bloodhounds pursued fugi-
tive slaves in Southern swamps in the good
old days of slavery. If Gen. Malone is to
be sacrificed in the national convention to
appease the wrath OF the "Piumed Knight
who ekulked between the lines of the
two great political parties Of the day from
1875 until 1883 the remainder of Mr..
BIaine's chores should be- speedily per-
formed and the delegates allowed to return
to their homes What would bs thought if
two or three hundred men scattered through
the State of Maine had improvised new
republican party and sent delegates to coz
test the cents ofthe Maine delegation in the
interest Of some Presidential candidates? l
venture to say that if the republican party
of any State in the Union has been ridden
by boss. booted and spurred, it is in the
State of Maine. Mr.. Blaine was for years
the chairman of the State Committee there,
and in 1880, within two weeks of the Sep
tember election 1 was told by leading re-
publican CT that State that he had not called
a meeting ofthe State Committee during the
that its papers were in his hat,
aud that he constituted the State authority
n party management. The cry about party ty-
amy in Virginia comes with i'll grace from the
blowers of this man.
Mr.. Gorhams screed was written between the
decision Of the credentials committee and the &C.
ion of the convention and closed with an e1-
PRESTON OF confidence that the convention won d
Sfuse 10 accept the decision of the COMMITTEES.
The overwhelming vote of the con 7ention against
'fahone must havo takon Mr.. Gorham's breath
say.