The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1888-05-31
The Division in Virginia.
from the Philadelphia Press

The Republicans of the country must d.
plore and will as certainly condemn the a.
Dltrary and inexcusable methods employe
by Gen. Malone to hold the Republican OF
ganlzation of Virginia under his persona
domination. He has sought from the first
throttle the free expression of Republica
sentiment in that State and to compel th
election of a delegation to the Nationa
convention which should personally repre-
sent him, instead of the Republican voters
His despotic Acknowledgement of the who'll
body OF Richmond delegates was only on'
OF the outrages which he perpetrated upol
the party, and which compelled the self
respecting members of the Convention tt
withdraw and act for the party by decent
and liberal methods. 1t was no longer pos
sible to submit to the ways of the free.
booter who tolerates no opinion but his
own and allows no participation in the
party councils by any who do not bow in
SnhmississIfa " h1Uu no IGepuDllcan, Wneth-
er in Virginia or elsewhere, having the in
terest of his party at heart can encourage.
1t will be some satisfaction if Malone has
at last overreached himself and in divid-
ing the party at time when harmonious
action was particularly desirable has done
that which must lead to the destruction of
his personal power and free the party of the
State from his blighting influence. Until
that is done the growth of the party in
Virginia must be retarded and hope of Re-
publican success there deferred. With
the party organization in the hands of the
party itself and party action unrestralned
and free; with no master to stifle the voice
of the voters and trade their delegations
in personal interest, there could be little
doubt that Virginia would very early take
her place in the column of Republican
States, to which her best interests already
incline her. But little can be hoped for
while Malone is in position to make even
a portion of the party bend to his will
The Republicans of Virginia gave him a
support at a time when they were far from
to cordially accept all that he
They sought the destruction
of the Bourbon and narrow methods which
had been fastened upon the State by the
Democracy. They wanted to give their
State the benefit of the progressive and
advancing sentiment of the time, and the
fact that Malone had rebelled against
Democratic Bourbonism encouraged that
hope. If they have been disappointed in
Malone they have shown no disposition to
their purpose.
Much will now depend upon the Nation
al Convention. 1t will have to determine
between two delegations from Virginia,
and its decision will not merely concern
the action of the Convention. Of course,
Gen. Malone can not hope to get recogni-
ton for the unit rule which has been for
ever decided against in Republican Con-
ventions, but he will hope to get support
which will give encouragement to those
despotic methods which have led to the
division of the party in Virginia. The
National Convention may help Virginia
into the list of Republican States or it may
doom the party there to continued subor-
d1nation to ruinous individual control. 1t
is question broad enough to require
broad treatment, and the action of the
Convention, now that the issue has been
made, will have an important influence
not only upon Virginia, but upon the Re-
publican party throughout the South.
&
A Question of Health.
WHAT BAKING PONDER SHALL WE USE
This plaza question comes home to
every housekeeper. We all desire pure
and wholesome food, and this cannot be
had with the use of impure or poisonous
baking powder. There can be no longer a
a question that all the cheaper grades Of
baking powders contain either alum, lime
or phosphate acid. AS loath as we may
be to admit So much against what may
have been some of our household gods,
there can be no gainsaying the unanimous
testimony of the official chemists. Indeed.
analysis seem to find no baking powder
entirely free from some one of these OBJ
iectionable ingredients except the Royal.
and that they report as chemically pure.
We find some of the baking powders ad-
vertised as pure, to contain, under the
tests of Professors Chandler. Habirshaw
and others, nearly twelve per cent. Of lime,
while others are made from alum with no
cream of tartar. This we presume accounts
for their lack of leavening power as some
times complained of by the cook, and for
the bitter taste found in the biscuits so
frequently complained of by ourselves.
But aside from the inferioirity of the
work done by these powders, the physi-
clans assure US that lime and alum taken
into the system in such quantities as this
are injurious. Their physiological effects
are Indigestion, dyspepsia, Or worse evils.
The question naturally arises. why do
these cheap baking powder makers use
these things? Alum is three cents a
pound, lime still cheaper, while cream of
tartar costs thirty-five or forty. The
reasons for the chemical purity of the Royal
Baking Powder were recently given in the
New York Times in an interesting de-
scription of a new method for refining
argOls, or crude cream of tartar. 1t seems
that it is only under this process that
cream OF tartar can be freed from the lime
natural to it and rendered chemically pure:
that the patents and plant for this cost
the Royal Baking Powder Company about
half million dalIars, and that they main.
tain exclusive control of the rights
Professor McMurtrie. late chief chemist
of the Department Of Agriculture, at
Washington, D. c., made an examina-
tion of this process, and reported upon
the results attained in the refined cream
of tartar. The following extract from
his report would seem to answer the
question repeated at the head of this
article. and which is so frequently pro-
pounded by the housekeeper
81 have examined the cream of tartar
used by the Royal Baking Powder Com
pany in the manufacture of their baking
powder, and find it to be perfectly pure
and free from lime in any form. The
chemical tests to which have submitted
the Royal Baking Powder prove it per
fectly healthful and free from every de-
leterious substance. The Royal Baking
Powder is purest in quality and highest
in strength of any baking powder OF
which have knowledge"
Il Oil seems to wear ont by long continued
use. and to lose to some extent its lubri
eating qualities. 1t has been suggested al
a reason for this that the minute spherica
globules, of which the oil is conceived tt
be made up, become flattened by thu
wear and pressure, and so do not Slide
and roll over each other as easily as be
fore.
Electric Bitters.