Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-07-06
THE VIRGINIA REPUBLICANS.

A great many paragraphs are being
published, some we suspect rather as feel
ers than facts, about the mode in which
the Virginia Republicans may be gotten
together. AS a preliminary, it is stated
that ex-senator Lewis and Gen. Groner,
and Senator Riddleberger Though the last
is contradictory have made friends with
Malone. but Wise and Congressman Y ost
have not. When Malone was in WASH.
i ington, on his way home from Chicago, he
was waited on by all the Virginia Repub-
lican Congressman except Mr.. Yost,
something not very surprising when it is
remembered that about the first exclama-
ton of wrath at Chicago when the Malone
district delegates were turned down, was
the announcement by one of his lieuten-
ants that "Y ost will never 60 to Congress
again." Mr.. Wise on his return from
Chicago and in the flush of victory. had the
following interview in Richmond:
"What will Virginia republicans do with
two sets of electors in the field' Mr.. Wise was
asked. ooh, that will be arranged" he re-
piled. "Indeed," he continued, 81 think it
| is almost as good as fixed now. You see Ma
i homes delegates at large were recognized by
| the Chicago convention. That settles the two
| electors from the State at large in favor of
Malone There were two districts in which
| there were no contests for delegates. That
settles two more in the same way. In two
J districts, the ninth and tenth, we named the
| same men for electors that Malone did. This
arrangement would give each faction six cleo
| tors, and if Malone is smart he will accept
| this plan of compromise"
AS Gen. Malone has.spent some time in
Washington since the Chicago conven-
ton, endeavoring to persuade the Repub-
lican leaders there and members of the
National Committee, that they should
| ignore the Virginia Kickers entirely and
recognize him alone as the head of the
party in the State, it is not probable that
Mr.. Wise's ''happy family" programme
will prevail. Malone is not the man to
join in such love feast, indeed he cannot
afford TO do it-with him it must be head
or out of the class. Senator Houston In
an Interview at Roanoke since his return
from Chicago describes how Malone treat
ed him and other kickers:
elbow did the little General treat the Vir-
| ginia delegates who were opposed to him?"
''He utterly ignored them. He sat along
| side of me in the convention and he knows
me as we'll as do you, and yet he never spoke
| to me during the session."
"Did he have anything to say to MIR. Wiser"
''No, he never spoke to Mr.. Wise or any
man in the delegation who opposed his dicta-
torial policy. He and Riddleberger made up
their differences, I don't know whether they
| kissed this time or not; but I rather think it
| was because Riddle was mad with the regu-
lars for not putting him on the national COM
| mittee, than for any esteem or love for General
| Malone"
| Gen. Malone has the same opinion of
himself as the Republican head of Virgin
| ia, that Sherman has Of him. Senator
Sherman, after the Chicago convention ,
in an interview with Cincinnati Gazette
reporter, said:
The Republican party in the past six years
| has been more indebted to Malone than to
almost ary man in the United States. BY his
| bold independence we were able to hold for
| two years the Senate of the United States. All
that is vital and respectable of the Republican
| party in Virginia has been built up under his
control. Mr.. Riddleberger and Mr.. Wise
were brought out by him. When Wise was a
| candidate for Governor went to assist him,
and there, for the first time, was led to ap-
| preciate the great executive ability, iberality
and energy of Malone. He not only gave
'vigor but furnished nearly all the money for
| the canvass, and his treatment by the con-
yention was harsh, unj just and cruel.