The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1888-05-31

and cast the vote of their respective coun-
Ties for Mahone's program and plot.
1t was in this way and by such usurpa-
ton and fragrant disregard of the popular
will that Malone manufactured, on the
scaled vote, the result of ll0,OOO for the |
INIT rule. his plan of organization and an
of his administration, to
4 900 against them. 1t was in this way |
that the RumpC Convention at Petersburg
was converted into farce; the people out
ragged and power conferred for the legitl-
mate proposes of organization prostituted
to the selfish designs of the Chairman
himself
To give emphasis to the illegal and Ut
tery indefensible methods adopted, as IN
dicated above, to suppress the will OF the
people, peryert the purposes OF organiza-
ton and disgrace the Republican party OF
the State, we call attention to the lnfa'
nous s'personal and confidential circular.
issued by Chairman Malone in January
last and published in the VIRGINIAN of
Feb. l6 as we'll as republished to-
day. 1t will I've seen in that what was the
purpose he had in reservation, in the plan
of organization, in the conditions OF his
| call for the State Convention, and the
manner of conducting the primary meet
ings through his instructed and plant SER
vice men. He desired to exclude from the
Convention those who had the courage
and the manhood to resent his usurpatlon
and expose his revolutionary and rulnous
schemes. Those who raised protest
against his methods and purposes were TO
be read out of the party. Fraud and false
hood were to be used to cheat the people out
of their proper representation and the
whole convention made simply the vehicle
Col. j. ID. Brady, a member of the State
E xecutive Committee, was not called in
consultation with that body. He was not
allowed the privilege of a seat on the floor
of the convention. EX-GOv. Cameron had
not the courtesy extended to him to he
present in the hail. A deliberate conspir-
acy was formed to keep Hon Jno. S. Wise
and Senator Riddleberger out of the Con-
vention. Congressman Yost, bearing the
certificate of election as one of the only
regularly appointed delegation from Au
gusta county, as well as elected on the
same list with those who were admitted
and being the regularly certified proxy tt
represent the Republicans of Highland
was denied admittance to the hall, unit
by action of the convention, the sergeant.
alarms was instructed 10y the temporary
chairman to pass him at the pollced doors
And SO throughout the whole proceedings
I leading up TO and at the Convention, thu
Chairman's purpose was to make it Ma
T. hone Convention, representing himself an(
himself only, and denying to the people al
D grant.
t Yet in the face of this outrageous an(
infamous record, his henchmen have thu
audacityto announce that 95 per cent. O
+ the Republican voters of the State are il
accord with the conspiracy he has con
e cocted to throttle the Republicans of the
. State, prostitute the organization to til,
I basest purposes and disrupt and ruin tn,
party. He will have the andacity to appea
/ at Chicago and claim to be commissioned
by he Republicans of Virginia to repre-
S sent them on the floor of the Convention
S He will assume that he represents the Re
publican party of the State. Against sucl
s assurance and assumption We place tn
= facts of the caSe-the evidence of his in
n famous plot to assassinate the party a
n home, and defame and SANDER the creates
q of American statesmen, so as the bette
l. to consummate his nefarious scheme, en-
+ throne himself in power and enslave tn
n Republicans of the State through the syste
matte and deliberate scheme he conceive,
}. and engineered to prevent All expression
v of the popular will through the legi,imat
form of organization.
II We can confidently and cheerfully leav
q the issue between the Malone party AN
r the Republican party of Virginia. TO tn
IS justice and fairness of the National Con
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