The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-09-26
The Administration and Mahoneism.

The remains of the ancestry of both
Presidents Harrison repose under Vir-
GINA soil The old baronial homestead
still exists in possession of Harrison.
The traditions of the family and State
are part of each other. 1t is natu-
raj, therefore, that President Harrison
should feel more than ordinary interest
in Virginia, and he solicitous for the
prosperity and happiness of her people
and the progress of the State. Nor is 1t
strange. believing as he does in Repub-
lican principles, and that the result OF
their adoption and enforcement would
be the good of the Nation and each one
of the Commonwealths that compose it,
that he should want to see this historic
State ranged in the Republican column.
Nor is it a matter of surprise that he
should desire to witness the solid Demo
cratic South broken, not only as the best
thing that could be done for the South
itself but as a means of bringing the
sections closer together, and binding
them by commercial and industrial ties
into oneness that would receive its
vitality through the arteries of trade,
ramifying and penetrating, without OBJ
struction, every nook and corner of our
common country.
Such contamination ought to be, and
doubtless is, natural with lineal de-
scendant of the Virginia Harrisons,
whose escutcheon is without blemish
and whose achievements, in field and
forum. have reflected lustre upon the
name. 1t was from such considerations
that the President instituted policy
| for Virginia in the present campaign.-
| While we know he has been grossly de-
| ceived in the representations which have
been made to him as to Malone and
| Mahoneism, and that even now he has
no proper conception of what Malone
ism is as practiced in Virginia, we are
sure his motive, in recognizing Malone.
was for the best Had he understood
Mahone's malignant nature his unscru-
pulous methods and his audacious and
detestable purposes, he never would have
| given him cOuntenance, or implicated
the administration with his canvass. He
would not have had it go to the world
that he had in the remotest degree, given
the arch-conspirator aid and comfort. in
| his crusade against the people Of Vir-
ginia. He would not have patiently lis
| tened to any suggestion or plea that had
| for its object assistance to Malone in
his plot to get control of the State gov
eminent and bring the free people of the
Commonwealth to his feet as the vic
tins of his Vaccinations. He would
not have been party, even by implica-
ton to the scheme to humiliate the
home of his ancestry and prostitute all
the interests of IL great Commonwealth
to the venal purposes of this political
marplot He would rather have turned
from him in disgust and resented the
appeal for favor with an indignant re-
fusal.
1t is not too late yet. While there is
no possible chance for Mahoneism to
succeed in this canvass, the right thing
for the administration to do would be to
divorce itself entirely from even the
semblance of Identification with it.
The Misrepresentation which have been
made to bolster up Malone, and the de-
captions which have been practiced to
mislead those in authority, ought to be
known now. If Malone gave the as
surance that he could carry this State
and be elected Governor, with the aid of
! no iYic nd haf of n
tional Executive Committee, the delu-
sion ought to be apparent now. 1t is
one of the certain things of the future
that he will be overwhelmed in No
vember next, and with him will go down
his plan Of organization. his pernicious
methods, his servile lieutenants. and we
trust his malign influence. To escape
from connection with the disaster and
the cause, it is due to the Republican
party of the country that the admins
tration should repudiate the whole mis-
chievous and dangerous invention from
beginning to end.
1t is not only the duty of the admin
tration to renounce and repudiate Ma
haneism in all of its repulsive phases, but
it is the duty of the Republican party
and the Republican press of the North
and West to cut loose from all alignment
with it. and place the brand of condem-
nation on the most insidious and auda-
cious political bastard that ever me-
naced the integrity of a party or the
peace and prosperity of a Common
wealth.
1t is the influence of the administra-
ton and the strained support of few
| leading Republican papers in the North
which give encouragement to Malone
ism and nerve it to continue the con-
test Were it known that the patron
age of the government could not be
brought in as a factor in the campaign,
Mahonism would shrink and dwindle into
absolute noUhingness. The Office hold
ers and office seekers are the moving
spirits in the fact ion, and it is from mer=
cenary considerations that they are
kept in line. They are working for
pay in hand and in expectancy. Take
this from them, and they would retire
from the contest. But with it they will
continue in the struggle. although they
know that defeat awaits them, yet hop
ing to retain what they have or get what
has been promised them.
In any event. Mahoneism is doomed.
The people of Virginia will never allow
the State to BE Frustrated under it. Not
all the power of the government and all
the influence of the press of fhe North will
save it from the fixed and inevita-
BILE purpose to protect this Common
wealth from the control of Malone and
MahOneism.
Judge Hughes will not Support
Malone.
Judge Il. W. Hughes, of the U. S.
District Court, at Abingdon, on thee22d,
publicly stated that though he was a
Republican and would vote at Norfolk for
representative Republican local ticket,
nominated without orders from Peters
burg. he would vote for McKinny, Scott
and Slemp. as State candidates. Judge
Hughes is the ablest Republican in the
State, and his word apd name exert as
,nI1ob iDHuapon aS apv Yfaa,. in VIRGINIA