The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-09-19
Drop Him.

sh. If Gen. Malone has assured Mr..
Quay and the administration that he
,an carry Virginia this fall, with the aid
Of the Federal patronage and such inan
cial support as the Chairman of the Ma
tional Committee can give, there has
been deception perpetrated. There is
not enough money at the command of
Mr. Quay to effect that object. Virginia
is not for sale on any terms, and much |
less is she in the market as the prize for
a set of political gamblers who have
no higher object in politics than the
spoils, and no governing motive that
measures up to the manhood of this
ability of Malone being elected Govern
or of Virginia than there is of Mr.. Quay
capturing the milky way" in the heav
ems and converting it into a Pennsylva
MIA cheese factory. The people of both
parties know Malone. They know that
he has not thought above personal re-
venge, and the qualification of low
selfish ambition. They know that he
has not an emotion that springs from
consideration for the public welfare or
an aspiration that reaches beyond his
own mercenary schemes. They know
that his election as Governor would be a
positive calamity to the State, and that
NJ disaster could befall the Common
wealth, whatever its nature, that could
III assure up to that which would follow
his control of the affairs of Virginia He
seeks the position and the power of the
Executive office to WELD them for the
humiliation of the people and as
means to punish all who cannot be made
to serve him and surrender their man
hood to his unworthy behests. There is
no high sense of duty to State or
country that stirs him. There is no pa
triotic impulse that throbs in his being.
He is as revengeful as Goth and as
treacherous as Camanche, and would
prostitute all the powers at his command,
were he Governor. to make Virginia the
slave of his ambition and the victim of
his hate. For such reasons the peo-
pie will see to it that he is not in
vested with authority, through them,
to carry into effect his malign purposes
and. convert the office designed for their
protection into an engine for their OPP
preston.
If Quay and his liegemen, who have
taken III chat re the management of the
Malone party in Virginia, have not
been deluded and deceived by the spe-
ci pus promises of Malone, then their
Vaccinations as to this State, are the
initial steps to plot that looks further
than the November elet ton, and reveals
conspiracy to either rule or ruin the
Republican party of the Nation. We
limited at this last week in noticing Ma
hone being himself continued as chair
MI of the State Committee. 1t looks
to the National Convention of 1892, and
the controlling of that body by a solid
delegation from the South, whence not
a single electoral vote can be assured, in
the nomination of candidate for Pres
ident. 1t is calculated that with this
solid vote. enough strength may be got
ten from the Northern and Western
States to dictate the nomination anG
place the Republican party in the
clutches of set of political bosses anC
assure its defeat.
Either one of these considerations q
the other is at the bottom of the plotting
and maneuvering which have brought
about the present political condition il
Virginia. with Gen. Malone as the cen
trail figure. With this SO plain that ;
wayfaring man though a fool canno
help seeing, it would seem to be the duty
of the administration to drop Malone
and relieve itself of all suspicion of be
ing implicated in the plot. If the Presi
dent himself believed, at the time Gen
Malone received recognition, as {
result of representations made to him
that he could be elected Governor O
Virginia, he ought to be convinced by
this time that he was grossly imposed
upon and that to be identified, ever
remotely, with the disastrous defea
which awaits him, would reflect discredi
upon his administration. Identification
with the other condition would be
equally repugnant to the moral sense OF
an honest President, as Gen. Harrison il
known to be. The bare thought of 6
Convention through such agencies as
Malone is capable of employing, would
insure a disastrous defeat and wreck the
National Republican party. The ad
ministration could not safely be open to
the charge of favoring it. 1t would
carry with it a responsibility and d
stigma that would doom and damn
those who would have to shoulder it
and call for the indignant rebuke of the
people
In either case the President ought to
put his foot squarely down upon the
Influences at work in the interest of Ma
hone and drop him like a hot potato. He
cannot afford, in jul tice to himself and
to the country, and to the party he rep
resents, to be implicated, even by sus-
piscion, in the corrupt methods and in
siduous plots that are now being engi
neered to aid in placing Virginia under
Aahone's yoke 1t is the favor of the
government that gives him what strength
he has. Take from him that and he could
not poll $4,000 votes for Governor. He
is despised by many of those who fawr
upon him and is courted and fatteret.
alone for the patronage he assumes to
control. Strip him of this Fictitious sup
port and he would be forced to withdraw
from the canvass to save himself from
the most humiliating defeat that ever
befell candidate for public office.
Let the administration test his personal
strength by dropping him. That would
be short and suggestive way to expose
his false assurances and hollow pretenses,
and set at rest his aspirations to bring
Virginia to his feet as a trophy of his
repulsive and disgraceeful methods.
Aontana's new constitution, it is said,
prohibits logrolling in her legislature.
Any member who promises his vote for
a measure in consideration of another
members vote on another measure is
deemed guilty Of solicitation of bribery.
Suppose such rule were in the federal