The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-08-08
That Honorable Compromise. -

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ing the Republican party in Virginia. /
Welmust take such reports with consid-
cradle allowance, as it is not to be pre-
sumed that a correct statement of the
interview between Mr.. Wise and the
President could be had, except it came
from one of the participants. There is
enough in what is published, however,
to throw some light upon the so-called
compromise" and to indicate the terms
of the dicker which less than half-dozen
Republicans entered into, by which
10000 Virginia Republicans are to be
turned over, bound and manacled, to
the tender mercies of Gen. Malone.
We cannot conceive that the President
bargain, We're he informed of the pur-
pose and conditions of it, as recent de-
velopments demonstrate exist. 1t is IN
credible that he should deliberately and
knowingly enter into an agreement by
which every consideration OF fairness
and every impulse of manhood, should
be violated in the treatment of large
and intelligent portion of the Republi-
cans of Virginia, and that his known
friends should be utterly ignored, and
his pronounced enemies taken into his
confidence. He may not know it, but 1t
is nevertheless true that the very men
who are placed under the ban by the
practical operation of the so-called com
+ I,.o no Ia
sible for him to be nominated at Chlca-
go, and for the Republicans to succeed
in the National election. The fight they
made in Virginia broke up combine
arranged in Petersburg, in the fall OF.
1887, to carry to Chicago a solid delega-
ton from the Southern States to effect a
nomination, which did not contemplate
either Gen. Harrison or any other Re-l
publican friendly to Mr.. Blaine. 1t is
/ known that the defeat of that combine
in Virginia, defeated it throughout the
Southern States; made it possible for
some one else than the gentleman in
whose interest it was formed to be NOM
mated, and that Gen. Harrison was
eventually the beneficiary OF the manly,
patriotic and successful contest that was
thus made His nomination by the in
ifuence it was accomplished and the eff
feet it had upon the country, saved the
Republican party from defeat last No
vember. Had nomination been Sc
cured by solid vote from the South in
Convention, from States that could not
assure a single electoral vote in the final
struggle, it would have been resented by
the Republicans of the States upon
which dependence was placed for the
election of a Republican President. De
feat would certainly have been the re
suit, and we would to-day be under
second term of Mr.. Cleveland. i1qs.
In view of these facts, we cannot be-
lieye that the President and his Cabinet
could have knowingly been parties to the
arrangement which seems to have been
consummated by which the full control
of the patronage of the government IN
Virginia is turned over to Gen. Malone
We must have some tangible evidence
from the President himself before we can
accept the conclusion that he has assumed
that the Republicans Of Virginia have
no higher motive, or sense of duty than
to tamely submit to prostitution OF
their manhood to such influences. There
has been deliberate, calculating decep-
ton practiced somewhere. The Presi-
dent has been imposed upon in that he
| has been made to believe that the recent
| packed conference in Petersburg, where
| Gen. Malone was boosted for Governor,
| reflected the sentiment of the Republl-
| cans of Virginia. He has been deceived
| in the assurance that there is any posi-
| BILE hope for Republican success, under
| the dominant influence now prevailing.
/ He has been deceived in the assumption
| that Republican Legislature can. be
| elected and Republican Senator Sc
| cured in 1898, under the deal that was
| effected in Washington two weeks ago.
| He has been mislead if it has been repre-
sented to him that the people OF VIZ
| ginia will ever elect Gen. Malone to any
/ office. OF elect Legislature that will
| confer upon him any political honor or
| emolument. So far as any recognition OF
| that kind is concerned he is as dead as
the traditional door nail. He is born
| agitator and will always have hornets
| nest in active operation in both State
| and Nation, so long as he is connected
| with party organization, but he Will
never again succeed in commanding the
confidence of the people of this State to
! the degree that will advance him to pow
| er through their voice. The President
! has been deceived in the promise that
| a full Republican vote can be securedf for
any ticket that may be nominated, and
| that the Republicans of Virginia Will
allow the bull ring to be placed in their
noses, to be led wherever the bosses may
| direct. We believe we speak for $4,000
| true, tried Republicans when we. say
/ they will not surrender their rights and
| their; convictions at The command OF any
| cabal or combine that would seek to
prostitute the Republican organization
to such base uses They will draw the
| line between the Republican party and a
| Mahone faction, and when the two con
fict they will support the former all the
| time and place their seal of condem=
nation on the latter They cannot be
bartered off-they are not for sale, and
will scorn and spit upon the disgraceful
| bargain that it seems has been recently
| arranged between Malone and a frag-
meIlt of the National Committee, by
| which they are to be transferred, body
and breeches, to the keeping of Ma
| hone. 90
We assume that the President is igno-
rant of the conditions that exist, and OF
| the effect the deal is to have. 1t will
not only wreck the Republican party In
Virginia, but will have much more far
reaching and disastrous effect. 1t Will
| wreck his administration and disrupt the
Republican party of the Nation. Ii it
| should prove true that the administra-
| ton has endorsed Malone, given him
| full control of Federal interests in Vir-
| ginia, and sanctioned his record since he
has claimed to be Republican, and es-
pecially his conspiracy last year against
Mr. Blaine, we cannot see how Mr..