Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-08-09
THE" COMPROlIISE'' BETWEEN THE
TWO REPUBLICAN, WINGS.

THE" COMPROMISE'' BETWEEN THE
TWO REPUBLICAN WINGS.
There appears to be a conflict of opinion
among the anti Malone members of the
Republican party about the recently adop-
ted compromise" adopted by sub-com-
mittee of the National Republican party and
some Of the leaders of the two factions in
Virginia Last week Gen. V. D. Groner
of Norfolk, called on the President at Deer
Park and assured him that the compromise
was acceptable to the anti-Mahone wing, as
they had accomplished NEARLY everything
they had been contending for for these
many years. From careful reading OF
the compromise we are inclined to think
that the General must have been rather
have given up nothing as far as can be seen
except the right Of his County Chairmen to
rule out regularly elected delegates if they
see fit, by refusing them certificates OF cleo
tion-a strong handed proceeding not infre-
ouent with the State Chairman's admins
tration in past years. What the anti-Ma-
hone men in the Republican party have been
''contending fol- for these many years. was
to get rid of the whole method of personal
rule of the party by Gen. Malone, and to
have chairman who would not run the
Republican party in Virginia for his own
personal behoof and that of his friends
In short to be a free party where every
man could stand up and be counted on his
merits. To do this, as we have often as
sured them, the refractory element in Viz
ginia must get rid of Gen. Malone himself.
In line with Gen. Groner' assurance we
see that a meeting of the anti Malone Re
publicans held at Lynchburg Thursday
night endorsed the compromise as some
thing that would produce ''peace and har-
mony'' though it tempered the resolution
by another recommending to the Norfolk
convention ''to repeal the power at present
vested in the State Chairman to appoint
city and county chairmen.' The Harri-
sonburg Spirit of the VALLEY, edited by
Mr.. D. S. Lewis, who has just been remoy-
ed by Gen. Malone from the County Chair
manship, accepts the compromise but says :
''Gen. Malone apparently made some very
important concessions, giving up the right OF
his county chairmen to virtually name the
delegates in case OF a contest and providing
that these county chairmen should not have
the power of naming the temporary chairman
of the county conventions and mass meetings.
Still it must be remembered that Gen. Malone
was recognized as the regular State Chairman
and that his appointees are the chairmen in
the different counties. In fact, it must be re-
membered that the entire party machinery is
left in Gen. Mahone's hands, and knowing
him as we do, we think it will be strange if he
does not it for all it is worth, and unless he
has changed his whole nature he will use it to
crush out those Republicans who do not re-
cognize his will as the supreme law of the
party.
The VALLEY Kjrginian, of which Hon.
Jacob Y ost is one of the editors, gives the
following very decided opinion about the al
legged ''cOmprOmise":
'The compromise we published last week,
purporting to be an adjustment of the differ
ences between the two elements of the repub-
lican party OF Virginia, is no compromise at
all. 1t was put up job to place the Repub-
licans of Virginia under the feet of Gen Ma
hone, and through the full control of the State
and Federal machinery to do precisely what
he originally intended to do. The administra
ton has been deceived. A deception has been
attempted on the Republicans of the State,
but recent developments will furnish the key
to its exposure. The pretense that the adjust
ment, as the work of fragment of the Ma
tional Committee, and endorsed by that au-
thority as we'll as the administration, should
be supported by all Republicans, will not bear
scrutiny. If the administration has endorsed
| it, it did not know what it was doing If it
has staked its success on the manipulation as
represented in the conditions of this pretended
compromise, it has made fatal mistake. If
it is expected by Mr.. Quay, OF anyone else to
break the solid South this fall, through the
arrangement in question, he will receive a re-
Spouse in $4,000 to $4,000 against it, The Re-
publicans of Virginia have learned from past
experience and know that masquerading in Re-
publican colors, is not always the kind of Re-
publicanism that will stand the glare of the
fierce light of truth and principle
1t is quite clear that the compromise is
not going to placate those who have been in
earnest in their opposition to Malone as a
man; to iberate the party from his methods
and it possible, from the man himself
who is inseparable from his methods.