Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-11-07
Public Opinions.

his callers that the republican ,everses on
Tuesday were due 90 looe causes and could
not be attributed ia any wsy as q reflection
upon bis administration. Several days
since, however, when republican SUCCESSES
were predicted ali along the line, 1t was
strongly mainteined that the elso,ioGs
would be of The pimoss significance
Assistant Postmaster General ClarkHon on
the cause and effect Of the result in Virginia
remarked that prejudice against Malone
exists In the northern States which lie uu-
wsrrsnted MIR, Clstkson ia very well sat.
ished with the part BE played in the Virgin.
ia contest, bu. he censurss the republican
press for their apparent lack of interest in
Mahone's campaign. He said The invgri.
able results of the year following u pres
idsntia election have repeated themselves
this yenr. There are many surprises in the
republican defeats, but they come from 10
Gel causes in every State except Virginia,
and there the result was gained By the us.
ua methods of fraud. suppression and false
counting The attempt 10 couple the ma
toual administration coospicuousy with
this defeat is undeserved, as the President
simply showed the came friendly interest
in Mahone that he cid in the re-
publican candidates in other States.
Tbs republicans OF Virgins did not have the
selection CT gle judge OF election in the
whole State. With euch machinery the
democratic M ilrGy might easily have been
one hundred thousand Instead of thirty
Thousand. TIE reero is disfranchised. In
Virginia The black men give up their right
TO hold the Offices, and now the democrats
demand that they shall not exercise any
cuoica even as bc;ween the white men who
art 20 hold the tfiices.
Senator Barbour says Mahone's meth
eds lave achieved their legitimate
resu! Mauone has never been man
OF iue peopie. He used the means
IS ch usG la!ieu in his way solely for bic
cwu advancement. and ne appeared to be
bl,ac 70 that must be the inevitable result
as scou 81 these who supported him dis.
covered hi- tiuo CHARACTER. He aimed nppa
renliy to rule u Il monarch, and seemed not
to appie oiate or q sic at al the position OF
Dairy leader an3lcu- TO serve hi5 country
and nis party, to acquire and keep pre- emf.
nence By equine puOiIc service end to win
the pe.s1a.l regard OF these who looked
upon him as ihe;7 eader. His pariy disci
pine waa-Iatbs; that of military chief
tna! Of sagacious American statesman. L;
was this attempt OF Malone to make his
party III Virginia mers personal following
which had now recoiled upon him. Refer
ring 20 Mahone's suggestion at Petersburg
Tuesday Eight, That the negroes had been
prevented from v1ting, Senator Bar
bour Inquired if General Malone did not
SEQ that the democratic increase was as
great or greater in ;he white counties of the
Valley and the Southwest a. in the negro
counties Il Was evident to every one that
tho same cause produced the same effect 10
Goth classes Of counties. Both were tired of
Malone Tao couties in which there had
Seen the greatest material development in
the expansion of railroads, &c, had been the
countiss In which MahOneism had met the
severes. rebuke Men were afraid to enlrust
their business interests 20 Mahoue's domin.
ion. IL was equally the nietrust Of the in
teligant ci,zsu ead the revolt Of the trod-
den-down member5 Of his own party that
sweled the democratic majority, but more
than all was the fact that Virginia is dem
ocratio Sta!e-Mahone or no Malone
Malone said yesterday that no matter what
his critics might sag ne would not resign the
chairmsnshi? OF the republican committee
if he lived to bc z hundred yeara old. He
said it would be cold day when they
could freszs him out that he had never
been an aspirsnt for the vice presidency,
knowing mat 10 man from the South could
get it for years 20 come, that neither
party could afford 10 take up southern
man, as in doing SC they bad every hing to
lose and nothing to gaia. He seid that Mr..
J S Wise did suggest TO him to rua on the
ticket with Harrison. and that be should
seek the nomination at the hands Of the re
publican convention last year. He laughed
ut the idea, whereupon, after being assured
by Malone hat he would not have it, Wise
at once said thet he believed he could get
it for himself, and at once began to canvass
among Mahone5 personal friends to get
their Influence. That interview, Malone
said occurred some time before their break
and the meeting Of the State convention in
Petersburg in Msy, 1883 He claimed that
ne was the lirat msn in Virginia to advo.
cate the right Of negro outrage. he dlo
this about 1866 for COMMERCIAL reasons"
as he explained yesterday that be feared
the white districts of tho Valley and
Southwest, which favored commercial
traffic with Baltimore and he North to the
exclusion Of Virgini. claa. and by Civ.
ing the Lesroes be rigbt 20 vote il would
lncToase tue Tcpi eoeh tat'o'' u 'h0 oi"o> 'io
triots. He was asked if there was any pros
pect of defeating the democrats in Virginia
for some lime to cone. He said he believed
not with ;heir present machinery and polit-
ical material. He was much irritated and de.
MED that be bad any communication with
Harrison and Quay since the election, and
as to Doodle, hs said Quay had never fur
niehed him any money for this campaign.
Gan Mahone zas vary parrulous Yesterday.
As to reading what was written about him
North and South, he said he hsd not opened
paper for six months or even read tele'
gram, ard thal he had not read book since
the war except Gen. Dick Taylor's War
"Reminiscences" He was asked why he
signed himself Malone, Virginia" In re-
ply he said: sit wac my id Virginia con-
ceit that made me do so' He ia camorous