Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-09-27
SUPPLIES FOR CAMPAIGN
EXPENSES.

If on the 9th of November the people of
Virginia were to awake to find that Malone
had carried the State the day before
$4,000, 100000, almost any amount in
reason would be deemed small ransom to
pay for it's release. Would it not be better
to furnish our Committees, State and
County, with money to pay campaign eX-
penses now, than to run the risk of such an
awakening. 1t is admitted on all sides that
Malone carried the election in 1881 through
the possession of an immense campaign
fund. This is no surmise, it is down in
history. Thomas V. Cooper is the Chair
man of the Pennsylvania State Republican
Committee and a co-parcener of Quay. Heis
also the author of work entitled 'Ameri-
Can Politics. - On pages 1854 of that work
is described the mode in which Malone
carried Virginia in 1881. Simon Cameron
Of Pennsylvania went to Petersburg in 1879
and there met Malone and ''his leading Re
adJuster friends and leading Republicans. :"
Then and there it was arranged that Ma
hone should turn over the Readjuster party
to the National Republican party. The his
tory goes on to tell what followed:
Gin the great State campaign of 1884, when
the Bourbon and nti-Bourbon candidates for
Governor were stamping the State, General
Malone found that large portion of his col
Ored friends were handicapped by their ina
bility to pay the taxes imposed upon them by
the laws of Virginia. and this threatened de-
feat. He sought aid from the national admin
combination, as did Secretary Window, but
Secretary Blaine withheld his support for
several months. Finally, however, acceding to
the wishes of the President and most of the
cabinet, Administration influences caused the
abandonment of straight-out Republican
movement organized by Congressman Jorgen-
sen and others, and a movement which at one
time threatened disastrous division was
overcome. The tax question remained, and
this was first met by Senator J. d. Cameron,
who, while summering at Manhattan Island
was really daily engaged in New York city
raising funds for Mah0ne, with which to pay
their taxes. Still, this aid was insufficient
and in the heat Of the battle THE REVENUE
OFFICERS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES
WERE ASKED TO CONTRIBUTE. Many of them
did SO, and on the eve of election all take
were paid and the result was the election of
William E. Cameron (Readjuster) as Cover
nor by about 2O,O 900 majority, with other State
Offices divided between the old Readjusters
and Republicans. The combination also car
ried the Legislature.
That was the way Virginia was carried
in 1881, by money raised among the Repub-
licans of the North, including the Federal
Office holders. When 1888 came it found
different Chairman at the head of the
Democratic party, John S. Barbour, who
knew well how the State had been carried
against us two years before. AS he said
in his speech at the State Democratic Con
ventiOn at Richmond last month, money
was the way Malone had carried the State
When Mr.. Barbour took the Craftsmanship
in SO he at once went to work to organize
the party and to raise money. 1t was not
many days before the following secret cir
cular sent out by Malone showed that MI.
Barbour had been none too early:
PETERSBURG, Sept. 49, 1888
Dear Sir:-Please send me as quickly as you
can list of the names of such Funders as YOU
think are reasonably open to c0nglction, giving
the POstOffce Of each.
Yours Truly,
WM NJ ,EoNE