The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-10-24
Takes the Ticket Down. ID. S. Lewis
Renounccs Malone
WE. CAN No LONGER SUPPORT MALONE.

lHarflSOnDurg alley Spirit.
In taking the important step which we are
about to take assure our readers that we do
so after full consideration and we do what we
think any honest man holdlnS our views would
be bound to DO.
Many honest men will support General Ma
hone for the na ana many Of them
But they could not and would not support Gen
eral Malone if they looked at the matter as
do.
Men will differ and even friends will differ
sometimes, but every honest man will do what
he thinks is right, and let the consequences take
care of tt emselves.
When General Malone had the presumption to
have himself nominated at Norfolk III defiance OF
the best Judgment even of those who almost
worshipEed him. the e.iitor OF the Spirit u the
VALLEY was present and saw the outrages there
perpetrated upon Republicans; yet such was ms
devotion to Republican principles and 50 anX-
ious was he to see them succeed that he deter
mined to support the ticket, Notwithstanding dU
that (ien Malone had d0ne to bleuE up the party
andt prosecute its best members.
We knew that Gen. Malone was arbitrary,
dictatorial, dOmineefing, malignant and selfish;
but we had no proof that he was personally dis
honest. nor had the evidence been produced that
he was base enough to stoop to the contemptible
device OF writing an anonymous cop!nillnica,
ton to his own personal organ tthe Richmond
falsehoOds concerning the then chief executive
of the state. AMI then, when caught ill this
sneaking attempt to stab his friend in the dark.
that he would cringe like whipped spaniel be-
fore the man he had so basely wrOnged.
But all this, and more is proved by the letter
Governor William r. Cameron.
This letter not only proves what we have
stated above but it shows also that General Ma
hone while thus attacking Ex-Governor Cam
erOn for his connection with the Planters and
Mechanics Bank of Petersburg had, by means
of legal conveyance OF contract between HIM
self and his Gen. Mahone'sl prevented the
State OF Virginia from getting part of the money
due her, and this, too, when Gen. Malone is him
self reputed to be very rich-in fact, to be worth
largely overa million dollars.
This evidence of treachery and of dishonesty
is with us 1.-The straw which broke the Gamers
back" In OTHER WORDS, WHILE WE HAvEsTooD
MANY THINGS, WE CAN NOT AND WILL NOT SUPPORT
FOR THE HIGHEST OFFICE IN THIS OLD COMMON
WEALTH A MAN WHO is THUS PROVED TO BE SUCH
A DISHONEST AND TREAcHERouS MAN 49,,
For the party's sake we could anu dlu stanu
his bossism. We saw him i'll his insolence OF
power strike down first one and then another
Republican and Readjuster who had done val
liant service for the cause but, after entering
our earnest protest, we continued to give MN
our support, because OF our deep and determn-
ed opposition to BourbOnlSn.
We saw him destroy Republican majority OF
over $4,000 for Cameron 1851, and by his course
create Democratic majority of over 16,C00 for
Lee in 1885 and vet we continued to support him
and to hope for better things
We him, by the undetermined methods
which he loves so well, attempt to stab James
G. Blaine by his notorious secret circular, ana
still we condoned this political crime sas,, oas,
We saw him openly and contemporary de1y
the authority OF the National party by the man
ner in which he selected his delegates to the
National Republican Convention, and Wnen he
was rebuked, we saw him continue to insist upon
running his Illegally selected electors, but yet
such was our concern Tor the success of Haili-
son and Morton and the principles for which
they stool, that gave his ticket hearty, ear
nest, and, we think, effective support.
We saw him afterwards defeat the HARRISON
ticket in this State by his outrageous and unac-
countable course in the Fourth District, but
yet we continued our support and hoped on.
Then when General Harrison had been elected
in spite of Gen. Malone, and When the National
Republican Committee, seeing the terrible CON
dition into which he had gotten the party i'll the
State, stepped In and effected a compromise, we
saw General Malone trampling this compromise
under his feet and treating all of his opponents
with contempt we said MahOneism is not he
publicansm. but yet perhaps. it is better than
Bourbonisnl, and we still did not recognize the
fact that patience had ceased to be virtue
But now, when we have the proof before us
that he is both c0ardltly and dishonest we reel
that, thinking we do, it would be CRIME III
us to advocate longer the placing OF such man
i'll the position held by those pure men Wnom
Virginians have generally chosen as then GOV
ernOrS
We have heretofore overlooked his mistakes
and political crimes because we saw then, as we
this country but when we cowardlce and
dishonesty added to his other faults we cannot
continue to advise other men to do what we can
not do ourselves, and therefore we have deter
mined to remove the Malone Gubernatorial
ticket from the head OF our columns The ieSls
lative ticket is composed of two honest ond cap
able men and shall continue to keep their
names up and hope that the people Will not visit
the sins of MahOneSm upon them ana thus
make the innocent suffer with the guilty. we
shall also support part of the Gubernatorlal
ticket even though Gen. Malone named all the
men on it.