The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-08-29
To the Few York Tribune.

when it assumes that he represents civil
liberty and that in the ''preliminaries
To the present convention he made con-
cessions,n our able contemporary is rest
ing under delusion. Mahone repre-
sents nothing but the most odlus phase
of machine politics-of boss despotlsm.
His concessions are on the; surface. IN
the practical work Of the performances
the old vindictive methods were useu
more relentlessly than ever before For
this reason those who did not Del1eVe Ill
those methods refrained from participant
ing in the primaries or the convention,
deserving to themselves the right to be
felt where the machine cannot work-at
the ballot bea, Many Republicans will
woe the Democratic ticket, and many
more will not vote at ali. Te do not adj
wise any Republican to vote the Deinloo-
cratic ticket, but we do advise them not
to vote ier Malone. His election would,
in our opinion, pr 3 calamity to the
State. 1t would II. mean "a fqqs wears OF per
seo,,, ton, turmoil, strife and material
disaster Il would arrest progress, by
keeping from the SKATE capital ana en-
terprise, and hold in suspense every IN
dustry now being inaugufated. MaiA9i1e
represents nothing but himself. HOW
ever fair the platform adopted IN the
caucus which nominated him may APP
pear to those who may fancy such 4 piece
of literary construction, there Is not AN
issue that it presents that Will not De
oyershadowed by Malone and his meth
DDS. That is the only principle he rep
resents as against the Democratic candl-
date" The Republicans who Yill not
wear his collar are prescribed by him
more relentlessly than they are by the
Democrats. The Mccormick
electoral law, by which the Democrats de-
fraud Republicans out of their votes,
was stolen from Mahone's plan of or
ganizaton, which he devised and has used
to deprive Republicans out of their
votes who are not his slaves. His ma
chine is employed TO prosecute RepubI-
cans and deny their rights within the
| party, and the Democratic machine
which operates on the same principle
is used to deny their rights outside of
the party Which is the worst, for Re
publicans to have their voice suppressed
and their rights denied by Republican
machine or to be defrauded at the ballot
| box by a Democratic machine Then the
Democrats, as they claim, are only prac-
ticing the pei.gicapl yillainy that Malone
taught them when he Was the Warwick
of their party He is charged with the
first introduction of Democratic meth
DDS, as now practiced, into that party,
and we are prepared to believe it, from
the way in which he engineers the ma
chine in the Republican party. The
''civil liberty thai he represents, is the
liberty to wear his eollas, sieeze when
he takes snuff, and obey his orders,
without a murmur Or question, when he
gives them.
We would suggest to the Republican
/ press of the North to keep their hands
out of this contest in Virginia. They
know nothing about the internal work
ings of Mahone's machine. If they did
they would not have word of protest
to enter against those Republicans who
do not mean to be governed by it. 1t is a
fight against the most cruel and relent-
less political despotism ever known in
this country. 1t is a struggle to enamel
pate the party from the clutch of the
most unreasonable and selfish leader that
was ever entrusted with power 1T is a
contest to break the force of an infiu-
ence, which. if successful. will wreck
the Republican party of the country
an influence that has been condemned
by the Republican voters of the Nation
whenever called to pass upon it-an in
fiuence that came near breaking up the
Chicago Convention in 1880; which
nerved the arm of lunatic to Stay
President-which defeated the Republi-
can party in 1884, and which was repu-
dated by the party in the nomination
of Harrison, as well as by the Republi-
cans of New York and Pennsylvania in
1882. A thousand times better that it
should be repudiated in Virginia than
that it should receive strength and vigor
here to be injected into the campaign of
1892 as the controlling force in deternin-
ing the Presidential nomination OF that
year. That is its objective point, and
the first step to it is to trample upon the
neck Of Virginia and inaugurate a sat
urnalia of hate and revenge here for four
years to come.
The VIRGINIAN has never faltered in
its support of the Republican party and
its nominees since 1872. 1t has blazed
the way for every Republican advance
from that time to this. 1t has main
tanned its consistency and its integrity as
a Republican journal in defiance of per-
secution, prescription and ostracism that
few editors or papers have been called
upon to endure. 1t has never asked
favor from either party. or shrank from
a responsibility that courageous main
tanance of the principles of the Repub
lican party imposed. 1t was true to what
it believed to be right, when it had to
| endure the SCOTS and sneers of lifelong
friends and feel the sting of reproach and
ingratitude from those whom it thought
were bound to it by hooks of steel. But
in these eighteen years it never sweryed
from what it believed to be the path of
duty, although it was trod with heavy
heart, and in the face of dangers and de-
privations, that few men know Of But
never through all these years of trial,
did we feel a more imperative sense of
duty than we now do. III the purpose to
| oppose the election of Gen. Malone for
| Governor of Virginia. We believe that
we are discharging duty to Virginia, to
the Republican party of the State and
Nation, and to the Republican admins
tration, in appealing to our Republican
friends to join in one supreme effort to
emancipate the party from the cruel and
! despotic sway of a relentless dictator and
save Virginia from political scourge.
| We are sure if the Tribune understood
| the true situation in Virginia, it would
not utter word in support of the self
made nomination for Governor of the
packed caucus at Norfolk. There was
nothing Republican in it from it's incep-
ton TO it's close. 1t was Malone domi
mating at every step from beginning to