Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-21
BANKING ON MAHONE.
A Well-Known Citizen, Back From
Virginia, Explains His Faith.
RICH CONVERTS AND A PLATFORM
Broad Enough for White and Black to
Stand on Together.
SIGNS OF TIE RENEWED PROSPERITY
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Anent the declaration of Colonel 81. G.
Parsons. of Natural Bridge, Va, that he
will support General Malone for Gov
ernor, p" may be cited the reputation of the
Democratic party, after 80 years in its
ranks, by Colonel E. NJ. Lowe, of Fairfax
county, Va. Colonel Lowe has been one of
the most active workers of the Democratic
party in Virginia, and a successful and
prominent leader. He hopes he may "never
look back upon the past 30 years of miser-
able political folly" and henceforth is
Republican, in all that the word implies.
He will support General Malone with
all the earnestness he can command, and
this, too, in the face of the statement Of
Democrats that "the General is a traitor"
for, he says, "the man who supports
traitor is a worse traitor himself" Not
withstanding all this he has cast his lot
with the Republican party of Virginia, and
there
MEANS TO STAY.
With the wealth and promi nence of
Colonel Parsons and the earnestness of
Colonel Lowe and others, Gen eral Malone
may be the next Governor.
1t is such declarations as the above, heard
in many quarters in the southwestern part
OF Virginia, where your correspondent has
been sojourning, that caused the prediction
in The DISPATCH, two weeks since, that
General Malone will be elected.
At various points along the Shenandoah
Valley Republicans were encountered who
are earnestly hoping that the General may
be elected. They have faith in his ability
to satisfactorily meet the demands in regard
to the State debt and the public schools, and
to so improve the political life of Virginia
as to make it more tolerabIe for Northern
people and Northern capital. Good feeling
prevails everywhere between the blacks and
whites in Virginia, and there is no doubt
the elections will PASS off quietly.
Your correspondent stopped at Luray and
discovered it to be town of perhaps !, 900
inhabitants, with a number of small indus
trial establishments, as well as the loca-
tion of
THE MOST MARVELLOUS CAvERNS
in America. A few years ago it contained
only the railway station house and Luray
Inn: Thousands of people of New York,
Philadelphia, Baltimore and other Eastern
points visit the caverns and the natural
bridge annually; but the registers do not
show the names of many Pittsburgers. The
railroad fares are reasonable, and the sights
are the greatest wonders of the age; but
these excursion points have not been opened
to Pittsburgers as they should. Perhaps
another year the Shenandoah Valley Rail-
road Company will offer greater induce
men:s to the people of Western PennsyL
vania.
All through the valley are evidences of
prosperity-indeed the railroad seems to be
nearly blockaded. The August earnings
were larger than the unusually heavy earn
ings Of August, 1888, and yet September,
1889, exceeded those Of August. Indeed it
is no idle fancy to say that the railroads Of
Virginia are now enjoying degree of pros
perity never surpassed, and none more SO
than the Shenandoah Valley, which carries
through cars for Selma, Ala, and all points
in the South, via the Roanoke and Tenues-
see Valleys. PERCY F. SMITH.
PITTsBURG, October 20, 1889.