Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-08-28
REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION.
The Machine Work Put Through in Short
Order.

TERsBURG-FOR LIEUT.. GOVERNOR, CAMP
BELL sLEMP, OF LEE CoUNTY-FoR At
ToRNEY- GENERAL, W. S. LURTY, OF ROCK
INeHAM COUNTY.
Compiled from the report of Rich. Times.]
NORFOLK, VA, Aug. 2s.-The Republi-
can State Convention was called to order in |
the Academy of Music at halfpast 10 to-
day by Gen. VIM. Manone, chairman of the |
Republican party of Virginia. AS the boss
stepped on the stage he was thunderously
cheered, and three minutes elapsed before
his voice could be heard. When, however,
the applause had subsidized he introduced
Rev. Vernon Hanson, of Norfolk, who
opened the convention with prayer. While
the reverend gentleman was asking Divine
blessing he was frequently interrupted by
cries of louder, and completed his remarks
amid confusion.
MAHoNE's SPEECH.
Then Gen. Malone stepped to the plat
form, and with his black prince-albert coat
buttoned close to his waist commenced to
speak. He said:
[ thank you heartily, fellow citizens, for
this cordial greeting, and the more because
it is demonstrative of your loyalty to the
W Z,
and prosperity of this Commonwealth than
of the nation. Because it signifies al ener-
getic concern for the important contest, in
respect to which you have assembled to
take action. 1t means pull-a strong
pull and a pull all together for the right OF
the great stake involved.
That you will be equal to a full and faith
full performance Of the high trust you are
delegated to discharge, is the confident ex-
pectation of hopeful majority of the peo-
pie of this State.
Since the Inauguration of the movement
which took shape at Mozart Hall in '79,
and from which has come the party for
which you now speak, have had the honor
of the craftsmanship, and now return to
you that trust.
In that period of ten years you have had
Your victories and your defeats, and despite
of Democratic methods the party has
grown in numbers from 81, 900 votes cast
for Gen. Garfield in 1880, to 151, 900 grudg-
ingly conceded by our Democratic friends
for Gen. Harrison in 1888.
There is no fair-minded man in the State
who does not believe that you polled
majority of the votes cast at the late Presi-
dental election. 1t is of record that even
in two of our ten Congressional districts
polls closed more than twice as many Re-
publican voters as the beggsrly majority by
which the electoral vote of the State was
taken, who, by the disreputable conduct of
the Democratic managers, had not been al
lowed to deposit their ballots.
The progress of Republican development
and the approval of Republican principles
steadily go on despite the appeals to past
preiudices and the unsavory methods by
which the will of an honest majority of the
qualified voters of this Commonwealth has
been suppressed.
There can be no safety to the peace and
well-being of organized society, no security
to a republican form Of government, no
protection to life, liberty, and property,
where the agencies of organized govern
rnent and representative trust are lnaugur-
ated by means of polluted return.
Such invention for the CONSUMPTION of the
governmental power Of any constituent
body, must sooner or later come to plague
the inventors. It opens wide the field for
intrusion of every danger to which the in
terests OF organized society Can be exposed.
Bnt the end will come-it is nigh at hand
when the demand of the masses CT this
people, irrespective of party lines, for an
honest ballot and fair count, must be re-
spected.
The second better thought of honest men
already sickens of the tainted methods by
which representative agents are chosen to
administer the public interest. The time
comes when the better thought of honest
men revolts at the iusidious methods which
relegates the government Of our public af-
fairs and the standard of representative
trust generally to class of men expressly
chosen to falsify the popular Judgment.
The unmanly cover under which the
Democratic managers have msled public
thought and have melted ungovernab'e ap
preheusion, has been q pretended concern
for the safety of our cvilization-tbe fear
of the domination of our affairs by the
colored man-and under that cover have
led too many honest and honorable men to
acuuiesee in the most shameful outrages
upon popular government.
The right to participate fairly in the Sc
lection Of the representative agent, gees to
the very bottom of Republican form of
govern ment, and any invasion of it imperils
the liberty of the people.
Such unlawful methods as have governed
the political conduct of the leadership Of
the Democratic party, are repugnant to the
fair. minded people Of this State.
They repel immigration into our borders
and deter capital from seeking profitable
employment in the development OF our buri
ed industrial resources.
Neither man nor capital seek homes
where the laws are made and administered
by the creatures Of mere political ma.
chine.
The overtaxed masses of this Common
wealth, 1t is believed, will no longer endure
the ma. administration of their affairs, out
of fear of negro domination. The ghost of
the colored man no logger serves the pur-
pose of the political demagogue. He
threatens neither the purity of cur institu
tions nor the degradation of our civilizA-
ton. The pretended apprehension of our
adversaries for the safety of these has had
it's day, to come no more.
The thoughtful people of this State turn
their attention to questions which affect the
welfare of the Commonwealth and open the
way to the prosperity Of the people.
They demand an administration of their
public affairs which shall bring back the
ordinary expenses of running the State
government within the reasonable Ii Ilits, to
which the Republican party had reduced
them. They will no longer consent to pay
three hundred thousand dollars more for
the administration of State government
that would preserve civilization not
GUIcal6QeU, TWlS0 tudH Wy OH6
ing hypocricy of the managers Of the Demo
cratic party--their eumity TO popular educ.
atop, their heartless pretense Of favoring
the repeal of the Federal tax on tobacco,
their ever trihing treatment Of the vital
question of the public debt-wasting the
money of the people 10 vexations and un-
profitable suits against cur own citizens-
while the increase of the debt goes on at
the rate of q million or more annually.
The hypocritical protestations IL respect
to the vital question Of the tarff-at oue
time pretending to favor protection. bu5 al.
wsys yielding hearty support to men and
measures that would destroy il, and stiee
the future Of cur State, whose material de-
velopment. inspired by the vitalizng policy
of protection, already gives substantial
promise to her growth in wealth and in
power.
The more thoughtful of our people and
a., tati en- n the kuainPSa