The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-09-05

and consolidation Were then in sweet accord.
thought he was his slave; and there they split.
Malone was ever after his enemy.
In 1873 new Governor had to be nominated.
Mahone was chairman of the Democratic party.
The people wanted the old ticket, Withers,
Walker, and Marye. Malone wanted to crush
WitherS. Straightway the Wing, Mahone'S ST.
00O organ, found in the mountains of Madison
the hero of observation-disclosures. Thick as
leaves inautumn time came letters and editori-
ais QlScOuISlng OF the elOquence ability and pow
er OF this Saul among Virginians. Malone had
forced another Governor on the people of Vir-
glnia. But Kemper refused to be his slave-ve-
toed the Petersburg charter that was to disfran-
chlse the negroes of that city, and Mahone's
friends burnt him in eft1gy. Malone was ever
The General, who had so successfully manipu-
lated two Governors into the chair, essayed to
ocratic nomination. he defeated the will of the
party by going over bodily to Holiday thus de-
featlng John ". Daniel. claiming however that
he had made Holiday But Holiday refused to
be his slave, and Malone was ever after his enc
my. Finding he could no longer rule the Demo-
cratic party, he became the first Kicker on
record. ParSon Massey and Father Abraham
Fulkerson had famed the flames of Readjust-
ment, and the little General, seeing there was
likely to be a cOnfagration, jumped to the front
as Malone, Virginia" Massey and Fulkerson
desired to father their offspring, but the General
SAD no. Great is Cameron of Petersburg And
IL was SO. Cameron was elected and refused to
be his slave and Malone was ever after his enc
my.
After leaving the Democfatc party, had Gen.
Mahone been true Republican and the farsee-
ing statesman his followers claim, the opportu-
nlty offered itself in 1880 to have wheeled old
Virginia into the Republican column. With di-
visions and dissensions, the Democrats came
feeby to the support of Hancock. Malone took
$1,000 off with balance of power ticket, to be
put on the market with the "bosS" as auctioner.
ne could easily have carried the State for Gar
neld with l00OO votes to spare and the solid
South would have been a Renaissance. Blu
ne played for the Senate and won. TO read his
by himself-V Virginia never had
a senator or congressman before or since.
there declaring himself a better Dem
ocrat imam Ben Hill, and holding the balance of
power, no hlghwayman ever said sStand and
deliver" with more conSummate skill courage
and audacity than he did to Arthur, when he re
quired at his hands that no man should be APP
pointed to office in Virginia without his approx
al, as the price OF his loyalty. more damnable
Rocca sl9gan was f meyer Matched in he'll than
u.s.? 1t damned Arthur at Chicago in 1884 and
followed him to his grave.
sherman President Did any Republican be-
lieve at the time that Gen. Sherman was the
sheran 10 fhe people fd Of Trg
Allison? Yet Gen. Malone, who was the
servant OF the party, assumed to be it's master,
and through his machine (of which he is sole
patentee,) without law or warrant called all his
conventions at Petersburg, dictated their &C
ton, adopted the unit rule and elected twenty
four delegates to Chicago who were to be deliv-
cred to Senator Sherman. But Virginians be-
gan gan TO open their eyes and to protest and as
cation to Chicago, and that convention stamped
Gne seal OF fraud on seven of his conventions.
w UiiO III Ullc
United States?
NO, HE KICKED.
He came home, and in the face of the national
convention and at the risk of defeat to the par
down the Threats of those whom the national
convention had decided the true representa-
tiveS of the party.
Not content with this action he raised row
III his own district with the negro Langston,
whom he had put. up at Chicago as the repre-
sentative OF Virginia, to second Gen. ShermanS
thus losing the State to Harrison.
a After fighting Harrison and his friends to
chisel, dynamite and bomb to try to force his
way into the cabinet Having failed there to
Washington he goes and there beseges the
capitol. Mr.. Harrison paying little attention to
him, he lays siege on the national committee |
and upon the old Senators with whom he served |
A few poStoficeS, SWeetened with other pap to |
get rid OF him, is the result. And now he pro
claims himself victor and that he is Harrison's
dispenser OF spoils in Virginia.
IT is NOT TRUE
Now about that compromise" Gen. Groner |
called a meeting of the Republican committee |
elected at the Library Hall convention, together
with other prominent Republicans, to be held in |
Washington on the 18th of June. They too
strong-and after mature elaboration agreed |
upon plan of compromise. They directed
their chairman, Gen. Groner, to submit it to
ner and in the true spirit of compromise which |
all desired. Gen. Malone paid no more atten- |
nobody. Ii any man of that 2OO or any one they |
represent, now licks the hand that sInote him. |
he is worthy to be claSSed with the dog Gen. Ma
hone would have the world believe him to be- |
There has been no compromise The committee
that had power to offer OF accept a compromise
had adjourned No one else had the power to
compromise TIE proposition is stM pending and
men, and contents himself with denouncing
them 'deSerters' and ''bushwhackers" |
Well, the woods is full of EN-"
Who are Mr.. Quay and his four cOnfrereS? Why |
five men, members OF national committee of |
over forty. Where is any authority for them to |
publican. They have been the cats paw of |
petty boss to pull the hot chestnuts from the |
They know nothing about the affairs in vir-
ginia, and may get tarred with the same stick. |
The Republican party is the exponent of free |
free ballot and fair count and woe |
unto it when through ignorance and folly it |
lends itself through it's officers to help petty |
bosses grind the people.
Gen. Mahone's theory and plan of action can |
never be adopted successfully by any party |
Should it result in success its very success is and
should be, its ruin. 1t is military PLAN Men |
are not volunteers; they are conscripts Men |
must drill OF receive the straight jacket; must |
as "buShWhackerS." The highest am |
bition Of the soldier is promotion; of the Ma
triotism, right, justice, political economy are
empty words 1--WE are for Arthur because Ar |
thur is for u.s. With such theories and ideas
instilled into men, success is defeat. The pa
tronage of power is its weakness. 1t was so |
with Cleveland. Malone demonstrated it when
in the magnificent victory in the election of
Cameron, he stopped on the field to gather the |
spoils. Let no man be Republican for office |
Leave to Democrats the doctrine of 'for reve. /
nue. only, while we battle for Protection from |
petty bosses.
Gen Mahones followers claim that.he has built
up the party in the State 1t is not true The |
Republican party of Virginia stands to-day |
to its principles in spite of Malone
front of current and ride it free, and little as
he is, he can do more to retard current than
publican in 1865 and but for his meddling with
the Republican convention it would have NOM
mated winning ticket and the Objectionable
clauses of the constitution would have been
expurgated. Again, his foolishness in running
a third ticket in 1880 lost the State to Garfield
Again, when readjustment had broken the
backbone of the Democratic party, he was
found with headquarters at the Wing office
ready to set the party back In the last election
the rescue and Harrison's friends had won the
State, he threw away district that was reliable
fact that Gen. Malone has at one
time another had for his personal friend
every prominent man in the State of both
parties, and now you can count them on the
fingers of one hand
With a chairman "of the people, for the peo-
pie and by the people, and with plan of orga
nizrtion recognizing home rule and allowing
the people-the source of all power-the right
to say who shall be the party's officers, and
then with the glorious doctrine of Republican
ism, which is finally to rehabilitate and make a
new South indeed, proclaimed from heart to
colum-and TO stay. With the present plan of
leadership a and policy it is no republican party
With this record how keen the satire of Gen.
Mahone'S high sounding phrases in his speech
at Norfolk. Surrounded alone by those trained
in his school of politics, do you wonder at the
unanimity and enthusiasm? To the eye,beautiful
to behOld; to the ear, a concord of sweet
sounds; to the lips, ashes and Dead sea fruit,
No. shall not go fishing election day, [ shall
go Notwithstanding for true and tried Repub-
licans to help rescue the grand old party from
self destruction,
Yours truly.
G. A. HEERMANS