Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-11-21
What Did It {?

Correspondence CT the ALEXANDRIA GAZErTE.J
WARRENToN, Nov 1872. 1SS9.-MaD5
Mahonetes insist, a the trua exp ana ion Of
the iate iidsl ~ave il V!saiGis, upou the
theory Of "irauo The Geusrsl oim elf
heads this lis o whet we migat t.Tuo 'i'1Gd
finders" 'Oj Liberty what ccitnes are
committed IN thy nsme." These were
Madame R3Iend's words a. che pissed on
90 the guilo.ine. Not SO wit b Mahaue.
His political taking CT be attributes TO no
misguided idea of political liberty. lt was
uothrg but "fraud." Virginans from his
standpoint arc an unthinking people With
rather a desire for boss, people whose
political note book is blank except for the
words "Mshone, Virginia" At least this
was the way he snd his friends talked and
felt before the election. Possibly some
change has come over the ''spirt of their
Be tha; es il may fraud" is their cry, moth
iug but fraud" His oan district which.
unii recently Disrupted by him, mas
since the war always been Represented
by republican,, is according 10 hi0
fraud" and the Norfolk district und the
First district now represented By repubji-
can Brown are both "frauds' and she great
Southwest and the Valley wi,h scarce
streak of black iu their white snfiage aEe
frauds" And this dlstiicr, which last year
was democratic by some eleven huudred,
DOW thundered out against MahoUel3m Lear
ak Thousand. Fraud" Of course, Eau
quier county that two yeats ago Estate etec
tion then a5 now) gave four hundred and
Two ma jorlty, the party being united now,
answers at the roll call with nearly fourteen
hundred, almost SIS much SIS the whole demo
cratic majority in thu State last gear for
Cleveland. Two years ago when the kick
ers were protesting against, yet enduring,
Mahonesm, the majority at this precinct
against one of tbs stfGightest OF the sect was
only hundred and twenty this year. three
hundred and hirty-t1Uo. And lust here we
have an Illustration Of one Of The causes that
throughout the State helped ito DO it."
That very Mshoueite who made the above
showing then, living at that time twenty
FIVE miles from our town, wss few months
ago transferred here despite the bitterest
protestations of hi9 own party aud Of The
almost united Intelligence Of the cou muaity,
TO be our postmaster and TO MdhOneize IS
his friends claimed be would-his section
of the county with the resul! abvve slated,
town aud couaty both increasing largely
even over last year. Seriously there is 30
good trying to impute The result to anything
except reasonable causes and al! the
talk about fraud and naturalization" !" so far
as the result ia concerned transparent hosh
OF course there were Irregularities, etc, as
happens in every election, whichever llaily
be In the saddle And frauds too if s Oh pre-.
fer to call them, 10 doubt, as there were
last year and gear before and ell tho way
back to The Tins when the mob voted to
cruelty Jesus Chris But look at the re-
suit. Last year majority against Harrison
of sixteen hundred, and all the political ma
ckinery in the hands Of the democrats; this
year majority against Malone Of forty
three thousand--s political Johnstown food
rolling steadily all over the State where
fraud is claimed as well where fraud
is claimed
How, my Mahonete friend, are we to ac
count reasonably for this? You ara not
crank enough to impute fraud to the whole
State, and yet you see where no fraud has
been hinted the tide is all the same way. Be
honest and admit that Malone methods didn't
take with the people. Just to illustrate q little
further of the fraud" cry we can give you
one fifth of our majority in this district az
accounted for by fraud land you know Mr..
Agnew last year couldn't reach by active
lOQulEy tudt UU0UCI VI AO WOuiu uE VIC W.
tested General Lees seat) and We would
still face you with over four thousand as
against eleven hundred.
Well then what did it?
Not the kickers alone Net the demo
Gratis alone. A public sentiment thoroughly
aroused at the dread of the transfer of ''one
man rule" from the republican party to the
State government, and of the possible or
probable evils that implies. That's just
what did it. That's just what electrified
Virginia. Aud the acrongs complained Of by
the 'kickerS' did more than any one cause
to open the way to clear conception OF the
real issue which after all was nothing but
Mahoueism. Able as General Malone IN.
doubtedly is, be backed too heavily on the
idea that people are fools. They are not,
and don't you forget it, General. EARLE.
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