The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-09-19
Geo. @. Rounds speech.
MANASSAS, VA, Sept. 5, 1889.

NAo,aS. v A., OeDU. D, 1909.
Editor Free Lance.
Yours received in response I have to
say, that while | am not vet fifty wears
of age, am one OF the few original Re
publicans now in Virginia. l supported
Fremont, Lincoln and Grant at the polls
on the stump dn0 a&7lder k7lGpsGck and
gun for four long aoea9y gears
Malone has stolen the Republican
name to betray Republican princip5es
There isn't a Republican hair in his
head and he never had Republican
idea in his brain He is a naondrchist
pure and simple, and | would as soon
vote for the Gar of Russia as for him.
Noone VINO knows me will accuse me of
any special admiration for the Lost
Cause" except such admiration as pluck
and bravery always compel from manly
hearts. Yet | say candidly. | would vote
for Jefferson Davis, if necessary, to de-
feat William Malone. For from my
standpoint of an original Republican, |
can plainly see how Malone as governor
of Virginia, at the present time, would
do infinitely more damage to true Re
publicanism than Davis possibly could.
Lincoln's definition of a republican
government, was government of the
people, for the people, and by the peo
ple.'' The Norfolk ticket, if elected,
would re-estabish in Virginia govern
ment OF the people for Malone and By
WahO1le
| charge that the National Republican
Committee and President Harrison have
betrayed the grand old party that gave
them place and power. They have de-
liberately gone counter to the decision
of the National Convention at Chicago,
which heard 'Mahoneism" discussed at
length and placed upon it by two
thirds vote the seal of their emphatic
condemnation.
| charge that Malone, deeply angered,
went home from Chicago to betray the
Republican party of his own district and
State. The world knows that but for
him Virginia's vote would have been for
Harrison and Morton. The election re-
turns demonstrate has treGchery.
| challenge any one to show where
Malone has ever heartily supported any
nominations, Democratic, Readjuster or
Republican, which he did not himself
dictate.
| here venture the prophecy, and call
on the Republicans of the North to take
a note of it, that if Malone is elected
Governor and then United States Sena-
tor, that he will betray the Republican
party of the Nation as he repeatedly has
the Republican party of Virginia, and
u1dU MduOu0ISIH Will DG tltt IOCh Oll
which the party will go to pieces in 1890.
| was present at the Ebbitt House con-
ference and witnessed the questionable
courtesy shown by President Harrison
to three hundred Virginia Republicans,
from all points of the old Dominion.
| heard the subsequent speech OF that
noble Virginian j. Henry Rives, when,
with an eloquence rivaling that Of Pat
rick Henry of DID, he said: HE IS but
the President aud HE SHALL HEAR US"
| know not what Mr.. Rives now thinks
but l believe there is but one way left
us to speak so that ''Uncle Sam" will
have time to hear us. Let us strike
hands with our Democratic fellow-citi
zens against the common foe of Virginia
and roll up such majority for SMcKin-
ney, Tyler and Scott" as will annihilate
that anti Republican, Democratic
and aaati-Amerdcdn thing called INA
HoNEISM."
And for this blessed result the under
signed will cote, a0ork and pray.
Your old Republican comrade.
GEO. G.. ROUND.