Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-09-20
GEORGE c. ROUND.

MAHONE A TRAITOR TO THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY-HIs PLAN is TO ESTABLISH A
GOVERNMENT OF VIRGINIA FOR AND
BY MAHONE-TE WILL WRECK PREsI-
DENT HARRIsoN's ADMINISTRATION.
George Z. Round is a prominent Repub-
lican leader in the Piedmont section of the
State, and lives in Fairfax. He is an old
line Republican, voted for Republican
candidates before the war, and was Union
soldier during the war. He says:
MANASSAS, VA, September 5, 1889
Editor Free Lance:
Yours received; i'll response have to say,
that while am not yet fifty years of age, l
am one of the few original Republicans now
in Virginia. [ supported Fremont, Lincoln
and Grant at the polls, on the stump, and under
knapsoch and gun for Jour long aoeary gears.
Malone has stolen the Republican name to
betray Republican pr5nclp(es There isn't a
Republican hair in his head and he never had
a Republican idea In his brain. He is a
n1oll0rchast, pure and simple, and [ would as
soon vote for the Car of Russia as for him.
No one who 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, L would vote for Jefferson Davis, if
necessary, to defeat William Malone. For,
from my standpoint as an original Republic
can, can plainly see how Malone as Cover
nor of Virginia, at the present time, would
do infinitely more damage to true Republican
ism than Davis possibly could.
Lincolns definition of a republican govern
ment was government of the people, for
the people and by the people" The Norfolk
ticket, if elected, would re-establish in Viz
ginia government of the people for N0]tone
0nd By MMjtone.
l charge that the National Republican
trayed the grand old party that gave them
place and power. They have deliberately
gone counter to the decision of the National
Convention at Chicago, which heard Ma
honeiSm" discussed at length and placed upon
it by two-thirds vote, the seal of their en-
platte 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 electl0n ratltrns demonstrate has tre0cie1y.
challenge anyone 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 il Malone is elected Governor and then
United States Senator, that he will betray the
Republican party of the nation as he repeat.
eddy has the Republican party of Virginia,
and that 'sMahoneism" will be the rock on
which the party will go to pieces in 1892.
was present at the Ebbitt House confer
ence, 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 rivalling that of Patrick Henry of |
old, he said: HE IS but the President, and HE
SHALL HEAR U.s." !
know not what Mr.. Rives now thinks, but.