Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-11-15
MALONE AND HARRISON.

Inc y CIV Aofh Times says: Ma
hone is beaten on his own ground by
an overwhelming majority. This is,
perhaps, Tie event Of greatest i'm.
portaEcG i'll national! affairs resulting
from the elections Yesterday Had
The canvass: Ecen one invoking State
issues alone, il would have lcs, the
rest Of the country Indifferent how
ever it had come ont Bat it was;
practically national canvass. Ma.
hone was accepted by the Admins
tration us IFS candidate. lie put him.
self i'll the field only after conference
with the President and the National
Republican Committee The pro
misses of help he then received were
amply fulfilled. The federal appoint
ments Of the State were put ut his
service. The officers from Virginia
i'll Washington were sent home To-
work for him. Speakers of prom
hence in the Republican party, Scna
tors and Representatives, were order
ell to work for linn. The treasury
of the national organization was
drawn on to furnish him with funds.
lie himself, in the speeches he made
i'll every part OF the state, pat for
war'l the national issues, and cspc
cially protection AMI federal aid to
education.
1t was made plain from the start
that this was MIR. Hnrrison's first Of
fort at 'Southcrn policy rLahonc
was to lay the foundations of Re
publican protection party in the
South. The negro leaders were kept
in the backgrounds, but were fur.
nishcd with plenty of money. The
whites were to be drawn in hv the
promise of profits from the tariff and
by the gifts OF Offices, and were not
to be offended by the obtrusivc race
issue. 1t was an ignoblc schome,bu
Ill the eyes of the pious leaders Of
the present administration it seemed
promising one. II has failed.
The feelings OF Mr. Harrison will
he unpleasant rs the full meaning Of
this result is borne in upon his mind
That mind is small, and not quick,
but it can understand that he is
beaten and disgraced i'll the disaster
that has overtakcn his chosen REPRE-
sentative i'll Virginia. 1t can, we
should say, grasp the fact that his
1lrst advance upon the South is met
with crushing defeat We hardly
dare to think that the experience
Will open his eyes to the umworthi
ness OF his purpose or to the base
hess and wickcdness of his methods.
but it may make him distrust his al
yisers, and possibly may cause him
to question whether honesty would
not be a better policy than the one
he has devised. Three years AGO
"he lifted up Il prayer" that ''policy,
frank, if brutal, of spoils might pre-.
vail i'll the government of the Repub
lie. 1t has been given to him to an.
swer his own prayer. 1t is now riv
ell to blm to him to read. in shame
and defeat, the results Of that policy.
1t will be very hard for him to chance
IT. it will be utter ruin for him to 90
on with it.
The Philadelphia Telegraph, indie.
pendent Republican, says: The al
legged Republican candidate had the
unconcealed sympathy and very prac
Teal support of the administration
hlahone was promised ''h.lp" from
Washington, and lie got it; the plot
developed so rapidly and unmistaka
Oily that before election day cam,
round President Harrison was q,
good as pledged to tho Virginia ad
Tenturer through thick and thin
Tins was to be test, the cnterine
wedge to break up Southern Demo
cratic domination ut any cost. Now
rs we see it, and as most properl,
minded Republicans see it, the cen
trai government has no right to in
terfere or dictate in this manner i,
the affairs of a State it would in do
ing SO deserve defeat even if its can
didates were immaculate, for Will
parties i'll State are acting entirel
within the law they have solem,
right to cry to all outsiders, even .h
highest, "Hands off; we are CONNIE
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