The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-08-08

candidates. When that is done, it will
be time. for the people, with whom rests
the power in partiesand government, to
let their voice be heard. The ballot
box is the freeman's instrument with
which to record his sentiments-hls APP
proval or condemnation of plans, plots.
projects and policies, and this he will
do with a will that will startle from their
self-satisfied repose, the plotters and
conspirators against the life OF the Re
publican party of Virginia and OF the
Nation
Col. Lamb.
We publish a brief interview with Col.
VIM Lamb, of Norfolk, taken from the
Washington Post. OF course, Col. Lamb
understands the situation in Virginia
However much he and others may have
at heart the success of the principles of
the Republican party, he cannot be
blind to the fact, as things are shaping
themselves in Virginia, that it will be
next to impossible to press to the front
the issues to which he refert. The
Democrats know that Virginia is Repub-
lican on protection, the repeal of the in
ternal revenue laws, and national aid to
popular education They know also that
Gen Malone is determined to make him
self the issue-to dictate the nominations
of the Convention and to manage the
party machinery through and in the in
terest of the Malone faction. They ask
no other issue themselves and will not
allow any other to be made. The Re
publican Convention may formulate any
platform it may please-may declare for
all the principles of the Republican par
ty-endorse the national administration
and arraign the Democracy for all of its
shortcomings, its failures and cOrrup-
lions, but above them all will loom up
Malone, as either candidate for Gov
ernor or the United States Senate here
after-as the dictator of the Republican
party, and the all in all of the Malone
faction, and that will be made the SUI
preme issue. And with it, there is not
an intelligent man in the State, whether
he be Republican or Democrat, who does
not know what the result will be.
Gen. Malone has made it a paramount
and tactics to make war upon every Re-
publican in the State who would not
wear his collar. He has so narrowed the
interests of campaigns as to make them
cover and comprehend alone his selfish
purposes He has planned and plotted,
and prostituted his splendid abilities to
humiliate and enslave every Republican
who is not willing to submit to his meth
DDS and obey his orders. He consorts
/ with none but those who will be subser-
Went to his WILL and cover under his
| authority. He does not aspire to lead
| the Republican party of Virginia, but a
| Malone faction. He cares nothing for
| the principles of the party, except as
their advocacy may subserve his perso-
nal ends, and give him the power to
prescribe those who are not willing to
submit to the yoke he would impose.
Col Lamb knows these things as well
as any other man in the State, and he
knows further that there are thousands 0
Republicans in Virginia who will enter
an earnest protest against such despotisn
when the proper time comes to do so.
| We entertain high respect for Col
Lamb personally and politically. We
| believe him to be a chivalrous gentle
man and a Republican from principle
and that he sincerely wishes the success
of the Republican party for the cause il
represents, and the benefits to Virginia
and the South that the practical en-
forcement of its policies would assure
/ We heartily sympathize with him in his
desire not to want to see factions set
UP in the State.n And for that reason
we mean to oppose the ''Mahone fac
tion,n that it is the purpose of Gen. Ma
hone to set up above the Republican
party and as a substitute for it. We will
support the Republican party and the
nominees of a genuine Republican Con
vention, rejecting the sentiment and the
manhood of the Republicans of Virginia
but we will not support Malone fac
ton, or the nominees of a packed Ma
hone Convention, unless we have implicit
confidence in the men who may be selec-
ted.