The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-08-22
The Old Game.

dustriously flooding the North, through
the leading Republican papers of that
section. with false statements which can
have no other effect than to raise delu-
sive hopes. to be followed by disastrous
results 1t is stated in these papers that
Malone is faithfully carrying out the
so-called compromise" fixed up in Wash
ington-that the Republicans in Vir-
ginia are united, and that Malone, if he
will accept the nomination for Governor,
will carry the State by $4,000 majority.
Every one familiar with the facts, as
they exist know that instead of carrying
out the terms of the compromise, they
have been violated under Mahone's Or
ders, in every essential particular-th
he has been, since it was adopted, more
arbitrary, despotic and malignant than
in any previous campaign. He has re-
moved and had removed every county
and precinct chairman who is not Ma
honite-that he has used the party ma
chinery to suppress the voice of the peo-
pie and packed delegations to the Norfolk
Convention, who will obey his orders
and submit to his tyranny without a
protest.
1t will be Malone Convention
throughout, Notwithstanding that more
than one-half of the voting strength of
the party is opposed to him, and would
consider his nomination calamity to
the Iarty. He, however, has no idea of
accepting the nomination. He knows
that instead of carrying the State by
% 900, he would be defeated by more
than that majority. The nomination
will be rendered but he will not have the
audacity to accept it. He has engineered
the election of delegates to have the Of
fer made, to make it appear that he is
the choice of the Republicans of Vir-
ginia, and to inspire confidence in the
North in his promise to place Virginia
in the Republican column, if only money
tnJugh Is furnished him.
Malone will be rendered the nomina-
ton he will decline it; he will demand
OF the National Committee and North
ern Republicans a bari" and then
make fierce fight, but we believe hope
les one. unless the ticket nominated
sho lid be composed of men in whom
the republicans OF the State have con-
fide ,e.
If he Northern press and Northern
Rep olicans select to be deceived by
Nah ne's tricks and misstatements, they
will ave no others to blame but them
selv ). They cannot believe what these
CORE pondents say They are gross and
fiagr mt Misrepresentation, and can
have no other effect than to raise ex-
bias ed, especially if he has the Hateful
imp idence to lead the ticket.
The same game of brag and falsehood
was played in 1886. Malone had nc
more 10 do with that campaign than the
man IN the moon, except to tangle up
the situation in the 4th district, and al
most ,se the election of the Republican
nom nee where there is a Republican
majority of 5000. He had arranged to
go to ne Pacific slope and leave the can
bee elected the year previous by 1900
majo -ity, and Malone regarding the con
test as hopeless for the Republicans. But
the r )ublicans of the several districts
did not think so. They went to work; or
game their forces; nominated their
candid ties. and elected seven out of the
ten III .inbers of Congress, and carried
the State. on the popular vote, by 20, 600
majoriir Forthwith Mahone's bench
men tel ,graphed all over the country
sAnoth r great victory for Malone, :
when the State organization was not
known ia the fight. Malone was not
mentioned or heard of anywhere outside
OF the 4th district. This encouraging
result brought him to life again and the
next year he announced himself a candi-
date fo the United States Senate He
put in operation the machine again
worked it for all it was worth, with the
result Of a two-thirds Democratic ma
jority in the Legislature. In the Shen-
andoah district his confidential friends
openly opposed the regular nominees for
the State Senate and the Legislature be-
cause they were Republicans but not of
the Mahone stripe. 1t was then as now,
''rlIle or ruin'
Last y4ar the Republicans would have
carried the State in spite of Malone had
he not us d the funds placed in his hands
by T. National Committee to defeat
Langston, the Republican nominee, and
elect Velable, the Democratic nominee
for Congress, whereby the Presidential
tickle fell off in that district 1000, and
the State was only lost by 1,50O. This
small margin he thinks now he can over
come. tie loses sight of the fact that
there ar $4,000 or 10000 Republicans,
at least, who voted for Harrison and
Morton, who will not touch Malone
with a f ,rty foot pole, and if he will
only acce ut the nomination of his packed
caucus al Norfolk, he will find that the
result will verify this assertion.
1t is possible to nominate ticket that
woald command the support of the par
ty, bu it must be composed of men who
are not Mahone's tools, and cannot be
made his TOOLS If such should not be Sc
lected the ticket will meet a more over
whelming rebuke than would Malone
himself The Northern press and peo-
pie may want to be deceived. If SO they
have tax III the right step to be gratifie d
by circul tting the misleading statements
that are being sent out from Richmond
and Petersburg, as to the observance of
the honorable compromise" and the
harmony resulting from it. There never
was a more bare-faced deception and
falsehood put down on paper, and never
one that will be more effectually exposed
than tn ) one will be in November next
Golf is Ahead
The special committee of the West
Virginia Legislature, which has been in
Sc sion Tor four months past examining
tn dispositions in the gubernatorial con-
test, completed reading the evidence
from all the counties but two, Mercer
and Ne lowell, ON Saturday. Gen. Golf S
plurality so far as the investigation has
gone has not been wiped out. and with
the tw counties yet to be heard, he still
has 4 advantage of about fifty votes.