The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-10-03
The Virginia. Outlook.

relief from its power and its machina-
tons.
The Virginia Outlook.
One very notable fact in the history of the /
Republican party of Virginia is its continuous
and rapid growth since 1879 Its voting strength (
has steadily increased, is still increasing and. |
as the causes and conditions of increase persist T
and INTENSITY this strength is sure to go on /
augmenting. The old Democratic majority of l.
10000 has become smaller by degrees and beau
tifully less Notwithstanding the count and the I
returns are made by Observation-Disclosures +
ing more or less diSSenSiOn i'll the Republican |
household of Virginia itself In fine as the I
Democrats could only manufacture about 1.5OO |
majority for themselves in the state last year,
i'll presidential election we may well conclude
that fraud has about reached its limits, ana
that the next polled increase of the Republican i
strength will surpass all efforts to subvert it,
The above extract is from the Wash |
ington Press of the 27th. 1t was evil /
identity inspired in Virginia and intended
for effect outside of the State. The ma
iority of 40 900 for Tilden was the result /
of Democratic manipulations of the bal |
lot when Gen. Malone was the control !
ing spirit in that organization. In 1872
the Republicans carried the State, and
gave its electoral vote to Grant. In 1878,
by the same methods that Tilden carried
the State in 1876 Hughes was defeated
and kemper elected Governor. Hughes
has always claimed that he was not fair
" defeated. 1t was in 1876 that the con-
stitutional amendments were adopted,
which imposed the 81 capitation tax on
the ballot. and the legislation enacted
establishing the whipping post. All this
legislation was enacted when Malone
was supreme in Democratic councils. In
1877, the Republican party, finding them
selves hampered by these practical dis
franchsing acts determined not to place
a ticket in the field for Governor, but to
press for the repeal of the whipping
post law, the removal of the restriction
on the ballot, the rehabilitation of the
public schools, and some adjustment
of the debt. which was accommodating
at the rate OF about 81, 100000 year in
defaulted interest Malone was a can
didate for the Democratic Gubernatorial
nomination in 1877. but was defeated
He then meditated d bolt. which culmi-
mated in the Mozart caucus and the for
nation of the Readjuster party. James
Barbour, Dr. s. H. Moffett, A. Fulker
son, John Z Massey. Capt. Newberry,
and hundreds of others now influential
in the Democratic party, were in the
movement. In 1879, with the co-opera-
/ ton of the Republicans, the Legislature
was carried, and in 1881, Cameron was
/ elected Governor with a Legislature in
/ harmony with the policy he represented.
/ The whipping post law was repealed: the
necessary legislation was enacted for the
/ repeal of the capitation tax restriction,
which was finally effected by large
majority of the popular vote in 1883,
/ composed of Democrats, Republicans
and Readjusters; the debt was read
| justed and the public schools restored.
/ When it came to the distribution of the
Offices in 1881. Mahone's mailed hand was
revealed He placed it on Massey and he
! kicked Newberry, Hale, Williams and
/ Lvbrook kicked and broke up ma Or-
ity Of the Readjusters in the State Sen
ate In 1882, John S. Wise. by his per
sonal popularity and great ability as
stumper, succeeded in defeating Massey,
who ran as an Independent for Congress
man at-large. The Democrats were not
! friendly to Massey and many of them re-
fused to vote for him. because of his
Identification with the Readjusters the
year previous. From that time to this,
4Mahone has lead the party to defeat,
except in 1886, when he was not active
in the canvass, and the Republicans car
ried the State by 10000 on the popular
vote and elected six members of Con
gress
There has never been a satisfactory
exhibit of the strength that Gen. Ma
hone commanded and brought into the
coalition movement. In 1880 his bogus
Hancock Electoral Ticket received about
81, 900 votes, but many of them were
Republicans The National Republican
Committee and wealthy Northern Re-
publicans assisted the movement with
money, and influenced many Republi-
cans to sympathize with it as a liberal
movement. The dicker that was at
tempted in that year has been exposed.
While protesting at home to be unalter-
ably Democratic, he was protesting to
Northern Republicans that he was a Re
publican in effect, and that if his electo-
raj ticket was successful, it would not
practically be Democratic. By such assur-
ances, leading Republicans and some of
the National Committee were deluded
into giving him financial aid. Among
the 81, 600 were Cameron, Wise, Groner.
Riddleberger, Frazier, Pendleton, Mas
sey, Fulkerson, Newberry, Hale, Ly
brook, Williams, and many other prom
inent men of the State, some of whom are
now opposed to Malone and Mahoneism
and in accord with Republican ideas
and Republican principles. How many
/ Of the less prominent of the 81 900
are with him it would be impossible to
estimate, but it would be safe to say that
there are not 5000 of the original 81 900
that bow the knee to Baal
The increase of the Republican vote
| in this State, is not, therefore, due to
Malone. 1t has been because of the
| principles of the party, and i'll spite OF
Malone Hundreds upon hundreds OF
Young men who have voted the Repub-
/ lican ticket for the past four or five years
arenow determinedly arrayed against Ma
honeism, as not the Republicanism they
have espoused, and cannot be. induced
to support him for Governor. Malone
has in fact. been an obstruction to Re-
publican growth in Virginia. Thous
ands of intelligent white men, who be-
lieve in the policies and principles
of the party, will not unite with it,
because it would imply slavish subms-
sion to tyrannical boss They stay and
vote with the Democracy as the less of
| the two evils. Relieve the party of the
clutch of Malone and they would be in
active cooperation with it and make it
the dominating political power in the
State. They will never do so with Malone
! in control of the machinery and as di-
rector of the forces of the party. The
strength of Republicanism is not in Ma
hone or Mahoneism, and the sooner he
is eliminated from the dictatorship, the