Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-31
A Few Words of Advice to the People of
Virginia.
BY ONE OF THRNI

Inc True anu only principles involved IN
the coming fall canvass will be found in the
following questions:
1st-shall intelligence or ignorance gov.
ern the State?
2d-Shall property or poverty impose the
taxes?
5d-Shall white men or negroes expend
the revenues?
Proper laws can be framed only by intel.
ligent representatives just taxes can be
imposed only by the representatives of those
who pay; and economical administration is
possible only from an executive elected by
those who have supplied the revenue.
! The negroes, who are behind the three
| Confederates" of the republican ticket have
neither intelligence to knowand understand
the needs and wants of the people, nor
property upon which they pay taxet; and If
entrusted with the expenditure of the
revenues CT the State, will revel in the
spendthrifts pleasure of spending money,
to the impoverishment of the taxpayers and
the ruin of the State.
| do not care to discuss the platform of
either party. Divested of all extraneous
matter, this canvass narroWs down TO Nc
Kinney-the candidate of intelligence and
property-and Mahone-the candidate OF
ignorance and poverty. Neither candidate
is or can be superior to or independent OF
the party behind him. The man who is
elected must obey the behests of those who
elected him. This is the fundamental prn.
ciple of American politics. Malone az gov,
ernor must be the executive of ignorance
and poverty; he must antagoni2s the best
interests of intelligence and property; and
| he must out-negro the negro, because he
holds his exequatur from the negro popu.
lation. In representative government, the
executive must take the hue and color of
the party who elected him. Theoretically,
he is the executive of the whole State, but
practically, only Of those who voted for him.
Is Harrison the President of democrats? He
has dismissed every democrat from office
whose head his guillotine could reach. Can
Malone respect the interests of property
when his party demands taxes for any and
every SCH me which ignorance may fancy
or "hanker aftef?"
There are some intelligent men and some
property holders among the republicans OF
the State, but in comparison with the whole
republican party, these men are not enough
either in votes or Influence to exert an ap
precable check on the wild and wilful
schemes of their negro associates. Then
sgnin there are some men who deceive
themselves with protective tariff hopes.
These last, though few in number, are the
most intelligent portion Of that party.
The Good Book asks, "If man gain the
whole world and lose his own soul, what
profit it' And if the citizens Of Virginia
could get protective tariff which enabled
him to quadrupe his returns, what profit
would it be to him under negro taxation?
The State needs immigration and capital,
and neither looks to democracy or republi.
canism as inducements to settlement. I'm.
migration and capital steadily scan the
prospect to see if poverty imposes the taxes
and ignorance experd5 the revenue. Well,
set king new houses and places to rear their
children, will give q wide berth to any
State where ignorance is enthroned in power,
aud where poverty's hand is free with the
pecpie's money. Ii, therefore, you would
appreciate the value Of your lands; If you
would develop the resources of your State,
let the world see that your State affairs are
administered by the representatives of your
intelligence; that your taxes are imposed
| and your revenues expended by the repre-
sentatives of those who pay the taxes. Ii l.
| not the democrat or the republican who mi
CRATE, but the man who ia seeking to better
his condition in life and his first enquiry
lie, to what kind of u government will ne be
subjected?
The ignorance of the negro, hiainaptilude
for legislation, and his disqual fcation for
executive duties, are too well known
throughout this country, TO be disguised by
the Governorshp of General Malone. or
the candidacy of Three Confuderates." The
party behind the candidates is the power,
| the inspiration and the reason OF the exist
ence of the candidates. The three Confeder-
| Ill A iof he mr. hnf =.
ter than the party which supports them.
Whatever they were from 1861 to lS6o, they
took the color of the people who were be,
hind them: and so from 1889 to 1898 they
must wear the black robe of the ignorant
and prope,tyIess people who vote for them.
Malone as Governor. with negro legisls-
ture, must eHforce negro laws, or by his We
| toes leave the State without laws. 10 either
event black rule would be ruin TO the mate
rial interests OF the State.
This canvass, therefore, rises ia dignity
and Importance far above either democratic
or republican politics. In national politics
Virginia is but one of forty States. and her
welfare is wrapped up in that OF sll the
S ates; nseparabie and indiVslbe from the
national party, which the intelligence and
property of the union may eptrust with
power. But in State canvass, the State
suffers alone. Her people, only, can be
ruined by negro supremacy.
If President Harrison hesitates to commit
the policy of bis party at the South to ne
eroes, what justification can the people of
Virginia find for entrustipg their domestic
matters to those whom Harrison refuses 10
commit federal Office?
The school question has been solved with
excellent schools wisely conducted and edu'
eating the children OF the State. II let
alone the 81 stem will extend, the blessings
of education grow wider and wider, and in
time there will be few children, white or
black in Virginia, who will not be brought
within the reach of a common echool edu-
cation.
What possible benefit can the common
schools derive from Mahone's election ?
With negro legislature, that ominous cub.
ject of mixed schools might be thrust upon
the people, to end only in the destruction OF
the whole system. If that black and threat
AMINO uuestion ia not behind negro success