The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-08-22
What Gov. Cameron Says.

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Gov. Cameron, in an interview at Pc
tersburg on the 18th, is reported as fol-
lows:
The Dispatch correspondent APP
preached Ex-Governor Cameron to-day
on the subject of the recent Republican
meetings in this city and the alleged
compromise" patched up in Washing
ton by Quay, Dudley, and Others, with
the expectation and hope of making
Virginia Republican. That the manner
in which the delegates from Petersburg
to the Norfolk Convention were captured
by the MahOneites has Disguised the fair
minded Republicans there can be no
doubt. That such action here as we'll as
elsewhere will serve to weaken the party
seems to be a fact beyond dispute.
How about the ward-meetings on
Tuesday night?' was asked of Governor
Cameron.
he replied, ''since 1877. I purposely alb
sented myself on Tuesday night, know
ing what the tactics of the minority
would be. The politicians known as the
Mahoneites in this State are only ac-
quainted with three elements of man
agement-force, fraud, and finance. The
strikers furnish the force, the great chief
tain furnishes the machinery for fraud,
and the deluded northern Republicans
furnish the finance. What | hear of these
meetings is to the effect that, as usual,
the anti-Mahone voters elected all the
delegates and secured none"
at is an insult" continued the eX
Governor, ''to the intelligence and man
hood of the respectable Republicans in
Virginia to presume for one minute that
they will submit to such treatment.
Look at the proceedings in Lynchburg,
Portsmouth, Shenandoah, and, in fact,
everywhere else, and it will be seen that
the same piratical system has been fol
lowed. The history of Pennsylvania in
the Pattison campaign and of Tilden in
the New York campaign indicates the
remedy for this condition of affairs. Our
people everywhere should refuse to have
anything to do with MahOnes conven-
ton at Norfolk or support the ticket that
General Malone may name. This is my
advice to them, and | hope and believe
that many good Republicans in the State
certainly sufficient number to accom-
plish the object in view-will act on it.
| speak only for myself, but feel sure
that | voice the sentiments of the great
majority of the Republicans in Virginia
who have made the party successful in
the past and constitute it's only hope for
the future. | only allude to such men
as the Lewises, the Yosts, Pendleton,
Groner, Libbey, the Bookers, the Hub
bards, Brown of Loudoun, and many
Others
''But, Governor, how about that com
promise ~
"Well," he said, II haven't heard of
any, I have known that several officials
very near to the head of the National
Administration have compromised their
veracity, and l do know that General
Malone, notwithstanding the so-called
agreement, has pursued his old false
methods. So judge that the only thing
that has been compromised is the char
acter of some people for truthfulness
and of others for fair dealing; and that
the only way to give effective rebuke to
such proceedings is to refuse to vote for
the result
''Will not such course antagonize the
Administration?
Not necessarily" said the ex-Gover-
nor. 1.-THE President of the United
States can make his own choice about
the matter. Mahone's political promise
to pay is going to protest in November,
and if Mr.. Harrison chooses to be the
endorser it is nobody's fault but his own
if he should be joined in the protest"
Ex-Governor Cameron was very EN-
phatic in making these statements, and
having read them said he wished them
to go to the public as his own.