The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-10-31

both, and restore the people to their
rightful authority Bossism is not Re
publicanism and to renounce and Kill 1t
would be the most praise worthy service
any people could render to Republican
institutions and the cardinal principles
which underlie our form of government.
The most unjust and cruel treatment
to which people were ever subjected,
is the organized purpose of Republicans
outside of Virginia to force Mahonelsm
upon this State as controlling power
They know nothing of the local condi-
tions which exist, or the selfish and vim
dictive nature of the man they would
thrust into the Executive Chair of the
Commonwealth They do not seem to
have the remotest conception OF tibet
ranny and persecution which would fol-
low, or the humiliation to WEIGH all who
will not say great is Mahonen and bow at
his feet, would be subjected. They assume
that it is contention between Republi-
canism, as they understand it, and De
mocracv. 1t is not so. Mahoneism is
not Republicanism. 1t is simply the re-
Election of the plots and schemes of Ma
hone. His election would be the defeat
of every principle of genuine Republi-
canism, and enthrone petty tyrant who
would use the power the people would
give to Cypress and outrage them.
But not all the power that is being
invoked will be sufficient to accomplish
the purpose they have in view The
people of Virginia will give response
to this cruel attempt to humiliate and
crush them, on the 9TH of November, that
will speak louder and more forceful
than newspaper paragraphs or the ma
chinations that are being concocted to
enslave them to Mahoneism. And when
the passions of the hour have passed, the
eXcitements of the canvass subsidized we
expect to receive the thanks of fair men
everywhere. and especially of the truly
loyal Republicans of the country. for
the part we have taken in accomplishing
the overwhelming defeat of Malone and
Mahoneism, and saving the Republican
party of the Nation from their baneful
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Mahone's Strength.
There are Republicans who are sup
j porting and hurrahing for Malone, who
despise him. They know the treachery
and maignity of the man, and know
ginia-that he is the one obstruction to
Republican success, and that with him
at the head of the party there is no pos
sibility of Virginia ever becoming Re
publican State. They know the meth
DDS adopted to secure his nomination
the tyranny he practices through his
plan of organization-and that the Re-
publicans of the State under it. are
practically the slaves of one man. They
know these things, yet are leagued with
those who are urging the Republicans to
vote for Malone. Many of them do SO,
solely because of the patronage he is
presumed to control and the hope they
encourage of sharing in it. Take from
Malone the patronage of the Federal
government, and leave him to the peo-
pie of Virginia, with no other influence
than that emanating from himself, and
he would not receive $4,000 votes in No
vember Even the colored people, who
have very little expectation of getting
office, are held to him by false represen-
tations.a land fearful intimations of wrongs
that would be inflicted should he not be
elected His recent manipulation by
which he procured endorsement from a
number of colored preachers in Eastern
Virginia, and an appeal from them to
the membership OF their respective
churches, TO support Malone, was one
of his insidious and desperate resorts to
save himself from disgraceful defeat.
How sincere members of the christian
church could give countenance to a man
of Mahone's known character; how col
ored men can have confidence in one
who has proved to be their worst enc
my, is one of the strange infatuations of
the times. They know. or ought to
know. that he has no use for them, ex-
cept for his selfish purposes. He will put
them forward TO incite race feeling and
,
order to make capital for himself in the
North and keep in the back ground
himself. He was supreme in Democratic
councils when the capitation tax restric-
! ton was adopted: when the whipping
post law was enacted; when the Peters
burg charter became II law, by which
the people of that city, irrespective of
I race were DISTINGUISHED, because ma
jority of them were Republicans. He has
never repented of these acts, but when
he found the Democratic party was tired
of him and he could not control it, to
get revenge he left it, and to ingratiate
himself into the favor of Republicans,
declared for the repeal of the capitation
tax provision in the constitution and
the whipping post law, and it was effected
by the aid OF 100000 Republicans and
about $4,000 Readjusters. 1t was be-
cause he had Il chance to make some
thing for himself. and satiate his re-
vengeful feeling that he did this. And
yet with this history. he poses as the
friend of the negro and the negro is
u61uucU lI1UO lIle D6llel llldt uc is SiIl-
cere So far as ne can use him to ac-
complisb his object he is his friend
When that limit is reached, he turns
upon the colored man with the most
cruel contempt, and warns him off as if he
were a leper.
When it is known. as it will be after
the election. that Malone is held in
about the same regard at Washington
and in the North, as he is in Virginia,
and when the influence of Federal pa
tronage will not be at his unchallenged
command, he will sink out of sight and
out of mind, except as having been
disturbing element in public affairs and
pest to the State and Nation.
Mahone's election means the breaking of the
solid South Washington Press.
If the solid South cannot be broken
except through the methods Malone
employs. and the influence Malone in
vokes, then we hope it will never be
broken, for it would be the death knell of
the Republican party in the Union. No
brave, self-respecting people will ever en-