Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-09-18
MahoueIsm is not Repablicanism.

and will live to deliver US from the wrongs
and calamltie3 lately brought upon us.
MahOueism is not Repablicanism.
From the Valley virginian of Sept. I2th.J
Some of the Malone apologists affect to
fear that the VTginian is about to abandon
the Republican party and become identified
with the Democratic party. They may
rest their souls in peace as to that. The
Virginidn is Republican paper-its editor
believes in Republican principles, and that
the policies which legitimately grow out of
them will promote the interests and aug
ment the political aud material power of
the State. 1t does not believe that Ma
honeism has any honest purpose in that di-
rection. When its followers talk of prin-
oiple, they are simply repeating the parrot
refrain of their MASTER who would like to
obscure the true issue before the people by
masking behind an affected concern for
tariff, and other questions relating to
national administration. There is nothing
Republican in the plan under which Ma
hone operates-there was nothing Repub-
lioan in the manner in which the primary
meetings to appoint delegates to Norfolk
we're held-there was nothing Republican
in the packed caucus which nominated
Malone, and there is nothing Republican
either in his methods or his objects. He
came into the Republican party as a buc-
cancer. His course since he has professed
to be Republican has been that of a politi-
cal pirate. His motive was to destroy the
Republican, and build upon its ruins
Malone party. His first movement was at
Mozart Hall in 1877, when be professed to
adopt the various issues which the Republi-
cans had pressed upon the people in the
election of that year. He was supreme in
shaping Democratic policy and framing
Democratic platforms and tickets when the
| funding bill of 1871 was adopted; when the
capitation tax and whipping post laws
were enacted; and when the public schools
were robbed of their support and the en-
tire system threatened with disaster. He
was in accord with his party until it re-
fused to nominate him for Governor, with
out any modification of or protest against
| it's record on these interests. 1t was not
until he could not control the nomination
for his own selfish purposes that he dis
covered that wrongs had been perpetrated
and that the Republicans had grievance,
which appealed to the fairness, the honor
and the interests of the State. It was
then, when he had been repudated By the
party which had owned his mastery, that
he conceived the plan aud purpose Of an
tagonizipg if. 1t was then thai his pratt
cal career commenced. He left his party;
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| forms which the Republicans demanded;
the repeal of the legislation which he had
been instrumental ia having enacted, in
that he was the supreme dictator of the
Democratic party at the time; invaded
the Republican Convention held in
Staunton in 1880, with the purpose of
disrupting it, and preventing the ap-
pointment Of delegates to the National
Convention; plotted to have his bogus
Hancock ticket in 1890, supported by Re-
publicans; by false pretense, influenced the
Republican National Committee and North
ern Republicans to furnish him funds
which were raised and designed for the Re-
publican organization; aud thus assisted in
defeating the Republican electoral ticket in
| Virginia He engineered to disrupt the
Republican party at Lynchburg in 1881,
and so implicated Republican issues with
his movement, as to make it the lesser evil
to support it, as viewed from surrounding
conditions, than to submit to the offensive
and cruel laws that had been framed aud
fastened upon the State. He was all this
time scheming and contrving to break M
the Republican party aud build up a Ms
hone party. In 1884 he threw off all dis
guise, when be thought the time was rire
for him to declare himself a Republican and
| take command OF the party. From that
time to the present he has been in com.
mand and led it to successive defeats when-
ever be actively engaged in its direction.
His plan Of organization was designed to
perpetuate his power-to make h i'm the
supreme dictator of all interests and all in
| fluences related to the party. When it
suited his selfish purpose he would remove
county chairmen whom the Republican
voters wanted-he would oppose the nom-
inees of the party when he was convinced
he could mo- use them. Fidelity to him;
slavish obedience to his behests aud pur,
poses were the tests he imposed of Republi-
canism. He def1ed the law of the National
| Republican party, when it conflicted with
his designs. He traduced aud slandered
the greatest man in the party when he
thought it would contribute to his selfish
ends to do so. He conspired to demoralizs
and disrupt the party, that he might more
easily control it to further his ambition;
and by his tyranny and persecution he
drove from active cooperation lifelong Re-
publicans in order the more securely to en-
trench himself in authority and fortify him
self in supreme command.
By his despotic methods he engineered
the appointment of delegates to the Nor.
folk Convention, aud the nomination by
| that packed caucus of the ticket at the
head of which he was placed. 1t is this
ticket thus brought forward, that is to be
made the test of Republicanism and fidelity
to Republican principles and of Republican
orthodoxy. 1t is simply to declare that the .
Republican party of Virginia is absorbed [
in Mahone-that he is the embodiment of +
of its faith, its principles its policy and its
purposes, and not to bow to his Authority
and proclaim him the high priest of the
party is treason.
The Vuginian does not propose to do
this. 1t does not believe in such Republi-
canism. 1t will sskick" against all snch
slavish submission to a petty dictator and l.
appeal to the people for justification in the
name aud for the cause of true Republican
ism in the State and Nation.
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