The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-10-22
HASKELllSM is MAHONElSM!

HASKELLlSM is MAHONEISM!
Learn a Lesson from the Degradation Of
Virginia Caused by ''StraightoutS."
[dGJeuUe ueelium
At this crisis in the political history
of our State the fate of Virginia and
the rise and downfall of Malone is
full of instruction and of warning to
our people.
That shameful record began just as
the bolt in this State has been evolved
Gen. Malone was a Democrat Of
Democrats" and no one stood higher
in the party than he did or enjoyed
more fully the confidence of all Vir-
einians. He aspired to the Govern
orship, was, indeed, the leading candi-
date but was defeated in the Conven-
ton. He then claimed to be a
"straightout" and appealed to the ne
gro to avenge his wrongs, claiming all
the time that be was within the lines
of "pure Democracy" and that his OBJ
ject was topur5fy the party. He sue
ceeded in electing Cameron governor,
himself United States senator, and az
terwards Riddleberger, not as Repub-
licans but as ''Straightout Democrats" p"
Even after he was seated in the Sen
ate, when taunted with treachery by
Ben Hill he repudiated the charge
and declared that he was a "better
Democrat than Hill"
What was the result? Malone
and his white allies, who had used the
negroes to defeat the regular Democ-
racy found the negroes stronger than
themselves. They could not main
tain their own supremacy except
through the machinery Of the Republi-
can party and by the manipulation Of
the Republican Federal patronage So
they were forced against their ,ciU into
the Republican party, from which the
more decent of them, such as Came
ron and Moseby, are now seeking to
escape, besmirched and degraded by
their humiliating association. And
at last the negro has become stronger
even than Malone himself for the last
month the negro Langston was seated
il Congress against his opposition
and protest. Speaking of the return
of these misguided men to the Demo-
cratic party the Richmond DiS0atch
of last Friday, says:
Thousands of our white men some years
ago drlfted into the Republican party before
they were aware of it. Often have they
wished to come back 70 their first love-back
into the old family circle, back into the
companionship of the fine fellows who were
their comrades in battle and bivouac, in
weary marches and starving times, and in
the ecstacy Of victory and the sorrow Of
defeat. Many of these we rejoice to say,
are now with us again. In Richmond city
not less than sixty have renounced Repub-
licanism forever and taken their former
places in the Democratic line
What were the consequences to Vir-
ginia of that unholy alliance? Ten
years OF degradation and shame! Ma
honized, RepubIicauized, Africanized,
her debt well-nigh repudiated, her
credit weakened, her development re-
tarded, her people divided, and her
proud name dragged through the
mud
What must be the consequences to
us of like coalition? Can it be that
the Independents expect to perma-
nently control the negro vote? Hav-
ing once invited them to the suffrage
do they expect to exclude them here
after?
1t is a piece of monumental folly.
A child might see the issue, but
these men see nothing except their
own wounded and arrogant pride
their own senseless and reckless am
biticn. With them it is s'rule or ruin"
-aut Caesar ant nuHus.