Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-09-12
UNWORTHY LEADERSHIP.

The Republican forces in Mary
land and Virginia are unfortunate
in being controlled and led by few
men who if they do not play dire.
Is into the hands of the Democrats,
accomplish the same ends by
demoralizing their own forces. We
have had a taste Of the same medi.
cine nearer az home. For little
courtesy, little business or social
support, few Republican workers
who shout loud in party convention,
will lend their ear aud good will
secretly TO the Democratic generals
and glory IN theR success.
In Virginia Malone has side.
tracked the car of Republican pro-
greSS before and is doing so again.
He has Issued a circular as RepubIi.
eau Chairman that no nominations
be made for the legislature this
year.
The republicans are up in arms
against thus tying their hands. III.
G. Parsons, of Natural Bridge, ad.
dresses Malone strong letter from
which we make hese extracts -
Have you studied the trials of our
partyf The examples of West Vir.
ginia are. beside US. Her present
constitution was submitted upon
the declaration by the president of
the State Senate that eleven is a
majority of twenty two, Her pres.
ent government was seated by the
casting vote of legislator who fear.
ed assassination. Aud yet can you
conceive of an order to diSband or q
public arrangement of his State sign
ed by Archie Campbell, or Arthur
|. Boreman, or Nathan Golf.
You have heard of of the Tweed re.
gime in New York, the overthrow of
government in Maine for hundred
days. of frauds in Cincinnati and
Chicago, and of power through vic.
lence of Indiana, but did their lead
ers then bargain with a faction or
fly the fieldg
You remember, for ycu we're then
a Democratic chairman, the dark de.
cade that followed reconstruction.
Overwhelmed and prosecuted at ev-
cry point, we returned again and
again to hopeless contest; but did
any chairman or committeeman of
those days-Wm. q. Wickham,
Alexander II. Rives, John i. Lewis,
Franklin Stems, Judge Rye, or Sen
er, or Botts-throw up his hands or
lower his standard of defiance
| have proven my loyalty to my
party and to yourself as its candi.
dates; l have cried out against the
fatal discord Of the past eight years;
| have hoped that the lesson of de.
feat would bring US together, and |
was not prepared for this midnight
awakening.
Oar election law is without par.
allel in free government. The decis.
ions of our opponents have been az
times as arbitrary as the DEGREES of
BaImaceda. In your own defeat the
Democrats resorted to unparalleled
and unnecessary devices, but their
violence does not warrent us in de-
nouncing our State. [ have found
my neighbors amenable to argu-
nent, and believed that in time pas
sion and prejudice would give way
to the common sense of justice Not
in one day can people pass out of
reconstruction. 1t is a difficult
thing to put on new civilization,
aud we have worked and waited a
quarter of century for the hour
when speech should be free and ar.
gument calm.
Whenever there is political Sc
cret, men are apt to imagine other
conspiracies. If your advice means
anything, it means that the Repub-
llcan vote shall be delivered to the
Alliance. Ii this is done, upon what
terms are we soldR Have the dem.
Ocrats who come to denounce the
national banks and the tariff. and
tue policies dear to the Republican
party-to demand the confiscation
of the railroads, and the conversion
OF the money standard of the Union
into the money standard of Argen.
tine or our own Confederacy-any
special claim npon Republican sup.
portf Do they promise to change
our election laws, and, if so, by what
authority, and who holds the bond
What if it should happen that, after
the surrender Of all principles Tor
which we have commended, these 9th. |
er Democrats should laugh our petit.
ton to scorng Who holds the stupen-
dous stakes that must lie at the final
cast Of political principles
The Southern Alliance does not
cease to denounce every Republican
principle aad to openly protest in
pure Democracy. AS "a positive
proof OF this, the chairman goes TO
the distant State of Ohio with all
the papers and power of his organi.
cation to strike down John Sherman,
the grandest figure on the republi
can side of the Senate.
You are regarded as too astute to
have surrendered Internationally. |
What are the real termsf II the |
end is to Justify the means, what is
the end! II the reeompense is
great enough to make US deny our
faith and our fealty, what is the re.
wardg If there is line of retreat, !
it should be clearly defined. We |
cannot follow you blind and dumb. I
The Alliance is also fighting for I.
1892. IL does not raise State issues.
1t supports Senator Daniel. When
We have given every thing, have you
any assurance that they will so
change our election Laws that the
of an Alliance candidate to
the presidency shall be impossiblef
Is it not as plain as the midday sun /
that this is our opportunity, that the
balance of power in the legislature
should be fought for, that we should
be in position to demand aud
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