Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-06-01
THE VIRGINIA DELEGATES.
Gen. Allan Says n Majority VIII Supper
Harrison-Thc Mahone-Brady Fight.

Gen. Allan Says n Majority VIII Support
Harrison-Thc Mahone-Brady Fight.
Gen. Edgar Allan, a special assistant to the
Attorney General and chairman Of the republi-
can city committee of Richmond, is delegate
to the Minneapolis convention from the Rich
mond district. Gen. Allan is well posted on
the political situation in the south. In CONVEX
sation with STAR reporter today he said:
1.-The majority Of the delegates from Vir-
ginia will support President Harrison for q re-
nomination. His vote in our delegation would
have been larger but for an unfortunate clash
ing between the administration and Gen. Ma
hone, who is the chairman Of our state central
committee. The relations between the President
and Gen. Malone have never been cordial during
the presidential term. The strained condition
grew out Of the appointment of Col. James D.
Brady as collector of internal revenue for the
district which embraces the city Of Petersburg,
where Gen. Malone resides. In point of pa
tronage it is, perhaps, the most important office
in the state So bitter was the feeling between
Gen. Malone and Col. Brady that the
general thought he was entitled out
Of courtesy in view of the former senatorial re-
lationship between himself and the President,
as well as his position as party leader, to have
some other person not obnoxious to him placed
in this position AZ neighbor of his own. Since
this campaign opened it has rather seemed to
the friends of Gen. Malone that the
administration could only be effectively reached
through what is termed the Brady faction, and
1t Is generally understood that this faction has
impressed the President and his advisors with
the idea that those republicans in Virginia who
were not of them were not for him. In reality
up to this development Virginia might have
been termed solid Harrison state, but from
that point in the canvass it seemed as though
the test of loyalty to Mr.. Harrison was made
an assurance of disloyalty to Gen. Malone.
whenever such test is made Gen. Malone
will be on top much larger politically than he is
physically, and the reason il this: That Of the
10000 white democrats who left that party
when Gen. Malone came out it is a mild esti-
mate to say that fully so per cent of that white
vote are for Malone first and the republican
party next. SO that they would resent in the
party organization or by voting against its NOM
inee any imagined slight or indignity to the
leader they almost worship.
In our state convention the vote against in
structlng our delegation was more than two to
one, hundreds of pronounced friends OF Har-
rison denomination voting against instructions,
because the anti-Nlahone faction sought to have
them adopted. The delegates from the Rich
mond district are both in favor of the renoni-
nation Of President Harrison, and vet in full
sympathy with Gen. Malone as their party
leader"
Gen. Allan is past junior vice commander-in-
chief Of the Grand Army of the Republic and
the present commander Of the department of
Virginia and North Carolina. He returned
yesterday from Virginia. where he had been to
superintend memorial day ceremonies ut the
City Point National cemetery, under the aus
pices of Phil. Kearney Post Of Richmond. with
Col John 2. Church of this city as orator of
the day. He expects that about 500 comrades
from his department will be in line of parade at
the September encampment. several posts ex-
pecting to come in body.