Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-31
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first and last time the vision of a cabi-
net portfolio, for as sure as Sherman
had lived, General Malone would have
been the Sonth's representative In his
cabinet. For the second and last time
Malone followed Quay at the ma
tional convention which renomi-
mated his old enemy, Harrison,
and again was overwhelmed by
both personal modification and politi-
caldefeat. But now, In conclusion, said
this republican admirer of General Ma
hone, Senator Quay can and will do
this; he will arrange for an immediate
active campaign in Yirginis to the end
of securing q delegation headed by
General Malone for the next national
| convention. The sinews OF war will
bs provided, all that is necessary to be
done will be ordered, and Malone will
take the field in person for a last Ma
| ~ooleonic charge on behalf of Reed or
| whoever the Quay-Platte combination
shall determine to support, and If sue
cessful his reward will surely come.
Well informed republicans in this
city claim to have reliable Information,
making il certain that Senator Quay's
choice for the next Presidency is Tom
Reed, of Maine. Neither Quay nor
| Platt, of New York, is said to be willing
to again trust a Western man. There IL
not a Western President they say who
has ever kept his promises to the East
ern leaders. especially in Mr.. Platt's
case. Gar6eld's election came like a
deadly blight" terminating for a long
while the political career of Platt, and
forever e1tinguishing that of his then
famous colleague, Senator Conkling.
| Harrison was also a sadly disappointing
promise keeper, and under no circum-
stances would he be acceptable to the
eastern lealers for q second term.
Tas last Inflated combine" of
Quay and Platt was the repu-
diation of Harrison a Western
President on behalf of an Eastern man,
the late MI. Blaine. 1t was O combi-
nation for a half dead Secretary of State
against tho Chieftain who had trusted
and honored him, and who would
probably have died before election day
had he been nominated, and whose
promises would have all been swallowed
up 10 the gloom of an untimely grave.
| Malone, it will be remembered, with
his usual i'll luck joined his fortunes
| at Minneapolis with those of the beaten
.combine," and it will be further re-
membered that Harrison's supporters
simply wiped the floor with them, and
| Mahone's corpse, along with the rest,
was left fostering on the disastrous
field. Should Malone again follow
| Quay and Plstt, as he is most likely to
DO, his republican adyersaries in Vir.
einia will, it is believed, have q great
opportunity for stealing a march on
their old enemy. A republican OF
much ssgacity said to the GAzErTE's
correspondent today that the moment
1t was discovered Malone had formed
another alliance with Quay for Reed
there should be a bold outspoken dec.
laration by Virginia republicans for a
Western man, and that man should be
Mckinley, of Ohio. The nomination,
he said, should aud would 60 to the
West, and while Malone was dallying
with an Eastern impracticubility
in the person of Tom Reed, his oppo
nents would have o chance of assisting
a real Presidential probability like Nc.
Kinley, and getting a good, substantial
grip on the federal patronage of the
State. Continuing, he said, that ii
reputable republicans like ex-Congress.
men Yost and Brady, Judge James B.
Sener, General James A. Walker and
their like should promptly take the
/ field for q Western man. it would leave
Malone "high and dry" and securely
fastened on the barren shoals OF inn
pecuniosity, so far as the federal patron
age Of Virginia was concerned. Oh
c1urse if the candidate of the New
York and Pennsylvania combine should
win, why, in that case, the bargain
would be kept and President Reed
would give the lions share of the Vir-
GINA spoils to General Malone. Walk
or, Yost, ex-Congressman Bowen, ex-
Marshal Watts and indeed all the
young and hot blood of the republican
party in the Valley and Southwest could
easily be stirred up, he said, for Nc
Kinley since he, above all the other
candidates, stood for their views on
the tariff, and would under any, save
extraordinary circumstances, be their
first preference for the nomination. &
conference, he thought, might soon be
held on this subject.
Visitors here to-day from Loudoun
county report unfavorably as to the
attendance of persons at the Leesburg
fair, which has just ended. "John AL.
cohol" however, was somewhat con.
sp%icuously there, although an unex-
| pected guest. IL seems when the town
went prohibition at the election, it was
predicted that there would be 8 dry
fair in August. But such was not the
case, and spirits, though viewless to the
public eye, could, when called for be
brought up from the 'svasty deep" or
! other mysterious region. So the good
! people of that town have learned the
les ,on, old in all The communities where
the experiment has been tried, that alb
stemiousness doesn't always abstain,
o prohibition always prohibit.
The District democrats say the ap-
pointment Of Mr. McGill as register of
/ wills is satisfactory to them, as that
of any reputable District democrat
would be, and that all the few who
know him, speak favorably of him,
though the only time they aver heard
of him in politics was when he took
part 10 the notorious deal by which
Cleveland delegates were sent from
this city to the last national democratic
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