Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1882 — Mahone’s Boss-Ship at an End. [ARTICLE]

Mahone’s Boss-Ship at an End.

The Mahone programme in the Virginia Legislature has fallen through, and the boss suffers both in prestige and in material resources. He had a scheme for gerrymandering the State, for reconstructing the judiciary, whereby all the Democratic J udges would be turned out to make way for Readjusters, and for creating in each county a lucrative office to be called a real-estate Commissi >rership. When he found opposition to these schemes in his ( own ranks, he

called the national administration to his aid. The Republicans at the capital backed him heartily. Mr. Hubbell, Chairman of the Republiban Congresional Committee, personally visited Riohmond and endeavored to have the Mahone programme carried out. The President gave the assurance that possession of the Federal Joffioes in Virginia was to be had only through Mahone, and that no Republicanism not indorsed as genuine by this Confederate Brigadier would be reoognized at Washington. Bribes and threats were all alike impotent. Mahone and his Republican allies at the Federal oapital could not oarry out their soheme. In this dilemma he proposed an adjournment until June, but the Legislature adjourned sine die, and the Governor would hesitate to call a special Hessian. The result of the failure to make a reapportionment leaves the Congressional districts as they are, and necessitates the eleotion of the additional member at large. Mahone, of oourse, does not give up the fight. He has every incentive to oontinue it. He will have the manipulation of the Federal offices, and can beg money in the North. But he has had a check that will take from him his prestige and leave him in a bad plight before the people of the Old Dominion.