Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1873-09-09
GENERAL MALONE ON CAG-
SARISM.
He Thinks Grant Can be Eiec-
ted a Third Time if He
Wants to;
And That He Will Probably
Want To.


Correspondence Of the y. Y, Herald Of August 50
Views Of Gen. Malone of Vir-
ginia.
On THE CARS, ATLANTIC MISSISSIPPI
PI AND ONO II. r., Aug. p, 1873. !
Travelling east of Montgomery
White sulphur Springs over the
above route, which extends from
Bristol, Tenn, 10 Norfolk, Va, | met
the famous Virginia railroad king.
General William Malone, the Presi-
dent of the road. He was seated in
the smoking Car, enjoying his cigar
and chatting with Colonel John \.
Mc(aul, of Roanoke, the county so
well known as that of John Randolph.
What WAS the subject of their CONVEX
satiOn when | introduced myself |
don't know, but l presume railroad
matters OF State politics, i'll which
both gentlemen are considerably i'll
teTested.
General Malone is a thin, wiry lit
tie man, not more than five feet three
or four inches in height, sallow com
pleXion, high cheek bones, piercing
blue eyes, full but thin dark beard and
| weighing not more than ninety
pounds. He wears a br0ad-brimmed
Panama hat. the leaf hooked up on
the left side. which is said TO have
cost Sl25, and was presented to him
by a prominent gentleman of New
York linen coat nearly as loose as q
buster, buttOned to the neck, and
dark pantaloons complete his attire,
giving him a somewhat remarkable
appearance. He was a successful Off
Ger during the days of the late Con-
fedeTacy, when he gained the reputa-
ton of one of the hardest fighters
of the war; but his success since then
as q railroad deplomat and financier
has made him a greater celebrity than
ever.
As was already slightly known to
the General, he remarked -
.'Well, sir, L see the Herald is fight
ing Caesarism, and think very prop
erly, too; but if a third term consti-
tutes Casarism, and Grant wishes it,
| think its labor is in vain"
Correspondent-Do you think Grant
will be elected to third term?
GeneraI-Elected, certainly, if he
wishes, and | have no doubt but that
he does. He has everything in his
own hands, and is at the head of a
party that will go to pieces without
him.
Correspondent-It is your opinion,
then that in the event of a third term
for General Grant the Republic will
disappear and an empire be established
in its stead?
General-I'm not so sure that an en-
pire will be established; that all de-
Dends on the ambition of General
Grant, with whose ideas 1 am no.
sufficiently familiar to give an opint
ION the subject.
Observation-Disclosures influences in
the country would be in favor of
Grants reelection?
General-The monetary influences
of the country would be decidedly in
favor of his reelection, as it was in fla
vor of his last election. Even here in
our own State all the national banks
were strongly in favor of Grant, and
they will be so again. Then all the
federal officials both at home and
abroad. who are almost countless,
would be a unit for his reelection
Besides there are numerous other in
fiuences of minor importance, all OF
which combined to cooperate with
General Grants own desire to become
President a third time, or perpetual
President; could not fail to accom-
plisn their object, and ride roughshod
over any public opposition that might
be organized against him. AS to the
latter part of your interrogation it is
nv opinion that these same influences
are now in favor of an empire, per-
haps in advance of Grants own ideas
on the subject.
Correspondent General Grant
was ambitious enough to assume the
role of a Caesar, do you think the peo-
ME of the North would thus tamely
submit to be deprived of their liber-
ties?
General-Yes, they would submit
The change would only be days sem
sation. Then the difference would
not be so great after all, and it would
come so easily and quietly that no no
tice beyond some newspaper thunder
would be taken of it, and way would
soon be found to silence the newspa-
pers. The federal courts now assume
PARTISAN jurisdiction over all matters
in the South, even disposing of State
Governments, and If the occasion aris-
es at the North they will do so there al
so I am scarcely certain but that they
do so now at the North. Consequent
ly there would be very little change in
case of an empire, and as TO resistance
the people of the North would never
dream OF that.