The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-08-08
Two Pictures.

The Conservative Convention being IN
session, we think 1t would interest the
members to look upon "two pictures" OF
one OF the candidates that will be presented
for their support. We copy these pictures
below. They are understood to be from the
same pen. One artist displayed the versa
tility of genius which portrayed two widely
different portraits OF the'sa hero:
Look on this picture: '. ..'
The fact is, Malone is one OF those men mel
who only emerge at distant intervals ike
Julius Cesar or Napoleon lBonaparte, 10
show what nature can do, and to serve some
w;se end OF Providence. AS Governor OF
VIRGINIA he will not be an Ineligible sue
ecssor in 1880 to the wise and patriotic man
who now fills the Chief Magistracy OF the
Union. wing of July 24h.
And now on this
s. Railroad IshmneI.
There is a certain malign influence at
work in Virginia which seeks to interrupt
every scheme OF public improvement whose
projectors will not pay tribute to Its own
selfish and arrogant desires.
II is a railway Ishmael-an ill-humored,
rapacious, snappish malcontent-that, nav
ing received aid far beyond It's merit, ana
accomplished results far beneath its oppor-
tunities, has not yet realized the CHIEF cause
of its comparative failures. nor correctly
measured the cost Of combating every
other railroad interest in the State OF Vlr-
ginia.
would lend semblance of wisdom to the
most aggressive of Arabs but 1t seems that
this pusnacious potentate remembers no.
thing in the past, and learns nothing for
the future. Its obstinacy is Bourbon-lts
ambition is radical.
Not content, rs we have said, with having
obtained from the State OF Virginia such
privileges as no chartered corporation ever
asked from Legislature-not satisfied with
having secured such release from debt,
such postponement Of obligation, such an
enlargement of credit as no railroad COM
pany ever obtained in America-thls pet
nlaytbing OF the Commonwealth must needs
grow saucy with the fayors it has had, and
arrogate TO itself the privilege OF absolutely
controlling the people whose means 1t has
confiscated.
Pampered with special benefits, it would
deny to every one else the most ordinary
opportunities. Owing its existence to re-
leases by cities and State OF overwhelming
mortgages, 1t opposes, IN the tone OF ulc-
tator. all humble applicants who seek from
Virginia the simple authority to spend pri-
yate funds in furtherance OF other public
improvements. 1t opposed the Shenandoah
Valley road it bitterly fought the legisla-
ton by which the Chesapeake and Ohio Com
pany has been enabled to join Cincinnati to
Richmond; it antagonized the Washington
and Potomac line, on which all trade and
travel between Virginia and the North
has depended for the last fortnight; it OPP
posed the charter OF rai-route from Rich
mond to Washington; it threw icc-Water
on the Norfolk and Great-W estern scheme;
it sought to extinguish the Orange and
Alexandria line; it damned the Lynchburg
and Danville connection. In short, it has
thrust its tentative nose into everybody
else's pie-meddling somewhat in party
politics, and helping no little to middle
State finances in the mean time-until dis
interested observer might we'll be excused
for inquiring whether General Malone was
president OF the Atlantic, Mississippi, and
Ohio Railroad Company, or Wet-nurse and
guardian plenipotentiary for the State at
IN