The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-03-09
IFor the inspatcn.J
Touching General NTahonc's Gubernn-
fOriaI Aspirations.


foriaI Aspirations.
Messrs. Editors,-I hope the following
will not cause me to be classed as an enemy
of General Malone. When see among
his warm friends certain gentlemen known
all over the State as men Of spotlcss cha
racter cannot deny that he must have some
high qualities. But fitness for an office
which is supposed to represent all the in
terests OF Virginia is not among them. One
OF those is the transportation interest, af-
fecting the whole agricultural class. That,
think, Will be question Of great i'm
portance in the next convention, and. what
is Of more consequence, in the next cleo
ton; for IL the convention does not settle
things to the satisfaction of the producing
classes many OF them will bolt the nomina-
ton, and either not vote at all or vote for
an Independent. 1t is matter of much
more concern to the farmers in their
present condition to be relieved OF taxation
than to see any particular man elected Gov
ernor; and the heaviest taxation now i'm
posed on Virginia, and with the most un-
Just discrimination against both town and
country, comes in the shape OF railroad
charges.
The man who by vote in the Legislature,
or act of administration in office, can be
shown to have favored railroad, will not
be acceptable to great many people who
are tired OF railroads, and are now thinking
much more of their burdens and the way
to remove them than OF their liberties and
the way to recover them. They are sick,
too, and getting daily sicker, OF politicians.
The best record for them will be the one
which is clearest on the transportation issue,
and freest from any faint OF playing into
the hands OF rings, domestic or foreign,
past OF present. r..
Below is what purports to be General Ma
homes record on this question. found it
in late No. Of the Virginia Patron, and
think it 50 instructive that beg you to pub
lish it as g facts for the people, land warn
ing to all who have record on this subject.
or who may be about to make one. There
are several questions now before the Legis-
lature in which this matter is involved.
After stating that determinations Of a
most startling character were practiced by
all the companies" the writer in the Vir-
qinia Patron illustrates his point by the
following account of determinations made
against Virginia by the road then under the
administration Of General Malone:
"Taking the local and through tariff
sheets of the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio
Railroad Company, in force in 1870, as q
specimen, it will he seen that if carload OF
$4,000 equal parts of the five classes OF
freights Is started from Bristol to go to
Lynchburg, the Virginia and Tennessee
Company charge for hauling that carload
2O4 miles under the local tariff is S100.50.
II like carload passes over the same num-
ber (204) miles Of the Virginia and Tennes-
see road, being destined for New York from
the following points, the charge by that road
under the through tariff is as follows
Knoxville, s59.3G; Chattanooga, S54.95;
Memphis, S35.64; Marietta, SAT %; Atlanta,
S47SS; Selma, $685.; Nashville, $36.5G ;
New Orleans, S3702. The average
charge for hauling carload for the above
eight points, over the whole length Of the
Virginia and Tennessee road, under the
thu ough tariff is S46.57; while for the same
service between Bristol and Lynchburg,
under the local tariff, that road charges us
above stated, S100.50; difference against
the local carload S53.93. Then observe the
per ton per mile differences as shown by the
written tables. The highest rate per
ton per mile, charged under the local
tariff, is on freight from Forest to Lynch
burg S16.40 The medium rate under local
tariff from Dublin to Lynchburg is $6.97.
The lowest rate under the local tariff is from
Bristol to Lynchburg, $6.57. The average
rate per ton per mile under the local tariff
is $500. The lowest rate per ton per mile
under the through tariff is on goods IN
ransitu from Memphis to New York, 81. .33.
The average rate per ton per mile under the
through tariff between New York and Knox
vile, Chattanooga, Memphis, Marietta, At
lanta, Selma, Nashville, New Orleans, is
S3O4. The highest rate obtaining under the
through tariff is on goods destined from
Bristol to New York, S5.04."