Daily Republican., 1879-12-19

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A Democratic Scare.
Nothing has occurred recently in
politics up TO the time Of the Maine
theft that has attracted the attention
and drawn more comment from the po-
liticsl press Of the country than Viz
giaia politics and the election Of
General Malone to tho United States
Senate. Republicans look upon tho
matte, with distrust and some degree
Of unsssinsss, while the Democrats are
srrsyed in sack cloth and ashes for fear
General Malone may in some way act
with the Republicans in Congress. The
paying or non-paying Of virginia's debt
causes them less unsasiness than does
the value Of q vote in the Senate. The
election Of Malone will now be another
excuse for the ousting Of Kellogg, that
the present. Democratic ascendency may
be preserved in the Senate after 1881.
We are not amongst those who appre-
bend the trouble predicted by many in
the MANAGEMENT Of the finances in Vir-
einia, and even If the new party which
has lust sprung into power and activity
should rspudiats part of the public
debt Of the State, it would be no more
than the Democrats OF Tennessee
and Louisiana have done, and
what they will do whenever it
suits their purposes. The great objeo-
ton to the Rsadjusters Of Virginia by
the stalwart Democratic press seems to
be that the colorsd Republicans Of Vir-
einia turned in and helped them to
achieve their victory, and that large
majority of the Republican members of
the Legislature voted for General Ma
hone to be sent to the Senate. Had
these solored Republicans voted with
what is called the debt-paying party,
the party that sought and made use
Of every trihing occasion to disfran-
chiss them, the act would have been
called . meritorious and brave one.
That it would have been the latter ad
mits OF no doubt, but it would at the
same time have been very foolish act
under the circumstances. What do these
poor oolored Republicans Of Virginia
care about finances, so long as they are
actually but ehattels any how? Liberty
is what they want, and liberty to them
is Of more value than silver and gold
and the payment Of debts in which
they have no interest. This enjoyment
Of their rights and privileges in what
was promised to them by the Readius-
tiers, and hence we cannot wonder that
they should have allied themselves to
that party. They would have been
foolish had they not done 10. We must
confess that we see no cause
for alarm in this political avalanche
which has for the present submerged
Virginia. The Rssdjusters are no
idiots, and will do nothing with the
finances Of the Stats which would cause
An uprising against them. 1t Is their
interest and policy 70 administer the
State government in such . manner
that will bring majority Of the people
to their support. That It 10 dishonest
10 scale any portion Of tho State debt
cannot be denied, and this is just whs.
has been done by what 10 called the
debt payers party already under the
terms Of the Mccullough plan, and q
We have already said il what the Dem
oerats have already done In every plaos
whore it suited their convenience to DC
80 without any regard to any set prin.
eiplss Of honesty. We do no,
believe tho Rssdjusters will 80 any
farther than those who denounce
them. Outside Of finances Republican,
have reason to rejoice in General Ma.
homes victory. 1t breaks the solid
South. What has been done in Vir-
ginia can BE- done in every Southern
State. If General Malone organizes a
Grant Republican party in Virginia
which will carry the State for the Gen
eral or any other Republican the Bour-
bon Democracy will have themselves to
blame for it. The latter have crushed
the Repu blicaus to the earth under the
iron heel Of despotism and inhuman;ty,
aud when the Readjusters offered to
rescue them they would have been
foolish had they not accepted the offer.
It's said that the Read listers by the
aid Of the colored Republicans are about
to displace all the County Judges in the
State, whom they will replace with
those Of their own following. The pur-
pose of this action il to reduce the
revenues from taxation on real estate
and personal property. Moreover the
county judges are officers Of great 20
litical importance, and by the substitu-