The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-04-28
Miss Polly Malone.

Miss Polly Malone. .
Perhaps no one knows General MAHoss -
weak no,nts better tiian we do, aud no one ne
except JOHN coLLINsoS is better aoe 70
pierce bis panoply Of se'f-cance't anu AZ
rorance. The little paragraph which APP
neared in the Dispatch OF Friday ea''ea
forth from, his organ the following charac-
teristic sGuib:
80, fS We a;,scK the Dispatch. Tha, Is precisely
,yh.i we have been doing for \ long tiSne. ana
sanybody can see who has read either the Uht0 or
the Dfspatch flor the latter quotes onr paragr.pm,
maize personal ataess ap" ,e 1sSo tesn
Miss Nancy, MS we'll as the whole Dispatch est:t!-
ihmcn.: and this we threaten 10 GO only IN
nron 80 centsman who has avowcd that be Is large
stakeholder in the Wing Publis E,ne Cohpan5p JcS
wagea naxs WHO cares to- know that everything
and everybody about the DispdtcA oni,e' L'u ~,
basement 70 garrci. from pTfs or with rod Of iron
Nv one yTto never writes limo for that Jourha'-of'
n he docs gets no credit for II. on.,
warfare ssaii no, continue sill on one side. The only
way In which the glass can be saved from cIash'rs
abere shall bs 70 libel ether only In the sense that
the greater the ,rnth the greater the libel.
From which it is plain that General Ma
HONE does not intend to permit his owner
ship and control of the wing to be aired in
a court OF Justice. We again warn him,
nevertheless. that he must keep strict
watch upon his employees, or be will ia!i TO
accomplish his purpose.
The reference to some potent person by
whom everybody In the Dispatch olhce,
from potter or prcssman to the aorittng
editors" is controlled, afforded us q plea
SAINT ripple Of laughter. Il will OF course
be hereafter understood that that powerful
gentleman is 10 take all the blows which are
aimed at the Dispatch for surely no one
will henctforth think OF abusing " writing
cditors' who have 10 more "say" as 10
what they shall write, whom they shall CEN
sure. and whom praise, than the writer's Tor
the UHiq. We always lay the Why's sins
upon the controlling mans shoulders.
"Och hone, BILLY MAHoSE.'
But let the reader imagine the why's
story 20 be true, and assume that there IS
man in this Office who controls foreman,
business manager, printers, local reporters,
writing editors, and everybody else in 1t, as
General MALONE controls everybody IN
The Whiq office, and then let that reader ASK
himself what he would think nl tho Dis
patch il it should devote It's editorials TO
praises OF that controlling owner; advocate
his claims rs Il candidate for Governor;
cumher lis columns with his speeches; de.
nouncc all lis opponents and lard ri MS
followers and supporters represent him az
a "rca, man though ne might DC as sinai!
one Us MALONE himstlf; IN 4 word, should
conycst The paper into mere personal Or
gan. devoted to the fortunes OF that con-
trolling owner and subordinating every
thing else to the business OF getting him
into The United States Senate, or the GOV
errors office, or back into the presidency
OF railroad company: Before leaving this
point, we will add that il there is anywhere
an editor who knows less than our "con-
troller' what is OF is not going to appear
in his own paper, we have never heard OF
him.
I'VE tell" General MALONE "plainly
that this personal warfare" tCW continue
until he ceases to fight us from behind the
masked battery of what is nominally a
newspaper-that is, il we have ever carried
on any "per.onal warfare" against him.
We do not concede that we have attacked
him on account OF any of his dement's as
man, what we have said Of him having had
reference to him as a railroad president or
as scheming politician. We suspect that
"personai warfare " would not be more
to his taste than to ours. But he may rest
assured that so long as he controls the Wing
and allows it to be conducted as it has been
in the past, whenever he had any scheme on
hand. he will not escape the bouy fingers Of
Mis-, NANCY"