The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-03-14
General Malone and the wing. ,
The Wig OF yesterday contains Tue ao'
lowing note:
~ Az Editor ofthe Wig:

To tire Editor ofthe Wing:
ne pispdtch Of the lott, Of xaIcn, m p,, and
general Mahone nimssi, Sgp sns Tmcser General
Voc Johnston General geale CSinte nominee for
and we May Say &c, sSefrS , oSUass
is in letter and In spirit untrue
.,.i challenge the proof o. any ac !, " nor.ains
ccald possibly jasify se IN, NOT now. the editor
nor Se nso,s,e;or OF The Wig am 81 ,,a So;nt.
and for nv means large , sms namcr. -
s'nes rpcxItss Statement: is niSae upon any sup
nsd exercise Of my inGnshce over us ,Hn r he
sse is flor Ire papcr, IL remember corree,N.
opnascd bit two then nave 70 say Slete' ~
s'a.smem.. E Mna,cTer my sympsthtes and prfjn-
s.a nv have heen, neither intcrsered nor at.
tcmp,etI 10 interfere, directly or ina rsctS' -
hte a,s statement merely that Il may be SEEN cen
10 what extent an orer-zcaous eics' 10
cause OF readJusmens Is prepMHr,IuI 70 MALONE.
Petersburg, Va, March H. 1879
Tss. General MALONE has the power 10
control the Hhigabsolutely, is the ''n'Fersa.
oo;nion in this city, II the declarations Oh
o..crv man whom we have ever heard speak
rnon The subject, may be relied upon. nat.
Re NAV not choose to ererctSe DIS power
,r,, n, occasions we can readily believe;
,.d this is all that We understands MN 10
deny. Read his card carefully, ana YOU
will see that bis denial :. hath that extens'
mn morcu we never said that he was the
sole editor and proprietor OF the Hsh'9' ou "
tina, he " controls" it. This statemeht we
bcl,cve TO be strictly true. We meantn
Genera, MALONE controls the wing IN It's
general course, and not in regard 10 every
sob;ect which that journal treats. we
mean in word that he controls IL "hch-
ever he chooses to use his power. Ana this
statement, he has not denied.
More. We have before us now the
"Third Report to. the Consolidated Bona.
holders of the Atlantic, MISSISSIPPI anu
Ohio Railroad Company, by JOHN COLLIN
SON, dated 23d November, 1873. Mr. COL
l1ysoS, in that report, makes the following
statement:
1.-THE intimate connection between The
Amsterdam party and General Mahone mas
ocaiu been made quite plain. The Klchmoha
Min newspaper, which Is now, u not en-
,;,eiu o,cned, al least thoroughly controHea,
By General Malone, and winch WAS suosi,
discd during his regime to Eno~n dntou"I
IF sereatv-seren thousand t,ro hundred ana
ffcfJtfg EOltufS lIOii tuS SA
railroad. devoted its columns" &c, &C.
This statement was published months
AFRO by man who formerly had with Cen
eral MALONE business relations, ana VINO IS
credited with correct, intimate, ana 1uii
Knowledge OF the matters treated in ms re-
mort This statement General MALONE has
never, TO our Knowledge, denied.
We repeat, however, that General MA
HOMES card is evasive. That he IS not the
sole editor and proprietor Of the Rha9 may
be conceded; but isn't he the controlling
owners He knows the law maxim, Qu'
.facu per allan facii per se-"who acts by
another acts himself" We published last
fall letter charging that General MALONE
had promised the support Of the Vhtg TO
Mr.. CRlTcuER as against General BEALE.
That statement was never denied. And
still. let it be remembered, General MALONE
does not deny that he was opposed to the
election OF RAN TUCKER, General JOE JOHN
SToH, General BEALE, and Colonel RICH
Moxp. Nor will he deny that he was OBJ
poscd to their election. He merely denies
that he made the Wing oppose them. Here
IS his confession:
The truth is, achateuer my Spnpothtes
and prejudices may have been, | neither m
terfeied, nor attempted 10 interfere, directly
Or indirectly, in the matter"
That is, his sympathics and preJudlces
were as we have stated but inasmuch as
the editor of the Wing knew what the Cen
erals sympathics and preiudices required
OF him, he so conducted that journal as to
render il unnecessary for General MALONE
TO "ipterfere or attempt to interfere" III
the General had not approved, he would
have nterfered without delay. "Silence
puye CONSENT There was no "act" OF his
required. His wishes were too well carried
out TO need any "act" of interference"
on his part ..a
General MALONE says that if he remem.
bers correctly the wig "oppoSed bht
t,ro" OF the Conservative nominees for
Congress. This very statement points out
how familiar he is with the wings
course. In the Wing OF October l6, 1873,
that paper declares that, after surveying the
whole State, it had come to the conclusion
that in seven Of the districts the Conserva-
tive candidates were Greenbackcrs OF one
sort and another; but added:
.With respect to the other two districts,
the Third (Richmond) and the Sixth (Lyncll-
5urg), we have not the same confidence"
Now, that might not be a suspicious coin
cidcnce if the Wig had really supported
the other nominees; but considering its
course towards all OF them except Mr.. HIN
TON il does seem suspicious that the General
should say now, as did the Wing on the 18th
or October last, that that journal opposed
but two OF the Conservative nominees for
Congress. The fact is, the Wing declared
Colonel RICHMoND's nomination "a fraud"
However, we need not go into particulars.
The public know what sort OF Conservative
paper the lFhig was in 1S7S-namcly, just
tie same kind of one that it is now, when it
publishes General MAHoSE'S Mozart-Hall
speech in full, advocates the organization OF
new State Central Committee, denounces
the Conservative State Central Committee
men who met here last week, and does eve
rything that it can to prop up the cause
which General MALONE advocated in Mozart
Hall and the new party which he there aided
in organizing. We copy the following tx
tracts from the Wig. They tell their own
story:
from the Richmond Wbig October II, 1878
THE LouDOUy nISTRIcT.-The card Of Colonel
Carter, announcing himself 4 candidate for Con-