The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-05-06
/; Very Personal

I 10 hava been always frank and fair. On
the s,,,e 81 the Richmond Nhiy there mss
never been since the ysar SUCH q sntng g
{ fairness. Iusmcdiateiy after the war II pc
c,r,e manifest that The Whig has been con.
xerte,, into the mere personal organ OF Gen
e,ai WI..LiAM aAHoNE, and soon 1t became
the public duty OF this paper TO oppose
his measures and bis methods as injurious
to tue public interest. We opposed bis
proposition for consolidation Of the line Q. OF
railway from Bristol to Norfolk ana other
schemes OF bis. we opposed most earn ais
es,,y bis breaking UP the express 9 .-.l'''
from Richmond, by which act this CITY
l,st h,n,d,eds OF thousands OF dollars !;
and so Indeed we have been all tue
! time opposed to him, and the more ana no
more opposed To- him as time has developed
his most corrupt practices and the improper
application CT moneys transferred from
the Golfers Of impoverished railroad COM
panies that fell under bis control.
This by way OF Introduction: The use
made OF The Whig by HIM was vicious and
corrupt. It had been more than subsidized
BY him. 1t became his personal organ, and
has been carried on under the management
of his employees 10 bis interest and under
his direction. he has been the injector OF
the spirit and the partisanry OF the Wig,
and is at least morally responsible for 1t all.
Every citizen who has been aspersed by IL
is in fact aspersed by General MALONE.
The Wing has been General MAuoSE's
organ-,he organ Of bis personal and pr
yate interests, OF his vlndictiveness, and bis
malice. 1t praises and tiatters bis partiSans
and seeks to defame and offend those who
oppose him and his measures. The Dis
patch was the first to oppose the measures
and methods OF General MALONE. 1t was
moi mistaken In them. 1t knew whittier
they led. They rapidly divided the peo-
Die into MALONE and anti-MAHoNE men;
into partisans OF his on one hand, on the
other men who either opposed bin openly
or kept aloof, indispostd to the unpleasant
duty Of open opposition and the exceeding
annoyance OF the loathsomc repugnauce OF
the MALONE partsanry.
What We expected has been more than
realized, both with reference TO General
MAHoNE's corruptions and with referenceto
the unscrupulous character OF the agencies
he em ploys to conduct his personal organ.
He hes kept upa constant Intercourse BE-
tween Petersburg aud Richmond, managing
his legislative schemes and his newspaper.
It has been proved upon him that he had
drawn funds from the railroads whose trea-
suries be reached, procuring moneys to be
expended in influencing the Legislature,
and, moreover, SIT, 220 to put into the Rich
mond Wig. OF these large disbursements
no innocent account has been rendered, and
we imagine none ever will be.
Still the personal organ is that machine
OF utter corruption which should be horri.
BILE to public virtue and intolcrable to all
idea OF fair dealing. The employees are
feed to wri!e-and what? Anything unfair
to MALONE? anything agreeable to anybody
differing from him: Without knowing
anything about politics, and without expe-
rence in lesslation-5eing neither pbiloso-
pher nor Statesman-be launched himself
upon the sea Of politics as candidate for
Governor or senator-aye, even for Presl-
dent was he named by the most enthusiastic
adulator employed upon his organ. Had
he attended to his duties as president Of the
railway ct $4,000 year "a monstrous salary
at a period OF public poverty be might have
saved his road from bankruptcy and himself
from disaster. But he had become illlmita-
be in corceit, and his organ was his equal
in fulsome praise.
Other candidates for Governor were dis
paragcd and DETAINED, while ready pens OF
the personal organ were devoted to praise
OF General MALONE: to his praise and the
abuse Of the gentlemen who were allied
with the Conservative party, and who were
the reliance OF the State 10 maintain order
and preserve peace and good government.
The adulator went further, and fo:etold that
General MALONE was the coming ALExAS-
DER or CESAR or NAPOLEON.
There has been no form of adulation too
gross for the man whose praise was the
duty of the conductors OF the organ, and
no form OF disagreement that could be d.
rected upon age or virtue, or unimpeach-
able fame, could be too outrageous for the
General. To be opposed to him was evi-
IDENTIFY considered by him as depriying any
man OF claim to respect OF mercy.
General MALONE has rioted in his advan-,
tage over all his adyersarics Of having an
organ. He had grown as vain as unscru.
pulous in the manner OF using his organ.
BE sported himself right royalty in his vi
brations between his Cockade City and
Richmond. He evidently felt that fea-
ture Of royalty was due to his great dig
nifty; but he had not the culture and refine
ment to make the proper selection. He
deemed it would be better for himself that he
should make q royal diversion from the an
Client custom, so he chose a biackguard in
stead Of a fool, and, keeping this blackgusrd
near him, ne reviews his filth and approves
the manner Of his 9. scatteration" OF this.
The reader has no doubt seen how MA
HOMES biackguard wins honor for his mas
ter, and cannot have failed to observe the
yileness with which he performs his low
Office in the most servile and disgracciul
occupation that ever disgraced Q man.
Were his name published to the world that
would be all that was wanted to conclude
his career and shower upon MALONE q mass
OF odiun that would never he shaken off.
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