The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-04-01
Sanona and Collinsor,.

General MAHoNE hes not had Q sing ss oDe
Of our articles commenting upon OF 10 re-
nj, to his letters published 10 tne Hassy'
Nor has he had Mr.. CoLLISsos's letter pup.
lished therein. Nevertheless, we wouia
set the General right in our columns Il we
eon,t, perce;ye that his last letter tsee TUG
Whi1ofyesterday) contained anything caicu'
hated to better his position before the pub
lie. He seems to see no Improperly Whal-
eyAr in his use OF the money OF stock
holders OF his various railroads to pay hotel
h;l,s ant, to maintain o lobby in Richmond,
ona 10 subsidize the Wing, The public
viii not agree with him IN respect OF these
matters, and do not care straw Whetnef
the msney SO used belonged to one, or 10
two, or to all OF the companies that were
consolidated in the, Atlantic, MISSISSIPPI
and Ohio Railroad Company. In fact Cen
oral MALONE would have done better TO nave
remained silent. His criticisms are some OF
Them merely verbal, and others OF them DO
not touch any material question at issue.
For instance, he quotes MIR. CUTHBERT az
follows: s.
VIII. There Is no such entry or voucher
e.in the wear ending September 30, 1877,
fwherebyI an amount OF $14.S02.4o appears
10 have been paid IN one sum-
There is an entry and voucher for that Tune
~ ala. 900. endorsed for the " advancement
OF the sompany's interest before the Legs
Isture,'' paid to an agent OF the company
by direction OF the president, ana SUI.
spoucpt voucher to the same person ioi
S90245.
What possible difference does it make to
fbe public whether Mr. CoLLINsoN put these
two items together or not!
Wba, General MALONE says as to the U.S.
match is an insult 70 his readers. Ihey
know that he has never bad nor exercised
one lot of influence over our columns
they know. too, that he controls the Wh'9-
even dictates its employees. What 1mpu-
dence. then, for him TO connect tie us
match with his personal organ! we once
received from RICHARD T. WALKER, now
foreman OF the Wing Office, anG at the time
we received the money, Superintendent OF
Public Printing, but always and every
where one of General MAHoSE's right-hand
men. the sum Of So for an advertisement.
We also once received S237.40 during Gen
eral MAHoNg's war on the Richmond and
Petersburg Railroad Company, foran article
which appeared rs an advertisement on tue
first page of our paper, marked as paia
matter. And there may have been other
advertisements of like nature published I'D
our columns by General MAHoNE's agents
prt
Iectien OF the times or the sums. We know,
however, that the sums were insignificant,
aud that at the very time all his ADVERTISE
ments were published which appeared In
our paper, General MALONE kreao that he
was not substituting the Dispatch, and that
be bad no influence over it whatever. why,
then, connect such thing with the conduct
OF General MALONE in using the editorial
columns OF the Wig to accomplish his own
ends! He ought, rs writer for the Peters
burg Post OF last Saturday says, to turn over
the Wing to the receivers as part OF the
assets OF the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio
Railroad Company.
As to the charge that we did not deny Mr..
CoLLISsoN's statement, it is sufficient to say
that neither did we deny General MAHoNE's,
though this latter was entirely false in the
immersion it left on the readers mind that
General MALONE had used the Dispatch as
he bad used the Wing. Nor could we have
denied CoLLINsoN's; because he merely
said that he could not find any such charge
on the hooks. And we could have denied
General MAHoNE's.
We repeat, that there is nothing i'll Gen.
eral MAHoNE's last letter which, if pub
lishcd, could improve his standing before
the people Of Virginia. II he thinks there
is he can do as he did in the case referred to
in his letter-scnd us check for whatever
it would come to at twenty cents line, ana
we will OF course publish his letter.