The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-09-11

a. fellow has example. IL seems, however,
,hss .uch IL not the case. The Wing Of
Yesterday quotes two paragraphs from thei
DispatM which appeared IN this paper las
spring, when General MALONE contemplated
nominating an electoral ticket that sbos'o
not DC pledged to either toe Democratic or
The Republican candidate, and quotesShem
as that Journal and Gcncrs' MALONE nad
nat abandoned their then position, btk were
san bent upon having n understood that
their ticket rs iuss the same sortd ticket
which they bad In mipk last spring. We
quote from the WAie q yesterday a. follows:
On the 26tb Of April 1880, the Dispatch
expressed the opinion chat, "on the wnoie,
General Malone is Dosrly to the end OF MS
rope"
On the 29th Of April the Dispatch. calling
the ReSdjus.ers ths "unpledged," says
..they will lind themselves in the condition
OF the poor boy at frolic. Nobody VIII
need their vote, sad so nobody VIII SPEAK
TO them or bid FER IL. lne
prospect vi sucA result OF their scbeme
10 run an independent electoral ticket Is
moi wei, calculated to inspire with zeal the
myrmidous VITO were last week driven
away conquered from the Staunton Con-
vention."
The prediction OF The Dispatch in regard
20 the unpledged electoral ticket was lite-
rally fulfilled. Thatscheme was aoardoned'
General MALONE then, as an expedient 10
save his party, adopted the schemeof nomi-
mating q second ticket pledged 10 vote for
HANCOCK and Ex0Ufsf. Either his electoral
ticket il a pledged ticket, or else he and bis
followers have deceived most OF the voters
who have fntimaled il to be their purpose
TO support it. Now, whatever his organ
may say, General MaBoSE has not the least
notion OF clsiming that his is an unpledged
ticket. lie knows too well that the people
OF Virginia have indicated in an unmistaka-
bic manner that they will countenance no
such thing. They compelled him TO
abandon his unpledged scheme. we re-
peat, and the itYhy, which while he favored
1t advocated that scheme ss the best for our
people that could be adopted followed bis
example. What, then, does the Wing mean
by quoting our remaiks concerning the
"unpledgsd," the "independent electoral
ticket" of General MALONE, rs il they had
been made in regard to his present electoral
ticket, which Is composed OF men who claim
to be "pledged" 10 honor to the support OF
General HANCOCK, and who would re-
sent az an Insult and as an imputa-
ton upon their honor the assertion
that they are "unpledged"? Does that
Journal mean TO Misunderstood as claiming
that our prediction in regard to the aban-
donment OF the unpledged scheme has not
been flRilledsf Or does IL mean TO have its
readers understand language which it
knows we applied to one scheme as having
been applied TO another scheme? II one or
the other be.not that Journals purpose in
reproducing our remarks, then we confess
that we.cannot imagine why 1t reproduced
them.
We take for granted that the Wing will
not pretend that the ticket which General
MALONE now has in the field is the one, or
at all like the one, which he had In his mind
when he made the following utterance to
the Richmond correspondent Of the New
York Herald. That correspondent reported
him as follows:
"ueDefaf mauOne TtplItu tDdt lie WOutU
have the same objection TO Blaine on the
one hand as be would have TO the most ex-
IRENE Bourbon Democrat on the other.
He further remarked that the Resdiusters
or Liberals OF Virginia neither meant 10 be
forced out Of their position by the Demo-
cratic or Republican machines in the State.
They would defeat both Of them again. as
they did in November last. In regard to
the future national course OF the new party
the most that General Malone could say
was that he favored the call OF Liberal or
Readfuster State Conventions; OF placing
Independent electors in the field, and OF
electirg bin [them] as they did their ticket
last November, and afterwards Of casting
the electoral vote OF Virginia as seemed
best for her interests regardless OF party.
Such plan IS this, il successful, might
make Virginia the arbiter OF the next presi-
dency"
Here is the scheme that we alluded TO in
the language which the Wing quotes from
the Dispatch. We referred 10 General Ma
HOMES scheme Of defeating both "the
Democratic aud machines y;
bis scheme OF "placing Independent electors
in the feld"; hissoheme, after eecting those
unpledged electors, OF "cost,ng the uote of
Virginia as seemed best for her interests
REGARDLESS OF PARTY" 1t was Gen.
eral MAHoNE's scheme for making Virginia
"the arbiter OF the next presidency" that
we predicted would be Indignantly rejected
By the people OF Virginia, as it was before
the 7th-oi,July Convention met, which
Convention placed in the field ticket
composed Of men not unpledged" but
"pledged In the most solemn manner,
according to JoHg s. WIsE's under
standing OF the matter, to the support
OF the Democratic party's nominee for the
presidency. That scheme was, we once
more repeat, abandoned. 1t has not friend
In Virginia that we know OF. The Wing
itself, after commendngit as a scheme that
might give Virginia commanding position,
and make her the arbiter of the next presi.
dency, quietly dropped the dead scheme,
talked about other things, and finally came
out a fuA.fledged advocate Of ticket
pledged to HANCOCK and ENGLISH. 1t Is
nou opposed TO making Virginia " the arbiter
of the next presidency" his no,o opposed
TO her holding a commanding position 10
the matter Of the next presidency. 1t Is
nor opposee to any attempt on her part to
make the besrdisposilion possible OF her cleo
toral vote. II does not now profess to think
that it will be "proud dag ~ for yir-
ginia when she shall have the power 10
art fl.Z .tnAn 4.