The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-03-24

u The outv,yInQs Of the Waig may be &C
cc,,tc.l As indicating the feeling Of General
MAuoxr, II may be safely assumed that hs
has already abandoned bis project oil run
ming an unplcdged electoral ticket next
fall. That paper reproduces an article
from the Republican journal published IN
this city and edited by the clerk OF INC
United States District Court which says
emphatically that there will be but Two
tickets presented TO the people; that the
Republicans will decline to nominate any
ticket at all, and are ready to support such
a ticket as the Readjusters care likely TO
offer them '---that Is, ticket composed
rarity Of Republicans aud partly OF So
called Re&djusters.
Now. that man must be very dull and
stupid who docs not see that this pro-
cramme Is complete surrender by General
MALONE OF his unpledged electoral ticket.
TIN scheme so often declared by this ana
many other Journals to be foolish and chi
merical contemplated distinctly ticket 70
be run In between two other tlckets--tie
last two being the Republican or "dr1p
Sackv ticket and the "Funder" or Conser-
ymiye ticket. That scheme has been aban-
doned. Il would seem. The successor TO
that notable plan Is a scheme to form a ticket
OF Republicans and ReSdjusters both for
congressman and for presidential electors
and To elect them on the question of repu-
dating fourteen millions OF the public debt,
go far as the white voters are concerned,
and solar as the negroes are concerned on
the question Of according to them call their
contributions, rights The coalition is
ayowed In the words following:
But we repeat the secret Just told you:
The Republicans will adjourn the making
OF any ticket az Staunton until after the In
dependents have met In council and deter
mined their course OF action. Then the
Republicans will join their forces to those
Of Malone and rout you, horse, foot, ana
Dragons!
Forewarned Is forearmed." There is
no danger when we know beforehand tina,
the negroes and the ReSdiusters are to be
allied against the Conservatives. II the
whites had known last fall that the negroes
and the Readjusters had formed such CO.
aliiion as The combination between the ne
groes and the Resdiusters In the Legisla-
ture afterwards proved TO have been the
secret OF the Conservative defeat last fall,
there would never have been any Re-
adjuster General Assembly in Virginia.
The Conservatives had been deluded into
the belief that the negroes were indifferent
as between the Debt-Paycrs and the Re-
adjusters, and would probably divide their
votes almost equally between them. Far
different was the result. The negroes, with
but few exceptions, voted the Readiuster
ticket, and when fourteen illiterate indi-
viduais of that race appeared here as men,
bers OF the Legislature elected TO that body
by an unholy coalition, they Immediately
entered the ranks OF the Readjuster party,
and enabled that mischievous faction TO do
all the unwise and wicked acts which have
rendered that body odious iD the eyes OF the
white people OF Virginia.
Such trick as that can't be played twice
upon any people, however unsuspecting.
Inc ~"w scheme is nothing but a Republic
can plan to DIVIDE the Democratic party and
give the vote Of this State to the Republican
Candidate for President. IL would he a
mere evasion vi tue tru,u su a,,..--r
dodge the responsibility Of electing Re-
publican President to call it "an unpledged
electoral ticket" 1t would be no more
truly "an unpledged electoral ticket" than
was that ticket which last fall was chosen
by combination Of men who kept in the
all reference to a coalition be-
tween the negroes and the Readiusters. We
repeat that that game can't be played this
year. The white voters are not fools.