Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-22
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Vicious and Unwfse.
General Malone finds champion in
our Republican cotemporary, the Erami-
ner, which goes to him, Notwithstanding
he was one of those dreadful rebel gen.
e-als and now proclaims himself Demo-
crat, just because he is in alliance with
its Republican friends in Virginia and
our contemporary needs no more to cause
it to smile on the vilest sinner that ever
breathed. It but follows the fashion of all
its fellow partisans, who have made their
party notorious for its absurd incOnsist-
ency in reviling the confederate briga-
diers while they take to their arms every
one of them who will embrace them for
a mess of pottage.
In applauding General Malone the Er-
aminer shows itself very amiable indeed.
One would think that it was somewhat
imprudent because General Malone
was not only a rebel general who is now
a Democrat, as he says, but he entertains,
as the vital article of his political faith.
the belief that the state Of Virginia
ought not to pay even so much of its debt
as it has agreed to pay in compromise
which has been accepted by its creditors.
In this community reputation is not
looked upon with favor, and it may be
that the Republican farmers and mer-
chants of Lancaster comfy will think
that they are asked to swallow too much
when their organ demands that they
shall take into their political en-
brace the repudiatiOnists of Virginia,
who euphoniously call themselves /" re-
adjusters. They don't take kindly to
the name of repudiatOrs, which belongs
to them. Their aim is not to repudiate,
but to readjust their debt but the diff
ference to the creditor is small, as by
either process he loses his money.
Our contemporary seems to be sensible
that it is skating on thin ice, for it says
of Malone, that /" his views on the pay
ment of the debt of Virginia may not he
in accord with our ideas of justice, but
they are not much worse than the other
side who promise to pay but don't" In
asmuch as the only issue between the
Malone and regular Democrats is on
the question of paying the state debt,
obviously the Examiner does not deal
justly with the state credit Democracy
who are ready to endanger the success
of their party rather than yield to the
demand of the reputation element in it,
and upon whom the responsibility for
the failure to pay the interest on the
debt does not rest, since the majority in
the legislature is made of Republican
and Malone Democrats who have COM
bined together to refuse payment.
1t is not remarkable to find the En-
aminer incorrect in its statements of fact.
We hardly think it worth our while to
correct it, as probably few intelligent
persons permit themselves to rely upon
it's representations. 1t would seem to be
bad policy i'm a newspaper to state the
news Of the day incorrectly to serve Il
partisan purpose, as its readers will pretty
surely find out the deceit that has been
practiced on them and will be indignant
that their newspaper gives them false
news. 1t may be assumed that most per-
sons like to have reasonable assurance
of the truth of what they read. 1t was
unwise therefore, as well as vicious, for
the Examiner to misstate the positions
of the Virginia parties and especially
was it imprudent in it to say that the
two wings of the Democratic party have
been withheld from harmonizing on one
electoral ticket by the demand of the
regular Democrats that only 'white -
Democrats should be allowed to vote at
the proposed primary. We subjoin the
text of the correspondence on
this point between the committees of
the two sides, and it clearly shows
that General Malone wanted all his
Republican allies to vote on the issue
between the 6 re-adjuster -" and the state
credit Democrats; which they could
have done under his proposition by SIM
ply declaring their intention to vote for
the Hancock electoral ticket of their
composition. What chance for it's life
our presidential ticket would have in the
hands of such Hancock " electors may
be imagined from the advice the Repub-
lican Examiner gives to vote 6 the Ma
hone electoral ticket" )" which is what the
Virginia Republicans propose to do.
The regular Democratic committee
wrote to the friends of Malone accepting
their proposition that the choice of a
single electoral ticket shall be submitted
to primary election, but saying:
We propose to amend the third section
of the plan of conciliation submitted by
your committee, SO as to require that none
but legal voters who are national Demo-
Gratis shall participate in the election. Gen.
Hancock and Mr.. English were nominated
by regular Democratic convention. The
delegates who shared in their nomination
were all Democrats. No Democrat can
fittingly object to confining the selec-
ton of those who are to be intrust-
ed with casting the popular vote
for the Democratic nominees to their
brother Democrats alone. We by no
means wish to exclude any person OF what
ever political profession from voting for
Hancock and English. On the contrary,
we welcome all who wish in good faith to
support them. But party fealty, pru-
dence and unvarying custom alike require
that representatives of the party be chosen
by members of the party. Some of the
members of the party which your commit
tee represents have publicly declared that