The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-09-21
Thc Press on she Compromise Pro-
positions.


positions.
we have always thought Malone could
not unite with the Conservative element be-
cause bis alliances with the negroes had
been made. Here Is evidence OF it, War
renfon Index.
A primary election that would permit
Judge MAYS, OF Boietourt, the editor OF the
Richmond inieiiigencer, and other Rcpubli-
cans all over the State, who are now OF the
Malone coalition, but would desert 1t OF any
moment TO further in q more direct manner
the Interests OF the Republican party In the
detection Of Garfield and Arthur. Is not TO be
thought OF for moment. That man Mays
said on the platform, In our hearing, that
he would not support the Hancock
electors IL he thought there was any
| chance TO secure the election OF those
| representing his own party. And be would,
| under his own declaration, feel perfectly
| free to abandon the coalition at any time
that the election Of Garfield electors should
seem probable. And the same may be said
OF Mr. Pophaua and hundreds OF other Re.
pubicans who are now working with Ma
hone and his corporals TO defeat the regular
Hancock ticket In this State. II could not
be expected, therefore, that these Conserva'
tives. who, in good faith, and without
mental reservation or equiyocation OF any
kind, support the regular Conservative
ticket, would consent TO have their votes
neutralized in a primary election by MAJ
homes Republican allies. Such a PROPOSE
ton could not be entertained.-Lynchburg
Virginian.
| Now that the Mahonetes have clearly de-
| monstrated TO every unpreiudiced man that
they do not want any compromise by which
the vote Of all the Democrats in the State
can be united upon Hancock, but really do
want to risk Virgiuia's presidential eecto-
raj vote and thereby endanger the success
OF The national Democratic ticket, we trust
| that the uncertainty that has heretofore eX-
| sted in the minds Of many good Democrats
respecting the particular ballot they shall
| cast next November has been entirely re-
moved, and that there may be no longer
| any doubt about the ticket every man
| in the State who desires the election
OF Hancock Is going to vote. The
mere fact that the MahOneites, after reject
| ing the fair offer made to them, proposed TO
submit the question in dispute 10 the deci-
sion Of every registered negro man in The
State, whether qualified TO vote or not, al
forded conclusive proof that they neither
wanted nor would accept any compromise !;
for no reasonable man could suppose for an
instant that the Democrats would agree to
leave matter in which they are so deeply
interested TO the arbitrament OF their open
and avowed enemies. OF whom Sam. Boil
ing, who attends Mabone's Convention,
though expressing his intention OF voting
for Garfield, and CDR" Norton. who also
participates in the conclaves OF the Malone
party and then presdes over Republican
conventions, and who, of course, had the
Democrats been so unwise as 10 accept this
absurd proposition, would have voted for
the Mahoneles as the weaker party in order
to damage the stronger, and who, just as
certain as the election takes place, Will vote
the regular Republican ticket. No, as stated
by our Washington correspondent before
the conference met, the Malone men went
there instructed from headquarters to vote
against all fusion or compromise, and they
obeyed instructions TO the letter. Now let
the Democrats OF Virginia show their friends
throughout the entire cOuLtry that having,
after much wandering, discovered their
right path, they intend to pursue It and will
vote the regular national Democratic ticket
on the day Of election.-Alerdndrtd Ga
zette.