The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-08-05
Ara the Malone Readjusters Demo.
Gratis?


must be Judged and placed by what the!
do. and not by what they Say. IL wha
shey do helps RepuhIicsnism and hurts DE
mocrscy, they count as Republicans In tn
Eight. and should be held such. II mar
insists on helping you to climb by taking
rung out Of your ladder, can you hold h'"
your friend. II by voting the ReSd1uste'
ticket you lose Virginia to HANCOCK, and
Democratic President TO the Union, can you
he true HANCOCK man or true Democrat
Yon NAV be something better or worse, bu
you are not that.
Parties act, and can only act, by conven
tions. By universal Democratic consent
and custom the Democrats elected one &c
meet In Cincinnati, ia nominate President
II aid nominate one, and now vote, even
for B,yAnp, would be anti-Democratic. TIC
vote for aay other than the regular Demo
cratic electoral ticket Is necessarily, there
fore, to be against Democracy and against
HANCOCK. We dispute no mans right 10
be So, bat being so, do deny his claim that
he is for them. All Democrats who wanted,
mole than all else, Democratic Presi
dent went 10 Cincinnati or were represented
there.
No Greenbacker, though previously a
Democrat, went there, because, preferfing
Greenback President to a Democratic, he
had nut himself In necessary opposition 10
Democracy, and could neither claim nor eX-
pect to be longer considered Democrat.
No member OF the National Labor Party,
though once Democrat, went there, be-
cause, having put the national labor policy
before the Democratic, and antagoni,tic TO
IL, be no longer professed 10 be Democrat,
nor could he receive Democratic recognition
rs such. No MALONE Readiuster, though
formerly o Democrat, went there, because
he stood pledged before the country to go
for Republican or Democrat, as MALONE
might think best for Readiusterism, and by
thus postponiDg Democracy TO MALONE Re-
adJusterism was, IL a contingent Democrat,
no less contingent Republican, species
not recognized in the Democratic nor any
other party organization known.
All Readjuster Democrats who went pri.
udIlto IOI tue uOuiiutC Vi tuC l|ShoSiattS
party for the presidency were embraced in
the call Of the Democratic State Conven-
ton; went into it for themselves and for
all other Readiusters like minded with
them, on the same footing with all other
Democrats, united in forming a ticket OF
electors and delegates, not discriminating
between RI adjusters and Debt-Payers, and
went, such as were deputed, to the Cncin-
natl Convention, and were recognized 10y it
as the regular Democratic delegates, as, Of
consequence. was the ticket of electors
made by the same authority as the regular
Democratic electoral ticket. There is now
no possible way Of proving that voter be-
longs to the Democratic party but by
voting this regular Democratic State ticket,
for the simple reason that as Virginia can
have but one set of electors, and the set on
that ticket have the virtual endorsement OF
the Democratic General Convention, the
vote for any other set OF electors is to d-
minish so far HANCOCK's vote In Virginia,
and probably lose him the State, for If two
HANCOCK tickets in State be voted, still but |
one can be counted, and the other is Just |
as antagonistic to him as would be one for |
BEN. BUTLER.
In New York state OF things existed SINH |
lar 10 that here, the Tammanyites and the |
regular Democracy being divided and ire
concilably hostile on State questions; but |
as Democrats in Federal concerns they have |
shown more sense or more patriotism SO far |
than the party that put out the MALONE |
ticket, and have determined to support the |
regular ticket. They, too, put out at first |
a KELLY Democratic ticket, but being true |
Democrats sent delegates to Cincinnati. |
There, too, appeared the delegates of the |
regular Democracy, and the Convention |
had to decide between them. 1t recognized |
the latter as the true representatives OF the |
Democratic party Of New York. What,
truly and primarily Democrats, and seeing
that two tickets would cut each the others
throat, and defeat Democracy in New York,
they have periodically subordinated their
Kellyism to their Observation-Disclosures |
the KELLY ticket, KELLY himself heartily |
have all sent in their designations, and now |
the whole true Democracy OF New York |
move forward TO victory that was hope |
less had their divisions continued. Are Vir-
gina Democratic Readj listers and their cleo
tors less capable Of seeing the defeat they may |
bring upon Democracy by voting the new
MALONE ticket, or less patriotic than these
New York Tammsnyjtes, who, seeing what
would result, determined TO give no their
ticket and resign their candidacy ia order
to help the cause OF good government by
placing 1t la the hands Of Democratic HAN
COCK instead Of Republican GARFIELD? IL
as good Democrats us the Tammanyites,
these MALONE electors wdl, like them, also
resign but IL they shall not, then no trre
Democrats, how much soeEer they may he
Readiusters, should rote it il they sincerely
wish the election Of HANCOCK ard the sue
cess OF the Democratic party.
Such seems TO us 10 be the dictate OF pub.
lie duty as determined by the consequences
resulting from an opposite course, while
not questioning for moment every mans
right to Judge and vote rs he may think
best. In our opinica. vote for the new
ticket tends to defeat, Together with HAM
COCK, all Gus cherished hopes of reform
tends to hasten the progress OF eeairaliza.
ton; tends TO give fatal sanction By fail.
Ing to rebuke 1t TO the fraud by which Re-
publicanism at the last election defeated the