Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-05-31
PUBLISHED DAILY & TRI-WEEKLY b
EDGAR SNOWDEN.
TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 81, 1881.

Malone is thu Richmond correspondent of the
New York Herald. Hs is faithful to tho last,
and SANDS by him with a dsgreo of fidelity
worthy of better clus,. Iodeed he carries
Gu! to its broades: limit tho IDA that Anybody
will stand By man when he is ght, bu! that
tru, friend will support him right or wrong
and 10 doing this he necessarily sui eos him
self to adverse criticism. He says for instance,
that he is 10 position to assert that the state
msut to the effec: that the General intended 10
mak,s crusade against tho republican ofic,a
holders 10 the State was not true and this,
s,o, when, with the information necessary for
toe proper discharge of bis duties. be must
have flesh 10 his memory the LII nerous DISCS.
Including those Of the postmssters at Gordons-
vile end Waterford, in which god and true
republic IDS were removed at the Generals TO-
stance and their pac,s supplied by his demo.
cratic psrlisans. Ths truth is that real aud
vigorous erassde Was commenced by the Gene,
raj upon the republican cf6c, holders 10 the
State, and that it bad progressed to no ipoou-
siderable extent when the split in The republi.
csn party occurred, and the exigeuces of that
split and The want of democratic support 10 the
Senate induced change to c)ms DER the spirit
OF the Administration dreams. aud evoked
from Mr.. Blaine declaration to democratic
Senators that Malone had gotten ell be was to
receive. and that the food Of federal patronage
10 bis direction had been ST off, The crusade
commenced, but it was summarily ended, for
the reasons stated, and with its ending. yaDa
lshed all the Generals hopes of success. He
knew that all WAS lost by the ConkIiog scol S.
slon. and showed that ns realiz,d his b :rless
condition by the inquiry. "ain't in devil Of
hx?' The correspondent referred to as, sa5s
that careful diagnosis of the situation reveals
the fact that the real ilsters are entirely ulited
So 10 principle aud poIisy in settling the debt.
This shows that 50 far as correctness is coI.
earned he might Just as we'll have made his di.
asnosis from tho distance Of tho moor. he
coofounds The readiusters With the Mahoptes,
though they utterly sbhor each other, as is
proved by the resolutions adopted by their re.
speotive clubs ia this city. Then nothing is
b,tter known among Virgnians than the fact
that those who want to rea6juIt tho debt ale
Infinitely more divided as to the best plan
to be adopted than aro thos, who with to pay
it. As to Mahonies being united 10 principle
and policy, every btd5 at oil Acquainted with
the material of which their party is composed
knows that their single principle is ofico and
their sols policy thu means by which to attnin
it. and long preserved unity is not 1aly CT
s1oa conditions. Gsntrll Malone himself nLw
says that settlement. of the State debt is nct
tho chief issue in the campaign. No. State
debt nor pub 10 schools. ner any ether Interest
Of the Stse is the chief issue of their GAZE p,isn
Their chief and DOLLY issue is ct6o', sDd to OBJ.
tsio it thsy would turn Virginia ovtr to The
c,ntrol Ct the negroes as their leederturned the
u. 8. Semitic over to the control Of the radicals.
The Richmond corrctpoi mt Of the New
Vrk HaraId hoo oarIainlu haen tolki, a. 9th