The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-01-06
COMMITTEE Rooms
REApJusrER ORGANIZATIONS.

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RICHMOND. Va, October Is. 1880.
Let me assure YOU, as ! do confidently,
that your electoral ticket, headed by Came
rou and Riddleberger and pledged to Han
cock. will carry The State by plurality OF
$1,000; that it will beat either the Funder
or Grin Sack tickets bv tdis yOte-not less.
Rely on this. WILLIAM MALONE
The result was in round numbers $4,000
Fupders, $4,000 Grip Seekers, and $1,000
ddlebergerites!
As TO General MAHONE'S claim that ma
iori:y Of the people Of Virginia OF all par
ties aud races arc in favor Of his schemes,
we quote the following from the Lynch
burg Virginion. II came under our notice
iust after We had finished reading General
MABoSE's address. The Vugintan says:
ali there had been no cOlored Republi-
can voters in Virginia there would be no
party OF any consequence to maintain ana
enforce the doctrine OF 'fOrcible r'sdlust-
meIt.' That much is clear; and we want
TO tx the responsibility Just where 1t be-
longs"
..The defeat OF the Debt.Pavers, when
the issue was made direct in 1879, was due
10 the solid vote Of The negroes being cast
with the white Readiusters.
"In the congressional election OF Novem-
Der ibis same vote was cast for Reddi usels,
against Debt-PayiDg candidates forCOngress.
Ii was almost solid here, although the caG-
didate OF the Malone party was greatly
inferior mau in every respect to his compe-
titor. IL can be demonstrated also that
the two Resdjusers elected to Congress
owe their success 10 the c0lored Republican
Vote
General MALONE says very truly that the
Funders do not claim the victory OF 1880 as
a victory OF the Debt-PAyers alone. Ont
contrary, they have distinctly refused to set
up any such claim. Nevertheless, so far
as we can learn from our correspondents
in various parts OF the State, it is none the
less true that the men who acted with US
last fall have most OF them "comc 30 STAY"
IL We Offer them an acceptable plan OF re-
adjustment and one having no reputation
in II. We might go further, and claim that
there were comparatively few OF our $4,000
votes OF 1880 cast by Rtadjusters. We do
not know of one single Readiu>ier in this
CITY who voted the regular Democratic
ticket, though it is possible there were
q few who did so. AS small, how
ever, as was the number Of Read
busters in Virginia who voted the regular
HANCOCK ticket, they are too numerous TO
be allowed to go back to the Readi lister fac
ton. |, is therefore the plain duty Of the
regular Democrats to do all that they can so
10 readiusl the public debt as to secure for
their plan OF settlement The votes Of these
Rekdiusters. General MALONE says ii evil
dences want Of principle on the part Of
the Funders TO be thus willing 10 readjust
the State debt. The Funders, however,
will beg leave to differ with him. They are
not going TO butt their heads against stone
wall. General MALONE has so democrat
lied the people that they are unwilling
TO accept even the MCCuLLOCH bin. Shall
we allow him to take advantage OF bis
own wrong, or shall we try to pre-
vent the ratification OF bill which
proposes to repudiate outright twelve nil
lions Of the public debt, 10y offering to the
voters as a substitute some such PROPOSE
ton as General MAHoSE's Mozart Hall pro.
posiiiony True craftsmanship. or State
craft, works as best it can with the tools at
its command. II did not argue want OF
principle, nor 4 change OF creed, Oh the
part OF the people OF Virginia, that they in
1860 ratified the UNDERWOOD Constitution
and elected Il Republican Lieutenant Gov
ernor and United States senator. They only
did the best they could under circum-
stances which they could not control. So
now " would be mere folly for the regular
Democrats OF Virginia TO attempt TO make
war upon the inevitable. They must do the
best they can. II they eau prevent General
MALONE and his followers from repudiating
twelve millions. OF the State debt, surely
they will have accomplished great work.
To attempt TO induce the voters to ratify
this year the funding bill OF 1870 because
they then advocated Its acceptance would
be as foolish and unjusti6abie as to attempt
10 induce them to rstify the funding bill OF
1871 because they once advocated this.
"Wbo does the best bis circumstance
allows does weIl--acts nobIy. Angels can
no MORE"
Ge0ersi MABoxE boasts that bis party J