Daily Republican., 1881-03-28
EaahOne aud In y Rea d listers

years.
HahOne aud the Rssdiusters.
The Rsadjuster party of Virginia, o
which Senator Malone is the sckuowl
edged head, ia not the dishonest NOR
ster that 1t is represented to be BY tht
Bourbon Democratic organs. The OBJ
iecticnal feature of the Read juste
party is its attempt to scale the homes
debt Of the State. With this We car
havs no sympathy SO long as Virgins
is honestly able to pay those debts
MIR. Malone and his party allege tha
she is not able to pay them and like in
dlviduals in TIE same predicament sbt
should have the benefit of bankrupt
law that would enable her to honestly
pay off what she is able to pay-thai
is if she cannot pay one hundred cents
on the dollar let her pay fifty cents.
The difference between the Rsadjuste
and what Is called the debt laying
Democrats of Virginia is this: The
Readjusters finding the State unable
to pay all the debt want to do the next
best thing ani pay half the debt, while
the protested debt.paying party to
which the Bourbon Democracy rigidly
adhere advocate paying the whole Of
the deb, but fail to pay any part of it
and have defaultsd already in even
paying the in crest on the debt. A.
We have already said, we have no
sympathy with that principle which
leads 10 repudistion of honest debts,
but when 8 State or an individual be-
comes unable to pay tLose dsbts in full
the next best thing to do Is to pay
Whatever State or an individual CAD
pay.
The Readjuster party of Virginia
claims that owing to the heavy debt
hanging over the State 1t lie paralyzsd
a1d improvements are checked that If q
reatiustment of the debt was made,
that would not bear heavily upon the
State, she would bound forward on the
mar h Of improvement and internal
developments like other States. Or
this principle the Rsadjusters triumph
ed at the last State election and sent
their leader General Malone to tb4
senats of the United States where
he nov is, and though not a Rspub-
iicsn, is voting with the Republicans
&c deliver his State from the ruinous
ruls of Bourbon Democracy. 1t should
be remembered, however, that the
Governor of Virginia is a Bourbon
Democrat clothed with the veto power.
and by using it the Read listers were
prevented from putting their principles
into practice so far as paying the debt
was concerned, but they were not pre-.
Veptsd from making other reforms. One
= Ebose reforms is the acknowledgment
Of the rights of the down. trodden COL
bred people Of the State, and securing
hess rights for them which the Bour-
oons had gradually taken from them.
Under Readiustsr rule all citizens of 4
whatever creed, color or nationality |
ire made secure In equal rights before f
he law, and while at the Presidential b
Election other States were carried for G
he Bourbon Democracy by violence
md fraud, Virginia, through the in. r
luencs Of the Readjuster party, was I
'nabled to hold comparatively an hon a
st election, at which colored Repub- /
icsn could vote without endaugering t
lis life in the attempt to do so. 1t is d
indeed wonderful to see how honest the t
Bourbon Democracy have become all at o
'nce. The holy horror they exhibit at
dshone's attempt to readjust the debt
If Virginia and place 1t in a position
where at least the half OF it could be
honestly paid off, would lead us, if VT
Knew no better, to the conclusion that a
Alabama, Georgia and
south Carolina. the very hot beds of
Bourbon Democracy, had never repu.
iiatsd their honest debts. 1t would be ,
to know how many Bourbon d
D 9smooratic Senators besides Hampton, {
In Acknowledged bankrupt, are accus-
pg Malone and Virginia OF dishonesty,
md it would also be interesting to ,
snow how near bankruptcy seme of the
'oarbon organs are that are leading in ,
his crusade against Malone. II
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