The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-07-31
Only the Republicans Remain to be
nafaafod.


Defeated.
Read the letter which Is eo1tSiaediu this
article, and then say u any Il The following
propositions can be denied:
l. The white men Of Virginia arc nearly
all Democrats.
.. whatever party has a majority ~ 'he
white vo,ers Of virginia has majority OF
The Democrats.
2 The RcxdIusters claim and have claim
cd for two years that they constitute a ma
FORTY OF the white voters Of Virginia.
q. The three foregoing propositions beng
true. Il follows that the Resdiuslers have
no party 10 defeat next November except
tie Republican party.
We have attempted heretofore 10 show
thlt n the Lynehburg Convention snrren'
slcrs 10 General MALONE the Republicans
will surrender the vantage ground when
they now have. He will be compelled to
80 over to the Republicans IL they iaii 10
60 over to him. The letter which follows
furnishes proof indublable that General
MALONE realizes his position. We know,
q, eourse. that he will endeavOr TO save
himself by putting down the Republican
organization and using the Lynchburg Con-
yeniion as a means OF exlricatiDg himself
from his difficulty. He will capture that
Convention 10 order that he aud all his
forces may not be captured by the Repub'
leans.
We ask the Democrats and the Republic
cans OF Virginia to read the following letter
penned By General MALONE last month. IL
surprises US to find even General MALONE
denouncing the people OF Virginia and the
party OF which he protested TO be member
from 1869 TO 1879 as setting ga blight
upon every industry" and what, do you
suppose. reader p why" trifing Nth the
crtdn of Virginiar' Was such cool impu-
deuce ever beard Of beiorcS lie shows that
lac dare not avow blmseIi a repudiationist
Of thirteen millions Of Virginia's debt, when
he aflrms that his party intends ito strike
manly blow" for "the restoration OF her
Virginia's) public credit The lamb is to
be nursed by the vol.
General MALONE was voted Tor in the
Democratic Convention OF 1877 as a csudi-
date for Governor. He was prOiessedly a
better HANCOCK man in 1880 than was Gov
ernor HOLIDAY or any other regular Dem
ocrai. I'm fact, be has never, 80 FAR AS we
know, avowe6 himself TO be Republican
10 ANYBODY, though every stranger would
infer from its language that the author OF
The letter below must be Republican. On
the contrary, he and his friends have
CHARGED Il rs an objectionable sin that
General ECHOLs was willing in 1879 TO vote
for General WICKHAM, Republican, TO be
United states senator from Virginia IN
preference TO General MALONE, Demo
cr,t: and in Southwest Virginia even now
his adherents stOuly deny that he has gone
over TO the Republicans. Coloncl CAMERON,
tie MALONE candidate for Governor, de-
tends General MALONE from that charge by
declaring upon the stump that all The votes
he east last session in the United States
Senate were in effect but one vote.
However, the Democrats do not acknow-
ledge General MALONE to be Democrat,
whatever his followers may claim for him,
aud are not likely ever again to be captured
bv bin. We give his letter more for the
purpose of letting the Republicans see that
be is bent upon putting down their leaders
than because be chooses 10 denOunce all his
old Democratic associates as Bourbons.
Read, We silly Republicans, read what he says
OF YOUR lesders, and hen think what set Of
nincompoops you are to have followed such
leaders. You are pretty set Of voters
highly intelligent Republicans, indeed
thus 10 have followed leaders who in all
elections haze idbOred 10 promote the sac
cesSD Of the Democratic party rs the best
means, you ,rW observe, Of retaining their
little offices y! LtwIs, RNts, HUGHEs,
PoPHAM, FERNALD, JORGENsEN, GmNER,
FORBES, WICKHAM, BRADY, COCHRAN, YOsT,
aud the rest, how do you like the picture?
The letter speaks for Itself. 1t was adj
dress to a personal friend residing in Cleve-
land, Ohio-Captain w. G. LYON-aud pub
lished first in a Cleveland paper. Here is
the precious document 10 ful
PETERSBURG, VA, June 1G, 1881.
William C.. Lyon, Esq, NeUdrk, Ohio;
My Dear Sir,-It gives me pleasure TO
thank Won for the generous and kindly con-
sheraton Of your letter dated the 9th In
slant. i am sure you realize that all at
tempts made during the past years since the
war at real reconciliation have been fail
urcs, due perhaps equally TO the contrary
spirit OF the southern States themselves
and TO the mistaken methods employed by
The dominant party Of the country in
that dreciiOn--nOt 20 much, / should
say, to the people OF the southern States
as to an unfortunate leadership, COM
posed in the main by persons who
egged on the war, but shin ed its burdens.
The veterans OF the southern armies, and
especially those Of AppOmattoX, accepted
the issue there closed as conclusive Ia its
results. and, like brave men, were ready to
turn their best efforts 10 thorough re.
union Of the sections and the restoration
OF good feeling between the people them.
selves so lately engaged IN the work OF
death. The great mass Of southern SOL
diery aud tbose who cherished an honOra-
bic memory OF their yalor have long been
weary OF the unmaDly sectional strife which
political parties have enforced. Hence the
promptitude with which this class OF our
Virginii people took to a movement which
promised TO SET aside such leadership, and
bring them and their State back into their
old.time relation With the people OF the
nation.
In all this time Of the blgh,ing rule OF
BourbonisH, prejudice against The dominant
party Of the country and the National Id
miRiStr0tiOn has been The clicked and in
spring means Of maintaining The Bourbon
party here. The National Administration