The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-02-23
General Maboue's Position.

Editors Dispatch: In your issue on sun
day is a paragraph from the Wig in which
the claim is made "ihat the Conservative
moytm meat lin 1861, beaded by one Malone,
so Influenced public opinion ana so con-
troled events that the BOurbOns were
forced, reluctantly and in wrath, 10 take
down their ticket and unite in the liberal
combination which one Malone. with the
cooperation Of other liberal Democrats,
Wings, and Republicans, led to victory"
Your comments thereupOn arr just; but
there i smother view which | beg permls-
sion TO present. II will be seen by perusll
of the above extract that the claim is made
by Mahone's organ that he was the front and
soul Of the Conservative movement In 1869,
when the first Governor and Legislature
were elected under the present COnsti-
tuition. Now, hear what Malone says OF
that Governor aud Legislature brought
into power under his auspices and
leadership. In his recent interview with
The liberal and immaculate Gorham, Gene
raj Malone uses the following language:
"Yet il was this Legislature, under the
special recommendation and urgency Of this
Governor, that passed on the last day OF its
session, and under very suspicious clrcum.
stances, what Is known as the funding BILL"
See the interview, published in pamphlet
form by the Wig, page 3. The wing
(Mahone's organ says that Withers was the
Bourbon candidate OF 1869, who was forced
by the Malone liberal movement OF that
year TO step down and out. Malone says
that the funding bill, an iliad OF woes, was
the product of that liberal movement. The
organ OF one Malone says that the BourbOns
were forced 70 step down aud out. II that
be true, they cannot ne held responsible for
The consequences. What is TO be the out
come Of his present so-called liberal
movement? Malone and his organ tell the
people that It has for its object the readiust-
ment and settlement OF the debt question.
But the Republicans, whom they are seek
ing TO make faithful allies, are explicit in
the declaration Of another and quite differ
emf object. "Genera Garteld's advice is
10 ign ore all questions that look towards re-
pudiatiOn in any form, and for the RepubIi-
cans Of Virginia to give no cOuntenance TO
the reDudiation OF the States honest debt in
any sense. But there are other questions
on which the Republicans OF Virginia, and
of the entire country, are in sympathy with
General Malone. The Republicans will
properly define their position on the debt
question. which is practically out OF the
contest, as no legislative action can affect
the decision OF the courts as TO the 23,000,-
600 consOl,; and neither that party In Nir-
pinia nor the Administration at Wash.
inotOn will in any way cOuntenaDcc
any steps towards repudlatiOn." II
is distinctly announced In this para
graph from the Vatiey Virginidn, the organ
| of the Republican party on Virginia. that
| The Republicans are not in sympathy with
Malone on tue debt question, and that they
| do not propose to take any steps towards
repldiaton. The people are informed in
advance that the consol debt Of Virginia,
two thirds of the whole OF it, and on which
the State pays per cent. interest, cannot
be affected by legislative action. Malone
and bis organ are endeayOring TO form CO.
aliOn with the Republicans. They are
seeking 10 seduce COnservatiye-DemOcrat
from their party allegiance by the promise
that the DEBT shall be rtadinsied; and the
faithful allies announce that they will not
90 with him to that extent; that that can
not and will not be done. Well may
| observation-disclosures pause TO ask the
question what is to be the outcome OF
| this foul coalition. There are many hon.
est acknowledgements who anXiously
| wish for a settlement OF this yeXed debt
question upon terms honorable and within
our ability to pay, but il | have not mis-
taken their temper aud feelings they will
not consent TO follow Malone blindly. lie
| is a simpleton who can be deceived when
| the purposes at the bottom OF the s0.called
| liberal movement are yelled with such flimsy
disguises. DEMOCRAT.