The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1881-11-19
WHAT MALONE WILL DO.

We copy the following from the New York
Herald, which throws much light on what Sena-
tor Nah sne's victory in Virginia will accomplish
and what the true policy of the Readjusters will
be:
what this policy is which they
are now to carry into effect General Malone
stated very frankly and clearly in a conversation
with our special Washington correspondent last
April, of which we reprint to-day the material
parts. 1t appears from this statement of the
adjuser leader that the debt question, of which
much has been made was of comparatively small
Importance in his view, and that the matters he
and those acting with him had most at heart and
thought of most consequence related to the estab-
lishment of equal rights in the State for poor and
rich alike; the abolition of certain laws, notably
the poll tax regulation, which work injuriously
and Oppressiyely upon the negroes and poor white
peoples the better support of free schools and the
destruction of the two political organizations
whom Malone calls the Bourbon Democrats and
the Bourbon Republicans, who, as he says, were
accustomed to play into each others hands to
cure for themselves, the Democrats the State Off
ces and the Republicans the Federal places
"The essential point Of Mahone's statement is
his desire to place Virginia a line with the
Northern States, which he sees cannot be done so
long as she, in common with other Southern
States, helps to maintain the "Solid South" The
solid Democratic South as n dependent and tool
in politics of the Northern Democratic party Ma
hone, as we think wisely, believes to be huge
and fatal bunder; and he deserves credit for
having not only apprehended this fact but for
having had the courage to lead movement, ex-
tremely unpopular in the outset, to relieve his
State from this injurious political bond. Con-
corning this Southern alliance with Northern
Democrats General Malone said to our correspon-
dent 1.-THE difference between the Southern
Senator whom you have quoted and myselfis that
he can conceive of future for the South that is
either honorable or desirable unless achieved in
close and permanent alliance with the Bourbon
Democracy which over and over again has led the
South to defeat. Ny notion is that party organi-
cations are merely means to aid ends, and that if
the Democratic party, as now organized and con-
trolled, either declines to help the South in its
great material wants, it has done, and declines
to advise the South to such policies and measures
as will give us the cordial sympathy of the ruling
spirit and mind of the North, as it has also done,
or if this Democratic party, even lift were wiling
is unable for any reason to accomplish these great
ends so necessary for us, that common sense and
patriotism alike compel us to look out Tor our
selves as best we may.
"For the rest he added :-"I say, as have said
in Virginia, that / want every man to vote, white
or black, and want him to vote as he pleases and
to be neither threatened beforehand ostracized
afterward 70. expressing his free opinion. L am
tired of into erance. l want white and black, no
matter of what party to act freely in politics and
live tremendously together you do in the North.
Then we can get capital and men to come in and
develop our resources and make Virginia as great
as she ought to be-" 1t is, therefore, a new Vir
ginia which the Malone movement has for its OBJ
iectve, and if the independents, who have just
carried the State, live up to their promises they
will earn and get the good will and gratitude of
the State. The Virginia Bourbons deserved the
defeat they have just suffered.
at will be observed that Malone proposes to
retain his and his partys attitude ofindependence
of both the great political organizations. How
long they will be able to maintain this position
cannot be foretold, but it is matter of small i'm
portance. More interesting is the question what
effect the independent success in Virginia will
have on other Southern States. A great part of
the bitterness with which Malone was attacked in
the Senate last spring out of the unconceal-
ed fear of Democratic Senators from other South
ern States that his success would encourage and
give overwhelming strength to the independents
all over the South. We hope it may turn out so.
In Virginia, first of all the Southern States, there
are now two parties, each containing a share of
the wealth. intelligence and social influence of the
State. That is the normal political condition in
any State, and the sooner a similar redivision of
parties is brought about in the other Southern
States the better it will be for their peace pros
perity and greatness"