The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-07-10

Lieutenant, Governor OF flrginlaf Acs p"S
democrat seriously ask himself this ques-
ton. aud study out the answer TO IT, ana pc
may have occasion to open bis eyes 70 sne
danger which lies inst before US OF repupli-
csnizlng yirqInia's representation 10 tpe
United states Senate.
Mr.. LEWIS holds a Federal once wn'cn
pavs him no, less, we guess, thsn five thou
Sand dollars per annum. The once Of
rseptenant. q Governor Of Virginia would pay
him. n he should get It, about as many bun-
dred dollars. The law Of Virginia promo
as any Federal Office holder from holding a
State ofiice.
such are the facts. Now, what do they
ind:cates Is Mr.. LEWIS real canuiua'e
a., ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We do not De-
lIcvc that he s--that Is, in the sense llas nc
would accept the Office II CHOSEN oy 'ne
ueople TO fll II. It Is unreasonable 10 sup
nose that any ofiee-seeker or ofice'holder
~ his stripe would surrender place worth
I've thousand dollars year for place
worth only five hundred dollars year.
What tbens Simply this. The candldacy
OF Mr.. LEWIS is u pledge on bis part that ne
Is In favor Of a coalition between the re
publicans and the Readiustsss and pieoge
on their part that II CAMERON and BLAIR DC
elected Governor and Attorney-General
LEWIS shall be promoted to the United
States Senate. RIDDLEBEEGER was 10 nave
had the place OF senator; and his speech IN
the late ReSdiuster Convention declaring
that LEWIS could not carry county west
OF the Blue Ridge Is proof that ne wouIo
rather be senator than an officer OF the
senate. But General MALONE provided for
him by having him nominated for Sergeant-
alarms OF the United States Senate. de
may. therefore, be considered out OF Mr..
IEwIs's way, especially as bis speech above
alluded to is said TO have displeased Gene
raj MALONE.
Recollect that Mr.. LEWIS was elected
Lieutenant Governor In 1869, and imme-
dia,ely afterwards TO the United States
Senate. We all know Of course that "that
powder has been burned" as MIR. LINCOLN
used TO say, aud chat 1t will never catch fire
again: but Mr.. LEWIS is OF different
opinlon. We all know, too, that he was
chosen as Union man who could IN that
character aid IN the good work OF securing
to Virginia her right to representation IN
Copgress-at that time withheld from Der
not only uniusiiy but in violation of the
Con .titution OF the United States; but that
instead Of mauifesting sympathy with his
constituents he acted from the time he got
into the Senate until he was turned out as
IL be had been the representative OF
Massachusetts or Illinois and not Vlr-
GINA senator; and therefore that the
people of Virginia will never again give
him an Office. He holds one now which
was conferred upon him because he was
Republican of the most incorporating
sort. He wouldn't bold that office twenty
four hours longer il the people Of bis own
State bad the power to turn him out. we
expect his name to be very extensively
"sciatcbed" next November.
However, we are wandering from our
point. The facts we have recited indicate
that Mr.. LEWIS has the hope Of being elect
cd United States senator next winter as
reward for the services which be VIII
have rendered TO the ReSdjusters in bring
ing up to their support the negro Repu0ll-
can voters. 1t Is not necessary to allow him
TO continue to cherish such hope. Wher'
ever Mr.. CAMERON, and Mr. BLAIR, and
Mr.. LEWIS, and General MALONE, shall ap-
pear upon the stump, they ought to be call
cd upon TO define their position. There
was no bargain two Years ago that the Re-
publicans in tie Legislature should CON-
bne with the Resdiusters and elect Gen.
eral Malone TO be United States senator (;
yet they did il all the same. Let the Dem
ocFais, therefore, who are asked by
MIR. CAMERON 10 support his ticket
the Democrats to whom he appealed in
Russell county the other day when he said
that all OF General MAHONE's votes with the
Republicans OF the United States Senate last
spring were in fact aud substance but one
yote-let these Democrats demand OF
Me.srs. CAMERON, BLAIR, and MALONE,
pledge that no Republican shall be by their
party elected 10 represent Virginia In the
United States Senate. A single vote in that
body is 100 potent to be treated as thing
OF small import. But for BAYARD, LAMAR,
Hill, BROWN, GARLAND, HAMPTON, J0NEs,
HARRIS, and the other Democrats, General
MAHoNE's sole vote would have sufficed to
ill all the offices in that body with tools Of
CoSKLISG, CAMERON, LOGAN, HoAR, DAWES,
and the rest of the traducers of the southern
people.