The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-10-25
Tho Issues.


The campaign Is almost ended. INT
hattie win soon be over. Two short weeks
nom to-day the people OF Virginia vii
decide hy their ballots whether they vii
maintain the integrity Of the State or yieic
70 the solicitations Of Reputation. The
spoaking has most Of Il been done. 1t vii
No discut hereafter TO keep the orators In
the field. The writing, too, Is so nearly
ended that Il viii be no easy matter hence
forth 20 iiud any new subject for discussion
The issues OF the election have been pre-
scntcd 10 the voters in every shape and
form. let MS see what some Of them are
]. The first is population. The propo-
slt;on TO refuse out and out 10 pay thirteen
millions ef dollars Of bonds issued by the
lawful authorities Of Virginia IS nothing
more nor less than reputation. NO spe-
cial OF specious plea can hide the nature OF
that proposition from anybody who is dis
nosed 10 be informed on the subject. 1t Is
debt which every department Of the Stste
government has repeatedly declared to be
q binding obligation upon TIC State. The
thirteen millions OF bonds proposed to be
repudiated are signed by the lawful officers
OF the Commonwealth, and were all OF them
issued by those very officers themselves;
and they issued them by the authority OF
the Governor and the Legislature.
.. A second issue is between Democracy
and Republicanism. General MALONE has
gone over TO the Republican party. He Is
now trying to deliver this honOred old
Commonwealth to that party. 1t is Tor the
voters to say in November whether he
shall succeed OF not. His deluded follow
ers have been tolled along-the State debt
being The salt which he has used-until
now large proportion Of the thirty thou
sand voters he misled last fall into voting
for his bogus electoral ticket are ready
10 walk with HIM into the fold Of the Beput-
hc.n party. Are you doing all that you can
10 prevent This sad result? II not, arouse
yourselves and 60 to work at once. 1t Is
no! too late to work. On the contrary, as
the time for speaking and writing has
almost passed away, the time for constant,
persistent, untiring work is now upon Us.
We must not suffer Virginia TO stray of
into the Republican party. II we do,
Georgia. South Carolina, Mississippi, Loui-
siana, Alabama, and all the other southern
States win soon find springing up within
their borders men who will lead the dis
contented whites, and try TO step into Office
from the nogro's shoulders. The nationsl
Democratic party will have received its
Gtatb-wound in Virginia.
9. Another issue is the rule Of the white
Taxpayers Of Virginia. If the Democrats
are defeated next month, Virginia will no
longer he governed by her white men. The
negroes viii constitute much the larger di-
vision Of The new party. The whites will
lie comparatively few. The Democrats Of
Virginia would feel that there was really
no contest If il were not for the negroes.
These arc numerous enough to be fOrmi-
dable. If they all vote the Reid
juster ticket ii will require the vote /
OF every white Democrat in the State to |
overcome the combined strength OF the !
thirty thousand white Readiusters and |
their negro allies. But there are seventy |
three thousand more white than negro /.
voters in the State, and it can hardly lie
possible that enough Of these whites will |
follow MALONE to give him success. 1t is,
however, your duty to work night and day
from now until the 18th day Of next month,
ii by so doing you can prevent the Stste
from being ruled by negro officials from
and after January /, 1882.
3. And the RIDDIBBERGEB bill is an issue.
1t is bill Of denominations. 1t has been
so thoroughly exposed, however, and is
known to be so odious measure, that it
surely can have no strength with the peo-
pie.
There arc many more things that might
be mentioned rs being involved in the cleo
tons about to come or; but these are
enough. II these win not induce the poo
pic TO rally to the standards OF the De
then indeed there are none that
can prevent Virginia from being plunged
into the gull of Reputation, Republi-
canisni, and negroism.