New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-11-03
TIE C{NVASS ~ TIE SOUTH.
TIN EIGHT AGAINST BoIRRnNISM.

THE FIGHT AGAINST BOURBONISM.
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE LYNCHBURG posi- OFFICE
ADMINISTRATIONS ASKED To NAME MAN FOR
THE PIACE-REPUBICANs W.AKTILY SUPPORT
ING CAMTICN-BoTH PARTIES CONFIDENT or
SUCCESS.
GBY TELHGRAPH TO THE TRmUSRl
PETERSBURG, Va. Nov. 2.--Before the Lynchhurg
post Office embodiment passes too far into history
one erroneous i'm resSion regarding 1t requires cor
rection The Democrats by formal resolution dcp-
recated the making ofFcderal appointments for the
sake of influencing state elections. Democratic Sen
ators asserted and Democratic papers published the
assertion that Malone thought il would increase
his power and prestige in this State if. just the
eve Of election, he could have Republican removed
and Democratic Readiuster appointed in his place
If this was denied TIE denial was buried under other
and more important topics at the time. and the inn
preston gained place in thepublic mind that while
there was reason for TIE rcInoya Of Wilson, the time
and the man to succeed him selected with aIew
to a display of Mahones power to control patron
age. 1t is learned from entirely trustworthy
source that the first General Malone knew of the
proposed removal of Postmaster Wilson was from
Postmaster General James, who said that the PreH
dent desired Malone to recommend some one for
the place General Malone Thought AT first of nom
mating Republican as likely to BE- most agreeable
to the Administration, but Republicans who we've
DO il qualified and available were not common in
Lynchburg. He declined until asked the third time
about it and then named Statham. was held by
the Washington anth'Tit les that while Wilson was
constructIvey a deaulter and a vIolater of ia
laws, yet he was a worthy man, and there had
really been no loss to the Government through his
acts. For these reasons it intended 10 make no
public statement OF the removal the reasons for II
and there would have been no mention of it but for
,g n,
TO make a martyr of a man who most emphatIcally
repudiated them and their acts. The authority for
this statement is not General Malone, but one who
was with hiLa in Washington when the Postmaster
General frs mentioned the subject.
| Mr. OtIara, colored North Carolinian with an
Irish name, reached here today from Southwestern
and Central Virginia, where he has been for several
weeks making Readjuster speeches He is q man
! of fine address, He says he expected to find his
audiences chiefly composed of colored men, but was
much surprised to find that intelligent whites in
large numbers il the country he had visited were
openly espousing the new departure
"Wha', he was asked, "has produced thsl"
Simply the desire for a change" was the reply
The old condition of things has not brought relief
from troubles which the whole community was
struggling under, and intelligent are tired Of
promises without fulflment."
How will the eolored people vote!"
"Solidly, believe, for Cameron and the ticket
Colonel Brady, secretary of the MISUNDERSTANDING
lean State Executive Committee says that all his
reports very encouraging and lie confidently ex-
poets a victory by from ten to fifteen thousand
majority. Besides COchrane, the chairman, and
Congressman JOrgensen, a member OF the straight
out Republican Committee. who have both publicly
declared themselves in favor of the Cameron ticket,
Colonel Brady has letters from ten other members
of that committee 10 the same purpOrt while Cen
eraI Wickham alone has declared himself a sup
porter of Daniel and the Bourbon Democratic
ticket COchrane is actively stumping for Cameron,
and Jorgensen has made quiet canvass of several
counties in his Congressional district III the
interest. Congressman DezendOrf, who published "a
letter in Norfolk yesterday, declaring his continued
opposition to the Cameron ticket, not member
of the committee. His letter. singularly enough
was first heard OF in Richmond and here from the
Baltimore papers of to-day. 1t is too late TO harm
tie liberal movement, except in his own district
and will probably attract little attention elsewhere
in the State.
Ii is evident that the close computations which are
Virginia, and one should not tine estimates
made by partIslns for either side trustworthy.
There Is margin for some unexpected results. Colo
mel Kelly, ex-MayOr OF Richmond, u courteous and
well informed gent eman, q Bourbon magnate, said
this morning that he expected his party would carry
everything. The holding over Readluster majority
in the Legislature he said, large one but even
that, lac believed, would be overcome.