The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-07-16

We cannot understand how thosc WI,
onncsc Malone In this canvass can unke
stand aoairst Mr.. Massey as the candidate
4 a. largo he Is q Democrat, anu ciaiin'
oiways IN have been one. He espoused inc
ca,,se ~ reimbursement and battled LOT y
until # had achieved the object for when
that Marty was organized. Its mission a.
q marty organization was finished when the
debt question was settled. and when thal
was done. and the rubbish OF Its agitation
was brushed away, he stood, rs ne always
did. a Democrat In national ana State
nolitics. He deserted no cause ne had
espoused, was untrue TO no partY-Decause
we all claimed that the debt question was
NOT a party issue-and 1t Is most f1agrant
perycrsion OF terms TO charge him with be.
ing a traitor to his party, because he stood
to it until its mission was fulfilled, and
then. when It had no longer q basis to rest
on, he refused to let Malone lead him into
the Republican party.
Malone boosted that he was better
Democrat than Ben. Hill, and now he has
deserted his party and gone over to the Re-
publicans. With this plain showing OF the
partisan relations Of these two leaders,
which Is the traitor, Malone or Massey
Let common sense and common justice de-
eide.
II those who arc opposing Mr.. Massey
will reflect for moment and consider the
facts which bear upon the position he oc-
cupies they must conclude that he holds IL
by virtue of a right which no Democrat
should question. Last winter Malone,
through an obedent caucus, had mapped
out the congressional districts Of this state
so as to give the colorcd vote the controll'
ing majority in them-leaving but two dis
tricts Democratic, which he could not by
any possibility so rearrange as to give the
coiored vote the majority in them, and
also had so ordered a change in all the
circuit court judicial circuits that he
might place his Judges in every circuit.
Mr.. Massey took firm stand against
these proposed outrages upon the people OF
this State. lie, with the four senators
known as the "Big Four" held Malone
and his party at bay, and defeated these
iniquitous measures, and left the circuit
courts in the hands Of our present judges,
and the congressional districts as they
were. This, under the apportionment by
which Virginia gained one congressman,
gave the State congressman at large TO
elect. Mr.. Massey and his friends in the
Senate, by their bold and determined oppo-
sitiOn to Malone. thus secured for us eight
Democratic congressional districts, and
the chance OF electing Democratic con-
gresham at large. Having done this, these
senator's hare q right to r0ice in saying
,chO the candidate for congressman at large
shall be. No one can with justice question
that right. They have selected Mr.. Massey
as their candidate. and no Democrat should
be guilty Of the injustice to vote against
him. when they must know that he and his
four friends in the Senate saved our iu-
dietary and eight congressman from this
State. Had they not taken the stand they
did we would have been hopeleSSly at the
mercy OF Malone, the most perfect speci-
men OF a partisan tyrant that ever ruled
faction. Would il he right for us to
give those men the cold shoulder, and
drive from us their friends in the state
by telling them they shall not have the
choice OF one congressional candidate, after
they had saved us our old districts, which
secured us eight! No difference what their
antecedents were on the debt issue-tllat
question is gone, and we gladly and re-
jOicingly received at their hands the boon
they gave us last winter in checking the
mad career of Malone, and it would be
the refinement OF ingratitude to spGrn the
prOffer OF these men, and tell them we will
not support their candidate, especially
when they have called out man who.
upon national and State political issues,
apart from the debt question, has been and
is now with us in his partisan relations
LeeSburg WdShingtonidn.