The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-09-05
DROP MALONE.
HE Is TOO MUCH OF A LOAD FOR THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY TO CARRY.
IN sav the New York "Timos" ana
Many Other Republican Papers,

misuse OF fcutIU l'"ti ~
The Times is particularly emphatic. 1t Is
the leading Republican journal, and both
ON account Of its ability and influence are
tie utterances entitled to weight. That IL
makes cruel thrllsts at the South while
warning Arthur to beware only goes 10
prove that il speaks for "loyal Republic
cans.v not for "rebels." Here Is what II
said yesterday in It's most prominent edi-
torial:
Our Washington dispatches yesterday
contained some interesting statements re-
oording a plan matured by the President
and his Cabinet for promoting the anti
Rourbon movement in the South. 1t is
their ayowed purpose to leave no stone I'M
touched TO secure the election OF Republic
cans or anti Bourbons in all the doubtful
congressional districts in that section. This
work will be placed, it is understood, in
the hands OF the Secretary OF the Navy and
fine Attorney-General, the former being
very familiar with southern politics, and
the latter having it in his power to render
assistance through the Department OF JUS
tice. our correspondent adds that Sin the
hands OF men Of the ability and experience
OF Acknowledgement Brewster and Sccre-
tary Chandler something may he expected
from the new movement" whether the
movement is one which will deserve sue
cess depends entirely upon tho real aim
pursued, and upon the means employed to
accomplish it.
That it is very much to bo wished that
the Bourbon party, by which is meant the
portion OF the Democratic party that is de-
termined to rule with or without the fair
| - tv Shn,Il1
Nh in the South, no one will deny. The ex-
istence OF such a party har already cost the
South much in material loss and in pOlti-
cal defeat, and its continuance in power
must always be q great obstacle to prospc-
rity in every direction. 1t is particularly
TO be desired that the hostility OF the
Bourbons to the essential principle OF
Democracy--a free vote and n fair count
should be broken down, and that they
should be compelled to respect the rights OF
all the citizens Of the States in which they
live. Tie success with which for many
years the purpose OF the law with refer
cncc to the suffrage has been defeated by
violence or fraud has not only been deep
disgrace to the nation. but it has also been
n source OF great political injury and con-
fusion. There is nothing which the law
permits. no weapon with which the law
arm, the General Government, which
should not he used to the utmost to pro-
tect the freedom OF the voter and the purity
OF elections. Whatever is done in this
direction within the spirit Of the Consti-
tuition and the laws will be approved by
the whole country, and by none more
heartily than by the intelligent and prIcti-
cal men of the South.
But il would be n crave mistake on the
part OF the Administration to suppose that
the country, or even the body Of the Re
publican party, would necessarily approve
the extending OF aid to the opponents OF
the BourbOns in the South without refer
ence to the principles of those opponents.
1t would he 4 still grayer error to think
that the Republican party cOuatcnances the
support of such opposition by any and all
means. including some that have obviously
been resOrted TO in Virginia. 1t has from
the first been questionable whether the
break in the Democratic ranks made by Gen
eral Malone, with all the advantages that
it brought about in the way OF free cleo
tons. was not purchased too dearly by the
success Of the reputation which General
Mahone's party advocated. 1t is beyond all
question that the methods which have been
employed to aid Malone, in the Use OF
Federal patronage and in the disgraccful
and unlawful power over Federal appoint
ments and removals that has been accorded
10 him, have been entirely without iustifi-
cation or compensation. Bad n Bourbon
ism is in its practical denial OF constitu-
tional rights and its defiance Of the prn-
ciple OF free suffrage, its sins lie at
its own door. The dictatorship which
has been erected in the departments
N,I,g nd Ia.
has been allowed in abusing Federal
offices for the purpose OF influencing.
through bribery or cOmpul>iOn, the politics
of his state are in principle rs completely
Ianti-Dcmocratic a. the tissuc-paper ballots
OF South Carolina or the bulldozng OF Mis-
sissippi. And these wrongs have the Pc
culiarly Objectionable feature that they in
vOlve the Republican party and the ma
tiOnal Administration. They fix upon the
former the stigma OF base hypocrisy, be-
cause they are an open and llagrant viola
ton OF that party's profcssed respect for
the principle Of equal suffrage. They OK
pose the Administration to the charge OF
having violated the spirit OF the Constitii-
ton and the laws for partisan ends as sell
fish, a. contemplate, and rs corrupt a.
those OF the worst Of BOurbOnS.
With such m example OF what the "anti-
Bourbon" movement in the South may
mean, the country cannot be expected to
place the most entire confidence i'm the
plan which the Administration is reported
to have put Oh foot to aid 1t. Happily
there is nothing in the known action or
in the reputation OF the Acknowledgement
to lead the public to suppose that lie is
prepared to give to this plan any such
character as belongs to the Admlnislra-
tons aid TO Malone. 1t is fam to pre-
sumo, in the absence OF other evidence, that
he will cOnfine his part in the work TO
such legal advice and assistance as he can
honorably and legitimately extend. Unfor-
tunately the antecedents Of the Secretary of
, the Navy do not warrant Il like inference
with regard to his share in the work. II is
much more probable that he would, with
out hesitation, repeat the Malone tactics
wherever he could do so, that he would
care very little what was set up so long as
the bourbon rule was oyerthrOwn, and that
he would advise the free Use OF the Federal
: appointments for the same ends as those to
which they have been devoted in Vir-
. ginia. 1t ought TO be understood
! by the Administration-and il is the
duty Of Republican journals above
: all others to make it clear-that the
Republican party does not desire any
more such alliances; that these cost very
much more than they come TO that. much
rs the party may wish TO see Bourbon rule
broken up, it is not willing TO see that done
at the price OF prostituting the public SER
vice in the southern States to promote the
ambition OF INSCRIPTIONS politicians Of the
Malone type. a fair and honest enforce
ment Of the laws protecting the suffrage
the RcDIblicauS aSSurodlv want but ,Lo,,