The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-08-19

usurpation cannot long endure-at least as
n general thing. The freedom OF the press
and the clash OF conflicting interests assure
its downfall; and though cupidity may en-
LIST the INSCRIPTIONS, andNiolence deter
the timid, the overthrow OF the usurper VIII
come sooner or later, and all the sooner
when the acts OF usurpation are conspicu-
ously multiplied and the usurper rules by
intrigue rather than by force OF character,
as does General Malone. Guided by mar
row selfishness. and not by any enlarged
views OF policy for the State, he aims TO
keen I'D and increase his power by pander-
ing to the thirst for Office and the love OF
money: which has made it necessary for
him to enlarge the patronage OF the
State and prescribe all, Of whatever party,
whom he found in Office. This has
provoked resistance, and resistance has
brought on conflict in which he has been
compelled to charge treachery and deser-
ton OF ReHdjuster principles upon all who
would not follow his lead. There never
was a more uniounded accusation. Let the
reader consider for one moment. In
modern days parties act through c0nycn-
lions. These lay down the principles and
purposes OF their constituents i'll what the
language OF the day, fifty following the me-
chanical proceeding it would describe, de-
signates as a platform; and that is COM
posed OF what are called planks, each plank
representing one principle Of the party.
All but idiots know, what all other men ii
candid admit, that nothing outside OF that
platform is binding on the party that stands
upon it. In all things else the right Of pri-
yate judgment obtains; and its exercise cam
not forfeit membership. Were il otherwise,
what were the use Of the platform! Gene
raj Malone knew this; and hence he
pledecd our candidates under - seal" to
- stand by the Readiuster party and plat
FORM" and he guided by, not the platform,
but the caucus, and to vote for all mea-
slreS, nominees, and candidates that 1t
might agree upon. This was
THE TRICK OF UsURPATION-
this the sleight-O by which he has de-
ceived the perceptions Of the artlcss masses
of the Reidiuster party-this the ground
of the impudent charge OF desertiOn against
all who. adhering TO the platform, re-
jcct and defy his caucus DEGREES. Fenced
in nv position by the cOmmon-sense Of
every honest man, 1 repel the accusation,
and say that since the organ OF General
Malone, as also several OF his orators,
have declared that the ReadiusterS in the
Legislature "did all and more than they
promised" that there cannot be the slight
est obligation on the part Of any man to go
beyond his own discretion or judy
mcnt. ReAdiustment looked to the set
Element of the debt, the restoration
of suffrage to all men but crimi-
nails and imbecles, the application to the
schools of all the revenue the Constitution
assigned them, an improvement in admin
istering our public charities to lunatics,
and the deaf, dumb, and, as distinctly laid
down in the fourth plank OF their platform
Of 1881, the control and reform OF the rail-
roads of the State in the interest OF the
people, That was all; and that has all been
accomplished, according to the Malone
men-all, they should have sad, except
reform OF the railroads; Of which in its
place.
What else was there to do? Nothing
but TO elect to the bench OF the Supreme
Court, in the place OF those whose term
OF Office was shortly to expire, judges
whose opinions would back the constitu-
tionalIty OF the debt bill, and so promote a
| final settlement of that matter. That was
proper enough. But that was all that Re-
adiuster party could in reason or fair
misses had to be kept by rewarding parti-
sans, resistance to be awed punishment,
! influence to be increased by the exhibition
of power. What could so well accomplish
all this as a series Of measures OF which the
first was to depose
TIE JUDGES OF THE CIRCUIT AND COUNTY
COURTS
and fill their places with Malone men
/ Rcadiustcrs ii to be had, but Funders ii
not, provided they were Malone men!
1t was in vain that even the best Reid
justers-men like Savers, OF Wythe-point-
ed out that such legislation, If not strictly
unconstitutional, yet violated the spirit OF
that instrument, and was unnecessary and
vindictiye, and would surely provoke re-
taliation, thereby making the judiciary the
football OF politicians. In vain did they
point to the hotels and bar.rooms OF this
city infested by scheming lawyers making
combinations and trades to get themselves
on the bench. In vain did they predict the
corruption that must ensue ii the judiciary
was to be the subject OF scrambcs and one
object OF party strife.
They were sternly told: "These gentle
men (the Readiusters) were elected for a
specific purpose. There can be 10 doubt
about that, nor about what the purpose was
end is. We accordingly call upon each,
every and all OF these men to resign and 20
home unless they will do what their con-
stituents sent them here TO do. What were
they sent here for? Doesn't everybody
know that the chief object was to get COM
plete control OF the Government and to put
the Funders under foot? OF course. Now,
then, ii any man by his vote and course
shall prevent or oppose this result, he is a
traitor, deserter, and, to put it very mildly
indeed, an INSCRIPTIONS person." That is
to say, il after having done all and more
than they were sent to do, they DO not lei
master come between them and their
constituents and do something else at his
bidding, let them be anathema maranatha.
THE BIG FOUR.
But regardless Of this awful denuncla.
ton Messrs. Hale, Williams, Newberry.
ana Lybrook, the Big -Four, did OF malice
a1ofethought, and against the peace and
dignity Of General Malone, "get COM
! pete control of the caucus by simply de.
flying its mandates, and put its DEGREES
under foot" and save the judiciary of the
State from this pollution. Why have we
no law to punish leze majesty? Why no sta
tute OF treason with clause under which the
Big Four could be hung, drawn, and
quarfered, and stuck up in sixteen places as
awarning to every other "traitor, desert
er, and, to put it very mildly indeed, un-
scrupulous person 20
But there were still hundred or more
Offices that could be made to swell the
power OF the Patron. What were they 2
Why, the lawyers all over the State
had been acting as commissioners OF
sales OF lands, &C., under DEGREES Of
courts. This thing, it was said, was a
burden on the people, as, indeed, think it