Daily Republican., 1882-05-29
VIRGINIA LETTER.
Politics In the OLD Dominion
The Fundors and Read busters.
RICHMOND, May 27, 1882.

Virginia politics Is an intr icate af
fair hard to be understood By stranger
and from the wrangling division
among themselves We are lead to be
lieve they do not understand il very
well at home. The names of party or
ganizations differ from any other STATE
in the Union. If they would be Demo
crat and Republican with some usual
prefix of anti-ring straightout, or re-
form, the general public would know
what it meant, but FUnders and Read
justefs knock them of and they be-
come un Interested in its perusal and
settle d own to the fact that Virginia
with or without name is Democratic
to the core. | will admit that there is
no state except Delaware where it is
suchan everlasting disgrace to man to
turn from Democrat to Republican
than the Old Dominion, and Gen. Ma
hone and Gov. Cameron voted for Han.
cock but officially they vote with the
Republicans and are now considered
what might be called Read djuster Re-
pubicans.
The result of the spring elections is
published to-day aud shows Esad-
juster victory in cities and towns
where it was thought lively re action
had taken place. The Northern news
papers have heralded the tact that Gen.
Malone was not holding his own, and
the party was falling to pieces, that
the men of brains hal lett the party,
namely Massey, Newberry, Williams,
Hale and Tybrook, but Gen. Malone
was too far-sighted to be caught by
such an event as Men leaving the ne "
party when theyEwere disappointed in
not getting certain offices of their own
selection. Knowing the great amount
of humanity in man" he proceeded at
first to elect United States Senator and
judges of the courts as well as men to
fill minor posts of duty, who were 10y
al to this cause which they had eD.
braced.
The name of Massey rings louder
than any other dissenter from the fact
that he is called the father of the
Readjusters and Malone is his dlsci.
pie; if 80 the disciple is greater than
his lord for once. Massey's term of Of
fee had just expired as State Auditor,
The Legislature reelected him to be
his own successor whereupon he deman.
ded the right to choose his own clerks
from the various districts, which being
refused he bolted and renounced and
denounced the Malone party in a
vigorous manner.
He says he will not 60 back to the
funders but proposes to start new
party in true Virginia style, ,aCcompani
ed by some Of it's boilers, to be called
the Read juster Democratic party. 1t
would seem from the returns Of the
elections this morning that the people
are satisfied with the Cameron and
Malone party, as the results exceed
their most sanguine expectations, carry
ing the following cities Pittsburg,
Woodstock, Norfolk, Danville, Viii.
liamsburg, Marion, and gain in Staun-
ton, Lynchburg and fredericksburg.
Richmond changes little in favor of
the funders.
This result was surprising because
the cities were supposed to be the
source of the Funders strength, and
the colored people and whites in the
country constitute the strength of the
adjusters, rolling up that winning
twelve thousand majority at the last
general election.
There is cause for the name OF Dem
ocrat dropping out of Virginia politics
ard it shows the immense power one
acknowledged leading newspaper can
WELD and that paper is the Richmond
Whig. After the war when the days
of reconstruction came and every thing
seemed chaotic and had to be brought
together anew the matter of party
names among the rest, to which the
editor Of the Wing in very emphatic
terms said the name Democrat he never
had, nor never would place at the head
of his columns, neither would he really
under that party cry. He thought its
days were numbered and its work of
destruction complete.
$50 the names of Conservative and
Republican were made choice of until
the State Debt question came to be the
most important political question
before the people when the various
shades of opinion on that subject We're
shown by a variety of names until Re-
adjuster and Funder were reached.
Gen. Malone aware of the power
of the press did not enter upon his
political revolution until he had con-
suited and made an alliance with the
Wing, said tobe best edited paper in TIL"
State, to enter into this contest together,
and we ale glad to know that it has
more than doubled its circulation aud
now enters many dusky door that
never had a newspaper advocacy before.
RAM BIER.