The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-10-21
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Thu revelations which MT. uokifAs has
reccntly made are worthy Of more aftcIf-
,,on than has been paid TO them. He says
that an understanding between Mr.. GAR
r,r,p and General MALONE had been
reached before General MAH0NR took las
sent In the United States Senate. Thiscx-
traordinary revelation places General Ma
HONE In a worse position than has anything
else which has come to light.
II will lie recol~cted that when The hrst
smoke in the Senate General MALONE softily
proclaimed his independence OF the eau
cuses OF both parties; and that when BEN.
HuL characterized him as a tpacher-
OILS Democrat, General MALONE claim
ed 10 be a better Democrat than
BEx. HILL; and when Dir. HILL asked
him II he was not elected TO the Senate as
a Democrat he replied that he had been
elected ~as Re&diuste- "-elected "by
the peopIe~-and so forth. Mr.. CoNKLING
had already claimed that his party had a
unconstitutional majority" in the Senate.
What could he mean? was the inquiry
upon the tongue Of every Democrat. The
Democrats were in the dark. Mr.. CoNK-
LING. the leader of the Stalwarts, knew
General MAHoxE's intention to act with
the Republicans.
RecoIlect, too. that GEORGE GoRHAM was
i'm March, 1881, made the Republican nom
inee for Secretary Of the Senate, ana III. III.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the Republican nominee
for Serceant-at- Arms. Now, both these
men were then. as they now are, rampant
Mahoneites. 1t is plain, therefore, not
simply that General MALONE had agreed
70 and the Republicans to organize
the Senate in their interest, but had had
two OF his intimate friends, the one ke-
publican and the other Democrat, nomi-
mated for offices in that body.
The Democrats in the Senate, be IL re-
membered. had counted upon General MA
HOMES vote. They would not believe that
he would prove false to the party to which
he had always been attached, and to whose
nominee for President of the United States
he had given a warm and hearty support
the wear after his election TO the United
States Senate. General MALONE had been
HANCOCK man. He had declared not ten
DAYS before the November. election, 1880.
that his HANCOCK electoral ticket would
carry Virginia by twenty-five thou
sand majority. This was only eighteen
weeks before he took his seat in the
Senate. So far as appears upon the re-
cord. or from his words or actions, he had,
therefore, up to that time had no cause OF
quarrel with the National Democratic par
ty. The Democratic party OF Virginia, as
Mr.. HILL said in the Senate, was divided
into two factions. but both claimed TO be
Democrats and had acted with the National
Democratic party in 1850. General Ma !
HONE, therefore, must have been regarded |
by all the Democrats in the United States |
Senate as a Democrat in national politics.
Now read GoRHAM'S extraordinary rcyc-
lation-the same GoRlIAM whom MALONE |
had had nominated for Secretary OF the
United States Senate. G0RHAM says;
"Again, during the winter after his
election, and lceehS before has Inaugural |
ton, be was visited by Senator J. ID. Cam
cron, Charles +. Smith, Of the PhlladeI- |
mia Press Frank Riirr, OF the SANE. !
and the editor Of the Republican, and to |
them he declared that he considered the |
statement of General Malone on the Nir- |
ginia debt question AN honest docu- |
ment' upon the facts rs therein presented, |
the correctness of which he also SAID he |
did not doubt. Being informed that GEN |
eral Malone could undoubtedly continue IN |
the Senate the liant he 1cGS making IN Tir- !
0inid AGAINST The BOurbOnS, he said en-
phatically that if that should prove to be
SO he should make no distinction between
him and any other Administration scna-
tor" -FOUR itdiicS.l
Thus it appears from testimony which
General MALONE will not dispute that
"weeks before the Inauguration and
therefore weeks before Mr.. HILL uncovered
or discovered General MAHoNE's position
Mr.. GARFIELD was informed" that Gen
eral MALONE would undoubtedly con-
tinue in the Senate the fight he was making
in Virginia against the BOurbOns." Who
Uniformed " Mr.. GARFIELD? Nobody else
than GEORGE GoRHAM and +. a. BURR, OF
the Philadelphia Press, the latter OF whom
was here in Virginia advocating General
MAHONE's cause even whilst the General
was protesting to be 4 HANCOCK Democrat!
Eighteen weeks before the inauguration
General MALONE was a HANCOCK man.
"Weeks before the inauguration" Mr..
GARFIELD had promised to make "no dis
tinction between him and any other CD Adj
mnistration senator"
These are the words Of GEORGE Cor
HAM, the Republican nominee of 1881 for
Secretary Of the Senate, and now editor Of
General MAHoNE's Washington organ. The
facts need no comment. Any other "Ad-
ministratiOn senator!
No wonder that in 1882, MAYO, SMITH,
JOIN WISE, RIvEs, SIMS, and all the rest OF
MAHoNE's candidates, are also "Adminis-
tration candidates"
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Beast Butler.