Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-08-03
MALONE MUST GO.
The Chief Issue in the Old Domin-
ion at Present
Now That the Debt Question Has Beet Set
tled-The Shackles Of BOssiSm
to be Shaken Off.

RICHMOND Va, August 2.-One false.
hood about the recent State Democratic
Convention has already been circulated by
the minions of Malone, with the aim of
body. His organs, as soon as the platform
was agreed upon, asserted that two Repub-
Iicans aided in making it. This is lie.
Their other equally false assertion is that
the Democrats who opposed Malone had
now come over to his way of thinking on
the debt question, and acknowledged that
was right and they wrong When the
great split occurred four years ago the Re-
adiusler element claimed then that they
were the real Democrats, and their pro-
posed debt settlement essentially Demo
cratic.
The Debt Payers
insisted that their opponents were bringing
the States good name into disrepute, and
denounced them as Repudiatlonists. Hard
names were called on both sides. but 1t was
recognized that the fight was one within
the Democratic party, and accordingly In
the Presidential election the two wings
came together and voted for Hancock des.
pite MahoHe's efforts for the adoption OF
an independent Electoral ticket. The men
who started the Readjustment measure
were John f. Massey, OF Albemarle, James
Barbour, OF Culpeppsr, Henry c. Allen, OF
Shenandoah, Samuel II. Motfat, of Rock
| iugham, and Abraham Fulkerson. These
were the foremost in that fight, and all
were members OF the recent Democratic
Convention save Barbour, who was detaln-
| ed by bad health. 1t was after these men
had worked up the question that Malone,
snartlug under his recent defeat for the
Democratic Gubernatorial nomination, and
seeing that readiustment was taking
issue, jumped forward and worked his
| vsv 10 the front and rode into the [ nited
| States Senate on the wave.
No Party Ever Fought Harder
| for its principles than the Debt Payer par.
~. Even ladies attempted to organize,
| and a near relative OF the ablest intellect
| Virginia ever gave in the cause OF science
| proposed that they should sell their jew
elry to aid the cause. The Debt Payers
| fought 10 the last, and surrendered only
when the United States Supreme Court the
| tribunal of last resort, pronounced in favor
| of their adyersaries. That ended 1t. The
| thoughtful and conscientious members OF
| the Readjuster party, recognizing that both
| were Democratic, were now ready TO come
| together. The former recognized that Ma
hone was using them for his personal ben
| eft, bad cheated them, and was attempting
| to sell them ike cattIe 10 tne hepuohCau
party. They rebelled, and reunited with
| their democratic brethren from "hom
| they had been estranged.
AT the Recent Convention
| the greatest discussion in the Committee
| ON Platform was upon the debt. Finally
il was sgreed that neither side could spread
its views upon the question through the
| rIsiform, and the plank settled upon was
simply a recognition that the highest
court IN the land had pronounced the
debt settled, and therefore the matter was
ended. Malone himself still wishes to
harp upon the debt question in order to
hold his voters together, while the ring
| which fattens with him on the SPOTS
echoes his cry; but the debt agitation is at
an end. The great issue now is TO shake
| off the shsckles OF Malone bossisnl, and TO
take the accustomed place ia the National
| Democratic party.