The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-11-29
girl,mond 1ispatth.
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 20, 1885,
nennhlicanism in the South.


thixing with the people Of Virginia, but
ready to do so. They have had one year
OF prr,.sR rule. and they don't want any
more cf II. They have a strong suspicion
that MAHoxe IL odious to the same class Of
people In virginis that dislike BrTlER In
Massachusetts. In true Yankee fashion
they guess" that the public schools Of
Virginia viii he mere APT 10 prosper ia the
hands Of The Democrats than In the hands
OF the CoxRtieuists. They surTnisc that
The ignoran, negroes 81 Virginia may not
be better quaaiaed than the illitcratc voters
of Massachusetts 10 exercise the right OF
suffrage ~ M 10 promote in the highest de-
gree the prosperity Of the Commonwealth -
especsly ~Aen they vote almost all one
side.
Wc have heretofore quoted some OF the
com.rentS oi the Boston Hereid, an inee-
pendent Republican journal, upon the re-
sulS al the late elections in Virginia. That
paper hss moi -onteBted itself with sim
gle eu.glying upon che subject, but has
added line TO Ene, and piled precept upon
prccefa. Orc OF IT'S latest articles uses the
recen. piectiSens In this Stste rs a text, and
reads its pwty an excellent lesson as 10
shci. duty 10 recognize tne southern peo-
pie rs being the peers OF the northern
people. and as being as ready TO pursue the
ris1f and condcsnn the wrong. 1t says the
Republican party has " long enough relied
upon tine negroes ard the white dema-
yerres who use the oolored voters TO adj
vauce their own pestical fortunes" and
has so often seen its reliance to be upon Il
BROKEN reed that ii ought by This time to
have learned that il does notpay even rs a
mater OF party p5acy, to say nothing OF
the righteousness 81 such conduct. 10 wave
the b9oody shirt before Ire eyes OF the
northern people As to MAHoNE's bargain
with ARCUR, the Herald says:
..Instesd Of gong before the southern
people with an appeal TO their Interests and
their honor, the Republican managers
could think Of nothing better than bar
gain They undertook 'te 'build up the
pmty on the basis Of patronage-to secure
by hzi{es what they had Tailed to obtain
bv force. The Coalition in Virginia was
-cemented' with patronage. Malone was
virtxally made president for the State Of
Virginia. Oii GERS were removed and others
appointed ri ms behest, and the Republican
organization was practically coerced into
merging itseu in Re&diusterism. .
And now that Malone has come to grief
and his power has been broken, there must
DC new Departure IL the Republican party
expects TO earn the character OF national
,a<i Inn IL ct
against ine%itable Losses at the North by
gaining portion OF the southern States"
What has beccnae 0f MAHONE's mani
festo, thai Boston and Massachusetts should
talk in that way: Really we begin to sus.
pect that perhaps, as member OF the
Democratic State Central Committee said
at its meeting last week, MALONE has never
done anytling else m his life which was
so damaging to him r. the manifesto which
he issued to explain away his defeat OF the
9Th instant. That committeeman expressed
doubts IA to the poEsy OF replying to or
noticing in any way the said document.
III Boston already turss deaf ear to the
frantic shouts 81 the Mahoneites, where
viii these Dlahoneites be in 1884? Buried,
says Mr.. BAEYoUK, nezsr TO be resurrected.
We quote the Herald again:
"The experience VI the past dozen
years Ought TO convince the most obdurate
Stalwart of the folly OF the attempt TO
build up party on the quicksands Of pa
tronage. When the rains descend, and the
floods come, and the wends blow and beat
upon that house at election time. il will
fail. because Il is not built upon rock.
The men who seek Office as an inducement
or reward for changing their party rela-
tions are not the sorts0f men whom the
people trust or follow"
We suspect that Gensral MALONE him.
self has rea.ised.eve now the truth OF that
last remark Where now are his postmas-
tiers. postal agents, inspectors, and such
like ofiiciaist Whose vobes did they con-
troll? The negroes were tue to him to the
1ast,-a hundred thousand OF them voting
his ticket-but there were not enough Of
them. We quote again:
There Is no longer any reason why
there should b. south and North in our
politics aay s,cre than an EaS and q West"
True as preaching. The southern peo-
pie are unquestionsbiy as moral, as high
toned, as religious, as honest as conscien-
tious, az the northern. 1t is 10 the former
infolerable thu the latter should set up as
their teachers, sad assume that they cheat
mt elections, or lntinidate voters, or do
any other act whtch the best and purest
man In the North would not do.
AL the threats Of the Ssalwarts 81 10 what
they will do next GEAR rtke people OF Vir-
ginia allow 20 pass 81 passes the idle wind.
They know the tempar of their country
men AZ w~l as Geaeral MALONE. They
know that whatever the aorthern people
MAY SLY snd think now, they will in the
course of s few months at the longest learn
the truth in negard to the recent elections.
When TIE merchants Of Virginia have
been consulted by the merchants OF New
Yxk2nd other northern cities. the clergy
men Of Virginia by the clergsmen OF tine
North; the lawyers Of Virginia by the
northern lawyers the congressman OF
yirgiuia by the northern congressman /;
and the peoIAe q the border States shall
have had time to make their iir1uence felt,
there will be fe@ men left anywhere triit
ing 20 wave the bloody shirt, and mono
who 1W uave il. The Repubhcan banner
OF next year win rot be red.