Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-19
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. POLITICS IN VIRGINIA. The Color Line in the
 Election. AN ADDRESS FROM MALONE. The Methods Used by the
 BOurbOns. A TRASEDY ON LONG ISLAND. Two Women strangIed for
 Their Money.
 THE SOUTH.
Virginia.

Senator Mahone's Address-RIs Views of
 che Recent Election The Color Line
 Forced by Bourbon Politicians.
 PETERSBURG, Nov. 18.-The long prom ised address of Senator Malone to the Re- election in this State was made public to- night. The document contains fully five thousand words and is intended for the whole people of the United States as we'll as the Re adisster party in particular. The document runs as follows:
 stTo the Readjuster party of Virginia- When 8 dominant party organized around great and enduring principles and composed of decided majority of the votes in the State is suddenly overwhelmed and made to appear minority it is of the highest conse- quencs that every member of the party should inform himself whether that result has been brought about by free and honest ex- pression of the popular will, and if so which of its avowsd principles have become obnox- ious to the majority; or if all are still ad- hered to which of them has been betrayed to those intrusted with the great duty of apply ing and enforcing thGm in the government of the State." Here follows an elaborate history of the Readjuster party. As to blood shed and crime General Malone says: ''It is not pleasant to hold up crime and lawless- ness to the worlds gaze, but when the fruits of these are made to seem the honest will and opinion of our people, it is 8 patriotic duty to let the truth be known. Virginia, so long exempt from bloodshsd and violence which has left such foul traces upon the po- litical records of some of her sisters, has un- iyck1ookia,, at this late day into methods no whit less bloody nor less brutal than those which prevailed in the palmiest days of the Ku Klux and white leaguers. When the bourbon faction assembled in Lynchburg in July last to formulate-a 8 platform, 8 large element of it's membership favored the adop- tion of the s'color line" The bourbon jour- nals proclaimed that the true issue of the canvass was the race issue and that the con- test should be forced into struggle between the whites and blacks. That such a plank would be inserted in the platform was highly probable, until the final action taken devel- oped the fact that for reasons best concluded not to make 8 written proclamation of their purpose to draw the color line. Even the most moderate bour- bon did not pretend that this failure to draw the color line in the platform sprang from lack of purpose so to do, but it was admitted on all hands that it had not been formally adopted from motives of policy. The tenn porary chairman of the convention addressed himself to the whole people of Virginia. The leading bourbon journals recommended the platform, and while bourbon coadjutors under the name of straightout RepubH- cans were sent to the back districts to disafect colored voters, the whole burden of the bourbon leaders in the white districts was to excite the race prejudiees and passions of the whites against the blacks. As early as September a leading bourbon editor an- nounced to 8 leader of our party in public place that the bourbon plan of campaigning was to buy all they could and bull the re- maipder.' How well this programme vas carried out the sequel will show. The excitement became more intense as the buying of blacks became more and more apparently impracticabls. The violent policy became the more necessary to intimi date and in41ame the whites. Arms began to pour into the south side region, the supply of small arms in our larger cities wRs ex- hausted and the demand extended as far as Baltimore. In due time riots came. With what prsmsditation and design it came let any impartial man who reads the bourbon press and heard the preparations before it judge for himself. Who provoked them, who perpetrated them, let the bourbon journals themselves testify. The massacre in Danville is digniaed in bourbonism W1Su eQS u@LAS OI hOW Akuy were killed no one knows and no one will probably ever learn the truth, for the condition of things still in Danville is such that the truth cannot be learned. Simultan- eously with these occurrences the crack of the bourbon weapon engaged in political murder resounded and the bourbon knife sunk deep in the counties of Charles, Hali- fax, Hanover, Floyd, Augusta, Lee and else where mingling with the Sabbath day sympathizers from the bourbon capital. Insthe history of politics in the State the re- cent carnpaipn is, thank Ged, without prece- dent, and to the forbearance and long suffer- ancs of the Readjusters, and to this alone is due the fact that this State is not now bathed in blood. That the reaction will not come is not matter ce donhk It is true that bour- bonism has gained triumph upon campaign of falsehood and deception, by appeals to passion and by barbarous resolve to shed as much innocent blood as was necessary to it's success In the sffort to perpetuate caste, class and race rule by crushing out by force, fraud or otherwise the weak and un- protected in this State, the bourbons have made gulf between themselves and the Re- adjuster party which will yswn forever. The struggle against bourbonism is to be renewed forthwith and therefore I call upon every ls- cal Readjuster in Virginia to rally to the standard of reform to fight new battle against their old bourbon foe in the national campaign Of 1884. WILLIAM MALONE.
 Petersburg, Va, Nov. IS, 1883.