The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-11-23
The Raging Malone.

The Associated Press, it seems, has
already begun the political campaign
for 1884. On Saturday it sent out
printed slips of an infammatory address
issued by William Malone, as chair,
man of the readjuster party of Virgi-
mia, carefully sub-headed and marked
''For use in Mondays Papers" We
have not observed that the Associated
Press has taken the pains to send out
the printed slips of any of the speeches
of Senator Bayard, or of ex-Speaker
Randall, or of Senator Wallace, or of
any representative democrat. If Will
liam Mahone's TRADE against the dem.
ocrats of Virginia is legitimate news, the
speeches of the democratic orators are
likewise.
A more atrocious and Infamous cal
umny never was uttered against the
people than this same libel on the
white people of Virginia just published
by William Malone. and distributed by
the Associated Press. 1t is simply a
lot of groundless and unfounded SLAM
ders strung together in turgid phrase
and repeated oyer and over again to
the extent of four dreary columns. 1t
charges systematic murder and intimi-
dation by the democrats, and processes
a wonderful admiration for the culored
people on the part of Malone and his
fellow-readjusters. But how easily this
enraged and unscrupulous slanderer is
answered and exposed ?
William Malone and his party at the
time of the late election had control of
the entire state government OF Virgil
MIA Mahones creature, Cameron, was
then and now is the governor of the
state. Mahone's lackeys fill the judi
cial offices of the state and control the
administration of justice. Mahone's
tools were the majority in the election
boards throughout the state. The fed
eral offices are filed with the men of
Mahone's own choosing and the whole
power of the federal government in
Virginia was virtually welded by Ma
hone. How on earth comes it, then,
that the crimes which Malone now
charges upon his fellow Virginians
were not prevented, or if they could
not be prevented that no steps are being
taken by Malone and his party to
bring the alleged criminals to justice
Why is it that Malone fails to name
one single murderer or to specify one
solitary case of intimidation ? Why is
it that Mahone's governor failed even
TO make an effort to protect the read
juster voters from the violence of which
this contemplate slanderer now CON-
plains
There has been but single murder
trial in Virginia which grew out of the
recent political canvass. That trial re-
suited in the conviction of one of Will
liam Mahone's own peaceful and ange
lie readjusters of the killing of q
straight-out republican negro. How
comes it that Mr.. Mahone's vivid ina
gination and inhamed rhetoric fail tc
describe the only political murder in
Virginia of which Mr.. Mahone's courts
bear record The other night while {
democratic jubilee was in progress al
the Virginia capital several democratic
negro organizations from the surround
ing country were in attendance. Why
gangs of readjuster negroes, infameC
by the bloody instructions of Mahon'
and his co.conspirators against th'
peace Of the state assembled and as
saulted the inoffensive members o
their own race who had come to parti
cipate in the democratic jollfication
This occurred in the democratic strong
hold of the state and right under thu
nose of Mahone's governor Does this
indicate that the Malone negroes Were
intimidated Does it not rather prove
that the intimidation was OH the part o
the supporters of Malone : But tina
terrible aud bloody mob, the natura
outcome of Mahone's inhammatory APP
peals to his ignorant followers, is no
even mentioned in the address which
the readiuster slanderer has seen fit tC
impose on the country through the gen
erous aid of the Associated Press i
anybody is deceived by the excited
fantastic but malignant statements o.
this calumniator of his own people h'
must be as egregious an ass a. Ma
hone is an unconscionable politlca
scoundrel.--Patriot.