The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-11-30
Game of the Managers.
BILLY MALONE AND PRESIDENT ARTHUR's
CANVASS.

WASHINGTON, Nov 27.-The Re
turning Board of Virginia is composed
of the Governor, the Secretary of State,
the Treasurer, the Auditor and the At
torney General. All of these officers
were elected on the Malone ticket in
1881, and are avowed repudiators of
the state debt. +. S. Blair, the Attor-
ney General, publicly declared that his
party favored the scaling process for
the debt of the United States. After
the recent election Malone tried to get
up five contestants for the State Senate,
with view of counting out an equal
number of elected Democrats, on the
plan pursued in Louisiana when the
vote of that State was stolen from
Tilden. He only succeeded in inducing
two to take this step, and as that num-
ber was insufficient for the object of
making tie in the Senate, and thus of
giving the casting vote to Lewis, the
Lieutenant Governor, the scheme was
abandoned. A. w. Jones, one of the
two, who was defeated by General
Wickham in the Hanover district,
which Malone denounced in his ad-
dress as the scene of violence and blood
shed, was quick to withdraw from the
contest after having promised to make
it. He is said to have expended many
thousands of dollars at the recent
election, acquired in lobbying before
the Malone Legislature. AT least one
case of bribery could be established,
and, therefore, Jones thought it not
only prudent to withdraw from con-
test, but also to certify that the election
was fair and peaceable, in direct con-
tradition of Mahone's statement. If
Malone had succeeded in mastering
five contestants to do his bidding, he
would have had serious trouble in the
Returning Board in carrying the pro-
jected fraud through. While willing
to strain point for partisan success, it
is certain that this villainous scheme to
steal votes after the election would have
been resisted. Any decided opposition
would have killed the conspiracy stone
dead. Malone was informed of this
determination, and it has not sweetened
his temper in defeat nor strengthened
his hand for any future plans. The
mendacious charges in the address sign
ed with his name, but prepared by
another hand for political effect at the
North, have driven eff thousands of his
deluded followers.
If an Investigation of the election
should be ordered by the Senate, as has
been proposed, the Virginia Democrats
would rejoice at an opportunity to ex-
pose the rascalities that were practised
by the Readjusters. And if any at
tempt should be made to repeat the
game which John Sherman and his
confederates played in Louisiana, with
Eliza Pinkston and Agnes Jencks for
witnesses, the House would soon expose
the iniquity. The conspiracy to fabri-
cate sectional issue on falsehood and
fraud is too patent to be effective. The
warning from Ohio that fifty thousand
Republicans would stay away from the
polls if Arthur should be nominated as
the party candidate next year has
chilled the movement for him in these
parts. That strong hint came from the
Sherman faction, and it was made EN-.
phatic because OF a rumored alliance
between Arthur and Foster for the
ticket of 1884. The game of the man
gers who are now engineering the
Presidents enterprise is to fiatter var
ious conspicuous Western Republicans
with the proposed nomination for Vice
President Hence the ticket is Arthur
and Miller for California, Arthur and
Lincoln for Illinois, Arthur and Harri
son for Indiana, Arthur and Allison for
Iowa, Arthur and Ingalls, for Kansas
Arthur and Conger for Michigan, Ar
thur and Washburn for Minnesota, Ar
thur and Foster for Ohio and Arthur
and Sawyer for Wisconsin. Other
combinations besides these are suggest
ed In fact, the Vice Presidency il
practically put up as prize for competi
tive examination, measured by politica
strength. The presidents friends hav'
preference, of course, but they wan
to make the most out of this seconC
place TO advance the chances for th'
first honor They are much disturbed
by the loud note of menace from Ohio
which reminds them forcibly of the de
fection in New York last year.