The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-07-21
,,s. psnnnl,oan Party Of Virginia.


rhe Republican Party Of Virginia.
The s,raightout Republicans Of Virginia
- called. are, like the conies, "afeepie
solk.u Last year, under circumstances
moro favorable than are likely 70 surround
chem again very soon, they poiled IN the
entire state less than FIVE thousand votes
How many they could poll this year u .ney
had a candidate running all over the State
the reader can guess as accurately as We
Their candidate Of last year for congress
man.at-large was negro, and. we suppose
drew OF from MALONE more negro voes
than any white man could have secured.
In a word, the Straightout Republican
party in Virginia is practically defunc',
whether IL knows the fact or not.
We have for years admired MI. BLAINE
He WINS our fayorite for the Republican
nomination for President OF the onitea
States both in 1876 and 1880. We desired
IN have the pleasure OF defeating the Re
publican party under his chieftainship, or
failing that, 10 have for President Repub-
iican who had done the South good SER
vice while he was Speaker OF the National
House Of Representatives. It's not, there
fore. because we dislike the Straightouts'
fayorite for President that we announce
their weakness In this State. Wehope thai
they viii send delegates to the Republican
National Convention, and compel that body
70 choose as between the BLAINE delegation
and the MALONE delegation. Nevertheless
we must warn the Democrats that there
Il no help for them to be expected at the
hands OF these Straigbtou.s or BLAINE ke'
publicans, and that II would be unwise In
them TO look upon these as anything else
than what they are-that Is, belated parti-
sans, who have been cleft"
1t is important that the people OF Virginia
should understand that beyond a doubt
General MALONE Is the leader OF the Repub-
lican party, SO far as this State is concerned.
He dictates all the appointments made to
Federal office. He Is recognized by Presi-
dent ARTHUR as the Virginia dispenser oil
Republican patronage. His party will send
delegates to the Republican National Con-
yention Of next year. That party is to all
intents and purposes the Republican party
OF Virginia, and even though the Straight
outs should also send delegates to that Con-
yention and thus compel that body to
choose as between the Mahoneites and the
Blaineites, yet the latter delegation would
have to be rejected for want OF con-
stituency. MALONE leads the negroes OF
Virginia-all Of them, we were about to
say-and here whoever leads the negroes
leads the Republicans.
There are nevertheless still among Gen.
eral MAHONE's followers some Democrats
who do not realize that in voting MALONE
ticket they are voting Republican ticket;
who do not know that he intends to send
delegates to the next Republican National
Convention; ard who would not support
his candidates for the General Assembly
next fall II they knew that these candidates
were Republicans bent upon so redistrict-
ing this State as to secure as many Repub-
lican members Of the next House Of Repre-
sentatives as can possibly be gerryman-
dered into that body.
The Democrats OF Virginia ought, there
fore. not to flatter themselves that the
Straightout Republicans can produce any
diversion which will benefit the Democrat
ic party. Nor ought they ever to lose sight
OF the fact that the MALONE party is the
Stalwart- Republican par
ty-the genuine article. Impress it upon
every man that II he votes for a MALONE
candidate for the Legislature, he will vote
for Republican, even though it may be,
as the Straightouts said In one Of their reso-
lutions published by us yesterday, Re-
publican who refuses to acknowledge that
he is Republican. That refusal ought OF
itself to convince the Democrats that it Is
their wisest policy-nay, their duty-to let
the people know the true state Of the case.
There are no Republicans in Virginia
worthy of our opposition except the MA
HONE Republicans.
The resolutions Of the Straighouts con-
TESS all that we have here said as to the
Republican party IN Virginia. They own
that President ARTHUR recognizes the Ma
honeites cas- the Administration party.
There can be no other Republican party
than the one installed In office in Washing
ton and all over the United States. This
party is the one represented in Virginia by
General MALONE and his followers. Let
us, therefore, make up our minds that in
November next we shall have either to
suffer defeat or else beat the national Re-
publican party.