The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-11-29
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MALONE ~ VTRGINI1.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette To
b.gin with. Malone is Yirginian; be
Vas . STAKEHOLDER; be was a secessionist,
and was an officer III the Confederate
army. The charge Of carpet bagger, or
Yankee, or CnioRist, or llae- blooded
PurisH, cannot pcbrDughJ sg sinst him
Bat ON fine day, clothed In his right
mind, Ae decided To redeem Virginia
from the bondage of Bourbouism. Re
formation In Dld Virginia he looked up
IN ~ necessary in the work Of cigilIZa-
tion, ~ Martin Luther near four hun
drod years ago. regarded reform as Bec-
essary 10 the church He appealed tn
the people of his state, irrespective of
class or race, or color or previous cOndi-
zion, snespting the proposition that all
we're equal before the Law and at the
ballot box, and entitled to a full share
Of all the blessings resulting from free IN
situations, AS true, and in this he was SUE
tanned, and the promises he made TO the
people, blAck and white, he fulfilled.
His address has been published in full
in the Commercial Gazette. 1t is as full
Of facts and figures as q nut is Of meat,
and can not fail 10 make 4 lasting i'm
preston upon the minds of unpreju-
diced people, whether they live in Nir-
GINA or .OhiO-in the south or in the
noFth, In regard TO paying the debt Il
Virginia, the north has not understood
the methods. Between Funders and Re-
adjusters the minds of outsiders got con
siderably muddled, and We never under
stood that either party proposed To pay
one hundred cents on the dollar. But
three per cent. bonds are worth In the
market eight per cent more than the six
per cent bonds OF the Bourbon dynasty.
But aside from this debt question
Malone undertook an honest and eco
nomical administration he abolished
the whipping post and poll tax, which
were maintained for the purpose of de-
fraudIng cOlored people; he repleRished
. treasury depleted by Bourbon robbery;
he Ee.established free schools that hal
been abolished by the old dynasty In
order to prevent the colored people from
being educated, and under his manage
Inent the state took new start for life,
ouch as II hal not experienced in tlty
years.
When the bourbOns took power In
1870. they found Sl,si6, 900 in the treas
nrS, wIfh no floating debt. When they
left il In 1891 there was SIS 900 in the
treasury and floating debt OF nearly
TWO millions. OF which one million and
half had been stolen from the school
fund. There were also arrearzges Of
i've and half millions on account OF
interest and sinking fund. THIS WAS
the condition when the Malone party
took charge. And now under three
years of control by the latter, the float
Ing debt has been extinguished, with the
exception of $4,000, and there is in
the treasury over one million and half
OF dollars.
Now look Al the matter OF education.
The BouTbons, having stolen the school
funds. on the plea of economy reduced
the lumber of the public schools from
3,O47 to 1891. They found 100 colored
schools in the state, and these they wiped
out all hut 80. They found 1908 pn-
pills, which they reduced to 1Os,O74. or
the former, 1895 were colored, but only
sos were permitted TO remain. They
reduced the teachers from 1854, of whom
SO4 were colored, TO 1904, vt whom but
81 were colored.
Now sac what the Malone party did.
It increased the number OF schools from
2,49l To 1881; the number of colored
schools from 20 to $50; the pupils from
l0s,O14 90 251,362; the colored pupils
from 2,5O4 To 4. 53s; the colored teachers
from ~ 10 ga; the expenditures were
increased from $jl1 ,902 to fl,151,li2.
And with all this the taxes, In the
aggregate. we're reduced from 30 10 40
cents. OF course, under this manage
ment the state prospered. Railroads
were built, mines were opened, harbors
we're improved, capital was invited and
encouraged but cOlored people had
their rights, they were being educated
and they voted, and the old, narrow,
nullen Bourbons were getting left by
intelligent and progressive white peo-
pie, and out voted by these and the col
ored people together. That they could
not stand. What did they do? Muir
dered the cOlored people, shot them in
IN the back while fleeing from the brutes
who pursued them; got up reign of
terror that kept the negroes from the
polls, and n system OF Ostraclsm that
kept white people from the polls.
Under Mahone Virginia progressed
more In four years than in any of the
twentY-f five preceding years. 1t was
rapidly taking its place as one of the
leading states of the Union. but it has
been set back. If this party of murder,
assassination, extravaganza dishonor and
ignorance is 10 he maintained, capital
and enterprise will stay away from Viz
gina.
But the state may lie counted upon,
and is now, since il has passed under n
reign of blood and terror, counted solid
tor the Democratic candidate for the
presidency. Very likely. Virginia
casts twelve electoral votes, and sn anx
iOus are the Democrats of the north "a
secure that help, that they are willing
90 accept il even If soaked In human
blood but il is Tor the north To decide
whether thIs country is 10 pass under
the control of Virginia assassIns and the
advocates OF perpetual ignorance. and oi
the enemies q, race that Is poor and
dOwntrOdden.
The manhood oil Malone, in hIs con-
test for equal rights in Virginia, IL ~ fAi
above that of the white leaders who en-.
courAged the murder of inoffensive col
Ored men, rs the light of the sun is above
darkness; yet there will not be found in
the Democratic press word of condem-
nation for the murderers, or anything
but condemnation for leader who has
the courage ofhis convictions. and risks
his all in the battle Of civilization against
bArbarism.
Ii Is understood that Randall foI
speaker of the next national house 81
representatives, would mean the Snrag.
onizing of radical changes in the tariff
while upon CSrlisle's chances depend
the probability of the expression of reYo
lutionary tariff ideas. Whoever may bc