The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-10-30
To-Day Week.

IO-Ddy Wechs
This day week will be one OF the most
notable DAYS in the history OF Virginia.
On that day wall be decided the fate OF the
people OF this Commonwealth, not Tor one
wear. nor FOR two, but for all time. The Is
sues involved are too momcntous for the
evil results Of their wrong decision to end
in our day and generation. The world Is
many thousands OF years old, and there
have been battles innumerablc. Yet some
OF the most intelligent OF historians claim
that the total number OF the decisive bat
tles-battles which have entirely altered the
history of the world, and made il what
otherwise Ut would never have been-is hye.
Large streams from little fountains iow."
Let us run over in our minds a Few OF
the issues involved in the battle OF next
week.
I. Above all, and more important than
all others. is the negro question. In vain
did the Lynchbmg Convention make over
lures 10 the negroes, offering TO give them
the entire control OF the negro schools
upon the single condition that the whites
were 10 be allowed absolute control OF the
white schools. There will be one hundred
thousand negro votes cast next Tuesday for
the MALONE candidates for the Legislature.
We have never placed the number lower,
and we fear that it will be greater rather
than less. This is an immense host. 1t is
deplorabe that the negro should have been
fed with such hopes as were awakened in
his breast when CAMERON, FAIR, and BLAIR
appointed two Of his race trustees OF all
the public schools OF the capital OF the
Commonwealth The offer OF the Demo-
Gratis to permit negroes to be trustees
OF negro schools has no charms for
the negro now. He will be con-
tent with nothing less than the honors
OF PAUL and FORESTER If he and his white
allies carry Virginia next Tuesday. Why
should he bey Every MALONE speaker in
the State has attempted to justify the ap-
pcintment of the negroes PAUL and For
REsTER to manage the public schools OF this
CITY. There are no schools in Virginia
which tine negroes are incompetent to mar
age II they are capable Of managing
those in Richmond; and that they are
capable OF managing these CAMERON,
FAIR, BLAIR, HUBBARD, WISE, FOWLER, and
no doubt all the other Coalition speakers
have testified. 1t will not do TO plead that
negroes are capable Of assisting in the
management Of public schools but incapa-
bic OF managing them altogether. That
plea would condemn CAMERON, FAIR, and
BLAIR. and insult their negro appointees
on the Richmond School Board. Rally,
white men. and demand that no negro be
allowed for one moment to have voice in
the management OF white schools or the
election OF white teachers.
2. Another issue involved IN the coming
elections is the Republicanizing OF Nir-
gnia. The redistricting OF the State I'M
der the plan Of the MALONE caucus would
make it Republican State In fact, the
election OF a majority Of Coalitionists to
the Legislature will be Republican tri-
umph. General MALONE himself has said
that the result OF the next presidential
election may turn on the results OF the
elections in Virginia this year. II this be
so, and she votes the Coalition ticket in
1888. she will vote the Republican ticket
in 1884. General MAHoNE's own state
ment amounts 10 an acknowledgment OF
this. Are you prepared for these disas-
trous consequences Are you Republic
cam Are you willing TO turn over this
and the other southern States to the Stall
warts: Would you have the South
"solid" for ARTHUR because ARTHUR is
"solid " for MALONE!
5. Another result OF Coalition success
next week would be bad State laws. Not
only laws TO turn out all the circuit judges
and notares public; not only q law pro-
viding for commissioner OF land-sales;
but laws the like OF which nobody has
ever heard OF or read OF up TO this time
laws concocted by General MALONE, who
Is totally unfit to frame new laws, or to
forecast the effect OF his crude conceptions
should these be enacted into statutes.
Remember that there are but a few days
between now and the election. Put on
your armor, and do not lay il aside until the
fight Is ended and the victory won.