The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-11-20
MahOne's Appeal.
New York Times, Republican,

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In an address to the Readjuster party
Senator Malone undertakes TO show what
that party has done for Virginia (; asserts
that it was defeated in the recent election
by the intimidation and murder OF colored
voters. and declares that he will renew
the struggle, and will fight "to the
DEATH" In short, he was beaten, he says,
by the "massacre " i'm Danville and by
political murders in many other parts Of
The State. No one knows, and no one
ever will know, we are told, how many
coored Readjusters were slain in Dan
vile. For days the victims were found
in out-of-the-way places, where they had
died OF their wounds; and while this
wholesale slaughter was reducing his vote
in Danville, "the Bourbon knife sank
deep in the counties OF Charles City,
Halifax, Hanover, Floyd, Augusta, Lee,
and elsewhere" Again he tells Us that
.sto the iorbearance OF the RcadiusterS
alone is due the fact that the State is not
now bathed in blood" But If he has drawn
truthful picture OF what occurred in Nir-
ginia Just before election and on election
day, the State was then and is now bathed
in blood. The Senator has been guilty Of
exaggeration. We have no evidence 10
support his wild assertions, and he has
gained nothing 10y attempting TO show that
on election-day cOlored voters were butch
cred in many parts OF the State :" to make
Bourbon holiday" The country has
already heard about the fight at Danyllle,
and it will not accept the lurid assertions
of the Senator until his evidence shall be
produced.
The Senator will not give up the fight.
We hope that H. the future he will fight
with the legitimate weapons OF an anti
Bourbon party. and will not have the sup
port OF all the Federal patronage in his
State. At the beginning OF the contest
General Malone had the sympathy OF many
Republicans in the North, many of whom
were willing 10 forget that he advocated
repudiation, because at the same time he
seemed to contend for good government
and free elections. Aiterward he lost their
sympathy by becoming n political die
tatOr and by shamelessly using political
methods which the country had emphati-
cally condemned. lie demanded the con-
troll OF the Federal offices in Virginia, and
the Administration that had buried is
candidate in this State by interfering in
the States politics openly interferred in
his behalf in Virginia and placed these
offices in his hands. Because this was
done. and because the Senator continually
exhibited his contempt for all the princi-
pies OF civil-service reform, many Repub-
| licans who had vigorously opposed Bour-
| bonIsm reioiced when he was defeated.
The Administration cannot afford to
support General Malone rs it has hereto
fore supported him, aud it may be that it
has already done him more harm than
good. The Republican party cannot afford
to support a political dictator whose me-
thods embody all the evils for the removal
OF which the civil-seryice and assessment
laws were enacted. II the Senator really
desires to win and remain in power, let
HIM make his fight on its merits, use politi-
cal methods that will secure for him the
respect and sympathy Of honest men, and
refuse to embarrass the Administration
and weaken the Republican party by using
Federal offices for political purposes.