Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-06-05
MEHPHIS APPEAL
TUESDAY, JUNE D, 1883.


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EHGULFED.
AT She cent ell ctions held in Virginia
The PEOPLE buried William Malone so deep
beneath the waves of popular condemnation
that a ripple will never rise to mark the spot
where he went down. Malone has shared
The fate which sooner or later oveftskes rem
sgades. For three years this political buc-
cancer has been galloping over the State Of
Virginia, the boss OF The Republican party,
The hope Of oficeseekers and the terror of
those in Office. he was monarch of all he
surveyed; The Republican Senate his tacie
instrument; the President OF the United
States the creature Of his potent spell, and
the several departments Of the government
registered his edicis as though they were the
DEGREES Of fate. His servitors we're many,
and obsequiously bent the supple hinges OF
the knee in the hope that thrift would follow
faWning. He was bold, sdroit and unscru-
pulous. His power was not more
vast than he wa sordid and SELL
ish in the use OF 1T. He levied
blackmail on officeholders to raise the means
TO enable him 10 purchase power. In word
he was the vilest and most brutal boss since
the days Of Tweed. The corrupt coalition
which Malone organized was merely in
tended to secure offices. 1t had no regard to
principle. and the dictatorial manner in
which the boss distributed Offices produced
discord and disaster. The Republicans nave
become disguised with 'tne rule OF the Viz
pipia boss. whiea a majority never favored,
and NOV mat the last elections show that
N-hone cannot transfer Virginia to the Re-
publican party be will be kicked and cursed
by both parties. Mahoneism in Virginia is
dead. II has started on Its downward course,
and its descent will be ss rapid as was its
growth. Mahone's power is over, and The
recent victory shows that in the Presidenti al
election of next year Virginia will be DEM
ocrstic. Napoleon on ST. Helena was impress
i've, but Malone in the Senate of the Gni-
tad States without followers and despised by
both political parties, will be more 30. In
The result Of the Virginia election poor little
Chalmers, the feeble imitator Of Malone ia
Mississippi, can read his own destiny. II he
JIG too big a man for either of the two politi-
cal parties he will discover he is too small
10 create a party of his own. Indeed, the
Chalmers party in Mississippi died in
'bornin'." Personal politics have had their
day. Boss rule has been deihroned. The
Bcepter has departed from the hands Of the
Tweeds, the Camerons, the Conklings and
the Aahones and it will never be welded
by the creature who proposes 10 boss Missis-
sippi. The next Presidential election will
be a contest solely between Democrats and
Republicans, and it rejoiees the heart OF the
patriot TO see that for the fret time since the
war it will be a contest in which both par
Ties will be inspired by worthier purposes
than formerly. There is determination on
the part of the American people
to cut loose from boss rule, the
rule Of the Mahones and the Came
rons and such uoBld-be bosses as Chalmers
Sectional hatreds have expired; the honest
masses of both political parties are now
seeking the public good by inquiring into
the honesty and capsbility of candidates,
and the day is al hand when the triumph oi
either party will not be considered as fraught
with disaster. During the days OF Wings
and Democrats, neither party, in ascending
10 power, psrceptibly impeded the progress
of our national greatness, and the dawnipg
OF the same era can be seen. The PROPOSE
tion that there must be two great parties In
tue country, so evenly divided that the adj
IAinistraiion will, with more or less ire
quency, pass from one to the other, does mo-
admit of serious argument. But bossiam il
politics will never again be tolerated, ans
the aspiring boss in Mississippi nigh
as we'll abandon his ambition. Both
the great political parties are engaged
in earnest competition for popular favor
but il is evident that she confidence Of tbs
people is with the Democrats, for they ses
the tendency of the Republican party, long
ia power, 10 become welded to abuses anC
disinclined 10 reforms. The evils to b
reformed have grown up under Republican
rule, and secured It's federation, if not it,
confidence and support, and it is so entanglee
with them that the process of correction ii
impossible. Both parties are bidding FOL
public confidence. The day is not far dis
tant when no disaster will follow the triumph
OF either party. But the day will never re
turn when Pennsylvania will be ruled b,
Boss Cameron, Virginia by Bose Malone o.
the State of Mississippi by Boss Chalmers.