New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-19
THE READJUSTER DEFEAT.
MALONE ON BOURBON CAMPAIGN DoINGs.
THE RACE 1ssUE-NEGRoKs wANToNLY BUTcHERED
INTIMIDATION sUCCEssFUI~MAHoNE's Def

ANCE.
PrTERsgURG. Va, Nov. 1S.-An address
signed William Malone, Chairman and directed 70 the
Readuster party Of Virginia. has been issued here The
openinR sentence Of the address explains why u was
made: "When a dominant party, organized around
great and enduring principles and composed Of decided
majority of voters in State, is suddenly overwhelmed
md made TO appear minority II is OF the highest conse
ouence that every member OF the party should inform
himself whether that result has been brought about by
free and honest expression Of the popular VIII and So
which Of its avowed principles has become obnoxious to
Tho na,rtv ar ~ all are st adhered to- which OF them
has been betrayed by those entrusted with the great duty
os opnyng and enforcing them in the government OF the
State"
The address asserts that the Readuster party came into
being as the expression Of the popular VIII concerning
the state finances the rights Of citizens In the matter Oh
suffrage and free education the protection OF all people
under the laws and the relations existing ana 10 exist
be+ween the state Federal Government The atti-
tude OF the Bourbon and Readuser parties toward these
questions ia set forth, and praise Is bestowed WITHOUT
stint upon the work Of the latter party in securing a
economical administration In the liberation OF suffrage
in the matters of public education and OF pubic improve
ment and In the reestablishment Of friendly Federal
relations The assertion Is made positively that the
recent election was not and unresraned expression
OF popular will The adoption of the coor Inc as the
Bourbon campaign cry after It's rejection by the Lyhch
burg Convention when It was still hoped to profit by the
votes of cOOred citizens, is ascrlOed 10 uespeIaloh'
THE RACE ISSUE PREDOMINANT.
The Bourbon party, finding nothing In their own plat
form and nothing I'm the record Of the Rcadiustcs TO
break the solid the party in power, deliberately
abandoned all other issues and threw the whole power OF
its speakers press and its organization into the race
cry with the energy Of despair The Bourbons seized
upon the race ISSUE chantcd, chOrsed and inoned 1t
until wrought up to fcverhcat II became their SOLE only,
and absorbing hemc-screamed in threatening frenzy,
he nd of he
Carmagnoe IN the days OF the sans-CuOtte As early
September a leading Bourbon editor announced TO a
member Of our party I'm public place that the Bourbon
plan OF campaign was TO buy all they could and bully
the remainder How faithfully this programme was
carried out the sequel will show What at that time
regarded as a contentious piece Of badnage has now
been realized as the dim foreshadowing of bloody
truth"
PRELUDE TO TIE DANvIILE TRAGEDY.
After stating that impassioned appeals were made by
the Bourbon speakers against the alleged Rcaduser ur-
pose 10 elevate blacks above whites, the address conn
ues Contempornneous with these appeals sensational cir
culars from Danville Cumberland and elsewhere, filled
with false statements OF wrongs and outrages committed
nv blacks; cartoons depicting negroes Furnishing white
children pictures OF negro with white child on
one knee and black child the other Infamous per
uries as to the utterances Of public speakers and
lies great and small calculated 10 nnanc rncc prejudice,
were spread broadcast through the white districts Of the
State, backed by corruption money NIlhpdl 7l hAic
they were sudiously suppressed IN the black districts and
their absence supplied by doubled funds Of money TO
buy or bully" the blacks. A. the excitement thus be-
gotten became ntcnse-as the buying Of blacks be-
came more and apparently impraciicabc-ihc vo-
lent policy became the more necessary to numiiatc
blacks and luGame whites Arms began to pour into the
south side regions the supply ~ small arms IN our larger
cities was Exhausted and the demand extended far
Baltimore, until Democratic headquarters within
twenty miles Of Richmond had forty stand % muskct-
and tia Dauville IT, ZION walking arsenal Tho cry
that white men shoud rIl' or die The announcement
that a war Of races upon u -vcl'd in volume and
fcrory Threats Of the live az oar Leaders noauc mote
common than any othor argument
TUE utNyIlLE MASSACRE
Murder in cold blood began IN Madison County. Days
before was repeated I'm DaLvir umor- Of tho shipment
Of arms filed the air. and during the fair week go Rich
uond-Iong before amy outbreak oc.uI'd-tl" KNOWN;
ones w,Tc heard TO whisper and mg s'ei.ou-y predict
what might De- expected 20 tLc proper time. IT, due time
LEI any impartial man who read Lc Bourbon pr,- aHd
yoEpd In WHO pcrpetratcd tn LII i.c Io.rpou Joa,
themselves testify. with what lulIn.r 10 N.H pfytIt
ted let The thousands Of ial-e circulars turning u Io
uotical account, spread broadcast by tao LulrHlu-
almost before Il occurred. aud the elect tG,y produced,
d1uhcd by Bourboni-m with the nauc offoi The tct-
gathered FROM al r2urce,, ARE that u.on saturday
negroes had received their weekly pay aud were buying
their sunday supplies IN crowded market place, white
man appeared, had al alteration Win negro, aid
whipped him. The fight ended and no other grove
cam. IN fine r,ru. of he punished man. Eut the pro.
lruIuc was not interrupted by this circumstance.
armed gathering Of the best people" OF the "br aud
Iry,si was con, cuicntIy near and n moment nun
dco. throng poured out o the building where they
assembled opening deadly fire upon The unarurd de-
fcuccless and tiy Ing negroes.
UNARNtrD NEGEoES SHOT II THE BACK
How many were killed one knows and one viii
probably learn the TRUTH for the condition Of thng- su
in DanSie Is such that the truth cannot De learned That
they shot IN the backs like dogs while running away;
that no pistol shot fired by black man; that 40
white man was injured save by NJ. own friends, that for
days The poor victims found dead In alleys
houses, and under houses Ike poisoned rats that had
craWlc away die that the ncgrOc, lied 10 the woods,
10 the state OF North Carolina, 10 the four winds uI
bcavrn-th q few OF the facts oi this bloody.
wholesale murder which was tecgaplcd far and nclr
by oufbuu- ~ u-Olcut uprising OF The blacks against
the whites. simultaneously with these Occurrences the
cTacE of the bourbon weapon engaged IN poli, muurr
rc-ouud.d aud the bourbon knife sank deep In the cou
ties Of Charles city. Halifax, Hanover Floyd, Augusta,
Lee, and elsewhere, mingng with sabbutrday sympa
thics from the Bourbon capital, and the race cry was
shouted with hrntn icrocity Intense enough to make
! blOOdsIcd ana Etwlcssnc5s.
GATHERING TIE FRUITS OF IHE MURDERS.
Murders, deliberately planned and executed with re-
mor,cc,s maigui,y, presented to the remote and
ignorant whites oil the valley and southwest rs the I'M
ayoidalr -clfdccncc Of these wolves against their lamb
as.ullauis without the means OF informing themselves
Of the bascnc,s Of these fascood thousand, OF our
party, dcudod and deceived, yielded to impulse OF
generosity fOuly played upon and In region whore
these clonlcs were permitted, ho murdcrcrs themselves
aradcd the Streets armed the teeth under the pre-
fence Of preserving order, UNTIL In the city OF Danyie
where Cameron received In 1881 votes numbering $50
and Wise ia 1852 received sal votes and where $40
licadustcr votes were enrolled but 20 votes cast
for the Coalition candidate, whose life was threatened
and Whose coffin II Is said had been actually made and
pald for by the party OF honor aud intelligence I'm the
Of Halifax and Charlotte, adjacent To Pltsy
yana, the policy OF purchase well ~ rOtlng prevailed
ana, Wilie me methods were niue los violent they
the less corrupt. Thus It that Halifax,
with a COOred voting population OF 3,Sli against 1904
whites, after giving John \. Wise biS majority IN 1882
gave the BOurbOns 800 majority in 1883. And Charlotte
with a black voting population OF 2,Ojj and "A white
population Of 1913, after giving John ;. Wise 7G2 major
fty In 1852, gave Bourbon majority OF 300 I'm 1888
That these IniJOutcs were honest sane man will
imagine.
TIE SAD CONDITION or THE NEGROES.