The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-10-05
Virginia.
The Washington Post Of Wednesday

says az 70 Virginia:
"Tbe right OF the people OF Stale to
elect = legislature without having the
whole weight ~ the Administration
thrown into the scale on either side Is
what The Virginia Democrats are struggling
for. and IL Is the most important question
before the people OF any State at this time"
The Post understands the situation.
Ohio Is not going to decide next month
issues so important as those before Tie
people OF Virginia Iowa Is not menaced
as Virginia with new and untried schemes
concocted by men who have bad no expe-
rience in legislation, at the bar, or else
where. that would justify them in fasten-
ing such schemes upon the people.
Read our correspondents report OF Gen.
eral MAuoSE's speech in Isle OF Wight
county on Wednesday last, and you will
see that he recognizes the present cam
paien as one which will end in his defeat
forever, or In triumph which will be far
reaching 10 its consequences. He declared
that he would never surrender to the DEM
ocrats. This we steadiastly believe, Tor
he will. IL defeated, never afterwards at
tempt 10 draw an imaginary line be-
tween his party and the Republican party.
He never hesitates 10 do at once whatever
he foresees to be inevitable. and as 1t Will
be n matter OF utter impossibility for him
II defeated this year TO run candidates Tor
presidential electors next year, he VIII at
once, il thus defeated next November.
take the place OF leader of the Republican
party OF Virginia. He saw in 1879, rs
soon as the returns were iD, that he had to
rely largely upon the colored voters, and
that they must be detached from the Re-
publican party before he could rely upon
them, and so he did not hesitate for a mo-
ment, but forthwith attracted TO himself
and his party the eyes Of every negro In
the Commonwealth by putting a negro
into an Office which had previously been
filed by Confederate soldier. 1t was a
daring experiment; but it was success
ful one IN that II caused the negroes to
believe that there might be a party formed
or found which would suit them better
than the Republican party. In 1880,
again, he recognized the fact that to allow
his followers TO fall back into the Demo- |
cratic party and vote the regular HANCOCK
ticket would result in the utter demoraliza- !
ton Of his forces, and so he had framed an
electoral ticket OF his own, and kept nearly
thirty thousand white voters from identi-
flying themselves with the regular Demo-
cratic party. These served as a rallying
point for his forces in 1881. This move
ment, too, was a daring one. 1t failed to
carry the State in 1880, but cannot for that
reason be regarded as an utter failure in
view of the result Of the elections Of 1881.
Look, also, at the appointment OF two
negroes upon the School Board Of Rich
mond. Who but MALONE would ever have
tried so daring an experiment? What but
the necessities OF his situation could have
led him into such pitiall? Who else
would ever have conceived the idea OF such
an electioneering scheme?
These three cases are characteristic OF
General MALONE. They tell us that IL
when the sun sets on the 9th day OF next
month the Democrats shall have elected n
majority of the members of the next Le-
gislature the It'll will find him a Republic
can leading the Republican forces.
Does he expect defeat or success this
years His declaration that he would never
sink so low as to ask for quarter at the
hands OF the Democrats sounds like the
dismal boom OF the signal-guh which the
distressed mariner fires Just as his vessel is
about to go down to rise no more. His
reference TO Mr.. G0ODE, too, seems 10 be
the utterance Of desperate man. He has
truly, as he said, enlisted for the war
"until there is no more Of him."
Will he be able to prevent his end from
coming in November? The facts which
we have mentioned show that IL there is
within his reach any possible means OF
averting the fate that threatens him, he will
avail himself Of them. We need not be
surprised, therefore, to hear OF some new
and unexpected movement on his part.
We know not what ITS nature will be. We
all rest in the assurance that, let it be what
II may, and let It's features be as repulsive
and as dangerous as they may, the
Democrats OF Virginia are in such
frame OF mind as that they will
foil him in his most determined efforts, and
bring to naught his worst schemes. But
they viii neither foil him In his efforts nor
bring to naught his schemes IL they rely
altogether upon Mr.. BARBOUR, or upon
speeches, or upon the newspapers. Work,
work, work. Visit your neighbors. En-
courage the hesltating. Warm up the cold.
Stir up the Indifferent. Bring cut the
dodgers. Let us have full vote as
well rs free vote and fair count.
Think Of what your feelings of NOR
tification will be II on the 7th of next
month you learn that MALONE has again a
Legislature which he can control, and that
Virginia is again under his heel. Contrast
1t In Imagination with the exultation OF
your feelings II you then learn that Ma.
HOMES political career is ended, and he
safely housed in the Republican party.
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"Fear not, you carry CESAR and his
fortunes" said Major MANN PAGE the other
day to the captain Of the vessel which went
down with him. That is, he might have
an. a