Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-11-29
MahOne's Address.

Senator Malone, of Virginia, has is
sued letter to the Readjusters of that
State, giving statement of the prlnci-
pies of their party, sketching the strug.
gle with Bourbonism, and presenting
his views of the causes which led 10 his
defeat at the recent election. It is an
interesting review of events in Vir-
ginia, but as it is too long TO insure Il
perusaI by the general reader, we give a
brief abstract of the document.
The Readjuster party, he affirms,
came into being as the expression of
the popular will concerning the State
finances, the rights Of citizens in the
matter of suffrage and free education,
the protection of all citizens under the
law and the relations existing and to
exist between the State and Federal
Governments. In proof of his state
ment that the Readjuster party has
been true to its pledges, he atfirms that
the State debt has been settled without
the reputation of dollar, either prin
cipal or interest; that the annual cost of
maintaining the Government has been
100000 less than under Bourbon rule
that, although the rate of taxation has
been reduced from so to 40 cents, there
is in the Treasury over million and Il
half of money; that the capitation tax
and the whipping-post have been abol
ished; that the public schools have been
doubled, the number of colored schools
having been increased nearly ten-fold
that the State has been made more pros.
porous to business sense and has, for
the first time since the war, come to be
treated at Washington with the same
consideration as New Y erk and Massa-
chusetts.
Having thus recounted the good works
of the Readjuster party, he passes 20 d
consideration of the recent election, as.
serting at the outset that it was not a
fair and unrestrained expression of the
popular will. He states that the Bour-
bon party began the campaign in July
last on the race, issue, which, in the alb.
sence of any other on which they could
hope to win, they "chanted, chorused
and intoned" until they lost themselves
in the frenzy of their desperation. The
rogress of the campaign, ne says, de-
veloped an organized system of duplic.
iJy. The same speaker expressed to the
blacks his love for their race and to the
whites an abOmination of the negro,
emphasizing it with the expression that
"by the gods this was white mans
country, and the white men should rule
tba rivarc Shnu1d run hlCOd " inc
great and small, calculated to infiame
race prejudice were spread broadcast
through the white districts of the State
backed by corruption money without
stint, while they were studiously sup.
pressed in the black districts and their
absence supplied by doubtful funds OF
money tn 'buy or bully" the blacks
Buying the blacks, he continues, proved
impracticable and so bullying was adopt
ed and the Danville riot was prscipitated
for the effect it wOuld have on the al
ready strong antipathy. for the negro.
This riot he characteriZes as nothing
less than murder premeditated and exc
cuted in the coolest of villainy. Bribery
and corruption, he says, added to this
artificial race prejudice, carried the day
for the Bourbons and completed cam.
palgn unprecedented III Iue nlStoTy ol
the State.
He concludes his letter by depicting
the condition of the negroes and assert
ing that reaction is sure to come. He
sees a bright future for the Readjuster
party on such issues as Nationalism.
human rights, liberty, peace, manhood
and Republican government and, as the
leader of that party, he calls on all op-
posed to Bourbonism to make Common
cause and rally for the fight of 1884.