Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-07-24
THURsDAY............JULY 81, 1884
Malone and Blaine.

Malone and Blaine.
II we might be allowed to draw an infer
enoe from the character Of the written
spec, which General MALONE read at Har-
risonburg last Monday, as 1t was reported
to us. we should say that the General did
not make that speech in the hope Of help
ing Mr.. BLAINE In Virginia. II it was
meant to help him at all, II must have been
intended for northern consumption. He
cannot possibly suppose that he can advance
the cause Of Mr.. BLAINE In this State by re-
pcating upon the stump and In the presence
OF virginians charges against them which
his hearers know TO be untrue. Senator
vAscE's report answers fully all these
charges. The people Of Danville answered
them las! year. They need no renewed
answer. They call for no reiutation. 1t
Is no. in the nature of virginians to do the
acts with which General MALONE charges
them. II he were to say to an audience in
Danville that the white people OF Harri.
sonburg had last year sent out false tele-
dering the women and children OF Harrl-
sonburg, or that those white people had
last year with malice aiorethought planned
the killing OF three or four innocent
negroes, as means OF insuring the
success OF the Democratic party In an
election about TO como OF, the people OF
DanvlIle would place no confidence IN his
assertions. They would dismiss the charges
rs unworthy Of notice, creditlng them TO
blind hatred OF the Democratic party, and
consequent inability to see the truth, or
else to determination TO avenge the iniu-
ries which he chooses TO think the white
people Of Virginia have visited upon him
because Of his desertion TO the enemy.
Let us suppose that the Blaineites follow
General MAHosE's example, and create
strong feeling between the two races by
constantly repeating such charges against
the whites as those contained In General
MAHoSB's speech Of last Monday at Harrl-
sonburg: What would be the natural and
inevitable RESULT IL seems TO US that
General MAHoNE must know that the result
would be an election turning rather upon
race prejudices than upon the real issues OF
the campaign. Would 1t be necessary for
the Democrats to answer such speeches at
all! II does not seem to us that It would
be.
We say, therefore. that General MA
HOMES speech, II meant to help Mr..
BLAINE, must have been intended to In
fluence public opinion In the North. His
course may be part Of = systematic plan
concocted to work the northern Republi,
cans up to the point OF declaring next No
vember, as ZACH. CHANDLER declared In
November, 1876, that the Republican can
didate for President is elected. 1t may
be that this Is the lesson which General
MALONE has set out to teach the people Of
the North. Mr.. LoGAS's letter Of acceptance
declares that the national Government
ought TO proceed beyond declarations and
and do something TO secure the
country for the Republican candidate for
President, OF the votes OF the States In
which the negroes constitute majority OF
the population. Not TO the election re.
turns, but 10 the census returns, the people
are told to look II they would know whether
CLEVELAND or BLAINE is to be lnaugu-
rated. So says LOGAN; and General
MALONE, on the day LooAN's letter first
appeared in print. made speech, also writ
ten In Washington, in which he charged
upon fellow irginians the very crimes
that LOGAN says the Federal Government
must put an end 10, not by declarations
and resolutions, but by something beyond
these-in other words, by force.
Cannot the northern people see for them
selves that General MAHoSE's speeches are
calculated TO arouse race prejudicesi Har-
risoRburg is one hundred and fifty miles
from Danville. Whilst the whites OF the
former town will discredit these bloody
stories concerning their brethren OF the
latter town, the negroes viii be Just as
ready TO believe them. What can result
but III will between the races i-ill will
purpObeiy tACiteu "! 0tucrai mAHONk!
why cannot this campaign be conducted
without resort to such methodist We
are confident that the Democrats do not de-
sire to raise the race issue. Not that to do
so would cut down their vote. BY no
means. The Mahoneites themselves testify
that to draw the race line in Virginia Is to
insure Democratic victory, because there
are eighty thousand more white voters
than colored voters in this State.
But may not General MAHoNE's speech
prove to be boomerangs What impress
sion will irmake upon the northern people
when they read that General MALONE stands
up before crowds Of hundreds OF white
vireinians and charges upon the Democrats
such crimes as those be charged them with
in Hnrisonburg last Mondayl Perhaps.
after ali, his speeches may not be intended
TO help BLAINE either in Virginia or else
where. Who can tellt