The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-04-25
The Malone Platform.


The Malone Platform.
The platform adopted by the MAHoSE
Convention Of Wednesday Is remarkable
as well for what It omits to say as for what
Il SAYS.
Not word had this Convention OF Viz
.ginians, white and colored, to say against
the internaLreyenue system, although the
negroes, who constitute the bulk OF the
new Republican party Of Virginia, are
most Of them engaged directly or Indirect
Nv either IN the cultivation or manufacture
oi tobacco. There were too many Internal
revenue officials In the Convention, and
they are too expert in the arts OF election
eering TO be treated with disrespect. IL
will hardly be pretended hereafter that
the Mahoneites are 10 favor OF the aboii-
tion OF the tax on tobacco. III they are
they ought certainly to have made some
sign 10 that effect in their platform.
The Convention invited the cooperation
oi"aIl who are opposed TO Bour6c1isn'."
1t also "arraigned and denounced bo'"-
bonisus.v Why, this is mere fun for the
Democrats. What is Bouroonism
What idea will that word convey to the
mind Of n northern man who sees 1t in the
platformf Nothing except that there Is a
conservative class Of voters in Virginia VINO
are charged with cleaning nothing ana
forgetting nothing" MALONE prooao'y
meant to say that the Democratic party OF
Virginia is not party OF progress, but MS
northern allies, as he still regards them'
will understand him to mean that the DEM
ocrats Of Virginia are still mourning over
the results OF the war between the states
Perbaps the General desired to convey the
impression that his opponents are still "un-
reconstructed"
The straigbtout Republicans, who are 10
meet here in Convention next WEDNESDAY
will find in the MALONE platform aolnd-
ant material that may be "worked up "
against the new Republicans when the two
contestiny delegations demand Abundance
into the National Convention. The very
first resolution or declaration following
the preamble) contains these significant
words:
.sThat In national affairs we shall follow
the banner OF the nationai hepuoiicah
party"
And the paragraph next to the last reads
rs follows:
"Thas we proudly welcome a national
alliance in matters Of Federal and popular
concern that makes freedom and Justice
possible for all in Virginia"
:. National alliance" Notice the word
alliance Notice, too, the additional
qualifying words: "Natlonal alliance IN
matters of Federal and popular concern"
Not in ali matters will they even have an
"alliance."
Rut the platform also declares as fol-
lows:
"Tbat from and after this day our party
shall be known as the Republican party OF
Virginia"
"The Republican party of Virginia " 7
This of itself does not necessarily imply
that the Republican party Of Virginia IS
not part and parcel Of the national Repub-
lican party; but taken in connection with
the declarations about an "alliance" IN
particular matters, it may indicate some
thing more than it says. At any rate, the
Straightouts will know how to use TINS
peculiar pbraseology to their own advan-
tage.
The platform contains also this reprehen-
sible language
"Now seeking, under an unconstItu-
tionaI act, TO control the popular will by
placing all machinery Of election in the
hands OF privileged class among its own
subservient partisans."
This refers to law whose constitution
atty has been brought in question before
the Supreme Court of Appeals. The court
will hear the argument next week. We
need not say more.
So vigorously does the platform de-
nomce the "Bourbons that it reads as II
the General were trying to get even with
the "Bourbons who have applied to him
almost every derogatory epithet in the
English language. All that part OF the
platform may 90 for what it is worth.