The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-04-19
.uov the Mighty Are Fallen

TO the Edif0T OF me DaSp0tCh:
Very long ago I predicted that before
Mr.. Arthur got rid OF General Malone he
would get very sick OF him. There was
recently held in Petersburg (he home OF
General Mahone) convention OF his fol-
lowers to elect delegates 10 attend his MA
hone'sl convention 10 be held in Richmond
on the cath instant. You know when it
was 10 Mabone's interest his followers
howled all over The State that we are
for Arthur because he is for u.s." Now,
n you will look at the proceedings OF the
Petersburg Convention held on the 14th
instant, as printed I'm the index- appeal OF
the 18th, you will find that, notwithstaud-
ing the United States postmaster, close
friend OF the little ex-Boss, seemed to have
the main spirit in such convention, not one
word was said about the man they so
bowled for last year. Considering how
liberal Mr.. Arthur has been ID letting Gen.
erai Malone run all the Federal offices in
the State, does il not look cruel aud
small that because the little ex-Boss sees
that II Is plain as day that Mr.. Arthur win
soon have no patronage to give that he
should now desert himy Why. If resolu-
tions favorable to Arthur for president
were not to be passed at General Mahone's
own home, land about the time he was at
home at that,) cannot you see that there
was something up" when Mr.. Riddle
berger, Mr.. John s. Wise. and q Mr..
Hooper made an "informai call" on Mr..
BIaine2 Does not the action in Peters
burg make it plain that, for "good trad
ing" I'm the future, the little Danville In
stigator must look to the rising and not
TO the setting sunY The handwriting is so
visible that the former enemy Of Malone
blaine OF Maine) is the coming Republic
can candidate for President that the little
ex-Boss is now working like beaver, to be
able to throw the Virginia vote in the Re-
publican Convention at Chicago where 1t
will do him the most good. The straight
out (Blaine) Republicans OF Virginia, il
they have any sense, must see that an effort
Is being made by their former enemies and
prosecutors absolutely to supplant them at
the Chicago Convention, and to appear
there as beingfor the "man who can win,"
because by "good trading" he is expected
to be for them. From the deductions to
be drawn as TO what is going on it looks
rs II il would be as heretofore, that the lit
lie Readiuster followers will "hurrah !"
for whomsoever their master can best trade
with. Our opinion is that Blaine is far
much flesh and blood about him as
will not cause him TO lose his
memory or his feelings as man.
II am correct in this, and when he re-
members how Mr.. Malone did oil he could
to kill off such friends aided by Mr.. Ar
thur Of his as General Wickham, Mr.. Rus
sell, of Richmond. Mr.. Dezendorf, and
others, that IL is hardly likely should be be
oil mn will no
dered again TO stand back" while carte
blanche will be rendered General Malone
"to walk up" and help himself TO all he
aud his little squad OF white Democratic
Readjusters may want. While the fune-
RAJ Is none OF ours, yet it is well
enough at all times and in all places
TO show up the enviable and utterly selfish
nature Of the little ex-Boss. While it was
to his interest to shout and cause his fol-
lowers to shout for Mr.. Arthur, yet when
Mr.. Arthur Is wanting help, as a drown
ing man would want it, 1t appears that
MIR. Malone has deserted him, and solely
because the latter seemed TO want help.
Is there either white or a black man in
the Seate OF Virginia who is such fool
as not to know that il Mr.. Malone had
ordered il, the recent Petersburg-M Malone
Convention would have passed most full
some resolutions favoring that eminent
ward politician Of New York (Mr. Arthur
for President? No acting President has
ever been elected President by the people,
though all OF them fairly itched to be.
Tyler, Fillmore, and johnson all failed,
and so will the man who permitted the ht-
tie Virginia ex-Boss 10 control all the Fed
eral offices In the State, and who, in turn.
sepms In have deserted such man at the
very time honorable men would have
thought he would have stood by him to the
death. The idea proclaimed by the post
master at Petersburg in the Convention re-
ferred TO, that "the Resdiusters were
goirg to have harmony there [Chicagol,
and no Straightouts," may well be classed
as something very suited to tickle the ears
OF the great bulk OF the eX-Boss' followers
IN Virginia. MCCAIN.