Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-15

burg has cost the State el2,UUu. ~
has been proved by . Legislative
investigation - Journal House OF
Delegates 1884, Doc. ", p.
3-that the Attorney General, now
candidate for reelection TO the
same important Office, appropriated 70
himself, against law, over and above
his salary and legal fees. the sum oil
s5, 4l2.S7.
"a, As to his own administrative
record. We have seen him elected
president Of q most important system
Of railways under distinct pledge IS
to his line Of policy and administration.
We have seen him repudiate that en-
gsgement by killing the Cumberland
Gap railroad, then wrecking the other
three-frst consolidated as the Atlantic,
Mississippi and Ohio railroad, after
wards under his manipulation the
Norfolk and Western railroad-and re-
ceiying for himself and his alias, "the
Whig," during his connection with
the road, ei9l, geo. We have seen
him induce the State to post
pone her debt against the road OF
e6,371, 1905 to second mortgage OF
s4,O00,OO0; and after having spent
sl4, 70e, 900, sell out to Clarence ii.
Clark for s8,605, 900, making for him
self, as he has never denied, sl97 800
by the transaction, and advising the
Board Of Public Works to take $780,
600, in full Of all demands, for her
mortgaged debt of S4,000,000, with q
per cent. interest for nine years
though he knew at the time that the
State had a valid claim, then in suit,
for 81, 800, 900, and knew, as he now
admits-see his late secret circular No.
2-that the State might have had the
property for s2,500,000, which would
have been really cash payment OF
only s7O0,000-a fact he did not
disclose-who believes he would have
disclosed it,-when he was conduct
ing a negotiation which resulted so
greatly to his own profit though he
could have had the backing Of the
Bourbon" Governor Holiday, presi-
dent of the Board of Public Works,
who voted against the ratification Of the
sale.
In keeping with the above, we have
seen him permit the Richmond and
Danville Railroad Company to pay the
State, in 1882, 8 6 per cent. debt of
$475, 900 in Riddleberger bonds at the
market price whereby the company
admitted it had made out of the State
100000; though he had openly OPP
posed this settlement until, as Mr.. Rid
dleberger told Colonel Fulkerson, the
Whig could make $4,000 by the trans
action.
More lately we have seen him
pass the Riddleberger bill and
claim credit for it as final settle
ment of the vexed question of the
public debt and then, when the Demo-
cratic party had accepted that settle
ment, repudiate it in his letter to Sena-
tor Warner Miller, and commit him
self to its repeal, by advocating a con-
struction which would efiectually de-
stroy it. And still more treacherously,
when the Federal courts are violating
the sovereignty of Virginia and the
| Constitution of the United States by
DEGREES which abrogate the eleventh
amendment, we hear no word Of pro-
test or remonstrance from him, but
only obiurgation on men who have been
honestly attempting to perfect the law
BY amendments which Governor Came
ron had suggested, and which he him
self had admitted to be necessary to its
operation a; objurgation on men who
have been endeavoring to protect the
sovereignty Of Virginia in her own
local affairs against the usurpation of
the Federal judges.
And finally, we have seen him work.
Ing ceaselessly for years to get power
by solidifying the colored race, banding
it against the white race, and stirring
up bitter discord, where, but for him
and his puppets, there might be peace
and goodwill.
These are but samples from the
record of man whose undisputed acts
and declarations prove him to be dan
gerous to the welfare Of the Common
wealth; whose detestable conduct and
e1pedients prove him to be unworthy
the countenance Of virtuous society;
a man whom every patriot in Virginia
is called on to thwart in hi, eifortt to estab
lish corrupt, intolerant, malignant,
and vindictive personal despotism.
This language, know, expresses the
feeling of all the good men in the State,
with few misguided exceptions. But
we want more than feeling, more than
the noble enthusiasm that now thrills
the great Democratic heart Of Virginia.
We want united, vigorous, heroic
effort. General Malone is not TO be
despised for, with other satanic traits,
he has great energy and perseverance in
a bad cause. But eyen these have limit
in human beings and he himself has
declared that if defeated this time he is
defeated forever. We can defeat him
if we choose. If we do not choose,
then woe to Virginia. T. G. K.