Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-08-30
ADVERTISING IA i 70
u.trlNCI OR LESS.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 80, 1856.
- Cons,s,ent M,hoaAlLea.

An old saying implies that man l.
notart to talk about hanging whose iAthel
was lsnscd. And so one would inie'
that . Nshoneite would be the last per
son in the world TO raise q question a
70 inconsistency with anybody else
Nevertheless, here is before Us MA
HoHR organ which has the face to say
"Hsye you ever thought OF the
strange Inconsistency Of the Bourbon
Finder partyg Has there ever been
ncb . remarkable party for the
strangely inconsistent positions it has
occupied''
There's srictncss for you. Who
is the leader Of the Republican party
in Virgins The man who in 1880
claimed that his was the only genuine
HANCOCK electorRl-ticketi in this State,
and who in 1884 voted for electors
pledged to the support Of BLAINE;
the man who in 1881 claimed to be q
better Democrat than Ben. HILL, and
who in less than twelve months after
making that claim was the dispenser Of
all the Virginia patronage of Repub-
lcan Administration.
Inconsistency" forsooth The
Nahoneite candidates for Congress in
1878 were GreenbackerS. The 9a-
honeite organs advocated the election
of those advocates Of fiat money. Now
MALONE and his followers are recog-
nized IS a portion of the Republican
party-that party whose President of
the United States vetoed the silver bill
that very year, and whose leading or
cans now daily advocate the single gold
standard.
"Inconsisteney"? Where is the VII
LIAM MALONE, who in 1872 declared
his willingness to pay per cent. upon
a State debt Of over thirty millions Of
dollars:
Inconsistency Here are the
Democrats Of Virginia engaged now as
they were engaged in 1876, in 1850,
and in 1884, in fighting the same Re-
publican party whom MAHoNE assist
cd them TO fight in 1876 and 1880, but,
strange to say, the same MALONE
now m.rchs. under the flag Of the en-
envy he so lately fought against, and at
tempts to beat down the soldiers with
whom be so recently marched.
The strangest fact connected with
MAHoNE's inconsistency is that he
should have been able to carry any con-
siderablenumbero of Democrats over into
the camp Of the enemy; that so many
thank Heaven, the number is not very
large good Democrats should have 'Or-
gotten that they were Democrats before
they were Readjusters, and allowed
passion, or prejudice, or any other un-
worthy motive, to separate them from
their brethren of the old Democratic
party.
Inconsistency" Where can an.
other instance Of such inconsistency be
found IS 10 maDfestel 10 the conduct
OF the Virginisns who to-day join hand
in hand with john SHERMAN an
other libsllerI Of the South, and en-
coursgs them in their unpitriotic work
instead OF compelling them to cease it
No Mshoneite can wisely raise ;
question of Inconsistency A. against any
other man Internationally no; a
against the gallant, unpurchsssble, un
terrified, indomi,able, Democrats 0
Virginia who for twenty years with
stood all sordid appeals, shut them
selves out from all Government Office
and places, and preferred defeat q
Democrats to victory as Republican,
chose deliberately the private station j
the company Of their southern friend
in preference to public honors and oillc
in the company Of the BLAINEs, SHEB
MANS, CANERoNs, CHANDLERs, an
other lbellers Of the South.