Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-09-22
TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER %. 1885
The Time Is al Hand.


The Time is at Hand.
II, 10 to speak, ii was only on yes
tcrdsy that FITzHUGH LEE was nomI-
mated for Governor, the election will,
80 to speak, take place tomorrow.
Eight weeks ago he was nominated
Six weeks hence be will be elected.
How rapidly flies Time. Have your
lsbors kept pase with his flights What
have you done in those eight weeks to
save the people Of Virginia from the
domination of one man? What have
YOU done to prevent him from becoming
. local dictatorY
You are q sound Democrat. You
desire the State to be great and pros
porous. You would have your fellow
citizens TO be contented and happy.
You wish to be as free hereafter as you
have been heretofore.
But will You prove yourself to be
sound Democrat If you fail to exert
yourself to secure the election of LEE,
MASSEY, and AYERS?
Can the State be great and prosper
GUS IL MALONE and his followers re-
gain control of it, their appetites sharp
ened by their exclusion from Federal
patronage, and their wits Frightened by
their experience when they were last
in power in the State? Will they not
call down upon us the rule Of SHER-
MAN and his gang? Will they not
"see to it" that Virginia shall vote
three years hence for SHERMAN for
President of the United States? Will
they not invite SHERMAN to try to
execute his scheme Of vengeance upon
the South? He says that under the
clause of the Federal Constitution
which gives to each house of Congress
the right to judge of the elections,
qualifications, and returns Of its own
members, the southern States can be de-
prived of forty members Of Congress.
Are you willing to countenancet this wild
and wicked schemes Will you en-
courage SHERMAN in the belief that
the people Of Virginia are ready to de-
sert their brethren Of the southern
States, and aid him in minifying their
Importance and strength in Congress
whilst magnifying with the most pow
erful of partisan glasses the most HARM
less and insignificant Of their short
comings? Are you willing, in word,
to desert to the enemy9 Will you
apostatize? And what price are
you willing to fix upon your
apostasy! Will you be satisfied to
take JOHN SHERMAN for President,
WILLIAM MALONE for Vice-Presi-
dent, and JOHN S. WISE for Cabinet
officer? Is that the feast to which you
are invited as traitors to the Demo-
cratic party?
Will your fellow-citizens be content
ed and happy if MALONE succeeds in
his efforts to capture this honored old
Commonwealth? Would rot you and
they feel perpetual apprehensions that
ne would devise for his own aggrandize-
ment some new scheme that would al
most irreparably damage the State?
How would you like to see bill passed
such as the commissioner-of-sales bill !?
How would you like to run the risk Of
still worse bill? How would you
like to place oil the railroads as well as
all the land sales in Virginia in the
hands Of MAHoNE's commissioners
In word, how would you like to have
another term Of MALONE rule?
Would you feel as free, even If you
were a. free, after the election Of WISE
Is before? We speak to Democrats, Of
course. Would you not live in con-
slant dread of something worse to
come" -! "Whas will it be?" you
would ask. DO you not feel now that
such would be one Of the results Of
WIsK's election? Whys Because
the election Of WISE not only means
JOHN SHERMAN for President Of tn,
United States, but WILLIAM MAHoNr
for Dictator Of the Old Dominion.
Thea 20 70 work at once. Do no
content yourself with intending TO vote
You may be sick on election.day. Fine
at least one substitute-one voter VIII
will vote with you If you are present a
the polls, and in your place, so to speak
IL ysu are absent. Counsel the wayer
ing. Stir up the lukewarm. Max
sealous the men who have been to,
busy with their crops and in their shop
to give that attention to the campaign
which It's importance merits. Promis
. conveyance to the men who are old
or feeble, or unwell. Do not let tn
Mahoneitss get ahead Of you in thi
little matter.
Go TO work. You will have to worl
but . few weeks. Six weeks from To
day fIrzHUGH LEE will be electet
. Governor Of Virginia. Be sure 20,
have hand in ii. Be sure you assis
In freeing the old Commonwealth from
MAhonsisn, Shsrmanism, John Wise.
ism. Be sure, In . word, that you
no YOUR DUTY.
We again call the attention Of our