Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-08-20
TnURsDAY......AUGUsT 20, 1885.
Some Malone Measures.

Several Of the measures the last MA
HONE Legislature did succeed in passing
should have put an end to the MALONE
individually the displacement, in
order to strengthen MAHoNs S grip, oil
the tried and trusted officers Of all the
State lunatic asylums and the removal
of the boards Of visitors and boards
of directors Of all the State
institutions Of learning and charity.
But these measures constituted but
small part Of the programme that had
been mspped out, and which, had 1t
been carried out, would have been the
means Of perpetrating the greatest out
rage ever perpetrated upon the people
of the Commonwealth. The features
of the programme which failed of pas
sage, and which were defeated by the
aid Of the Big Four, were numerous,
but the mention Of the three most i'm
portant should be sufficient to de-
termine every good citizen as to how
be should stand in the present crisis.
These features were
First. An outrageous gerrymander-
ing Of the State in the congressional re-
apportionment.
Second. The legislating out Of Office
Of the circuit judges of the State, and
the conversion of the circuit courts
into places wherein to pension Malone
lite partisans.
Third. The passage of the commits
sioner-of-sales bill, whereby it was
proposed to fasten upon every county
in the State a MALONE commissioner
of sales at large salary.
And now does any one suppose that
if MALONE secures the next Legisla-
ture he will hesitate to consummate as
fast as possible the scheme Of his last
Legislature Does any one suppose
that he will hesitate to so bow-shOt
beyond his programme of lSSl-'S2, if
such a thing be possible, in order to
fasten Republicanism upon Virginia and
perpetuate his own power? The fact
that circuit judges are to be elected by
the next Legislature anyhow would en-
able him to fill the places Of the pre-
sent judges with his own partisans
without resorting to any such dodge
rs was attempted four years ago
AS to the commissioner-of-sales bill,
when it is remembered that that would
becapable of being made almost great
a political and Matchmaking machine
as has been the internal-revenue sys-
TEN under Republican rule, it does
not take a prophet nor the son Of a
prophet to foretell that MALONE would
stop at nothing in order to pass it..
With the power Of naming the
chairmen Of his county committees,
with the Judiciary virtually under his
thumb, and with one Of his partiSans
in position in every county in the State
to suck the life blood out Of the peo-
pie, indeed would one-man power be
triumphant in Virginia; indeed would
Virginia present sad spectacle in the
eyes of good and true men through
out the land. Let Virginisns look
upon and study the picture in all
of its lights. If they will do that,
all will be well. Not only will Demo
cratic triumph be assured, but such a
triumph as will render it impossible for
the MALONE party ever to raise its
head in Virginia again. We do not
doubt that we will carry the State in
the fall. Already organization ha;
commenced in various counties, and the
skies are bright and frightening"
but We reiterate our warnings as t.
what MALONE would do in the even
that he should possibly control tn,
next Legislature, and recall what Vir
ginia escaped through the help of thu
Big Four, to the end that the defeat o
MAHoSE may be crushing and final.