Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-07-28


will not 20 10 Richmond to advance the
interests of some two or three gentle
men. and 10 make nominations which
will crafty those gentlemen personally.
Next. I want the delegates not to sup
pose that our party will have a walk
over" this fall on the superstition
that General Malone will not be
able TO raise the funds to carry
on the campaign. For, to be candid, il
now looks TO me land | say it with re-
gret) that he will be furnished with all
the funds he wants from parties at the
North most anxious to see him where
he can do them /" the most good" and
that is in the Senate Of the United
States. If they fail him, then he has
the English bondholders to fall back on,
even ifsuch bondholders have not already
promised to help him, with the under
standing that he will order his party df
successfully tog go for Judge Hughes's con-
structon Of the Riddleberger settlement
of the debt Of the State. To be more can
did still, think General Malone nomi-
mated about the very strongest ticket
he corld have done ; and that being so,
it will be the duty OF the Convention
to put in the field the very best and
most available candidates to be found.
In saying available I mean, Of course,
candidates who will prove satisfactory
TO every Democrat Of the State, whe-
Their such Democrat was once 8 Read
ulster or not. Both the Malone and
the Democratic party having deter
mined on the Riddleberger bill as a
finality las to what was the debt Of the
State), and endorsed such settlement,
a difference Of construction Of such act,
and especially when such construction
by Malone favors the English bond
holders, should not cause one single
Democrat to refuse in the coming cleo
ton to vote with the old, "neyer-de"
Democratic~party. To think any true
Readjuster-Democrat should now want,
after Judge Hughes's recent decisions
and General Mahone's letter to Senator
Miller, Of New YORK, TO vote with the
sectional Republican party, would be
supposing something contrary to COM
mon sense. What the people want is
good, clean, popular ticket put in the
field by tho Convention.
Before any gentleman is nominated,
every precaution should be taken to
ascertain the true character Of such
gentleman. 1t will not do to make
nominations and then after the Conven-
ton has adjourned to find out facts
showing that such nominations should
not have been made. What is wanted
are candidates like Grover Cleveland;
and when ] say that Of course | mean
that they should be men who will bring
to the polls all Democratic voters and
some OF the enemy.
Living as / do->in the great "black
district" and so (as may say under
Mahone's local heel, would prefer
never to see any Democrat in such dis
trict hold an office rather than to see
Malone again the dictator " Of the
State. 1t is perfectly natural that
the people should have favorites,
but it is no time now for
our party to put into the field
candidates whose record and character
will not bear the fullest examination,
even by Mahone's white henchmen.
! trust, therefore, for the good Of our
people, that before nominations are
made a thorough examination will be
had as to the character and availability
Of the gentlemen brought before the
Convention for positions.
Mshone thoroughly understands that
the struggle is life or or death one
with him, and the white tax-piying
people Of the State, it is to be hoped,
take the same view Of it as to them
selves. The issue is one Of great i'm
port to the true people of Virginia, and
il they know their own interests, then
a greater effort will be made by them
to defeat Malone than was made
in 1888, when the white peo-
pie of the State won such a
glorious victory over him. OF course
every man but fool, or one who will
not see and confess the fact, knows that
General Malone represents the body,
head, and tail Of the so-called" Re-
publican party in Virginia, and hence,
in speaking about the matter, | have
preferred to speak as the facts are.
Some thin-headed Republicans thought
General Malone had joined them, but
if he did he seems quickly to have put
them very far back in the rear, and
taught them their duty was to follow
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