Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-05-02
The Blaine Organ Pokes Fun at Malone
and Craig.

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and Craig.
From the New York Tribune, istl
MR. CRAfG's Disastrous GUESS. In
November. 1886, the TribuHC published
an innocent though crisp and instruc-
tive letter from a correspondent in Nlr-
ginia, which has had the fortune Of pro-
voking q lively controversy in that State.
and OF adding materially to the burdens
Of General Malone and at least
one OF his licutenants. The letter
in question concisely specified some
OF the causes which led to the
brilliant victory which the Virginia Re
publicaps had Just won, and We had no
more idea than had the writer Of it that
General Malone would make II al
"issue" for the next two years. Tho
turmoil was at first confined within the
Generals bosom, but with the pub
LEGATION of his famous secret circular last
winter it burst those narrow bounds, and
the world was informed that the letter
had been written 10y II. II. Far
sons at the Fifth-Avenue Hotel.
and at the instigation Of Mr..
IlAAlt. 1 ut lIfDNNf tNNu lllfI tNllhA
to comprehend the magnitude Of the
crisis, and merely contented itself with
explaining that Mr. Parsons did not
write or suggest word Of the letter
that Mr.. Blame had no more 20 do with
it than General Malone himself, and
that the Fiith-Avenue Hotel did not
come within several hundred miles OF
being the scene of its inspiration or
composition.
There We were perfectly willing to
drop the matter and consider the Incl
dent closed but now appears one ".
f. Craig in the columns of the I'Gli,y
I'IginiQn with long communication,
from which we gather that it was ne who
told General Malone that the letter was
written bv Mr. Parsons ut the Fifth
Avenue Hotel and at air. Blaine's
instigation, and that he has lately
sent the Tribune requests for space
in which to explain how he hap
pened to make such an afro
ciously bad guess-requests to which no
attention whatsoever was paid. AS
summing. for the sake Of argument, that
the IFj6Ute did actually receive and
omit TO acknowledge these requests, we
fail to see Just how the world III general
or Mr.. Craig in particular was agGrieycd
thereby. We feel more or less sympathy
with him, to be sure for when General
Malone discovered how lie had
been imposed on he doubtless gave
Mr.. Craig an exceedingly I'M
comfortable quarter OF an hour,
ending with the advice that he should
make a public explanation, and lose no
time about it. But it was family affair,
and the General ought to have been
enough to place the col
umns Of one Of his domestic journals at
his unfortunate friends disposal. Mr. |
Craig had digged "a pit and fallen into II,
and it was prepOsterOus to send all the |
way from Virginia TO us to help him /
out Charity begins at home, and, /
besides, delays are dangerous in such /.
cases. The truth Of this latter reflection
appears in the fact that General Malone /
las lately gained the courage TO repeat /
his assertion about Mr.. Parsons and Mr.. /
Blaine and the Fifth-Avenue Hotel, and /
8 now subjected to the trying alterna- /
i've OF accepting Mr.. Parsonss nomina- /
ion OF Senator Sherman for umpire or Of .
putting q slight upon his own candidate /
or the presidency.
We don't mind saying in conclusion
hat We did receive Mr. Craig's letters |
md filed them tenderly away for obituary
.eference, under the strong impression
hat he was just about the sort OF calf to
lang himself if We gave him rope
enough.
Mr.. CRAIG "calf What is General
MALONE?