Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-03-31
SATURDAY...........MARCH 81, 1855
Is Mahone q Dlsorganlzer?

Is Malone a Dlsorganizer?
Those persons who saw in the letter
OF Mr.. JOIN 5. WISE which We recently
published scheme for reconciling the
regular Republicans of Virginia TO Gen
eral MALONE and enabling him TO "kiss
and make up" with them, were woiully
mistaken. The proceedings of the
MALONE State Central Committee
in Petersburg day before yesterday
prove conclusivcly that SAHoNE
has not the slightest purpose Of
Furrendering 10 any person or any organ
ization the power which he holds in his
hands. He Will rule or ruin. he viii
60 10 Chicagoat the head of delegation
instructed 10 vote for SHERMAN. He
Will have these delegates appointed in a
manner that will insure their fidelity to
MAHoNE and their willingness to sit in
the Chicago Convention as mere dunn
mics sent thither to crafty the ambition
OF an INSCRIPTIONS trickster.
MALONE cares nothing for the Repub-
hcan party as party. If he can use it
to further his own personal and selfish
schemes be Will be true to it to that ex-
tent II he cannot so use 1t he will
leave il with as little compunction of
conscience as he felt when he led his fol-
lowers into the Mozart-Hall Conven-
tion Of 1879, or as he felt when
he deserted the Democrats in the
United States Senate and cast in his
fortunes with the enemies Of the South,
or as he felt when he announced that he
was for ARTHUR because ARTHUR was for
him. Not a straw, either, does lie care
for SHERMAN except as man whom he
can use to his own personal advantage.
In q word MALONE is for MALONE first.
last, and all the time, and for nobody and
for nothing that he cannot employ in his
own personal service.
VIII Mr.. JOHS ). WISE give up his
plan Of recognizing the Republican
party in Virginia and submit to Ma
HOMES disrespec;ful and truculent at
tempts to dictate the policy ofthe party |
We know not: but if he is q chip OF the |
Old block, be Will Let MALONE know
that hencefoyth there is TO be a war
to the knife and the knife TO the
hit between the two. LEAD on,
master, III follow thee" Will no longer
be heard from the lips of the Generals |
hblest lieutenant Mr.. WISE has, as we
have heretofore said, larger following |
than any Republican in Virginia except |
the little boss. He has q good deal Of !
that sort Of political capital which is
needed in order to render him formida-
bic competitor with MALONE for the con-
troll of the Republican machine in Viz
ginia.
Is General MALONE a disorganizer |
VIII the National Republican Conyen-
tion be called upon to "sit down upon |
him if he persists in ignoring, or rather
evading, the rules aud regulations adopt |
ed by that body four years ago? Let |
rs see how far he has gone. Mr.. JONES,
the chairman of the Republican National |
Committee, writes TO Hon. JACOB YosT,
an ant-MAHoNE Republican congress
man from Virginia, that "under the ac-
ton OF the National Republican Con-
vention Of 1884, whatever has been the |
manner OF nominating members of Con-
gress in any district is the manner in !
which the congressional delegates repre-
senting that district must be chosen"
Note the word "must." If these dele
gates should be chosen by the State |
Convention, or by delegates to the State |
Convention sitting in congressional dis |
trict caucuses, the anti-MAHoNE Repub- |
licans would, unless they are worse than
dead men, call conventions in the several
districts and elect delegates under the
plan adopted in 1884, and endeavor to
unseat MALONE and his automatic.
This course seems to be so clearly indi- /
Gated as the remedy Of the anti-Ma-
honeites that we are not yet prepared to |
believe that MALONE will throw this |
great advantage, unqualified, into their
hands. The State Central Committee
On Thursday adopted his plan by vote
of 24to3 But what was his plan The
Jnd9T-Appeai reports it as follows:
General Malone then submitted his
call for the State Convention. 1t pro-
vides that the people of the districts, or
their delegations respectively, shall de-
eide whether the meetings to select dele
gates to the national conventions shall
be held at the State Convention or at
another time in their respective districts.
IL also allows the county committees 10
decide whether the delegates TO the State
Convention shall b9 chosen by mass
meetings or by county conventions con-
stituted by delegates elected by precinct
meetings"
Mr.. JOINS had written to Mr.. Yosr in
another letter that the convention Gin
tended TO have the delegates represent
their congressional districts, to get them
in the most direct manner possible from
the people. and to prevent the disfran-
chisepent Of any," II will DO seen that
General MAHoNE's plan leaves it to "the
people to decide certain things but
whether the Republican National Con.
vention will or will not accept this as a
substantial conforming to the rule laid
down for the selection of delegates to
Chicago we of course cannot foretell.
Anyhow, General MALONE is not dead
yet