Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-08-24
FRIDAY. AUGUST "a. 1855
Tha petersburg DISTRICT.

condition OF things that HAS httfhcUoV
good deal Of attention outside OF the
district, not 10 say outside OF the state.
Nominally there are several candidates
for the Republican nomination in that
district, but there are suspicious
persons who say that oil OF them
have been put forward to kill
of LANGsroS, the negro aspirant,
as a preliminary to nominating General
MALONE. LANGsToN himself speaks
pretty freely when he talks of MALONE
and FRED. DOUGLASS, and does not leave
the world in doubt ns TO what he thinks
of either Of them. Mr.. CoNKLNG once
happily characterized CARL ScHUBz as
professional foreigner "a witty re-
mark intended 10 imply that ScHUBz
posed as a foreigner in order to get
the honors or the emoluments OF Of
flee. LASasroN's two leading enemies
within the Republican party--DoUGLAss
and MAHoNE-mayG ptly be characterized
the one as professional Republican
and the other as professional negro.
They claim to he the one q Republican
and the other a negro in order to get the
honors or the emoluments of office. We
doubt whether MALONE has follower of
any note who believes that be is sincere
in protesting to be Republican. Heis
widely misunderstood and grievously
wrougod if he would not Just rs lief sup
port CLEvELnD as HARRISON, other
things being equal
LANGsroS's deuunciation Of FRED.
DOUGLASS, as quoted in our Issue Of yes
terday, WAS only what that "profes-
sional negro" had well merlted. What
had he TO do with the campaign IN Nir-
GINA? Who asked him for counsel p?
We suspect that the professional Re
publican MALONE had hand in the
preparation Of the professional ne
gro's letter, or at any rate procured it
to be written.
Why does General MALONE so bitterly
aniagonize LANGsToN il, rs he pretends,
he does not himself desire to represent
the Fourth district in Congress ? This
question naturally arises in the mind
when we recall the fact that in the
Fourth district the negroes largely out
number the whites. Why must LANG
srox yield to white man Why is it
deemed unwise by General MALONE to
allow the one hundred and thirty thou
sand negro voters OF Virginia to have
one representative OF their Own race III
Congress? a more searching question
than this has been put by the negro or
gan in Washington, which asks whether
General MALONE opposes LANGsToN be-
cause he is "colored" or because "he
could not use Mr.. LANGsToN were lie
elected -?
What could General MALONE say if
this question were put to him in
crowded negro meeting ? How can he
justify his opposition to LASdsToS If 1t
10 based upon the fact that LANGsToN is
negro A Democrat might well take
the ground that there was no Office which
q white man could not fill more accepta-
bly, than a negro but can General Ma
HONE consistently do 80 =? Will he dare
to say TO the white people of Virginia
that he has for ten years been endeavor-
ing to place this State in the hands OF
faction so largely composed of negroes
that in some counties there are B." hardly
enough whites to officer the negroes, and
cay Mt the same time that the negroes
are unfit 10 hold office ? Has he been
so false to his mother State that he has
for years been trying to compass har
ruin in seeking TO have her destinies in
trusted TO negroes. when he really be-
lieves that il would be wrong to send
oven one negro TO the House of Repre-
sentatives. a body consisting of three
hundred and twenty-five members
Could not the Republicans trust one Of
their negro allies amongst 80 many
whites +?
II seems to be conceded within the dis
trict that MALONE will defeat LANGsroN
OF the nomination. How he is to accom-
plish this result fairly and above-board
we do not understand. Certainly in that
district the negro voters outnumber the
white voters by more than six thousand.
How are those negroes to be detached
from LASesros? BY what means 2 What
methods viii be brought into requisi-
ton viii intimidation be resorted to 1?
VIII "material aid be furnished to the
"colored troops" in order that they may
" fight nobly" against man Of their
own race OF whom they ought TO be and
are proud Twenty thousand negroesto
fourteen thousand whites, and yet the
whites expect TO win the fight
What has the Republican National
Committee to say in view OF the condi-
ton Of things in MAHoSE's district
What says Mr.. HAIsrEADp What SAYS
the ire-eating cHASDLRR, who has Just
nov, twenty-odd years after the war
ended. got so mad that he wants TO fght9
What says WEirEnAw RsID2 What says
Mr. EDausDs? VIII tho champions OF
the negroes rights and the walters over
the suppression " OF their votes allow
such wrong" TO be perpeirated?
The cause of the falling of the tower
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