Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-02-03
SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 8. 1889.
Mshone-Butler.

Beast BUTLER, IN q letter to Congressman
Hovcx, Of Tess~ses. recommends WILLIAM
MAHoxx for The stlcs Of Postmastsr.G General.
This rsconmsn satisa ought to ruis Masoss
IA the eyes II every true man. Beast But
Lys, We murderer Of kunroRD, the bsro OF
Fort Fisher, the champion Of the scqubition
81 silver spscss, the ipsulter OF the ladies oi
New Orleans, the msn and the osly man We
belieys whom Mr.. DAVIS outiawed a. ~ enc
nv Of mankind asa uRat to live-this II the
man who recommends General hAHosn for =
place IN the Cabinet Of man whose ancestors
were virglpians. Is 1t not enough TO DIS
gust the newly-elected Presidssti In't 1t
uurprkisx that the men whs procured this
letter Of recommendation TO be written
sbou.d be 90 stupid and low-minded rs not
20 be sols 70 usdsrstand that such . rscom-
msndstseo IL calculated to destroy even the
possibility OF the appointment OF MALONE to
Q Cabinet efies?
OF the moral sense He knows right from
wross, II at all. intellectually. Therefore
he IL not always able TO distinguish right
from wrsng. MALONE 10 bad enough; but
BurLsRi Heaven protect US from such
monster. The beast Of course felt no hesi-
tation In avewiBg tsst he RECOMMENDED Ma.
HONE for the ofacs Of Postmastsr- General
because la that Office he would have chance
10 use NE Offices and the mccoy OF the peo-
pie In building IN the Republican party In
the Soath. Hsrs are BUTLHs's own words:
ait VIII give him means OF crgsnizIug in
every southern State Repnblican party that.
being protected by the Administration, will
tell in the future TO the great advantage OF
that party aud the country
We venture to say that the reason so auda-
ciously set forth bv mAEosE's sndoTser will
not increase Mr.. BAnnIssNs respect for either
MAHess or BvTLsn. In fact, unless be re.
cants his well-known creed a. TO civil-ssrvics
reform. he cannot now sppent MALONE to
any Office, the holding Of which would en-.
able him 70 use the patronage Of tho Federal
GovsrnDsnt as II 1t belonged to the Repub-
loan psrty. We have never supposed that
NAHoSE would be In tue Cabinet. He has
now "spiAsd all the fat In the fire." II Is
not conceivable that the nav President will
disgrace himself snd begin his administers
ton by appointing mas to high Office who
Is recommended to him oaly ~ an unserupu-
lous partisan, as mere piunderer-ss man
who would devote the Government Offices
and the Governments mouey-nay, the pee-
pies Offices and the psope's money-to the
ingtorious business Of building up party
OF Dugald Dslgetties In the southern States
"apoststes for the price Of their apostacy."
What sort OF men are those whom Beast
BUTLER expects General MAnoSH 10 be able
TO buy with little postmsstsrships aud Wash
ington clsrksbips? Dir. HARRISON will put
this question TO himself several times before
he orders q commission to be issued 10 WILL
LIAM MALONE as Postnater- General. He
will ask himself further: What sort Of man
IN this whom BENJAMIN Il. BUTLER and iKno-
rant negroes unite to push forward for high
oficei How Is 1t that no other man is re-
commended by BUTLER, nor by SO many ne
eroesi