The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-10-17
THE TRUE ISSUE EfFoEt VIZ
GI\IA>S.

TO try this autumn more momentum
than any which has been presented to
them since 1861.
In all elections since the war to the
present one there may have been col
lateral issues. In Il is election there IS
bu. one issue: NdhOnetSm or not. Ii Is
fairly presented, and Virginia Is to de-
eide which she will have.
II is not often that man stamps his
name on an act. aud still more rareiJ
does he impress it on course OF gov
eminent. Happily, good government
is so established on the general action
of the people that no one man can clam
il 50 be hls. aud when system OF rules
receives such christening II 10 sure 10
be vicious.
Burking Wa the name applied years
ago TO aseries of fiendish murders per
retrated for ssiu in Edinburgh by
man named Burk. Mahoseism Is the
name .applied to system Of govern
ment ihRirginia instituted by Malone.
Burkng was the assassination Il an
individual. Mahoneism Is the assassina-
ton Of State. Unhappily for Virgin
ia she is threatened with this calamity.
happily for her she is fully appri-ed OF
the direfulness of the peril which
threatens her.
For ten years she has had experience
of the evil OF Mahoneism. either direct
ly or indirectly: but it was Mahoneism
tempered by the interpolation OF per
IONS in office who had not wholly lest
all sense Of hight. Vow she Is con-
fron,ej by Mahonei-m proper Ma
honeism in the person OF Manone him
self, in the arrogance of his supreme
and urquestioned will. whetted by his
victory over all his insubordlnates-oi
Malone surrounded by siavlsh syco-
plants, backed by his black allies. burn
ing for revenge and LISTING for the OPP
portunity t. reek his hate on Virginia
ard Virginians and trample them I'M
der his feet.
Those Virginians who had experience
Of Mahoneism in the brief space when
he almost got his hand on the throat OF
the State will not forget il, but there are
some now who DO not know IL by per
senal experience, young men who have
grown to manhood since that day, oi
men who haze since then become clll-
zens of the State. To such We speak
TO such we appeal. whether they were
Republicans or Democrats in the placs
fr I'm which they came.
We say Malone is not q Republican
as they have known Republicans. ASK
the Yosts. ask GIouer. ask John ,. VS.
Cameron. Rlddleberser. He Is Turn
coat Democrat. who. accidentally
elected 10 the United States Senate. bS
his own declaration, "a better Demo
crat than Ben HILL" sold out TO the
Republicans for the right to attempt
the debluch Of Virginia with Fedora
patronage. and was like all traitors
despised by the very parties who bough
him.
In the brief day of his power he die
more 10 humiliaie and ruin Nlrsini'
than had been accomplished 10y ioul
years of war.
He made a clean sweep Of the bench
filling the seat of justice Throughout
the State with partisan judges selected
with a few rare exceptions from th'
worst element Of his turn-coat follow
ing.
axe prostltuted the Legislature INTO
machine to grind out his behests, an'
projected a system Of legislation whicl
would have laid Virginia as completel,
nj his mercy as the bound and gagged
victim Of burglars raid.
He confiscated the educational sys
tenn Of the State, and turned out ever,
respectable superintendent, teacher an'
trustee.
lie laid his grasp on the posiofiices o
the State. aud gave them to such OF IN
henchmen as he could hire with such
price.
He. in single turn, excited the ne
groes 10 such pitch that he brCugh
them to the verge of insurrection.
The fury Of his course was his ruin
His rule was revolution. Self-protec
ton compelled many Of those who ha'
been led of by him to rctrace thei
steps. and Virginia was saved just as III
thought he had his clutch Upon he
throat
He had excited the negroes TO sucl
afrensy that they burst out Of all bound
and precipitated the unhappy collision
ia Danyille, the sound Of which awake'
Virginia to realization Of her peri
aud made her fling from her the tyran
who threatened her existence.