Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-18
WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 1s. 1889.
Mahone's Object.

The persons who know MALONE best ore
The persons who distrust him most when
he Is in opposition TO them. Those who
are best acquainted with his methods are
those who feel most sensibly the necessity
for keeping constant watch upon ms
movements. Those who have enjoyed his
confidence in the past are not the men
whom he can impose upon in the future.
As long az MALONE and the men we have
alluded 20 are acting together the
latter may shut their eyes 10 the
enormities Of MAHoSE's political sins;
hut the moment they part from MA
HONE they wake up 10 full consciousness
Of the wickedncss Of his methods. They
know the untiring zeal which he will mani
fest in carrying out his designs and the
INSCRIPTIONS manner in which he Will so
WELD all the power concentrated in his
hands as TO work out his personal pur-
poses.
We do not pretend TO say that al the men
who are now ready 10 cut loose from Ma
HONE ever willingly aided and Allotted him
in his monstrous schemes for running this
old Commonwealth. good many Of them
did not realize the nature Of MAHoNE's me-
tbods so long rs they were promised
victory over the "Funders or the Demo
Gratis. They winked at measures which 1t
would now horrify them TO see carried out.
Others of these men who are now kickcrs
supported MAHoxE's measures with re-
servation. They intended rs soon az pos
sible to let him know that he must not
touch Virginia with n hostile finger.
Ex-Congressman YosT and his father, the
editors of that staunch Republican paper
the Valley Virginian, speak by the card
when they portray MAHoSE's character.
They know whereof they affirm. They
need no instructor TO tell them what MA
HONE intends 90 accomplish by his extra
ordinary movement of nominating himself
for Governor and yet continuing to act as
chairman Of the Republican State Central
Committee. Did anybody in Virginia ex-
pect him TO permit any man to come be-
tween him and tho National Republican
Committee. as might have been the result
if he had resigned the headship Of the Re-
publican party in this State when he had
finished the work of nominating himself
for Governor? Hardly.
MALONE is still in the saddle, and there
he intends 10 remain. With what object
in view he thus continues to bestrde his
party as the Old Man Of the Sea bestrode
SIYBAp the Sailor, we let the Valley Vir-
ginian tell. We trust that the younger
Yosr will make it his business TO talk TO
President HARRISON just as in the follow
ing paragraph he talked last week 10 the
readers of his paper. We quote:
Malone has no idea of succeeding in
this canvass. He did not undertake it
with any such hope. His prime and para
mount object was 20 get control OF the
Offices. In the early DAYS of Harrison's
Administration. when 1t looked gloomy for
his recognition, he was seriously thinking
of letting the election this year In the
State go by default. He so declared him.
self. Under his plan of organization his
power is supreme. He makes all of his COM
mittees His will and his purpose are theirs.
HeNould have decided not TO make con-
test this fall, and there was no authority
10 gainsay it. Knowing this advantage
and this option were his, he used them Tor
all that is in them. Heimpressed Quay and
the Administration with the belief that he
could carry the State were he gwen con-
troll Of the Federal patronage, and backed
bv the National Committee and the IreSl-
dent he would make the fight and elect
himself Governor were he thus sustained,
hut otherwise the whole matter might 60
20 smash 1t was his last deal, and out of
il he will make all he can. The oihce-hOld-
ers will be squeezed for all and more than
they can bear; the National Committee
will be drawn on for all II can furnish {;
northern Republicans will be deluded with
the assurance that there is a chance to
break the solid South and inaugurate u
successful liberal movement in the South,
aud their money will flow in"
MALONE has no hope of succeeding in
this canvass. Therefore, argues Mr. YosT,
il would be worse than waste of money
TO food Virginia with funds TO be employed
by MALONE. He did not nominate himself
for Governor with the expectation of being
elected He simply desires to be a
boss"-to have control of all the Federal
offices in this State He recalls with grit
ting teeth the stunning defeats he has suf-
fered at the hands of Mr.. BARBOUR. He
has not forgotten that, while he and his
henchmen declared themselves to be for
ARTHUR because ARTHUR was for them,
those tools of his who helped him TO raise
that cry were mere dupes, he being the
only Virginian who could truthfully claim
that ARTHUR was for him.
What fate could befall this belcaguered
old Commonwealth worse than to have her
interests intrusted 10 the hands of Ma
HONE? Woe be TO Virginia If such shall
move u he her i'll fortune.