Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-16

Il our loader Of day before Yesterday,
written 70 inform thepublIc, and the Phlla-
dclphia Press in particular, as 70 the man.
ner in which MALONE had attempted 10
create q wrong impression as regarded the
increase in the Republican vote in Vir-
pinia between 1890 and 1883, we ought to
have said that in 1879 and 1881 the cleo
tiops in Virginia turned upon the debt
question. Ia 1885, when the Republican
vote was. according TO MGHoSE's figures.
only $3.50, whilst the Democratic
vote was 1855. there we're three
electoral tickets in the feld-Demo-
cratic, Readinster, and Republican.
MALONE NJ that time claimed 10 be Demo
crat. and it was he that put into the field a
HeSdjuster HANcCCK-tiCket 10 run against
The regular Democratic HAScocE-tickct
according 10 the American Almanac the
result was: For the regular Democratic
HANcocK-ticket, &c. 449; for the bogus or Re
adjuster OF MALONE llANcocK-tcket, 81, 527 {:
for the regular Republican (or GARFIELD
ticket, 5000. The Press will see that
MALONE has added the votes cast for
his bogus Democratic ticket 70 the
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Democratic ticket in order TO show how
the Republicans gained IN numerical
strength between the years 1890 and 1888.
Aud the joke upon the Press and oil the
rest Of the victims Of MAHoSi's disingenu-
business becomes equal 20 q roaring farce
when il is recollected that MALONE HIM
self was one of the l27. $40 voters who cast
GIosr lo1l,ta for ~ aNrDCE in 1881
MALONE ought 10 patent his method OF
measuring his increasing strength. In 1899
he puts himself down ~ Democrat and
votes with the Democrats for HANCOCK,
and in 1889 he announces that he is entitled
TO the credit of having increased the
strength Of the Republican party far above
what it was when he voted the Democratic
ticket
OF course MALONE did not act in good
faith in 1880 If HANCOCK had been elected
MALONE could have claimed the credit OF
having carried Virginia for him by separa-
ting the Readjuster Democrats from the
Republicans. But as GARFIELD was elected
MALONE was enabled TO claim that he had
acted in the interest of GARFIELD when he
divided the Democrats into two factions
and induced the boiling OF Readiuster
Democrats to run an electoral ticket Of
their own.
Now, il is a clear case that most of the
Readjusters who voted for HANCOCK in 1880
because tho election Of that year was a
national election had voted the MALONE
ticket in 1879. when no carried the State.
These same Readjusters, or the most of
them, also voted with MAHoNE for the Re
publican ticket in Virginia in 1891. If,
therefore, the Press will add the Readiust-
or vote of 1880 to the Republican vote of
that year instead Of 10 the Democratic
vote Of that year, it will find that the total
Republican and MALONE or Reddjuster
vote was in 1880 somewhere about 10000,
as against about 5000 cast for HANCOCK by
the regular Democrats.
Again: If the Press will subtract the in
crease in the Republican vote between
1880 and 1888 which was caused by the
abolition of the capitation tax, and also
remember that most of the Readjuster
voters of 1850 were really MAHoSEs follow
ers, and went with him not only in 1880 but
have gone with him ever since, that paper
will perhaps feel as if General MALONE had
caused it 10 make spectacle of itself.
MALONE carried Virginia i'll 1879 and 1881,
when he had the debt question TO serve as
an excuse for desertion to his ranks on the
part of dissatisfied Democrats, but since
the Democrats abandoned the debt ques-
ton and declared their acquiescence in
the RIDDLEBEBaER bill MALONE has carried
Vrginiain no State election. VIII the Press
please break It's silence and let us know
what it now thinks "a TO the wonderful in
crease of the Republican strength in Vir-
ginia between 1880 and 1882