The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-09-17
THE SOUTHERN QUESTION.

THE SOUTHERN QUESTION.
The Northern views that we have
daily presented of the Malone question
will show our readers that it is not a
contest of prejudice on the part Of the
Virginia Democrats, but well under
stood issue between the principle Of
home rule in the States and the corrupt
bossism which hires out the rights { I
the States to national rings such as the
present one headed by Harrison, Quay.
Wanamaker q Co., and the other great
Boss Ring, headed by Arthur, Bill
Chandler 81 Co., in the days when the
bargain was consummated between Ma
hone by his great turn-coat act in the
Senate from Democrat to Republican.
Malone succeeded thus in making
Virginia national State in politics,
and showed his purchasers that he
could make it the key and gate Of the
South, all of which he would have
done, but that in the following State
election, in 1888, the Democratic lead
ers tore off the traitors mask, showed
him to the people in all his deformity,
and swept him from the field by
nearly 10000 majority, beating him in
his own strOneholds and getting
the Legislature by over two-thirds
majority. 1t is fact not 10 he denied
that while MahOne's ablest and most
honest leaders have left him to his COM
ing fate, few of the little rats of the
Democratic party have skunk away
from the party whose principles they
do not feel and whose people do not
like the rats.
But it is we'll for us in the Tending
contest to have no such weakened
and doubling followers. They do us
more harm in our own ranks than in
the gang where they naturally belong.
On the other hand. the DETECTION
from Malone means more than any
numbers that il may carry.
Il means the lack of cohesive power
in a party controlled by the piratical
rules Of plumber, and inspired at pres
ent by the single motive power of
the money to be paid by Harrison
Wanamaker, Quay & Co., for the State
Of Virginia, as put on the political auc-
ton block by Mr.. Billy Malone.
The New York Journal Of Commerce,
one of the most respected newspapers
of the whole world, says, in reviewing
this subject at length, that 1.-The Crca-
tor, by physical laws which cannot be
repealed nor violated with impunity,
has placed a perpetual barrier between
the negro and the Caucasian. and they
cannot interminale in common under
the penalty of decentralization both
of them
Every thoughtful, unprecedented man
must feel. we think, that the bestow-
mont of an unlimited elective franchise
on the freedmen was an error, no mat
ter how strong the reasons or pure the
motives which led to that act of legisla-
ton. Nor can We at the North realize
the peril 10 every material interest at
the South which came from that I'M
wise concession. The experiment,
whenever il was fairly made, of allow
ing the negro in places where they had
numerical superiority 10 take the local
government in their own hands result
ed in nothing but disaster to all CON
cerned. The finances were wasted. the
energy Of those in power was wholly
misdirecied, and chaos reigned on every
side
The journal Of Commerce, after its
able study of the situation, concluded
that the intelligence and civilization
and conservatism Of the white people of
the South can alone settle the difficult
problem.
That is exactly what we have said all
the time Lot the Southern States set
tie their home affairs just as Northern
States are allowed TO do. Let outside
'agitators' and carpet baggers attend
to their own affairs, if they have any +,
and the Southern race question will set
tie itself peacefully, lawfully and logic
ally.