Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-14
SATURDAY. SEPT. -. 1889.
Mahoneism.

The people Of the United States ore not
ne ill-insormed to-day a. they we're year
or even three months ago as 10 the kind OF
false prophet whom the negroes of Virginia
have set up rs an object Of worship in this
old Commonwealth IL ought 10 be inn
possible for our northern brethren 10 DO
kept completely blind 10 tho true character
OF WntIAM MALONE. There In no excuse
for such blindness when so many Republic
can journals and so many of tho leading
white Republicans here on tho ground de-
pounce him as mere self-seekor having no
moro real regard for the Republican
party than for the Democratic. The
uttcrances If the LEwIsEs. tho fosTs. Pm
pIEroN, CAMERON, GEoSEE. FRAzIEB, BEGEE-
LEY. ROUND, LINDSEY. RDDLEBEgoEn, LIB
BY, the WrsEs, CLAIBORNE, and numerous
other Republicans who are not kepubli-
cans for revenue only" nor we're "apos-
tatcs for the price of their apostasy" must,
one would suppose. effect lodgmont IN
the minds of fair-minded Republicans
everywhere. We are not willing to believe
that such PretendeT rs MALONE can COM
mand much longer the confidence OF the
intelligent Republican leaders Of the North.
The men we have named maintain
that Mahoneism and Republicanism are
two different things. One Of the most dis
tinguished among them declares that the
defeat Of MALONE would DO in effect "a great
triumph for the Republican party, OF, III
other words, that since MALONE Is mas
querading as a Republican the best posi-
bic thing that could happen for the Re
publican party would be TO have him I'M
masked by the overwhelming defeat this
fall Of himself and all his henchmen. He
has in his composition nothing that ought
10 recommend him 10 good men anywhere,
and if the signs of the times are not mis-
leading, his career will end on the 9Th Of
next November. We would not encourage
over-confdence at home, and we DO not
think we are doing so when we tell our
northern readers that the prospect now IS
that MALONE made the greatest blunder of
his life when he determined 10 nominate
himself for Governor.
The Administration at Washington has
dared 30 make common cause with Ma
HONE and Mahoneism, and against Repub-
licanism and the Republican party-that
is, such will be the result of its action If
the distinguished Republican leaders whom
we have mentioneda and many otherswhom
we have not mentioned, AFRO not wofully
mistaken.
We are inclined TO the opinion that the
Administration, as distinguished from the
Republican party. will ind itself on tho
losing side whether MALONE shall be elect
ed or defeated. He Will. III the event of his
success (Which seems to US TO be next TO an
possible nOtOnly continue TO have his head
quarters in Washington, where he has 80
long had them, but will claim the abso-
Lutte control of all the Federal patronage
in Virginia. and of n good many Offices III
Washington or elsewhere. He will be " a
bigger man than old HARRISON" who APP
pears to have BLhINE under hack" but
who will never be able TO reduce the " lit
tie boss" from Virginia to thu same condi-
ton of quietude and submission to the
will Of the President.
On the other hand, if MAHoHx shall be
defeated. as ne Will be. he will az the same
time render il impossible for HARRISON To
get the vote of Virginia IN the next Repub-
hcan National Convention. The real old
fashioned genuine Republican leaders will
come TO the front when MALONE sinks be-
low the horizon, and will take care that
MAHoNK's supporters shall meet the same
fate with himself