Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-27
FRIDAY. .sEPTEMBER 81. 1889
Mahono's Allies.

Commenting yesterday upon paragraph
In one Of our exchanges. we said we be-
lievcd that every Republican State Con-
vention which had been held this year had
declared in favor of national election
law. On Wednesday last the two great
States of Massachusetts, and New York
made the same declaration. These declara-
lions, supported as they are, so far as we
know, by an almost unanimous Repub-
lean press, prove beyond doubt that
IL is the hxed intention OF the Re
publican leaders 10 put the elections
in the southern States under the con-
troll of negroes and other Republican
partisans. II were madness FOX US 70 cry
Peace Peace when there Is no peace"
il were folly for us to expect anything
better than the establishment of grand
consolidated central despotism from the
men who originated and passed the uncOn-
stitutional reconstruction measures. 1t
were TO trifle with our dearest interests to
intrust our civilization 10 the party which
enfranchised the negroes. or 10 deceive
ourselves into the belief that even a half
dozen Republican members of the national
House Of Representatives will next winter
show their manhood bv voting against a
caucus measure designed to humiliate the
South.
The New York Republican Convention
declared for
A national elertion-law to secure the
honest choice of representatives, IN Con-
Eress."
Recollect that New York State is one of
The most liberal IN the Union, and that if
any northern State that State was one
which might have been expected 10 protest
against reOpcning FIRE upon the southern
people twcnty-four years after the termi-
nation Of the war between the States. If
New York, or rather her Republicans, de-
Inand national election-law every north
ern Republican State, if any there be
which have not already made the same de-
Inand, will follow her example. Mr..
CHAUNcEY NJ DEPEw, the temporary chair
man Of the Now York convention, spoke as
follows:
There are two principles Of the Repub-
lican creed which the party viii neither
surrender. compromise, nor abate. these
are the integrity OF the ballot ana the
purity Of the American home. The party
when went tlftIiuAlF uuu itItaltNi1 W
disaster and finally eXtirpated slavery,
which. under all discouragementsa and hor-
rors successfully fought the rebellion and
saved the nation, and which, upon the I'M
tried fields Of reconstruction, built this
magnificent, expansive, and unequalled
new republic will not cease agitation and
reassertion and effort until the ballot-boX
secures tho honest expression Of the popu-
lar will and the liquor traffic is under pro-
per control
The ballot was corrupted beyond repuri-
fioation when the negro was made a voter.
Dir. DEPEw favors the policy of utterly de-
stroying the value OF the ballot, and of
putting an end to civilized government in
the South.
The Massachusetts Republican State
Convention declared as follows;
ITO our Senators and Representatives in
Congress we would say that the Republi-
cans of Massachusetts, look TO them to
strive without ceaslng TO secure II
national election-law which shall give pro-
lection 10 the national ballot and TO the
citizen il casting IT."
These enemies of the southern people
and Of our free institutions are the allies of
MALONE. Will you give your vote to such
manl