Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-20

A EN-PIcTURE OF MAHoNE.-The VdHey
Virginian of this week pours hot shot into
MALONE. Here is specimen:
There is no more probability of Malone
being elected Governor OF Virginia than
there is of Mr.. Quay capturing the milky
way in the heavens and converting II into
Pennsylvanla cheese-factory. The people
of both parties know Malone. They know
that he has not a thought above personal
revenge and the qualification OF a low,
selfish ambition. They know that he has
not an emotion that springs from con-
sideration for the public welfare or an as
piration that reaches beyond his own mer-
cenary schemes. They know that his
election as Governor would be posi-
tive calamity to the State, and that
no disaster could befall the Common
wealth, whatever Its nature, that could
measure up to that which would follow
his control of the affairs of Virginia. He
seeks the position and the power OF the
Executive office TO WELD them for the
humiliation of the people and as q
means to punish all who cannot be made
TO serve him and surrender their man
hood 10 his unworthy behosts. There
Is no high sense Of duty to State or
country that stlrs him. There Is no pa
triotic impulse that throbs III his beng
He is as revengeful as a Goth and as
treacherous as a Comanche, and would
prostitute all the powers ut his command
were he Governor TO make Virginia the
slave of his ambition and the victim Of his
hate. For such reasons the people Will see
TO il that he is not invested with authority
through them 10 carry into ehect ms
malien purposes, and convert the ONCE De
signed for their protection INTO an engine
for their oppression"
The YOsTs tell the truth. There is IN the
above paragraph not statement which Is
not true. The prediction with which it
begins will also prove TO be true. MALONE
is doomed to an ignominious defeat. We
quote the Virginian again;
1T is the favor of the Government that
gives him what strength he has; Take
from him that and he could not poll $4,000
votes for Governor. He IS despised by
many OF those who fawn upon him and Is
courted and flattered alone for tho patron
ace he assumes to control. Strip him Of
this factitious support and he would be
forced TO withdraw from the canvass TO
save himself from the most Illuminating
defeat that ever befell candidate for pub
lie Office"
"We think it quite likely that November
next will witness the last Of Mahoneism
in both State and national politics, and
that the true nature of the pestiferous in
vention Will be fully exposed and under
stood to the indignant disgust OF Republi-
/ cans everywhere and their anazement that
they could ever have been fooled into
/ countenancing it,"
BURY Malone under a majority Of So
900 in November, and then Republican
party can be organized that will command
/ the respect Of all classes Of citizens and
the support Of one half the white voters
Of the State"
1.-The conditions and the times are pro-
pitious for o free declaration OF the resent
ment by the Republican voters Of Virginia
of the tyranny and the treachery of Ma
honeism. They have borne with astonish-
ing patience his insolence-his aggression
upon their rights-his reckless purpose TO
rule or ruin. and have determined 70 settle
accounts with him once and fof all time.
Tho verdict then fin Noyepberl viii