The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-08-24
THAT MALONE PLATFORM.


cure everything, and enclosed IN
patent medicine wrapper like Malone s
platform. To review that paper Sc
riou.ly as q political tract would he
similar to the task OF criticising
patent medicine circular as literary
production.
The brilliant and alluring promises
that give plsdge Of restored health may
paint the political leper all over with
hope and the quack doctor Of mixed
Democracy and Readiuster, Republican
Back and Tan and Voodoo may make
spells and charms to beguile the verdant
withal. but sill the quack's name is
sponsor to the nostrum. and that will
settle the deception if honest men take
the trouble 10 expose it.
One Of the most striking points in the
platform is the promise to settle the
debt. which We were told some years
ago by both parties had been already
done by Mahone's Riddleberger bill.
which he now di-cards. If the little
bunlo-steerer is really in concert with
In. bondholders he ought to. say so.
and try the effect Of the alliance on the
people. II not, let US ask what is an
insinuation worth for a speculation
There is another insinuatlon about
the abuses Of the patients in the lunatic
asyums. The General ought to look
q. the law passed by a Democratic Le-
gislature and then bring on his speciii-
cations.
As to the proposed cry az every cross
roads for high protective tariff. we are
quite ready for that, and feel confident
that white people Of Virginia will
CLEARLY see what high taxes mean to
pamper monopoly.
Tie general charge Of maladministra-
ton against the Democracy comes well
from the Malone party, kicked out OF
power by the back-action influence of
thsir corruption IN 1883.
General Malone, the self-nOminatcd
candidate for Governor in his own pri-
vate. autocrstic convention, has re-
cipe for all the ils and panacea for
every low.down demagogue. and Inc
,pread himself over the entire map
rom the oyster to theschoois. and from
tbs t.rin to the fruit brandy. lunatic
asylums and things generally. 1t will
be funny To SEE how bis condcscendine
charity 90 the Confederate viii be tasted
by Foraker and Co.
Altogether, in taking the first glance
at the Malone convention we conclude
that two very different authors were
engaged on The speech and the plat
form.
The former is put in much bette
phrases than the latter. and the dime
novel romances about patriotism do no
sound quite 80 absurd as they do in tl'
platform.
The Malone Norfolk Convention ha
done one very important thing. IL ha
ehectually united the Democracy.
| SENATOR WADE HAMPTON s siatcmen
lin am interview chat tine Southern pee
tple are forced 20 hold the safety o.
their homes as paramount TO naliona
questions Ike the taun is the utter
auce Of man thoroughly acquainte
with the elements of Southern politics
We are always ready to argue the taui
question, because the theory o
| the Republican party is a falls
one. and any sensible man can be mad
to see it. The peoples party mean
that commerce should pay aproper an
Just tax 20 support the government, bu
when we have a hundred millions
year Of surplus revenue, we hol
| that it Is tyrannical to tax th
necessary articles of life and at Ill
same time shut up the markets of th
world to US and let few monopohsl
get the tax bounty by what youcall pro
tective tariff.