Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-24
TUESDAY. ...SEPTEMBER q. 1899.
Mckinney and the Tariff.

MCKINNEY ana tHe arm
Captain MoKINSEY's speech in Char
lottesville, as its substance WAS reported
in the Dispatch Of the Sd instant, contained
the following short paragraphs:
1.-The tariff was one of the instruments
Of the war We have no more use for u
now than for heavy battaliOns. IL should
be laid aside with the shot and shell and
battle-fags. II IL an unjust tax because It
IS an unnecessary tax.
THE Government has no right TO tax
Tho people moro than Is necessary Tor a
lust and economical administration. When
II goes beyond that 1t proceeds law
lessly.'
Malone has sent out thousands of copies
of a printed circular nominally based upon
the above paragraphs, but which circular
contains no comment upon them except in
the headlines with which they are orna-
mented In large, staring black letters Ma
HONE declares that " Captain Z. W. AcKN-
MY openly and publicly proclams himself
in favor Of the centre abolition Of the tariff"
"He opens his campaign 10y aTowing him.
self rs out and out in favor Of free trade
Truly. General MALONE has erected a
large edifce upon small foundation. He
we'll knew. too when he was erecting this
edifce that il was built upon the sand.
He knows as we'll rs We or any other per-
son that the reporter for the Dispatch did
not for one moment intend 10 represent
Captain Mckinney rs having openly and
publicly proclaimed himself IN favor Of
the entire abolition Of the tariff MALONE
knew and knows that our reporter did not
intend his words 10 be understood as Ma
HONE prctends 10 have understood them.
Captain MckTNrY's record upon the sub
ioct Of the tariff ought 10 hayo protected
him from this assault. General MALONE
knew without scrutinizing the paragraphs
quoted above That they were not meant 10
present Captain McKINNEY TO the voters Of
virginia as @ Free Trader. II NAHoNE had
not known Captain McKINNrY's history,
and had desired % state IN his circular no.
thing but what he knew To be the truth,
he would have construed the first of the
above para raphs as if it had read as fol-
lows.
The ,c1r tariff was one of the instTu-
mcnts Of the war. We have no more use
tur u now than for heavy hattahous. IL
should he laid aside with the shot and shell
aud battle-fags. IL is I'll unjust because II
l. an unnecessary tax
it wa the war thrift that Captain McKIy-
MY wa speaking Of That he intended to
declare himself in favor of just and rea-
sonable ,ariH his own language as quoted
above proves. We quote it again:
THE Government has no night to tax
the people NOR than Is uocesS1Ty for just
and economical administration. When Il
goes btyond hat. II proceeds lawlessly."
With these words Of Captain McKN-
SrY's right before his evcs-words which
commit McKNNEY IN favor Of all the tariff
that Is necessary for the support of the
Government, and which words oppose no
tarfl except one imposed Icy the Govern
ment in excess OF its powers. General Ma
HONE writes our candidate down in large
lettors ~ "out and out in favor Of free
trude"
We need not 20 further in defence Of
Captain MCKrsSEY's position upon the
tariff He explains it wherever he speaks.
General MAsoSe knows what that posi-
ton is.
But how unimportAnt seems all THE talk
about tariffs whom the issue is really one
between bad government and good gov
ernment-between Mahoueism and De
mocracy-between the rule of men who
will appoint negro trustees of public
schools and men who will refuse 10 do So
between Judiciary controlled by MALONE
and free, impartial. independents judges
between a Governor without conscien-
tious scruples or convictions on any sub
sect and high-tonod scrupulously con-
scientious Governor between General
Assembly that will legislato in the interest
Of MALONE and General Assembly that
will legislate in theinterest of the people
IN word. between yoke which would be
disappointment burdens that would be
so light that the people would never feel
them JOHNNY Hook crying Beef !
Beef :" OF NEBo fddling whilst Rome was
burning would fifty illustrate the white
Democrat in Virginia who could be in
duoed to vote for MALONE by reading such
stun as is contained in the circular upon
Whch We have thus commented.
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