The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-08-31

VIII MALONE GET TIIE "BOODLE"?
When Ben Hassan Ali, Caliph Of Bag
dad. discovered that certain provinces
were disaifectcd and wondered on the
WAYS to bring them to Submission the
wicked genii appeared before him and
suggested that the way to effect the
object was by the persuasion of gold
Ben Hassan said that he rather thought
that IT was bad investment.
Then the wicked genii said unto Ben
Hassan:
A very small amount will work for
behold. we will tell the ignorant slaves
that we have it for them and we Will
load them up with promises and then
when we have them in our hands we
will bride them and keep tie Doodle.
And that ia just the case with our
pious President. who has hearkened to
the beguiling prophecies Of Malone and
ordered his grand Nizier Quay TO issue
the mandate to the Virginia Republl-
cans that all the money they want viii
flow if they can carry the State as they
say they can.
Thus far the thing works well, and
Mahone's patent medicine circular that
he calls platform has. herhaps, de
ceived a few remote citizens at Coon
Hollow and Opossum Creek.
But 1t is quite certain that the Presi-
dent read yesterday in the New York
Times that able journals shrewd and
complete review of the Virginia
situation, written by one of the ablest
members of its staff, with time to
aualyze the elements at work.
No reasonable person can read that
document and afterwards put any faith
in the promises Of Malone, who IN the
monkeyish spirit Of his inordinate vani-
ty, thinks that after turning his coat or
rather his skin. for the third time, and
PLAYING the ridiculous part Of debt
payer. he can carry Democratic STATE,
and in the face Of his change Of base
aud the desertion Of his ablest lieuten-
ants.
IL the Democrats chose TO stay al
home, or their leaders were inert or
bad poor cause. Gen. Malone might
carry q Democratic State with Doodle,
and the promises of it. But the fac Is
that the people Of Virginia are quite
awakened to the necessity and know
that self-preservation demands that the
Democratic majority be mustered at the
polls. Besides this they think that Ma
hone ought to have staid in his political
colin, wherein he was put unshrived,
and the Democrats and all honest folks
are mad that he should be galvanized
by Harrison, Quay. Dudley x CO.
We also see beyond this ugly and
malign spirit Of half dead detormity
the looming figures Of Federal super
yisors with manaclos to put on the
white people Of this State.
And still, beyond this Is the wither-
ing scorn with which every honest Re.
publican in the North reseuts the dis
graceful bargain between the Virginia
"brigand, - as he is called by them, and
the administration.
Now, the point is: Will the admins
tration stick when 1t feels tho two
effects of the popular contempt for Ma
hone, and the certainty, as pronounced
by every sensible observer, that Mr..
Billy Malone can no more carry the
State of Virginia than he could make
the people admire another turn of his
skin # he elected TO show himself as u
Democrat.
The only clever person, familiar with
the situation, who believes in Malone
victory. is Malone, and the only place
he gets the idea from is in the infiuite
depths Of his vanity.