Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-10-09
NJahone's Real Policy.
fEastern Shore Herald.l

The policy which General Malone. has
avowedlv mapped out for the Republican
party III Virginia seems to nave cnuscu
some dissenslon in its ranks. some or It's
prominent members even gong so lar AS
To charge him through the public press
with being traitor to their cause. inls
can only have arisen either IRON persoIn
hatred Of Malone or from being In utter
Ignorance of his real plans. No policy so
wise for the Republicans and so full OF
DANCER to the Democrats could have been
devised as that he has devised. Being
forewarned is being forearmed. Let US
look at this proposed policy OF Genesai
Malone q little more closely.
In the very first place. We need not eX-
pect General Malone. one of the riost un,
scrupulous and one of the most astute OF
living politicians. 20 make his real plans
public. What we can reasonably expect
is, that he should put forward some ayow-
ed reason for his proposed conduct, when
should have enough Of real truth IN II to
blind the eyes of the Democratic leaders.
and efectually mask his real designs. 40
we find him openly assigning. as the reason
for the course he proposes TO be foiioweu
by his party, the hope that the Democrats
NAV thereby become involved IN q conflict
with the Farmers Alliance and our party
split. to the advantage Of the kepuoiicahs.
There is just enough reality III TINS OAR
ger TO attract the attention OF the Demo
cratic leaders ali over the State and lead
them to direct all Their efforts to prevent
it from resulting disastrously. There Is
enough apparent danger To occupy their
time and keep them from thinking OF the
point where he intends to make his real
and fatal attack on Us. In short. it is u
feint, the real desperate charge which he
meditates making on us Is Hank move
meut.
Few or no open Republican nominations
are to be made aud those that are made
are to be prosecuted with such languor as
to lead the Democrats to suppose We have
a walk-over. Then, of course, no great
effort will be made on our part to get out
our vote in its full strength. Now the Re
publican party II this State Is n compact
and easily handled body Of men. almost
all its voters being grouped in oath-bound
colored lodges. On the Monday night be-
fore the election word will DO passed
around to these lodges 10 have every voter
at the polls. On Tuesday morning secretly
printed tickets will be put IN their hands.
Halt of our vote will not be out. and II
will be too late to get it out, and the Lee
gislature Of Virginia will be wrested from
Us ut one blow.
How powerfully this scheme works
when undiscovered III time to cOunteract
| il none know better than those who have
seen il tried. We remember well in the
| midst of the civil war when The whole
county ticket of Somerset county, Md.
was to be elected. and soldiers were sta
toned at every polling place, and itwa'
openly given out that no Democrat was e
! be allowed to vote. Well, we nominated
no ticket, We put up no independent can
didate. A few of the leaders got togethe.
shortly before election. made up ticket
had 1t secretly printed, passed arounC
word on Sunday night to the precinct
| leaders to have their voters at the polls
| Tuesday mornlng early. Monday was oc
cupied getting word as far rs possible t.
the individual voters, and on TUESDAY
morning the ballots were quietly giveI
them al the polls. 1t was three or foul
o'clock in the afternoon before the Repub
licans found out We had ticket III the
field. They arrested Democrats, they
arrested the judges at some af the polling
places, and thus threw out whole election
| districts, but it was of no use, we mad car
ried the county by about 400 majority IL
spite of soldiers and violence.
Now, what we did IN Somerset in 1863, II
spite OF soldiers. with q disOrganized party
can easily be done by Malone III Virgins
in 1891 with his compact mass OF oath
bound voters. This IS precisely what h,
means to do. We never were IN so mucl
danger from hun as We are to-day. lie
the Democratic party keep watchful eye
III this very direction and hayo every mar
at the polls. opposition or no opposition
Beware Of Malone; Joenunl hdOet IN corn,'