Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-02-25
cIdedly opposed to furnishing the evidence.
A. =. b.
THE VOICE or VIRGINIA.
what the Organs of the People Have to
Soy on tho Subject.

Say on tho Subject.
The Times Richmond) Ii pouring
broadside after broadsIdc into the Demo-
cratic ranks, and It has not produced
any uneasiness. Old Democracy stands
unmovcd and immovable. --Rappahannock
Times.
The Expose Satisfactory.
Any one who Is ignorant OF the sterling
Democracy Of the Richmond Times might
be deceived into inferrlDg from Its cob
umns that II derived considerable salts
faction from the expose Of the party 8
alleged dishonesty and corruptness.-Bed-
ford Index.
Carefully Protected.
The Virginia Sun will hereafter be pub
lished from Alexandria. The Sun In de-
termining to make this move. doubtless
reasoned that the interests OF the Popu-
lists in this section would be carefully
protected by the Richmond Times.-Black'
stone Courier.
Nothing to Reform.
The Richmond Times agrees with Gen.
eral Malone and Mr.. John s. Wise that
elections In Virginia are fraudulent, and
that what the State most needs now Is
free vote and a fair count" Why
three such puissant powers can't accom-
pllsh their desired reform can only
be accounted for by the fact that in the
matter referred TO there is nothing to
reform. Gazette.
No Wonder.
The Lynchburg News last Sunday In
one of it's incisive editorials comments
pretty severely upon the erratic course OF
late pursued by the Times, of Richmond,
which seems now to take Il pride in foul
ing its own nest by abusing the Demo-
cracy. The News remarks In conclusions:
I'VE don't wonder that the Virginia Sun
moved away from Richmond" to which
one might add thai the Times Is even
exceeding the Sun In its new-formed zeal
in denouncing the party OF the South.
Maybe there are sour grapes somewhere
in the garden OF the Times-Salem
Times-Register.
a Denial from Tidewater.
The Richmond Tines has been making
some sweeping assertions In regard to
election frauds In Tidewater Virginia.
As our readers we'll know the Nirginian
Is q firm defender of the honest ballot,
and does not hesitate when IL believes II
neces sary 10 warn Democracy or 10 con-
denim wrong doing in any political party.
The Times has condemned ri1ewa;er n
toto, an1 intimates that we could Cn'y
hdv. eitoted our candidates by perpctTa-
ton OF fraud. AS for other parts of
this section we must let them s0,ak for
but as far as the Virginian's
territory is concerned we emphatcally
deny that there has been anything else
than free ballot and a fair count. The
Times must except the counties of New
Kent, King William, King and Queen,
Gloucester. Mathews. and Middlesex from
Its charges.-West Point Virglnian.
Landed squareIy.
The Richmond Times has snapped the
trace-chains ard landed squarely on the
other side of the dividing line. 1t now
scouts the idea Of Democratic Congress
being honest enough to turn out a Demo-
crat who cheated his way into the House
or Representatives.. In brief period of
In the twinkling of an eye
the Times has come to the conclusion that
our Democratic General Assembly IL cor
rupt; that our courts are cowardly and
ineiiicient; that the grand juries are
frauds; that the election judges are thieves.
and that the white people In certain coun-
ties OF the State are STEPPED in crime be-
cause they will not be ruled by the
negroes Added to all of this, II now
charges that the Democratic party in Con-
gress Is devoid of common honesty. We
don't wonder that the Virginia Sun moved
away from MISUNDERSTANDING News.
VIII Break Its Neck.
The Times, to our knowledge, has been
crying fraudulent elections for weeks, and
we doubt now whether II has decided TO
let the matter rest. If 1t takes any more
rope 1t will surely break its neck.
The Times again and again has asked
the Dispatch its position in regard TO
"stuifing ballot-boxes." The Times well
knows the position Of the Dispatch IN this
matter
The Dispatch says: 1.-THE Times Is quite
disguised with our tu-quoque arguments.
but not more so than We are with its
submission Of allegations as PROFITS
triumphant reference to things charged,
as If they were things proved"
Many think the Times has an occult
motive in its criticisms on election frauds,
and ii is very natural that some suspect
that the Times is dissenting from the
party, for they seem determined to do all
the harm they can 10 the party by publicly
exposing its fraudulent tactics used in
elections, which, they claim, Is due to the
w,
which law, they say, was gotten I'D with
the intention of defraudng the ballot-box
In the "black-belt' sections
The Times so far has brought no ac-
against the elections in Halifax,
but they are not through investigating
South Boston Times.
Done Great Injury.
The Times most assuredly mas done the
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been all but complimentary to Virginia, or
the party in power. Now that the Times
has done much to expose things of dis
repute. why can't 1t tell of the things that
are reputable in connection with the
party?
The Times should be well posted when
1t says that ballot-boxes were stuffed
at such place; II should be fact proven
and thoroughly substantiated. To bring
these charges. and then afterwards find
them not proven beyond doubt, is doing
a great injustice to the party and the
State at large.
The Times may feel ever so certain
that frauds have been committed at such
a voting place but not an insinuation
should be made unless the matter has been
thoroughly tested and verified beyond the
shadow Of doubt.
Say there had been fraud committed
In the past election: what good can be
done by continually proclaiming it to the
world. Does that make reformation more
certain or the sooner? TO tell the world
or disgraceful methods used in Virginia
elections DE they true or not) does not.
IN our opinion, promote the welfare OF our
state party, or the medium that sounds
the proclamation.-South Boston Times.
Exposing Democratic frauds.
The exposure the Democratic Richmond
)Va) Times is making of the frauds
perpetrated by its own party in that
State IS fitting commentary on the re-
peal of the Decentralization law by the
Democrats In Congress. A liberal ex-
tract Is reprinted elsewhere from one OF
Is leading articles showing how these
Popuist candidate for Congress and re-
turn a Democratic candidate In 1892.
The same methods and others still more
brutal have long been used In Virginia
md in other southern States to defeat
Republican candidates for Congress and
'or presidential electors. Every House OF
during the past thirty
years that has had a Democratic ma
ority, with one exception only. was con-
rolled by men elected by the methods
he Richmond Times Is now laying bare.
rhe two Presidents the Democrats have
placed In the White House during the
past ten years were given the appear
lnce Of an election by the same means.
As the Richmond Times says, there has
lot been in years any question OF negro
domination in this question. 1t has SIM