The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-10-04
. LITTLE MUNCHAUsENIsM ANENl
MALONE.

The .rious illness of a man VINO mas
nlaycd as conspicuous part III pu"He
affairs as General Malone has pia9eu'
naturally starts a great deal oil newspaper
scribbling. OF all the scr-bbling That mas
been done or will be done We
Guarantee that none of IT VIII
contain a greater mixture OF uutn
and falsehood than an article
nv a Mr.. Walter Whitman in the Ch-c1so
Times Herald. which We print eise""@ie
this morning. We cannot forpear 10
quote RICH. here the following from this
writer's imaginative picture. SPEAKING
of Malone when he entered the senate
he says: u,,,,.s,
"raen he was, perhaps, the richest
,,an i'm Virginia. lie had me esteem anu
me society of all the hrst lalnllies' i4l9
naos associated With -lew enter
prise was a guarantee not only OF soou
taita Tut of succ ess. Iae leau4lIs ~, ~
of the state were proud TO cain ilai
friendship and partaKe OF MS llvt'f7
Iosntalitv. His fine. old place vas az
most baronial Dozens ana scores WeIS
often at his table eating the produce on
his farm and garden, famous , 80
onalitv of their meats. game, anu Wit
tarles The members OF ms FANNY Weic
sought in the highest circles OF "A soci1ty
always artistocratic and exclusive Ine
daughter OF the nero OF ift@i9""'e wa
Welcome everywhere.
We shall not comment upon this pas
sage further than to say it sounds
strangely. indeed, TO the people Of Nir-
ginia who know the relation Manone had
already established with the negr 'es' and
that the idea of Malone leading a cam
paign to repudiate the State debt, giving
a guarantee of good faith and success to
any new enterprise by associating his
name with it, is enough to make
corpse laugh.
But this fanciful sketch was necessary
as the groundwork of the picture that
an artist proposed to paint. That picture
was of a martyr to principles conscien-
tiously believed IN. As the glory of his
old estate was magnihed, of course the
dark coloring Of his martyrdom would
come ont the more strongly And so our
artist rambles on to tell US that when
Mahone's deep devotion 10 the principles
of the Republican party had carried
him. with their resistless force where he
belonged the proscriptive spirit of the
people of Virginia and the South could
leave no stone unturned that might
bruise and wound him for having the ele-
walton of spirit and noblencss OF mind
to turn his back ppon their medieval
savagery, and cast his lot in with the
New South" and the march of progress
General Mahone's present helpless con-
dition forbids any such discussion Of this
article as justice requires; nor is any
discussion of it necessary before the peO-
pie of Virginia. They all remember well
how Malone. 10 accomplish personal aims
of his own, only effected a anton be-
tween the solid mas Of negroes and
handful of white men, and then estab-
lished a government in Virginia that was
an insult to every self-respecting man.
and that seemed to have as its object the
dedication of all that was indecent ard
the prescription of all that was honest
and pure.
We forbear TO comment further upon
this article but we have felt il neces-
sary 10 say this much. General Malone
will soon be a dead man. no doubt and
thea the flood-gates of suci- stuff as
this will be lifted. and we have felt that
timely warning should be given innocent
people that they VIII be grossly imposed
lpcn If they read and occept these
Mrnchausen tales for fact With. this
word of caution we say no more of the
case.