Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-10-09

itbi TO lMi General Malone continued in
command OF what was known as Ma
homes Brigade. Of which the Sixth,
Twelfth. sixteenth. and Forty-firet Vir-
gir!a regiments were always members
and which up to some time in 1862 en-
htacci also the Third Alabama Regiment,
and after the last named regiment was
transferred TO another brigade had an
other regiment. the Slxty-Hrst Virginia.
substituted in its place. Receiving dis
abiing WOunl In the battle Of Second
Manassas. ne was not with his command
again until just before the battle Of
Fredericksburg. In May. 1853 General
Malone vas erected member of the
state Senate. but did not take his seat
in This body until January. 1864. and then
only for few days. When General
Lonestroet was wounded In the battle
Of the Wilderness, on the 9th OF May,
lsbt General r. III. Anderson was placed
in command Of his corps and General
Malone IN command Of Anderson's di-
vision. which was composed Of five bri-
gades-General MahOnc's virginia.,
rights GcoreiaD. Harrlss (NississippD,
SduuItIs's alabama, and peiTy's N'lor-
i1D This division General Malone con-
tinucl t. command until the surrender
at Appomattox Courthouse. receiving
few days after the Battle Of the Cra-
ter his commission a. major
general datins from that famous en-
gagement, July 30. 1854.
AFTER THE WAR.
At the close Of the war he again turned
his attention 20 railroad matters. and
became president of the lines now in the
Norfolk and Western road. which he or
ganiZcd as the Atlantic, Mississippi ana
Ohio. His scheme for the consolidation
Of the roads Of that line, and for the
subordinatiOn Of the States interest to
that OF the first mortgage bDndholders
created the most terrific legislative rail-
road fight ever known in the history OF
Virginia This was in 1870 General Ma
hone was successful. however, getting
the bin through the General Assembly
rs he had written It
READJUSTERISM
Ever since the restoration Of Virginia
to the Union General Malone had been
more or less influential in Virginia poll
tics. He was Conservative. or Demo
crat. until 1879. when he formed the Re
adjus;er party. whose platform was the
rcad1ustment Of the pubic debt OF Nir-
ginia.
In 1863 he was among the
leaders Of "the new movement" which
resulted In the election Of Gilbert c. Wal
ker as Governor. and served several terms
on the State Democratic Committee. In
1871 he was a candidate for the Demo
cratic nomination for Governor His most
formidable opponent was Major John w.
Daniel. The convention was held at Rich
mond. and Malone, finding. after test
ballot, that Daniel was the stronger of
the two. threw his influence in favor OF
Colonel +. W VI. HOlliday. who was
nominated and elected. Two years later
the Rcadjuster party was formed, with
Malone as it's leader. and it carried the
state. electing a majority Of botn
branches Of the Legislature. By this Lc-
Ssaturc Malone was elected to the
United States Senate. In 1850 General
Malone. though still claiming to be
Readjuster and not Republican. refused
to cooperate with tho Democratic party
In the nomination OF an electoral ticket
and put in the field Hancock ticket Of
his own. Thus there were in that year.
three electoral tickets in Vrgnia--viz.
the Democratic ticket the Malone
Hancock ticket, and the Republican
ticket. The result Of the vote was that
Mahones ticket was vas ~ distanced by
both Of the other tickets
THE BIG FOUR.
Mahone's authority in the Legislature
was supreme until Auditor John L.
Massey showed signs OF restlveness Un-
der his leadership. Next the Big Four
reyolted. General Newberry, Of Bland
county. giving the signal for open de-
fiance Of the DEGREES OF Mahones caucus,
ana singing out This way. freemen,"
was followed into the rotunda by Sena-
tore Williams. Lybrook. and Hale.
In vain were these members pleaded with
and tempted to Tcjoin the Malone forces.
They stood steadfasl. and this caused
deadlock in all matters Of legislation
Of partisan character. None of the
four had any personal grievance against
Malone Their opposition was to his
political schemes and TO the drastic me-
thods that the Readjuster caucus had
adopted to oust every Democrat in Nir-
ginia from office, and to subsidiZe MS
partisan press by means of what was
known as the commissioner OF Sales
bill But il Is safe 10 say that the IN
nuence Of Mr.. Massey went a long way
IN influencing "the Blk -Four"
From the time Of their revolt onward
Mahouee pull on politics In Virginia
BEGAN to weaken, and AT the next Sem-
ocratic state convention Massey ana
Nowb.rry and many others who had
folloved them out of the Readiuster
ranks were prominent hgureS III our
party.
BECAME \ REPUBLICAN.
4, first General Malone refused TO
declare his position In the Senate but
finally drifted into the Republican party.
since then he had been at the head q.
MS Marty in THE State. and was chairman
80 its State Committee When he de
,iar.d in the Senate for the Republican
rarty the two parties in that BODY were
ti,d. and il was his vote that gave the
Eepubllcans the control OF ne oodE,
When his senatorial term expired
tho democrats were iY power and
,,,ior Daniel succeeded him in
no senate. In 1889 Malone was nomi-
mated for Governor against captain l. W
NtcI<innev. hut was defeated by ire
men lous majority. His last appearance
in the politics Of this state was al 'he
honest election" conference, laVlS nciI
in petersburg The elections bill adopted
b, that conference was uhutFstood -
haye be,n prepared by him. 10 the latc
Hon. John 5 Barbour was due 'ne pe-
Ginning of General Mahone's loss oi pom
,ical mower in the State. Mr. Harbour
o,ennized the forces that beat hlm AT
mo Ivnchburg convention OF lSS}' rms
vas "a wear Of great excitement IN VIZ
oiuia pontics. which excitement was IN
tensified Just before the close Of the
c,nvass by the Danvilie riot
Personal.
General Malone was az one time
very wealthy man. but OF late years.
through land and other specuiauohS' hau
become seriously involved.
Geueral Malone was a figure that once
seen was not easily forgotten. lie was
hort i'm stature. spare almost TO emacia-
,iou xyith long beard and keen. restless