Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-07-28
IN THE FIELD!

For the first time since the termination of
the war, the Democratic Conservative party
of Je fferson County, is thoroughly organized
and enters the field with full ticket for ma
tional, State, and County officers The en-
thusiasm which pervades the party, is the
sure harbinser of success, and at the fall cleo
lions We confidently expect to sec our county
freed from the shatkles of radicalisn, and
stand forth redeemed regencrated and olsen
thralled. The County Convention on Satur-
day last was success beyond any body that
has convened in the county for years, and
the harmony which marked its proceedings,
and the cordiality with which its nominations
were endorsed, showed pla inly with what in
tense loathing the people have come to re-
gard the trickery and corruption of the de-
tcstabe party that has ruled here with the
rod of oppression for the past three years.
The resolutions adopted BY the Convention,
and which appear in the published proceed
ings, speak for themselves. Their emphatic
arraignmcnt Of the radio al party for its law
lessness and fraud, will meet the cordial APP
proval of every right thinking man in the
county, whilst their endorsement of the ma
tional and State nominations express but the
feelings and sentiments of every member OF
the party throughout the country. The sug-
gcstions which they convey as to the proper
course to be pursued, to secure to the dis
franchiscd their rights and privileges as ctl-
zens, will be the means Of re-investing many
with the elective franchise, who have hereto
fore been defrauded by the chicanery and
mcanness of an irresponsible Board Of Regis
tration. If these suggestions are acted upon
with fidelity, the tyranny that has trodden
down and sought to crush out the liberties Of
this people, will DO overthrow, and the
names of Joe. Chapline and Anthony Turner
will be Kissed and scorncd whenever and
wherever uttered.
The ticket nominated on Saturday is cons
posed Of men whom the people may support
with pride. The candidates for the House of
Delegates are men Of integrity and intelli-
gencc, and although Union men during the
war and Union men still, have a proper
respect for those Of their fellow citizens who
sustained the South in her struggles, and are
willing to sec them restored to their rights
under the Constitution. Unlike Grasshopper
Smith and Van Amburgh Underdonk, they
were and are Union men from principle and
not from selEinterest, Neither of them have
hired their nearest of kin for service in the
armies of the Confederacy, nor have either
of them given aid to the South in the tented
field, as did Van Amburgh in the early part
Of the late war And yet, both of them
wish to see the Southern States restored to
their equality in the Union, without the aid
of negro votes, or at the risk of negro suprem-
acy. Compare the two tickets-on the one
hand, you have Harrison and Wilson, who
supported the Union throughout, and now
advocate a constitutional administration of the
government; on the other, you have Smith
and Underdonk, the first of whom hired his
son as a substitute and mustered him into the
Confederate service, and the second of whom
served himself in the Confederate army and
is a deserter rherefrom-and both of whom
arc now the toadies of radcalsm, willing and
ready to do the dirty work of that parity
Comparisons are always odious, but here they
are contomptiblc.
In the candidates for Commonwealth At
torney Of the respective parties, the contrast
is still more remarkable. The Conservatives
present Maj. f. w. Audrews-an Union
officer, gentleman, lawyer, a man Of ability
and experience. Radicalisn presents the
lightweight Stubbs-small in statue, smaller
in intellect mere pigmy in every respect