The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1869-03-25
The New Ticket.
COMMENTS AND OPINIONS OF THE PRESS

COMMENTS AND OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
The Petersburg l,aer publishes the ad-
dress Of the Committee Of the anti Wells
Radicals, and only asks:
Where is the Virginian who, having read
it, Will still camor for the horrors, discords
and disasters inherent in the Underwood con-
stltution which finds so strenuous an advocate
in Wells and his followers. - a s,
The New TIcKET.-We hear that the en-
tire Republican organization in an importan
county Of the State have sent in their adhe-
sion to the Walker, Taylor and Lewis ticket.
| = Wing.
The Norfolk Journal, without direct refer
ence to the New Movement, indicates very
plainly its approval of the address in an ed-
torial from which we make this extract:
Yet we have the greatest faith in the masses
Of our people. We do not believe that any
thing like majority can be mustered that
will prolong strife and poverty; for such is
the only result that can follow from the main
tenance of our present political condition. If
ever our people become prosperous again, and
if we get back into the Union, it must be by
the success Of the really conservative party,
and unless the signs of the times greatly de-
ceive us, this is about to be accomplished.
There is in the Journal of Thursday. a
more distinct endorsement of the movement.
The Vi,yinia,s. vigorously opposes it, 'i
The Day Book argues in a long editorial
in favor Of the withdrawal of Col. Withers as
candidate of the Conservative party, conclu-
ding as follows: -
It never was intended chat Col. Withers
should be Governor Of Virginia. The cam
paign which he made, and for which much
honor is accorded to him, was for defeat. But
new his supersedure results from the nature
Of things-his discard was inevitable. We
are entering upon campaign in which the
object is the success Of the nominees, and our
former candidates are out of the question. By
| this changed attitude of affairs Col. Wlthers
is disqualified even if he were not unaccep-:
table by his opposition to the railroad system
Of the State, so all important to the people
of Eastern Virginia, who would not vote for
him for Governor: Happily for us, the can
didate now nominated by the anti-Radicals
are unexceptional in this respect. @
In this article we indicate The course ~hich
we have deemed it our duty to pursue in the
present crisis, and We trust we shall be pre-
pared to yindicate and justify that course in
the minds of all candid inquirers and seekers
after the greatest good Of the Commonwealth
The Richmond Wing openly supports the
Walker ticket. Replying in another editori-
al, to an iaquiry Of the Examiner as to The
difference between the Wells and Walker
nominations, the Whiy says:
| AS to principles, we know nothing of them
we thought they were all extinct. Meas
ares and naen-practical expedicnts for the
evils Of the day-are all that we are privil-
eyed to consider now. We must pick cur
way the best we can with the means in our
power. A provsrb, which is we'll defined to
be the wisdom Of nations, indicates the line
common sense and duty cut your coat accord
ing to your cloth. We are threatened with
carpet-bag omination-another name for ruin
and desolatlon. We have no time for politi-
cal sentiment or philosophic speculations on
the best frame of Government we know we
have no self Government, nor Constitution
and laws OF our own choosing; We know we
are threatened with great evil--greater by
far than any we have yet known--for we have
not yet come under the full sway of carpet
bag rule; and We know it will require all our
energies, all the common sense, prudence, self
denial and discretion We can command to
save ourselves from the impending ruin. We
Go not know the principles or abstract politi-
cal views Of the gentlemen nominated on the
new ticket; and very possibly if we did, we
should not agree with any one of them But
we know they are with us on the great press
ing, absorbing and vital question of the hour;
the delverencc Of our people from the threat
ened depreciation of Adventures, and the
preservation and advancement Of all the great
interests of the Commonwealth -