Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1869-04-02
THE NEW TTnKET

NOhtShShaS ufN OGlAAlOllS Oh sHe E-feAS
The Petersburg Md,r publishes the ad.
dress OF the Committee Of the anti ellis
radicals, aud only asks:
Where is the Virgnian who, having read
it, will still ciamor for the horrors, discDrds
and disasters inherept in the Underwood
constitution which find so strenuous an ad-
vocate in Wells and his followersl
The NEw TICKET. We hear that the en-.
tire Republican organization in an impor-
tant county OF the State have sent in their
adhesion to the Walker, Taylor aud Lewis
ticket Wig.
Tue Norfolk Journal, without direct ref
erence to the NLw MOVEMENT, indicates
very plainly its approval Of the address in
an editorial from which we make this ex-
tract:
Yet we have the greatest faith in the
masses Of our people. We DO not believe
that anything like a majority can be mus
tered that will prolOug strife and poverty /;
for such is the only result that can follow
from the maintenance Of our present pOlit.
ical condition.. II ever our people become
prosperous again, and If ever we get back
into the Union, il must be by the success of
the really conservative party, and unless
the signs of the times greatly deceive us,
this is about to he accomplished.
There is in the Journal Of Thursday
more distict endorsement Of the move
ment.
The Tirginidn vigorously opposes it.
The Day Book argues in a long editorial
in favor OF the Withdrawal OF Col. Wthers as
candidate of the conservative party, conclu-
ding as follows:
1t never was intended that Colonel with
ers should be Governor Of Virginia. The
eau paigu which he made, and for which
much honor is accorded 70 him, was for de-
feat. But now bis superSedure results from
the nature of things his discard was nevi.
table. We are entering upon a campaign in
which the object is the success of the nomi-
nees, and our former candidates ere ont Of
the question. By this changed attitude Of
affairs Col. Withers is disqualified; I; even it
he were not unacceptable 10y bis OPP lsi;ion
TO the railroad system Of the State, 50 all
important TO the people Of Eastern Virginia,
who would not vote for him for Governor.
Happily for us, the candidates now n1mina-
ted by the anti Radicals are unexceptiona
BILE in this respect
In this article We indicate the course
which we have deemed it our duty to pur-
sue in the present crisis, and We trust We
shall be prepared to vindicate and justify
that course in the minds OF ell candid inqui-
rers and seekers after the greatest good Of
the Commonwealth.
The Redmond Wig openly supports the
Walker ticket. Replying in another edi-
torial, TO an eaqpiry ofthe Eram!ner as to
the difference between the Wells eld Walk
er nominations, the Wig says:
As to principles, we know pothing of them
we thought they we're all extinct. Meas
ares and nleR-praciical eXpedlents for the
evils of the day-are all that we are privi.
legged to consider now. We must pick our
way the best We can with the means in
our power. 4 proyerb, which is well Ge-
! fned to be the wisdom OF nations, indicates
the line of common sense and duty; cut
your coat according to the cloth. We are
! threatened with carpet-bag dom nation
another name for ruin and desoation, We
| have no time for political sentiment or philO-
sophie speculaliOns on the best frame Of
| Government; we know that we have no
self Government, nor Constitution and laws
Of our choosing we know we are threatened
| with great evil-sreater by far than any
we have yet known-for we have not yet
come under the full sway OF csrpet-bag
rule and we know that II will require all
our energies, all the common sense, pru-
dence, self-dcnial and discretion We can
command TO save ourselves from the i'm
pending ruin. We do not know the prin-
cples or abstract political views of the gem
tlemen nominated ON the new ticket; and
very possibly we did, we should not agree
with any one OF them. But we know they
are with us on the great, pressing, absorb
ing and vital question Of the hour; the de-
liyerance Of our people from the threatened
depredations Of adventurers, and the pres
] a Il 40 Of all tla urnAt
| interests of the Commonwealth.