The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1870-11-03
NO BoLTING


NO BOLTING! e
From all we can learn the recent Con.
yention which assembled in the town Of Har-
risonburg, on the 18th ultimo, for The pur-
pose of nominating standard bearer in the
approaching contest for Congressional honors,
was legitimate and regularly organized
body of untrammeled freemeu, fairly appoint
ed by the people to represent them in that
Convention. With one or two exceptions,
all of the counties in the District were rep
resented by delegates properly elected by
public meetings, held in the various Town
ships Of the different counties composing the
Sixth Congressional District and they went
into that Convention with the avowed de-
termination to select the most available stand
ard.bearcr OF the several candidates present
ed and put in nomination their friends,
in that regularly constituted body. Now,
did they not resolve that-whocver he might
'bc-the candidate who received the requisite
number of votes Of the body should be the
nominee of the Convention And did net
they resolve and swear to abide by and sup
port the nominee, be he their OWE or some
body else's favorite? They all knew that
each one could not obtain or secure the COW
tied nomination for his particular frie4d !;
and in bringing the names of the respective
candidates forward and putting them in NOM
ination, they pledged themselves and their
favorteS to abide by the decision of the Con-
vention-nominatcd or not nominated.
1t was an old aphorism in ante bellua,
days, with the unterrifed Democracy, that
ito nominate was to elect" We hope the
same wise action will govern the great Con-
servatiye party Of the present day. Let no
/ pickering or disafected spirits create dissen-
ton in its ranks All its members are band
ed together for one gooa and noble cause, the
overthrow of Radicalisn., vllany and cor
ruption in high places. Let not, then, the
few, the very few malcontents swerve the in-
dependent voters from casting their suffrage
for the nominee of the Convention All ad-
mire the calm dignity and grace with which
the majority of the defeated candidates bow
cd to the decision and fat of the Convention.
1t would have been uncourteous and unbecom-
ling in them to have done otherwise. We
E have no confidence in, nor can we trust the
conservative who would "bolt" from the NOM
:. inee. And it would be and is objectionable
in the defeated conservative candidates to run
counter or do otherwise than uphold the NOM
inec Of the Convention. To act differently
c7inces selfish and unmanly principle, and
we hope to see this bad spirit summarily re-
buked at the polls on the day of election
TO do otherwise would be setting and holding
:. out mischevious precedent.
On Tuesday next we hope the voters will
remember principles and not men. Judge
Harris was not the first choice Of this journal,
but as he has received the Conservative pom-
nation We mean to give HIM our unqualified
support. He may be unpopular in some
quarters, and his past course not in accord
ance with our views, but we have nothing to
do with the dead past; ours is the living
present and to treat of the future now so au-
spiciously bright for the invincible Conserva-
tives. John I. Harris may have enemies !;
We doubt not he has; who is without them !?
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that account, OR ignore his platform of pripci
pies. Every man has enemies, backbiters
and SANDERS, let him he ever SO good or pop
ular. No man has ever entered the portals
of Heaven without them and it is very Ger
tain that John 7: Harris, or any other man.
will not make his entree into the halls of
Congress without them, bless their-cofins !
We do not hope Judge Harris will be elected !;
we do not feel he will be elected but we
hno,o he will be elected as sure as the sun
rises next Tuesday morning.
And now: having said this much, we end
as we communicable boiling
# there be any Conservative in this Con-
gressional District who comtenlplates boiling
his party nomination, we especially commend
to him the following article taken from the
Lynchburg Neaos: We hope every Conserva-
tive in this district will follow 'his line of
duty and vote for Judge Harris
la such contest no conservative need feel
at a moments loss as to the line Of his duty.
Disregard all personal considerations, all likes
Or dlslikes, all prejudiccs and partialities, he
should vote against his bosom friend or BROTH
CIR who runs as an Independent" candidate
against the Conservative nominee, even if
such nominee is personal enemy. Public
interest should outweigh all considerations of
private Partially.
Ganr0a Chuhnon 1ato Maror IF Richmond