The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-09-28
PARTY ORGANIZATION.

PAhII ORGANlZAIION.
The following committee on party organ
ization was appointed !: j. F. Dezendorf,
Geo. I. Carter, John Robinson, Thomas S.
largest, w. H. H.. Stowell, ID. Ware,
Major Alexander, Chas. Williams, J. J.
Percival, and S. f. Maddox. iH'F hai.a'
Lewis Lindsey wishing to retire from the
Convention temporarily, requested Colonel
John r. Popham to act as his alternate.
Colonel Popham offered series Of reso-
lutions, inviting the Old Line Wings of the
State to unite with the Republican party,
which were referred to the committee on
resolutions. Colonel Popham's resolutions
were afterwards received and unanimously
adopted by the Convention.
The following are the resolutions intro
duced by Colonel Popham, and sustained
by him in an enthusiastic speech, brief but
impressive:
Resolved, That the battle of universal freedom
and universal suffrage having been fought and
won, and those amendments 10 the Constitution
of the United States, designed TO secure in perpe
tuity the rights Of man, accepted by large part
of the Democratic party, and they pledged to
abide forever thereby, and these issues having
been thus solemnly and finally determined, there
remains no excuse for our natural and sympa-
thetc friends, the Wings of Virginia, to continue
| in any degree their cooperation with the Demo
cratic party.
Resolved, That the Wings of Virginia, in stand
ing by the faith of their fathers, and agreeing
with us in all that relates to our governmental
| organization-the protection of American indus
try and manufactures, the system of national
backing, the right of Congress to appropriate
money for the improvement of our rivers and
harbors and the constru tion of our great water
line and commercial hghway--ore Republicans
IN all sane the name, and this Convention i'm
pressed with these truths, and anxious that the
Republican party of Virginia should avail itself
\ of the caDlCity. character. and love nj T.
of this large element, is grutiiied in extending to
them an earnest invitation to join once more in
patriotic battle against their old foe--the Demo-
cratic party. lA ltl4 stfffE
| Resoioed, That whether these gallant allies
shall at once become the foremost of Republicans,
stapding within the strlctest circle of our party
organization, or but yield to MS their cordial CO.
| operation against the common enemy, we pledge
them, in either case, the warm welcome of Re
publican President the sincerest gratitude and
| fellowship of the Republican party, and full
participation in all the benefits 10 be derived
| from common victory over their old enemy, the
Democratic party s
Mr.. l.. G.. Bowden, of Richmond, offered
series of resolutions, warmly endorsing
the administration Of President Grant, and
arraigning the Conservative party in the
State for having violated its pledges made
the administration, Congress, and the peo-
pile of Virginia. These resolutions were
properly referred. H
Mr.. Crane, of Augusta, offered reso.
luton nstructing the State Central Com.
mittee to confer with the directors of the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad company as
to the best means Of securing to the party
the votes of a large number of laborers now
employed at work on the Chesapeake and
Ohio road, in West Virginia. Mr.. Crane
estimated the number of persons so en-
gagged at between three and five thousand
and stated that the whole of them wert
Republicans.
/ At the request of the Convention, Col
! N. G. Ordway, mo kin to Albert of Demo
cratic fame and Congressional aspirations
Sergeant at Arms Of Congress, delivered al
able, earnest and eloquent address. A
the close of his remarks, which were re