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ADDRESS
Democratic Conservative Executive
Committee,
For JsferSoa, 10 the loteFS Of Tie Party.

The Executive Committee of your party in
this county, appointed by your delegates in
Convention assembled, aud charged with
the duty Of perlecting the organization, in
creasing the numbers, calling out the vote,
promoting the harmony Of the party, and by
every legitimate means concentrating and unit
izing its action, take great pleasure in inform
ing you that We have been authorized by each
Of the respective candidates for this county,
lately nominated by you for the several offices
70 be filed by election on the 2Gth inst, to
state that each Of them is in favor Of a reduce
ton Of the present tariff Of charges on our rai-
roads, so far as can be done without violating
vested rights, are in favor Of maintaining the
legal rate Of Interest at SIX per cent, as 4
Es0Ttssuss,
Your candidates Scr the Convention are in
accord with yourselves rs 10 the system Of
voting 20 be established in the Constitution.
Ii will be gratifying 20 you to know aud feel
that on these questions, in regard 20 which a
deep interest is felt Throughout the county,
your candidates are ready to act as unit in
carrying out policy which accords with your
wishes, aud is dicated by your interest,
Having thus relieved any apprehcnSions
which YOU NAV have entertained upon these I'M
portaut questions, we deem it cur duty to eX-
hort YOU to rally with au undivided front to
the support Of the candidates lately nominat-
ell by you in Convention assembled. We say
nominated 10y you because such Of YOU Is
participated in the primary meetings were
pledged in Convention by and through your
delegates, to support the nominees aud such
Of you as did not so participate, by abSentng
yourselves, tacitly authorized those who did
attend to at for goa, aud you are as mach
bound by such action as if YOU had been per-
sonally present. To allow all who vOluutari-
Is absent themselves from primary meetings
aud conventions 10 discard aud renounce their
action, would be to allow men to take advan-
tagc Of their own negligence, indifference to,
aud dereliciiuu o. duty. To claim aud exer-
else such a liberty would effectually put an
end 20 all party organization, render all unity
and harmony Of action impossible, and enable
the Radical Faction 10 trample us under foot
In the future as they have done in the past
Our enemies teach us a different lesson. They
teach us the value Of uui6catiun as a party
Though Gcspicabc minority, they ruled this
State with Tod Of iron for eight years. II
was only when by discord they divided their
strength, that the Democratic Conservative
party gained that control TO which their num-
bers lcsitimatey entitled them. Beyond our
limits CUR enemies teach us the same lesson of
strength az unity Of action Butler, defeated
in Massachusetts,, gives in Bis adherence TO the
nominees Greelv, under similar circumstances,
does the same in New York. Let us profit by
the lessons Of our enemies. Let rs profit By
Al 0 D. l. r. 4 =, ~.
of Virginia. At her last election, in several Of
her cities ten rotes would cover the distance be-
tween the highest candidate Of our party aud
tie l-weSt. BY diut of this compact, organi-
zatiOn alone, she has emancipaied herself, and
stands to-day redeemed from Radical dOmina-
ton Let Us initiate her example. The eyes
of the entire State Of West Virginia are turned
upon ne, rs the banner county. Let us not
dlSappvint our friends Let us remember
what an enemy we have to contend against
The same that disfrachiSed SO many of US
The same that prescribed teachers, lawyers
suitorS aud even ministers of Christ The
same that introduced Federal soldiers to over
awe and iHtmjdate us, aud would do SO nOlc
10 they possessed the power. Tie same that
has increased the public State debt Of the South
more than tr0 hundred millions since the war,
without any cumpensa,ing benefit TO the pee
pie. The same enemy under whose auspices
one Thousand men, women and children are
being dragged from their homes in North Caro-
lima TO answer before partisan judges, and
packei juricS, for crimes hitherto unknown To-
American jurisprudence.
With such an enemy before Us, acting under
masterpieces, leaders, with compact and
solid organization, surely we eau not afford to
disSipate our strength in vain contentious and
frivolous disSeuSious among ourselves. Let Us
rather resolve to vote as one man, and thus at
the outset Of our career, preserve our discip-
line and perfect our organization for the great
contest OF 1872, now booming up before US il
the no longer distant future
With these views, aud for the purposes here
announced, we have invited the following
speakers t. address you at the times and
places indicated:
iSgtU-dqy, O-toJer 2lSt. 3. p. NJ, at Smith
field, Nessrs. q. NJ. Be,tzhuover, st. George Z.
Brooke aud Cleon Moore
Saturday. OctoJer DIST 8, P. NJ, at Kable-
town, lleSsrS. Jas NJ Mason aud Jno. \.
Thomson.
Monday, OctoJer 23f, :, P NJ, at Dufields,
Mcssrs. Es W Wilson and VIM L. Wilson.
Dy order the Executive Committee
JAS. LAW. HOOFF, Chm'n
DANL H. Lucas Spc'V