Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1871-10-21
ADDRESS
OF THE
Democratic Conservative Executive
Committee,
FOR
JEFFERSON.
ADDRESS
To the Voters Of the Party.
JEFFERSON.

utItgdltS Ill NOllN CUllOl d>StLlDIttl, anu
charged with the duty Of pertecting the
organization, increasing the numbers,
calling out the vote, promoting the har-
mOny Of the party, and by every legiti-
mate means concentrating and unitizing
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 to be tilledDy election
on the 2Gth inst, to state that each Of
them is in favor Of a reduction Of the
present tariff Of charges onour railroads,
so far as can be done without violating
vest rights, and in favor OF maintaining
the legal rate Of interest at six per cent,
as mdrjHtUn.
Your candidates for the Convention
are in accord with yourselves as to the
system of voting to be established in the
Constitution.
1t will be gratifying to You to know
and feel that on these questions, i'll re-
gard to which deep interest is felt
throughout the county, your candidates
are ready to act as unit i'll carrying
out a policy which accordS with your
wishes. and is dictated by your interest.
Having thus relieved any apprehen-
sions which YOU may have entertained
upon these important questions, we
deem it our duty to eXhort YOU to rally
with an undivided front to the support
Of the candidates lately nominated by
YOU in Convention assembled. We say
nominated by YOU, because such of You
as participated in the primary meetings
were pledged in Convention by and
through your delegates, to support the
nominees and such Of you as did not
so participate, by absenting yourselves,
tacitly authorized those who did attend
to act for you and you are as much
bound 10y such action as if YOU had
been personally present. TO allow all
who voluntarily absent themselves from
primary meetings and conventions to
discard and renounce thciractlon, would
be to allow men to take advantage Of
their own negligence, Indifference TO,
and dereliction Of duty TO claim and
exercise such a liberty would cilcctua!ly
put an end to all party organization,
render all unity and harmony Of action
impossible, and enable the Radical Fac
ton to trample us under foot i'll the fu-
ture as they have done in the past. Our
enemies teach us q different lesson.
They teach us the value of uniication
as a party Though a dcspiSablc minor
ity, they ruled this State with a rod Of
iron for eight years. 1t was only when
by discord they divided their strength,
that the Democratic Conservative party
gained that control to which their mum
bers legitimatcly entitled them. Be
yOnd our limits our enemies teach us
| the same lesson OF sirPngh in Unjiy Of
action. Butler, defeated in MaSSachu-
sets, gives in his adherence to the nom
inees. Greedy, under similar circrm-
stances, does the same in New York.
Let us profit 10y the lessons Of our enc
mics. Let us profit by the noble exam
pie Of our friends in the State OF Viz
ginia AT her last election, in scvcralo
her cities ten votes would cover the dis
lance between the highcS, candidate of
our party and the lowest. By dint of
this compact, organization alone, she
! has emancipatcd herself, and stands to-
day redeemed from Radical domination.
Let us initiate her example. The eyes
| of the entire State Of West Virginia are
turned upon us, as the banner county.
Let us not diSappoint our friends. Let
us remember what an enemy we have
to contend against. The same that dis
tranchiscd so many Of us. The same
that prescribed teachers, lawyers, suit
orS, and even ministers of Christ The
same that introduced Federal soldiers
to overawe and intmidate uS,and would
do so now if they possessed the power.
The same that has increased the public
State debt of the South more than t,Oo
/ hUndred millions since the war, without
any compensating benefit to the people.
The same enemy under whose auspices
one thousand men, women and children
are being dragged from their homes in
North Carolina to answer before parti-
san judges, and packed juries, for
crimes hitherto unknown 10 American
! jurisprudence.
With such an enemy before us, acting
under INSCRIPTIONS leaders, with com
pact and solid organization, surely we
can not afford to diSSipate our strength
in vain contentious and frivolous dis
Scnsions among ourselves. Let us rath-
! er resolve TO vote as one man. and thus
at the outset OF our career, preserve our
/ discipline and perfect our organization
/ for the great contest of 1872, now loom
ing up before us in the no longer distant
/ future.
With these views, and for the pur-
( poses here announced, we have invited
the following speakers to address You
at the times and places indicated
Fridoy, Oriober 20'h, o'clock, p.
NJ, at CharleStown, MeSsrs. Faulkner,
Green aud Boteler.
Friday, October 2OM, I, p. NJ, at
Harper's Ferry, Faulkner, Travers and
Gross.
Sa,urday, October 2lH, 3. p NJ, at
ShepherdStown, Messrs. Isbell, Trayers
and L. W. Wilson.
Saturday, Ocioher 21,i, 3, =. N, at
Smithfeld, Messrs Geo. NJ. Beltzhoover,
St. George T. Brooke and Cleon Moore
Saturday, October 2ls',3 3, p. NJ, at
Kabletown, MessrS Jas. NJ. Mason and
John \ Thomson.