Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-09-13
FOR CONGRESS-7TH DISTRICT:
HOW. JOHN #. H.ARRTS.

If there is any thing more damaging than
another to the success of any party it is In
dependent Candidates. No party can sue
coed, nor can its principles be upheld, if
members of that party allow themselves to
be led off, by personal feeling, prejudice,
or other cause, to the support Of men, who
claim to be of the same party. yet are not
willing that the expressed will of the party,
: in party representative assemblages, shall
control their action, and run as Independent
candidates for Office, in opposition to the reg.
ular nominees.
This is especially the case at present, and,
with the great result at stake, the evil should
be particularly guarded against.
The largest Conservative Township and
Ward meetings ever held in this District,
met and selected delegates to Congressional
Convention. When that body assembled,
there was found to be greater unanimity in
the sentiment of the District than was ever
before known. So much so, that, on the
first ballot, Hon. John T. Harris, the pres
ent incumbent, was nominated, and by
vote of over two to one This should salts
fly all as to the sentiment Of the party in this
District, and should be acquiesced in by all,
as by two of the opposing Candidates,
Messrs. Duke and Roller, who, not only,
like men, subscribed to the action of tie
Convention, but emphatically expressed
their determination to bend their energies
and exert their efforts to secure the election
of the nominee.
The Congressional contest is not, howev-
er, the issue at stake. It embraces a far
more important result whether another
four years of misrule and persecution, under
Grant, shall be enrolled in the annals of our
country, or that retrenchment, reform and
relief shall be secured to all by the election
Of Greeley.
Now if Conservati fail to act with their
party on the Congressional Candidate, is it
to be expected that they can be concentra-
ted on the Presidential nominee? The very
: fact of some supporting an Independent will
set the precedent for like course in the
Presidential contest, which will find its vent
in failure to support Greeley, if it does
not give direct votes to Grant-equally pre-
judicial to success It will but SOW the
seeds Of disintegration, which, if anything
does, will prevent the election of Greeley,
the peoples choice
Then, Conservatives, We entreat you
calmly and considerably, to give no coun-
sci, encouragement or support to Indepen-
dent Candidates, and especially at this time.
The issuesare too momentous to the Southern
people, and the necessity too great that Con-
servatives should present an undivided
point. Be warned in time, and as you de.
sire the relief, reform and peace to be &C.
cured by the election of Greeley and Brown,
stick to the nominees Of your party. In no
other way can they be secured
The elections in Vermont and Maine have
gone, as was expected by the majority of
the people in the country, in favor of the
Grant party. Vermont gives a diminished
Radical majority, as compared with the
Grant majority of 1868. The vote then
was $4,000 and the majority for Grant
$4,000. The vote in the election just held
was the largest ever given, being 10000,
while the Grant party only claim 10000
majority. From this it would seem shat,
granting they received the whole of the ad-
ditional 1900 votes cast, they have then
lost 10000 votes, for their majority has
fallen off 5000, and there is nothing to
crow over, but a loss to lament If the
Liberals and Democrats received the 4 900
votes, then there are 1900 votes lost to
the Grant party, and if the 1000 votes
were divided, the showing for the GRANTEES
is worse.
The whole vote in Maine in 1868 was
1888, with a majority for Grant of
26,9S5. The whole vote in Maine in the
election this week, will reach 1875, 1000. The
Grant party, according to the returns re.
ceived. have slightly diminished vote,
while the Liberal and Democratic Candi-
date receives an increased vote of about
$4,000, decreasing The Grant majority of
1868 by that amount.
These elections, therefore, exhibit con-
siderable detection IN the Grant ranks and
is source of great encouragement 10 the
Liberals
Calculations as to the result of Presiden-
tial elections are always unreliable, but in
the present campaign both parties gave Yer
mont and Maine to Grant, while both par.
ties concede that Pennsy lvania and Indiana
will. decide the contest, and this may now be
taken as reasonably correct. All the pow
er Of the Administration is being brought to
bear in these States and the contest is ami
mated. The Democrats and Liberals are
confident of carrying them by large MAORI
ties: Time only will tell That Pennsyl-
vania and Indiana will be carried by the
Liberals and Democrats we can scarcely
doubt, and we now feel more confident Of
the election of Greeley and Brown than we
did before the Maine and Vermont elections
In the mean time let us work to roll up
the largest majority for Greeley and Brown,
given in Virginia since the war.