The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-09-13
The Republican Side OF the Virginia
Campaign.

The Republican Side Of the Virginia
Campaign.
A good deal Of information not unmixeo
with amusement may be found in per1lsing
Richmond letter in the New YORK l."es
signed ~. w. W." the initials OF the secfe-
sary OF the Republican State Committee, gen
s,,eman more than likely TO speak by ant''ofi-
~ IN all the assertions bis letter contains, ana
certainly qualified 20 represent the hep"n-
lean op,nion about the canvass III virginia
Three s,raisht-out Republican congressman
from TN. State are claimed-two from the
First ard Second districts, and the fiith as
,r;ct furnishing c. Y. Thomas a the thira,
and the election of JAMES FooTk JOHNSON
independently in the Sixth is predicted Il"
the Seventh district. the Republicans nave oe'
cided to support O'FEsRALL, but the CORE
sponden. rather despondingly gives him only
"a respectable vote" In the Elghth ais'r'ct
there resides "Hon. JoHS ;. MosBY," WIN
whom J. W. W. had ga very pleasant inter-
view" and got little surprise thereby, for
though he had heard of MoSBY as "hvori-
tIe to the election of GRANT" yet he Was
"not prepared to find him, as he is. so earn
"estly engaged and so actively at work 10
"defeat the GREELEY move. One would
'.almost believe he was an earnest RepnDll-
"can TO talk with him casually, but" nc has
tily adds. for MosBr's sake, "on inquiry you
find him anything else This Is reai!
too thin. He says that MosRY speaks " con-
evidently of his ability TO carry his county
"Fauquicr) for GRANT and WILSON, ana
this IL lust about what MosBY knows OF
the politics of Virginia. Fauq'iicr gives
about 1000 Conservative majority, ana IS
about as likely to 60 for GRANT aS vermont
would be TO 20 for GREELEY. Its such esti-
mates as these that deceive the I" man WITH
the cigar" ut Washington about the chances
of his reelection. The correspondent adds
that {" Major RICHARD Ii. CARTER, Of Colonel
"MosBy's county, is almost persuaded TO
"oppose HUTTON, and being GRANT Demo
"crat of great popularity. would poll large
"vote, and give Huron close race.
Should he refuse, the Republicans will
nominate Il candidate. In the Ninth dis
trict the writer thinks Colonel K. W.
HUGnEs's defeat by "no means GER
tain" but he hsn't much opinion of the
popularity of w. =. CECIL, the independent
candidate. as far as dividing the Conservative
vote is concerned. In the Richmond district,
he says:
"GcncraI Wickham has consented. I'M
deTstaud. to accept the position Of presdcn-
tial elector for this district in place of Samuel
+. Maddox, who has been given position
in tl,e u,stom-bo,lse. General Wickham's
ability, coupled with his popularity, will add
much strength to the ticket. and will result
in the election of John Amber Smith, Re
publican candidate for Congress-
The Washington National Republican OF
yesterday GRANTS organ), commenting upon
this statement and the race between WISE
and SMITH. makes this significant remark:
"Sa,rm will beat him il he has Il fair count,
sand me courts and En1fcd Stdt"s mdfShdIS
"D,ust see to matt This is well understood
bv Ms nj the South, We know we'll enough
what Il =" fair count" by the "courtS and
United States marshals' means. and our
committees. being thus lorcwarncd, should
prepare for this, and see that SMITH don't
"beat him.
There is one point in which al. W. WIS >
opinions are likely to mislead his readers at
the North, and that is, that in mentioning two
impending personal difficulties between gen
tlemrp active on the Conservative ana ke-
publican sides he expresses the belief that
{. should this affair culminate as IS en-
..pectcd it will, the feeling on both
sides will grow more and more bit'
"tcr until we may expect sad ana oe-
"plorablc condition of affairs in this State.
This is grave mistake, and shows 81. w.
W. TO be behind the time. That time III
Virginia has passed when the tisticuii OF in
diyiduals over political or other quarrcls
could enlist the symrathies of party.
There is no man out of office in Virginia Qor
his Office makes him a representative whose
personal difficulties would excite more than
a passing comment; still less would they
involve any number in active sympathy for
the parties on account of political proclivi-
ties. The negroes will, after they are edu-
Gated, come to the same indifference, too, il
they are let alone by rash and unthinking
teachers.