The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-09-26

The letter of Ex-Governor Curtin to Colo
mel Mcclure accepting the Liberal nomina-
ton for Delegate.at-Lar to the Convention,
and defining his position rs regards the
guhernatoral contest in Pennsylvania, Is
published. After explaining sickness as the
cause of his not writing before. Governor
Curtin says
"Thc nomination made by so many OF the
pl,rrst and best of the old representative Re-
pullcanS of the State, and presented to the
people upon grounds which stand ont i'll
brave contrast with the dcmOralized political
management now so sadly prevalent, is an
appeu which cannot refuse to respect. |,
therefore, accept the nomination, and If 1t
shIll be ratified by the people and health
permits will discharge its duties with fidelity.
81 had confidently expected Immediately
upon my return to famlializc myself fully
with the details of what I we'll understood
in all general aspects touching the misrule
of our Commonwealth under the present
political control, and TO speak my convic-
tious at the earliest possible moment. While
] cannot ever be indifferent in presidential
contest, tclt that the regeneration of my
natiye State in the October election was OF
paramount interest to the people in whose
happiness and greatness i am enlisted by
every consideration of gratitude and patriot
ism. The bad rule that has wholly COM
passed the channels of political administers
five authority in Pennsylvania is not OF
recent creation. IL was the tlrceSS but
impotcnt power that confronted the action
of the guvernmcnt--State and NATIONAL
during the dark days OF civil war,
and steadily struggled to gather advance
ment and gain from the bitter sorrows of the
people Six years ago it attained control in
our State. How it was achieved is remem-
bered in humiliation by all. Why it was
| sought and won Our subsequent history
fully demonstrates The Republican organi-
cation that has made its name ilustriOus i'll
| maintaining the unity the States and redeem
| in- Il continent to freedom was seized in
contempt of the will of the people and its
victories perverted to licensed wrong. ]
need not recite how under our honored name
and flag it has created widespread, indeed
almost universal, distrust of authority and
made honest men despair Of integrity in
legislation, i'll elections, in comforting legisla-
tive honorS. and even in the administration
of public justice.
"Thc>e terrible and steadily growing evils
in our political rule have made the people
demand the right to resume their sovereign
~ to make new safeguards for themselves
but il the proposed Convention is to effect
thorough reform it must he aided, not him
dered, by the vast power of the executive
and other important State officials. If Mr..
Buckalew shall be defeated, and n new
lease of authority thus conferred upon
the dcSpoiic control that has long mis-
ruled the Commonwealth, il will bc mar
rellous indeed il Convention chosen
in the partisan strife of Il national con-
test can afford any substantial relief
or@protection to the people. II Pennsyl-
vania is to he restored to purity the Govern
ment in all its departments as well rs the
Convention must harmonic fully and earll-
estly in the work Of regeneration. Mr..
Buckalew's confessed integrity and consist
ent devotion to reform during many years of
official service give the best possible gualan.
tees Of honest administration and Of conf
plete restraints upon corrupt or reckless all-
thorty, and his election seems to be de-
manded by every consideration Of individual
manhood, and of fidelity to the honor and
advancement of the Statc.~
eli, as is claimed by the desperate. leaders
OF Pennsylvania, to regeDerate our State in
October will affect the national contest, the
cause thus to be endangered must be want
ing i'm most essential attributes of popular
confidence. Act,mted solely by sense of
duty to Il people whose action in times past
furnishes the most grateful memories OF my
life, / shall vote in October for honest gov
ernlnent in our Commonwealth and meet the
Presidential issue when it comes before the
people in accordance with my long-settled
convictions. cannot consent TO sacrifice Il
great contest for constitutional, legislative,
and administrative reform because Presi-
dental election is pending. To yield the
question would give fresh victories for mis-
rule and make the effort for just fundamental
restraints either measurably or wholly abor-
tive .,re,
Very respectfully your obedient servant,
GA. G. CURTIN.
"Hon. 4. K. He Cure, Chairman of the
Liberal Republican State Convention of
Pennsy lyaniH." sl.gsg -
Governor Randolph, OF New Jersey, who
is now in Indiana, telegraphs to the New
York World from the very capital of the in
tuence of Morton and Colfax these inspirit-
ing words:
INDIANAPOLIS, September 23.-Nothing
comparable to the ovation which Mr.. Gree
ley is now receiving here has been seen in
the great West since the Harrison whirlwind
of 1910. Men who syere.boys then are now
Us enthusiastic as boys once were. The pre-
sidential family md the presidential man.
ayers airs. b tier Known in the West than in
H. NJ T.. -.