The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-09-29

an overwhelming argument IN favor of the
support by the people of Colonel Hughes
for governor Yes, Colonel Hughes has
shown himself the friend of the people,
and the people are now going to show their
appreciation Of him.
Not only has Colonel Hughes shown
himself worthy champion of the people
in securing to them relief from their pri-
vate indebtedness, but his course in rela-
ton to the public debt especially entities
him to the support of the Virginia people.
From the first he has boldly taken and
advocated the position that legal settle
ment with West Virginia should precede
the assumption of any part of the public
debt by the present Virginia; that old Vir.
ginia contracted the debt; that that Vir-
GINA has been divided and is no longer the
Virginia she was when the debt was con-
tracted, and that settlement must be had
before the people of Virginia can tell how
much they do owe, if anything at all.
Yet witness the course of our Conserva-
tive statesmen, then supported by General
kemper, and they now supporting him.
In hot haste they provided that that enor-
nous debt should be funded, thou5S no
settlement had been made with West Vir-
ginia, and that Virginia was not only able
to pay interest on that portion of the debt
assumed but interest upon that interest.
Can the people longer stand such mis-
government? Yet in all the mighty trou-
bles by which our people have been beset,
who has ever yet heard General Kemper
open his mouth upon the subject of relief,
nleSS TO opposeH?
Again Has General Kemper ever been
heard to advocate that great peoples ipSti-
tuition, the FREE SCHOOL SYSTEM, for
which Colonel Hughes has so earnestly
and ably labored? If so, ohen, aohere, and
hoW ?
Our Conservative friends claim great
credit for their management of the free
school system of the state. How has that
system been managed? Have the people been
allowed voice i'll that management? On
the contrary, is it not notorious that this
benclicent institution, first introduced into
Virginia under Republican auspices, has
almost universally throughout the COM
monwealth been well nigh strangled to
death by clique management. On every
hand there is one universal complaint,
that the many are deprived of
the advantages of the schools for the benefit
Of the .feW, and often times are men told,
who are too poor to educate their own
children, and for whose especial benefit the
schools should be provided, that before
they can send their children to the free %
school, they must walk up to the captains
office and pay so much a month. All of
which is the legitimate result of conliding
the management of the schools to a few
who owe their appointments to some
higher clique who grind their own axes at
the expense of the system, because they
are in no wise responsible TO the people !;
and this is Conservative management of
our free schools!
Elect Colonel Hughes, and Virginia will
have state board of education that will
right all these wrongs, and without addi-
tional expense to the people will put the
schools and their benefit within the reach
Of oil, the poor aud the rich alike.
A native of Virginia, sprung from the
people, seli-made man of splendid ability,
Colonel Hughes is eminently the friend of
the people. After his election in Novem-
Der the people will find that they have put
one OF their own number into the ehecu-
tive chair man who will devote his
time while in Richmond to attending to
the peoples business, and not to showing
oil pompou3 or courtly manners or to tel
ling the fine people who visit Richmond
and call at the governors house how many
generations back he can count his anceS-
tors. But the people will find in the execu-
tive mansion man who is OpprOdchdblc
by The people, and who will ever be found
willing and happy to receive and serve
them.
But the Conservatives Qhe kid-eloved
gentry), finding themselves without 0rGu-
ment, seek to draw away the minds of the
people from their shortcomings and gross
mismanagement of the affairs of the state
by resort to UHuDeratiOn and abuse thus
hoping by their infamous ISLANDERS to excite
the passions and prejudices of the people,
and again to ride into power. They seek
to make the people believe that they are
engaged in a contest of "Me aDhite race as.
the black race" 1t is undoubtedly true,
that if there is no war of races in the state it
Is not the fault of the Conservative politi.
clans. Most zealously have they labored
to array the white man against the black
man; but the colored people of the state,
to their eternal credit be it said, have de-
clined to enter into such contest. The
Conservative politicians charge, that in the
event of Colonel Hughes election there
will be mixed schools, mixed hotels,
mixed churches-in short, everything, say
they, will be mixed; but they utterly fail
to tell the people hoao all this mixture is to
be brought about. Has Colonel Hughes
ever declared for mixed schools, or mixed
hotels, &c. and if he were in favor thereof,
are the Conservatives able to tell how the
governor of the state can cause this mix
ture? Can the governor change the laws
| on the statute book
No, this Infamous cry of the white man
againt the black man well becomes the
race of statesmen who have been maSmanl-
aging the affairs of the state for the last
four years. They well know that the
colOred people themselves are not in favor
of a '6lack mans government" Witness
their course in the Lynchburg convention.
Though able to have controlled the CONVEX
ton to have nominated aohom they chose,
and to have declared for achat they chose,
we find them positively declining to put
one of their own color on the state ticket,
but nominating one of the best tickets
composed exclusively of whitc men of
high standing and abiities) that it has ever
been the good fortune of the people of
Virginia to have the opportunity of sup
porting; ticket that commands the respect
of the people, and one that will
receive handsome majority of their