The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1873-10-09
THE VALLEY VIRGINfa N.
STAU TON, VA.
Thursday Oct, ., 1878.
PARTIzAN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

| PARTIZAN MISREPRESENTATION.
The evident fairness Of the report Of til.
Richmond Dispatch Of the Republican meet
ing in that city, on Tuesday night last, i.
commendable. It contrasts favorably witt
the partizan spleen and misrepresentation
contained in the accounts of the same meet
ing in the Enquirer and Wing. The DIS
patch says: cit was the largest meeting o.
that party (the Republican, that has been hello
for years. "-"The hall was pretty we'll filed
about half Of the audience being aoAite"-
The Enquirer reports that "a large crowd
composed of nine-tenths black, or one-tentE
whites, was attracted to Assembly Hail." t
hear Mr.. Hughes speech. The Wig has il
hat Assembly Hall was filed, but chiefly
with negroes, number of whites nearly all
Conservatives, drawn there BIZ CURIOSITY, be.
ing gathered here and there in squads"
The Dispatch says that Col. Hughes spoke
at great length in quiet and dispassionate
manner" The other two papers represent it
as stammering. stale and weak effort.
The wide discrepancy in these reports shows
that there is misrepresentation by eth
er the Dispatch or the Enquirer and Whiq.
The Dispatch is strong Conservative paper
and an earnest and able supporter of Gen.
kemper. 1t could, therefore, have had NO
object in giving view of the speech and
occasion more favorable to the Republicans
| than the truth demanded
We submit that it reflects more credit nm
on the conductors Of the press, to give a
faithful and truthful representation of party
demonstrations than to attempt to create
false Impression. 1t argues great weak
ness IN cause when it has to be bolstered
up by such devices. If the Conservative
press Unconscious of the justice of its policy,
and confident Of the success Of its ticket.
why seek to mislead the public by unfair,
IT not untrue statements in regard to the
Republicans /? This whole canvass has been
conducted, on the part of the Conservative
press, IN spirit of buster, abuse and vil:-
tication, which rejects seriously upon the par
ty they represent, and is daily making friends
for the Republicans. The Republican press
and speakers have confined themselves to le-
gltlmate argument, the presentation of tan
gible policy, and the advocacy of we'll defn-
ed principles. They have appealed to the
reason and Judgment Of the people, while
their opponents have only sought to lash
into fury the passions and prejudiees, and by
that means draw attention from their want
| Of principle
| Under the effects of these widely different
lines of conduct. the Republicans are gaining
every day, and the Conservatives losing. The
people soon tire Of passion. It wears itself
out, and the reaction is always disastrous
The republican party is stronger to-day by
5000 than it was two months ago, and it
will be stronger by 5000 on the 18th day of
November than it is to-day. It's success is
beyond a reasonable doubt. The majority
| will astonish it's opponents.
| KEMpER's DIGNITY During Gen. KEN
per's speech on the he 29th, sneeringly al
luded to the man with dutch name called
Footz or Futz, or something of the kind who
he believed was candidate fer something on
the other ticket, and lived about Stanton
He also alluded to the Republican candidate
for 1t. Governor as Mr. Ramshorn OF
Ramsdu1z, or Ramsdall Mark Kemper is q
candidate for Governor of Virginia, and
these gentleman, of equal standing in every
respect with himself, are running for Offices
of equal responsibility with that for which
he is candidate, but will never get, and
yet he alludes to them in this disrespestful
undignihed and ssnesring manner If Gen
Kemper is the gentleman his friends claims
him to be-reined and delicate in his SEN
sibilities-he certainly left his manners at
home.
MISREPRESENTATION Gen. Kemper sta
ted in his speech on the 29th, that the
Republican party in 1869, with Robert W
Hughes as its editorial leader. as editor Of
the Republican newspaper, insisted upon
the retention of the two expurgated clauses
in the constitution, and its adoption as ii
came from the convention. DIR. Kemper has
been very careless reader Of the currest po-
litical history Of Virgins, if he did not know