The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-10-04

party mad gained such strength by advoca-
ting them. :
So evidently right were these principles
that the Democratic party had been afraid
to engage in % national canvass without
adopting or endorsing them as their own.
The Liberal Republican convention Of
Cincinnati had adopted them as chief
planks in their platform. General Ken-
per had moved the Virginia Conservative
convention of 1872 to instruct their dele
gates to the Baltimore convention Of July,
1872, to ratify and adopt the Cincinnati
platform and candidates, in resolutions
declaring that 1--WE greet with lively salts
faction the movement of the Liberal Re-
publicans of Cincinnati And the Balti-
more Democratic convention of 1872 had
adopted this platform as that of the
Democratic party, including the Virginia
Conservative party of1lS72. talf q t't.s
Yet these great Republican, and great
American principles, were so clearly right,
that our political adversaries had been
afraid to go into national canvass without
fully endorsing them. lie was therefore
relieved from the necessity Of arguing the
rightfulness Of those principles. The Re-
publican party stood now where it had
stood in 1872 and every year since s66,
squarely on The great principles of the
Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth
amendments. ..-,--,,
: But, although the Conservative party of
\ Virginia had been afraid to make national
canvass without planting itself on, those
principles il had dismissed such q fear,
and abandoned those principles, when it
came this year to make "a state cam
vass. They have now broken up and
repudiated their platform of 1872
thew have apostasized from the Libe-
raj Republican faith of that year; they
have played renegade to the. cause which
they pretended then to espouse; and now
there were no epithets in the English vo-
cabulary too foul to be applied by them to
the Republican party, for standing faith
fully and manfully to the same principles
which they had pretended to espouse last
year. Colonel Hughes said. that although
The Conservative party then changed its
coat, and repudlated its solemnly pledged
faith of 1872, vet the people Of Virginia
would not do so, and would be found in
November coming, to vote their adhesions
to the principles, which, whether as Re-
publicans CT as Conservatives, they had &C.
cepted and adopted in the election of
1872. He said that the Republican party
was also strong, by reason Of the great
measures of public policy which it adyo-
Gated. 1t was, first, a party for
development. No state possessed so varied
and vast a field of undeycloped re-
sources as the state of Virginia. These
could not be developed except by attract
ing from other states and countries some of
their capital, enterprise and population.
Virginia could not, by proscriptlve poll
cy towards outside people, afford to wait
for the natural income of her own popula-
ton at the slow rate of two or three per
cent. a year. Texas was gaining zoe, 700
people year by immigration. The United
States was gaining at the rate of nearly
half a million annually. The western states
were all gaining more rapidly by immigra-
ton than by natural increase. Virginia
alone was losing population instead OF
gaining it. 1t was losing because of the
proscriptive policy Of the party which had
dominated here, and which, by Its news
papers, still controlled public opinion
in the state. The Republican party
was for development, by inviting
outside population into the state. 1t
had announced this sentiment in its nomi-
nation of Mr.. Ramsdell to the second Office
Of honor in the state. The Republican
p"aW mas b 1,so an ~ iaaGl " ma, ~
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