The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-08-07


Tie remaining nominations will be made 1sttts
aud The ,phsform adopted to-day. y eno;, ID
Wants the Presidents Certificate.
The htest news Of the movements OF the
nubernatosIal, nominee Of the Republicans
and his immediate friends is that they. seek
the recognition OF their ticket by the Fede-
rarCioye5nment.l Messrs. HrsHEs and CRAM
pIzn. who made the appeal direct to Gene,
raj GRANT, desired that he would pronounce
their sscket "that of the genuine and posi-
tie Reptbhcaa pariyo Of Virgins" Thirteen
wears ago no party, or no division OF party,
would have dared to seek at the hands OF the
President any such favor. The. act would
have brought down upon the actors the gen.
eral opprobrium of the country and driven
them into retirement. 1t was thought that
the genius of our Government demanded
that the President and his advisers, and bis
g ,ba,te,ps in the Executive Department,
should Keep alcof from meddling in the
local politics OF the country, and no party
ever dreamed of getting the appreciation OF
The Federal Executive as evidence of ortho-
iloxy, or q certificate upon which to demand
the votes Of the people: 49,. '.......
No man in those days. more correctly ap-
preciated the importance of maintaining the
independence sof the people and their free
dom from Executive dictation than ROBERT
w. HrGnEs. He belonged to school, OF
politicians who repudiated the very suspicion
of Executive interference lin popular cleo
lions as utterly ihadmissible and an outrage
upon our republican system Of government.
But Mr. HuoHEs seems to have. completely
acauiesced in the modern repu blican idea
that all power comes from Washington-that
the President Is the man to keep the people
straight. So, Ike the old woman who want
ed the pig. TO go over the bridge and solicited
the dogsto, give hiaa bite, Mr.. HUGHES inti-
mates the necessity Of an order from the
President to make obstinate SMITHS and
WicKHAMs and JoHNsoNs and Worries vote,
the" genuine and positive Republican tick
e.." Such mark of the divine Executive
f.yor will, he thinks, settle the hash Of tthese
kickers-up Of rows-these needlessly stub
born men With wills Of their own. How
dare they J.! s.! -.a.r;n. ,,.a. rHi.s tta
These are strange times. Factions of the
Republican party in nearly all the States
hive addressed their, several cases to the
President, who has recognized his power in
the premises by listening to their stories and
deciding their eases. The President is ac-
eordingIy the regulator Of the Republican
party, and through that of the States where
they are In the possession Of power either
by forcs! Of numbers or BY fraud, as is the
case In L louisiana and was in Georgia at one
time. 4..-.y.... ......... ....{ ..,.,,r.,f is
The President is held up by the Southern
Republicans as terror to the people. We
are told that we must support GRANT to get
his fayors, and that opposition to his sad.
ministration will not only deprive us of bis
elemency but provoke his displeasure. It's
not surprising that q party the factions Of
wki3h are 10 the habit OF threatening each
other with President GRANTS wrath should
not hesitate TO try to repress tho opposition
of everybody by a similar threat. Mir.
HUGHEs would rednce to submission all who
opposed his nomination by the Presidents
dictum. and he has already, in bis speech,
arraigned the Conservatives for factiousness
and for ineurrins the peril Of prosecution as
.listurbers of the public peace.
The revolution in our system of govern
,nent lis amazineiy great for the short in
teryal In which it has been brought about.
We should have supposed Mr.. HUGHES
would i,e one Of the last of men to be found |
in the lead of the party that looks to the |
President and the Government at Washing.
ton for all power, even to the controlling of |
the petty party jars of the States in local
elections. We do not know how the white |
native Virginia Republicans may receive
such invasion Of their personal indepen-
dence; but we mistake Virsinians altogether
ii the signs Of the intermeddling and dicta- |
tion Of Federal authority do not inspire
them with new resolution and energy in |
the struggle to keep their State government
out OF the hands Of the. party that surren7I
ders everything to the centralized govern.
znent at Washington and would place Viz
GINA completely under the arbitrary power
of the National Executive. 5..s-. !s.sh
While Virginians live under govern"
anent that has any semblance OF republican,
ism remaining they will not recognize SO
complete revolution Of republican princi-
pies as requires the people to be anaigned
and judged by the Government. The Pre-
sideut is the chief of those public servants
made by the people. They are his judges,
and not his slaves. He is responsible to
them. not they to him. This Is Virginia
republcanism. Let those who falsely call
themselves Republicans reverse this princi-
pie, and deriving their authority from the
Federal President stand or fall through his
favor or his froWns. The true people Of
Virginia will never initiate their fallen ex-
ample. isa
TO ID. v. L.-W cannot give up much OF
or sS2sce t. tue d:Sslss.ca d. stions saell
as the ope, yon hand 80 cleyarIy. TO pub
ksb yoar letter and answer il would take up |