The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-04-14
The State Conservative Convention.
.our, esteemed contemporary the Kicn-

The State Conservative Convention
.Our, esteemed contemporary the 6ich
"mond Dispatca thinks that everything NUS
: "ccn,rc at Richmond" SO says the Lsnc" =,
burg V;runian. We reply that we 'hsfe''
Give u,,erance TO the voice of the people .
,,,o ubo,, State of Virginia when we say
that the next Conservative State Con'eo''ol
snould be held here. We do not mean te
:r,,,,v I'm, there is nobody who would pre-
fer Lynchburg, or Staunton, or Cbarfottes
vile or Harrisonburg, or Winchester. oil
Potter. burg, or Norfolk, or any other place
tb,t could be mentioned; but we do mean
70 saw tina, nine-tenths Of the delegates wht
will attend the Convention would prefer to
visit Richmond rather than any other place
in the State.
The Virginian, with an art'essness that
n,eases at the same time that it amuses. as
scrts. with the utmost seriousness, that
"there is no more to attract people to Rich.
"mond, when the Legislature is not in ses-
"sion, than to Lynchburg." When the LeSis-
lature is not in session; Is it possible that
the Legislature is an attraction to the country
neoplc? Our office is only two hundred
wards distant from the Capitol, yet the "af.
fractions OF the House of Delegates did not
induce US to visit that body single time
during It's. last four-months session. In fact.
tte people Of Richmond would not know
when the Legislature Is 10 session but fol-
the reports in the newspapers. Its mem.
bers make no percelvable change in the mum
Der Of soiourners here. Nevertheless, let II
be az the Virginian says. If that is an al
traction to our country friends, we have to
own that Richmond is at present without it.
"Tbcre has always been Richmond
sunto.' so called. We have never had one at
Lynchburg. The fact is, the people are get
ting tired OF Richmond domination; OF
making Richmond the hub of the State
the head-centre OF everything"
"On the contrary. quite the reverse"
The people love Richmond. There are a
few small-fry politicians in some localities
who think that their consequence is dwaried
hv Inc indifference which the people of this
civ manifest as to who they are when they
show themselves here; but the great mass
of the people have no such feeling. They
know that there is no such thing as Rich.
mond junto. If there is anything that can
be safely said in this connection, it is that
the wishes Of Richmond are invariably dis
regarded by every convention that meets
here. The rural delegates work their will
with us, and 60 home rejoicing. If the old
fogiss control the convention here, where
there are so many influences operating in a
different direction, how would it be In a
little town of ten thousand inhabitapts9
But we have nothing to say against any
town in the State. We claim that all of them
are our towns. 1t is only in the interest of
all of them that we utter plea in favor OF
Richmond. We know we'll enough that we
shall receive the thanks Of the entire num-
her; for, let the rural press say what it will,
tic people are all Of Major kELLY's mind
they are surprised that any other place than
Richmond should be thought of. They
want to lie we'll lodged and we'll fed, and
10 see something's