The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-05-13
Address OF the City Central Commit
tee TO the People Of Richmond.

| ~~>sA NoS uAFshS Skay StNsEdA
tee TO the People of Richmond.
The City Central Committee, charged BY
| the Conservative party of Richmond with
the care and superintendent of the party
organization, desires to impress upon all citi-
| zens the duty and obligation of attending to
The primary and ward meetings. and there
expressing their opinions and wishes by q
| ialr and honest vote.
Ihe Conservative party has saved this
commonwealth and community the untold
horrors OF Radical administration. Other
people nave been oppressed and ruined BY
| 1t. We have escaped,
trade destroyed, wages diminished, pro-
perry crushed under taxation, public credit
| ourlea under overwhelming debt, are the
untallng results of allowing the control of
any community to pass into the hands of the
hadlcal party. And these results are the
operation OF natural laws as general and IRE.
sistible as the forces of grayitatiop.
Where intelligent capital and labor. wed.
ded by marriage of common interests and
common objects, are the powers which direct
the Development of a people, prosperity is
the necessary and certain result. When ig-
norant and vicious men WELD mere numeri-
| cal control, disaster to enterprise, labor, and
progress just as surely is produced.
We take it, therefore, as undeniable that the
interests OF this whole city requires the con.
tinued control of the Conservative party.
1t would be beyond human power so to
| administer any affair, much less the govern.
ment of growing city, without finding
some who will be dissatisfied with it. But
| all grounds of complaint ought to be made
within the party organization. The forma-
ton OF new parties never accomplishes re-
| forms, unless they are the growth of gen.
er'll public sentiment, produced by general
| complaint. There is certainly no such senti-
| ment in Richmond now, for there is no such
complaint.
The matters Of detail in city government
which may, in the opinion of few, require
reform, can all be reformed in the party and
| by the party. The place to begin them is in
| the ward meetings TO take place next Thurs.
| day (to-morroH) night.
we earnestly urge every voter TO attend
the meeting of bis ward, to vote for such
delegates as he thinks tit and proper to rep
| resent him, and thus to meet his fellow-citi-
| zens fairly in an expression of his opinions
Ii his views agree with the majority he will
accomplish what he desires. If, however,
majority think otherwise, all must yield in
| patty ulallels W SucQ QeclS10n.
and after the choice for city off .ers has
thus been indicated, it is of equal impor.
tance that all should take part in the primary
meeting to nominate members Of the City
Council.
If this is done there can be no complaints
that improper nominations have been made,
but every citizen will support them under
Tue conviction that they have been fairly
lnaoe-tnat they were the best under the cir
cumstances that could have been made
even although his individual preferences
may not have been gratified-and that they
should receive the support of every good
citizen.
| Thus we will make all necessary reforms
in our own party, and preserve to the city
the advantages of honest, intelligent govern
ment.
Hereto appended is list of the precincts
for registration and voting in each ward
and also the places for holding ward meet
inSs tomorrow night.
REGISTERING AND voTISG PRECINCTS.
Clay Ward.-First Precinct: Westhau
House, corner Cary and Laurel streets
Second Precinct: No. $40 west Broad street
Third Precinct: 40 west Broad street. z
W. Pickrell, superintendent. Place of ware
meeting, Euker's Spring Park.
Monroe Ward. First Precinct: Secon(
street between Cary and Canal. Second Pre-
ciuct: No. 100 west Broad street. Thir
Precinct: No. west Broad street. fourt
Precinct: Corner Third and Marshall street!
s. II. Pulliam superintendent. Place c
meeting, St. Alban's Hall.
Madison Wurd-First Precinct: No. 81
north Seventh street. Second Precr ct
Engine-house, Broad street between Mint
and Tenth. Third Precinct: 915 Bank stree
Fourth Precinct: 900 Main street. +. .
Reilly, superintendent. Place of meeting
Monticello Hall, Broad street between SiXt
and Seventh.
Jackson Ward.-First Precinct: Broo
avenue between Duyal aud Baker street:
Second Precinct Second street bctwee
DuYal and Baker. Third Precinct: No. -
Seventeenth street. Dan. Wren, superin
tendent. Place Of meeting, Central Commit
tee room, corner Ninth and Main streets.
Marshall Ward.-First precinct: Nc
32O6 Main street. Second precinct: Gu
House, corner of TWenty-eighth and Frank
lin streets. Third precinct: No. 2j10 \
street, between Twenty-tifth and Twenty
sixth streets. u. G. Richardson, superinten
dent. Place of meeting, Club House, corne
of Twenty-eighth and Franklin streets.
Jefferson Ward-First Precinct: No. l3l
Franklin street. Second Precinct: FIrs
Market Hall. Third Precinct: No. 221
Main street. Fourth Precinct: No. 30
Eighteenth street. DR.. 4. S. McRae, super
intendent. Place of meeting, Odd.FelloTs
Hall, corner Mayo and Franklin streets.