The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-07-27
Address 20 the Conservative voters
or the City OF RiehHsond.

I Address 20 the Conservative Voter,
OF the, City OF Riehnaond. f
We feel impelsed by q sense OF dnty Z
ourselves, to the harmony and integrity O
the Conservative parry in this Third Con
gressional District, and to the true and hon,
orable success OF It's principles, TO present te
| you the reasons that have moved us in ouT
action heretofore and will control us in the
future. In the beginning, we take pleasure
/ in protesting our adherence to that party,
land in reiterating the expression Of our at.
tachment not only to its principles, butto Its
forms Of action and the rules which have
governed its procedures. s,..
We have no quarrel with any who pur.
poses to work for Governor Walker at the
primary election. Every one Who does so
Will exercise a clear right, which no one pre-.
tends to gainsay. We only claim for our.
selves q similar right Of preference and ac-
| tiou. Nor do we place our opposition to
Governor Walker, as has been iDaccurately
charged, on any such ground .ss that he was
not born and reared in Virginia. We are
not proscriptiYe either against our foreign
born citizens or those who first saw the
light of day in any OF our sister States. Even
those who fought against us IL the late war,
| but who since the conclusion Of that terrible
odeal have come into our midst With the
purpose of restoring Virginia aud building
l5u0 her waste places, are welcome. All such
| will receive our respect and regard.
Une Of our main objections to Governor
Walker is that he has heretofore held, and,
| for anything we know to the contrary, now
holds an attitude in relation to the James
| River and Kanawha Company which, ut the
| least, must deprive him of, all usefulness In
furthering the measure now pending in Con-
gress in relation TO the extension Of that i'm.
proqement 10 the Ohio river as the grand
water highway from west to east He has
officially, as Governor of Virginia, so spoken
OF that great enterprise that he will beopower-
| less TO aid the measure to which we look for.
| ward with hope and expectation.
Nor have we been so fully impressed, as
| seems to be the case with some of our fel.
| 10 W. citizens, with any remarkable states
I'manship eyinced by Governor Walker du-
ring his gubernatorial term. The passage Of
the funding bill, a measure which has re-
ceiYed almost universal reprobation, is.due
| more to his efforts than to those Of any other
| man. He supported it both by arguments
1
ipgly inaccurate that his stiunchest support
ers must admit they show an utter absence
of craftsmanship.
There are other and grave objections to
| Governor Walkers nomination which it is
not necessary here 10 enumerate. We have
mentioned those which have been stated
more for the purpose OF explaining the
course we have pursued, and intend to pur-
/ k1~n,~ 20 nock n<fi
| Walker. Entertaining these views, some OF
| us met few evenings ago and signed re-
spcctiul petition to the City Conservative
Committee requesting postponement OF The
primary election, and giving our reasons Tor
such request. AT the time of the prepara'
| ton of that paper we were informed 6y
| those who everybody would say had the
| right TO speak for the committee and Its
| action that our request would De granted
| and the election postponed some ten days or
| two weeks. To our astOnisbment the papers
this morning reporethat latter considerable
| debate the committee refused to postpone
| the primary election to day later than that
fixed (the 2Sth instanD."
It will be observed that the committee fixed
upon the 18th Instant on the evening OF Mon
day the Goth instant, and notified the people
of Richmond in the papers OF the following
morning. The State Committee had pre-.
yiously selected the ,26th OF August as the
dav for the assembling of the convention.
Never before in the history of the Conserva-
tive party in this city had ever two full days
interviewed between the selection of dele
| gates and the assembling of the convention.
WHY, then, was such q departure from the
usual course-an extension Of few bours to
| nearly one month-we leave to the judg.
| meDt and conclusion of the Conservative
voters of this city. 1t has always bereto-
| fore been deemed maxim in such cases that
the shortest time should intervene be.
| tween the two events. There ate many
good reasons why this should be so, some OF
| which were stated in our petition to the
| Conservative City Committee. II we bad
not been led to believe that our request
would be granted, the reasons would have
| been given more ia detail.
We believe that majority Of the Conser'
yative voters Of this city are opposed to 60
vernon Walker, and are continent that 10 q
single banded contest between him and any
one of the several gentlemen who have been
named in connection with the Congressional
canvass Governor Walker would be beaten.
One of our reasons for asking postpone
ment, we frankly state, was that the opposl.
ton to Governor Walker might have due ana
proper time to concentrate upon some one
man. We think the request was reusona'
BILE one, and the reason itself good one
| This opposition would have crystaliZed II
| the person of some one some time ago II the
opponents of Governor Walker had supposed
| that the City Committee would have been II
such hot buste, against all precedent, to pre-
| cipitate the primary election. But when thu
announcement was made in the papers o
the 2lst instant, some OF the opponents o
| Governor Walker met on the following day
and the day after that to consult onthc situ
alton. The request to postpone and TN
\ protest against the refusal of the committee
| to postpone are some of the results of thes
meetings. Another result of those meeting
was the nomination Of Colonel John +. Gu!
US candidate to be voted for mt the prlmar.
election-a gentleman OF the highest ability
integrity, and honor.
| We present him to the voters OF Rich
mond as candidate in every respect worth.
of their sutfrages. Even. under the disad
yanfages to which we bage referred, we hay
great confidence that the people Of the Thir'
Congressional District will welcome him q
| their choice. a X, AZ
THoaAs w. McCANcE, Chairman.
| +. a. G. Handy, Secretary.
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