Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-05-19

insignificant fragment had registered Their
views the obligation would not be so strong
but the result Of the election was not only
the unquestioned sentiment of the city, but
was overwhelming to any member of the
Conservative party [applause]. This pri-
mary also gives you well-known and tried
Conservatives as candidates for office lap
plause]. Those of you who would rather
have had other names-what is to be your
action? Is each man to stand and say, II
claim the right to vote for my own candi-
date?'' What would be thought of man
who enlisted, or an officer appointed in a
well-organized army, who claimed the right
to obey such military orders as suited him.
Would the army not crumble to pieces?
Look at the spectacle! You Conservatives
Of Staunton have met
| THE OLD ENEMY.
Is there any division among them? They
are closed up in solid phalanx ready to
meet your charge and to charge back down
upon you. It is the old fight under the old
banner. 1t is the death-struggle of the
| Conservatives Of Staunton for supremacy.
1t is useless to disguise the fact that though
there are some of our friends who have
struggled on the other side the battle is
| that OF
THE BLACK MAN AGAINST THE WHITE
| MAN.
| [cheers.] There may be gentlemen for
whom [ have a warm regard, who enter
tain a different view, but tell them they
are mistaken. The result will show. If
| they leave their white brethren now from
a sense of pique or personal resentment,
they will see in years to come that they
| have dealt the cause for which their
| brothers have fought and died, an inestl-
| mable blow. MI. Bickle was personally
! his friend, for whom he had warm regard,
| but he is not Of our party, and he would
| have less respect for me If [ should desert
| my party to go for him [cheers].
He could testify to Mr.. Bickle's kindness,
but if he is a kind and heightened man, he
would say, II would not have you sacrifice
your personal independence forme." When
we look at it in the personal and political
aspect, he could see but one thing, which
every true Conservative ought to do, and
must do. When abroad we boast of Staun-
| ton as the county seat Of the banner Con-
sentative county of the State. Shall it be
| told of us that when On the eye of great
| battle: when in the front rank, with a man
| for our leader without fear and without
reproach [great applause], we ran in the
| first skirmish!
Look at the material effects of our suf-
fering a defeat. Does not every man know
that if it is reported all over the country
that this has become Republican city,
that the effect will be disastrous? Can't
you imagine the effect? Judge Cochran
has appositely said that in this contest
there is nothing of personal feeling, and 1
will add to my young friends the injunc-
ton: Let there be no displays of feeling or
ill-temper. Let all do their duty. It can
be done just as determinedly without tenn
per as in the other way. A chaplain in the
Army of Virginia once said that the men
of the Valley always went into action with
a laugh and came out with cheer. Let
that be the way now with the Conserva-
tives Of Staunton. [ say to you that
THE MAN WHO DESERTS THE CAUSE NOW
will regret it in years to come. Suppose
you win this fight now, will you ever have
any trouble hereafter with Republican can
didates [cheersl? II we beat our friend,
Mr.. Bickle, warrant he wont want the
office again. When [ heard Judge Coch-
ran speaking just now, it reminded me OF
an anecdote of the first Napoleon. The
next morning after a great battle the regi-
ments would be paraded, and the rolls of
the companies called, and when name
was called with no answer, the comrade of
the missing man would step to the front
and say: dead, captain, on the field of
glory and duty" So let it be after our
victory on the 25th of May: let no Con-
sentative be absent from roll-c for any
cause less than death. Remember that
this small city is one Of the beacon lights
of Virginia, and remember that Virginia
is putting on her armor to go into the
great national fight, and let it not be said
that the Conservatives Of Staunton have
failed in the first engagement Go for
ward to your duty, and [ wish you
safe deliverance [applause]
The chairman commenced reading let
ter of excuse from
DIR. A. NJ. FAUNTLEROY,
who was sick at home, but that gentleman
was seen coming through the crowd, hay
ing left q sick bed to attend. He was re-
ceived with loud applause. DR.. F. said
that he acted on Thomas Carlyle's obliga-
ton of duty that if he had fraction of
the ininitessimal portion of q product, he
must produce it. He said he came here
this evening to show his interest in the
meeting and his sympathy with its object.
The issue had been made between the.
white man and the black, and he came to
cast his lot with the white man [cheers,
and to ask his fellow citizens which should
| be allowed to rule the city of Staunton.
! This was struggle between the whites
and blacks for the supremacy, and if
HIS OWN BROTHER
| was affiliating with the Radical party, he
should vote against him. Il we elect a
Radical Mayor, we certainly give aid to
Radicalisu in the State; but he trusted no
SuCn tdiiS Ndo W NC uoiio' Lieu oF0ly
| Conservative fall into ranks and march
shoulder to shoulder as felloW-soldiers in
| this crusade for the right. Let us send
word all oyer Virginia that Staunton, at
least, shall be ruled by white men. [Cheers. !
| CAPT. JAMES BUMGARDNER, JR.,
said it was hardly necessary for him to
come to the stand to deliver the few re-
marks he would make He thought the
absolute condition Of success in any party
is unity Of purpose and concert of action.