The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-03-01
The City Committee.

The CITY Committee Of the Conservative
,arty ia to be re5rganized on the 9Th Of March
,by a new election. 1t would be well for Us
all to remember the troubles through which
we bave passed, and to use our experience
as well as we can to avoid a repetition OF our
troubles. We know that Independents -
generally those gentlemen who fail to receive
the approval Of the constituted authorities Of
the Conservative party--are ever ready to
avail themselves Of every preteXt to charge
that those authorities are improperly con-
stituted, and that themselves are defeated
through fraud and corruption. They are TOO
ready to proclaim that the decision OF the
Conservative party is one that no Conserra-
tive should feel bound to obey. This we
have had time and again, and the late I'm.
plcasantness In this city was far from being
free from just such complaints as this.
Now the committee in their address, signed
by Colonel GUY, call for 40 election of mem.
berS of the committee at "ward meetings.
LIE! us ask whether real meeting Of the
people of the wards can be held in each
ward: We believe not. liz one ward the
usual place Of meeting is exceedingly circum.
scribed. Some forty or fifty people at the
outside are all that can be gotten into the
room selected as place Of meeting.
Independents, feeling a dissemination to
trust their chances to the Conservative party,
" Ii be always ready to take exceptions to
the committeeman elected at a meeting held
under such circumstances, and are too ready
10 run against its nominees.
We know we'll the snsrling and captious
spirit of the Independents !; but it Is our duty
to give them az few causes of complaint as
possible. The Conservative party is party
having charge of the salvation of Virginia,
ard we should see that its proceedings are not
amcuable to the complaints of the 1ndepend-
euls. Let everything be done 50 orderly, so
deliberately, and openly that they may have
no ground of complaint-not even brad
upon which to hang an objection. Let all the
stems Of he organization Of the Conservative
party be rs free from objection as possible.
For this reason we submit that the order
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successors at ward meetings is unfortunate.
Let the committee be elected at primary
election, at which sll Conservatives may
vote, and if they do not vote it is their own
fault and they have no right to complain. We
want the Conservative party to be unit
banded and discipliued-gud We want no.
body seeking elevation which be does not
merit, to have q ground Of complaint upon
which he may delude good people under the
impression that wrong has been done, and
th us take eff strength from the Conservative
party and cmba.rass it in the contest which
it is ever waging in behalf of civili-
cation against barbarism, and the persons
who seek from an alliance with ignorance
and barbarism Donors which they cannot
obtain from sources better capable Of judging
Of their merits.
We trust, if possible, that the committee
will reconsider their orders, and provide
different mode Of appointing their sue.
eesSors -one less liable TO the carping and
faul. finding of the malcontents.