Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-05-05
Local.
FRIDAY MORNING. MAY S. 1876.
TEE SECOND SHOT.


GRAND RALLY OF THE STANTON CON-
sERYATIv ES-THE WHITE MEN AT THE
FRoNT-sPEECHES BY j. NJ. QUARLEs
S. 7. PHILLIPS, I. C. ELDER, JAMES
BUMGARDNER, IT., AND JAMES H. SKIN
NER-sODIE STRIKING POINTS MADE
WHY CAN'T CONSERVATIVES SUBMIT
THEIR CLAIMS TO IvES-ARE
NEGROES TO ''vINDICATE' A WHITE
MAN-WHO DREW THE PARTY LINES ?
&C., &C., &C.
The Conservatives of Staunton held a
mass meeting in the Courthouse on Sat-
urday last, which was equal in numbers to
the first large assembly in this building
This was peculiarly gratifying, in view of
the fact that at the first meeting the old
Council ring and the Radicals were Logging
around the streets urging men to go and
vote the party down, and on Saturday last
the same crowd were Logging around and
even going so far as to entreat men not to
90 to it, so as to make it a failure. So des-
perate are the ring that they even person
ally approached men with solicitations not
to attend, and addressed similar soliclta-
lions to some of the speak BIS. In some
instances, to the shame of both parties,
men were intimidated from attending.
The chair was taken about 5 O'Clock by
Judge Jno. FL. McCue, Chairman of the
City Central Committee, who explained the
object of the assembly. He said it was
emphaticalIy political meeting. We were
now entering upon a contest with the Re-
publican party of the city of Staunton,
and it behooved every Conservative to
buckle on his armor and go into the fight
with every nerve strained. Indeed, we are
already in the fght-the firing has com
menced along the skirmish line :; and, like
Cortez, we must resolve to burn our ships
behind us and march right into the very
citadel of the Republican party. There is
no other way to get out Of it but to fight
out. We must go into this struggle deter
mined to win; otherwise, we shall come
out with the Conservative banner trailing
in the dust.
MR.. j. NJ. QUARLES
followed the Chairman. He asked what
was the meaning Of this large assembly
what the object of it? It is in the interest of
the Conservative party-for the welfare
of the city and in the interest of the nation.
OF the Conservative party, because we
must unite and arouse to the emergency;
of our city, because her prosperity depends
on it's success, and of the nation because
the Conservative party Of Staunton is a
part and parcel of the great national party
which is about entering into contest for
the control and reform of the government
of the United States. And yet some tell
us that we ought to lay this Conservative OF
ganization on the table-let it die-this or
ganization that, in Virginia, has saved us
from ruin. Fellow-citizens, we must pre-
serve it /; it is not matter of choice, it is a
matter of necessity. And to preserve it,
we must not only hold to its principles, but
to its organization, by which alone those
principles can be carried out. We have
not forgotten the transgressions Of the
party from which it saved Virginia, and in
full view of them we will not consent to
dose what we have gained: go back to what
we come from, and go again under the
domination of Radicalism.
To perfect this organization, we must
have nominees in advance of the election.
Some say let us make our choice at the
rolls. But are not the Radicals banded to-
Of her, and doesn't every rational man see
that We too must organize to make our sue
cess sur>? Not draw party lines Why,
there isn't = candidate running loose now
who saws that. who by his action is not az
filiating with tie other party. The lines
are already drawn. and the only question
now is whether we sh. Ill keep them drawn.
These men say, 81 dol,'t ike a primary
election-it binds me to >Tote Tor certain
men, Well, which had yo1 Fa1her 40
Go into a primary, where the n az you get
for nominee will certainly be q C,'nsefaa-
tive; or go into an election, where tbs pta'i'
you get may be a Radical Let us all &c 10
the primary for mutual protection, and fCr
the love we have for our country. The brave
soldier who goes into the mortal contest OF
the battlefield, goes for the love he bears
his country. 1t is that same motive that
should influence us in the more peaceful
struggle at the ballot-boX. For it we should
sacrifice personal preferences, and go to
the primary determined that the choice OF
the party shall be our own. Let us go
there in body, from there to victory at
the ballot-box. and fresh from victory there
to the Presidential election. [Appla use. ]
CAPT. S. TRAvERs PHILLIPS
said he had not come to make an address,
and if he had, he was glad to see around
him that speakers were plentiful without
him. He came to express in behalf Of MI.
Charles Grattan his regret that he could
not be present, and to bring the assurance
that only the paramount duty of being
with his family in sickness detained him.
Mr.. Grattan had desired him to assure the
meeting Of his warmest sympathy with the
movement, and of the fact that he would
be with them at the primary and munich
pal elections. MI. Grattan also said that
from motives Of policy, he would not be a
candidate at the primary for the Mayoralty.
Capt. p. spoke Of this action of MI. Graf
tan as one purely arising from a motive of
self abnegation, for the position was one
that Mr.. Grattan's friends would have
liked to have him fill.
Capt. Phillips said that the question now
before the Conservative party was no longer
that Of the plopriety or improperly, the
expediency OF inexpediency of making this
q political election. That question had
been decided by a large meeting of the
voters, and he was sure that every man
that IS man, from the private il, the ranks
to the highest in position, joins i'll the epin-
ion that we should unite at the primary
aIactina For himself and his friends he