The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-10-22
Address OF the City Conservative Com.
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Address OF the City Conservative COM
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10 The Conservative Foters of Richmond: !:
The City Conservative Committee, which
has been charged with the direction Of the
affairs of the party in this city, has decided
it expedient that candidates should be nom.
mated to be voted for as delegates to repre-
sent the city OF Richmond in the House OF
Delegates. - 1-.st:
A primary election has been agreed upon
az the best mode by which the voters Of the
partv can give full and fair expression to
their choice of candidates, and Tuesday the
23d instant has been designated as the day
for holding that election.
The propriety at this time OF making
nominations is a question which has en-
gagged the thoughtful consideration OF the
committee, and its conclusion has only been
reached after full discussion and calm de-
liberation. The maintenance OF the Con-
servative organization and the Importance
OF having as our delegates in the next
Legislature those men who will be the eX-
ponents OF the views OF a majority Of the
Conservative voters OF the city are some of
the reasons by which the committee has
been influenced. -',r .'. ~ -. z,t ~ '
The maintenance Of the organization in
tact is impelatively demanded by every
consideration of self-protection and pa
triotism, and any course which will tend
to its disruption should be sedulously
avoided.
The Conservative party Of Virginia, or
ganized in the dark days Of our political
history, is essentially party OF concessions
and compromises. Good men, with politi-
cal creeds Of the past, laying aside their diff
ferences, and having at heart the welfare OF
the State, her recuperation and her restora-
tion to the position she once so proudly fill.
ed, united together under one banner and
stood upon common platform.
The struggle, arduous and protracted,
was crowned with triumph, and to-day
"the consent of the governed" is the inde-
feasible title by which those now in au-
thority ill our State and municipal offices.
Before the triumphant march Of Conserya-
tism our political opponents have SUNK
away, but their phalanX is yet unbroken.
In many successive campaigns they have
sought to effect by strategem that which
they have been unable to accomplish in
open figbt-to take advantage OF seeming
disatlectons in our ranks-and any dissen-
sions in the party at this time will encour-
age them to rally again at the old cry OF
Opposition to Conservatism" and cast their
undivided strength against the nominees OF
our party. ...
Questions OF vital Importance to the State
have been made issues in the present cam
vass, and on some o! these questions men
whose fealty to the party has never been
doubted differ widely. These diverse views
should have the fullest expression at the
polls at the primary election. These differ
ences should be settled within the party,
and all should yield ready acquiesccnce IN
the result. .....
With fair canvass, full vote, and an
honest count, (Which are assured by the
plan,) the committee feels satisfied that the
number OF those will be small who will be
disposed after the primary election to ally
themselves with our political enemies for
the purpose of defeating the party noml-
nees, and that their efforts, as in the past,
will be abortive.
The attempt to array q particular class OF
Conservatives against their party has been
frequently made by those who have failed
to receive from the honest voters any recoS-
milton Of their assumed merits. A few per-
sons claiming to be the peculiar champions
of the workingmen (who compose for the
greater part the organization which has
saved our State and city from misrulc, cor
ruption, and anarchy have endeayored to
draw off from our party number OF Con-
seryativc votes and unite them with our
opponents. These'men, if not themselves
the emissaries Of our enemies, are actuated
alone by motives Of personal ambition.
Their attempts will be viewed with suspi-
cion by the honest workingmen, and these
oft-repeated and shallow devices will deceive
but few OF the intelligent voters who COM
pose our industrial classes.
At the primary election all will have IN
equal opportunity Of securing the nomina.
ton OF men who will represent their views
and interests. Let there be a full vote and
fair expression OF the popular will at the
polls; and after the result shall have been
announced, let all dissensions be healed, all
differences laid aside, and the perpetulty OF
Conservative rule be assured by maintain.
ing our party organization and casting our
undivided vote for the nominees.
'.at# CHARLES F. TAYLOR,
Acting Superintendent City Central Com
mittee.
W.D, CheSternan, Secretary. 49,