Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-07-17
PUBLISHED DAILY AND TRI-WEEhLf b1
EDGAR SNOWDEN.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY Il, 1878.
The result Of yesterdays proceedings before
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The result of yesterdays proceedings before
the City Conservative Committee proves 'ns'
the lst, like all the other wards OF the
CITY 10 the late primaries, elected Neale dele
Gates to the Congressional Convention, so that
Alexandra will have solid Neale delegation
10 that convention. The incidents connected
With the election of the delegates from this CITY
induce us 10 advise the conservative voters OF
the whole district to elec: other than Hunton
delegates to the convention 10 assemble here
next month. It is the desire of every true con-
ser7ative in Virginia to secure the SUCCESS OF
the nominee Of bis party, for, if party ever
deserved success. it is that which By redeenlpg
it's own State from the tbraldom of rsdcal
carpet. basism set the example which the whole
South followed, and which eliminated IN the
election of a democrat who, had it not been tor
the Electoral Commission, would have been
President Of the United States. The truitIon
Ct such lsudable desire will not be promoted
by the nomination OF Gen. Huntou, fer circnm.
stances are COW such that man even With an H.
vulnerable record, and with 20 enemies, will have
to use his best efforts to be elected from this dis
trict. That Gen. Hunton is not such man all
now know, and ifthe same indiscretlon that has
characterized bis course 10 the present cam
psign in this city has marked his relations With
bis congressional colleagues it is 60 longer
wonder that bis congressional life has resulted
10 neither profit nor honor to bis district, bis
State, CT to the South. Before his late speech
here every one felt kindly toward him. All
knew that be was neither an able statesman, a
brilliant orator, Dor an accomplished legislator,
but ali believed him to be an amiable, average
Congressman, and were disposed to reverse The
order of things, add look upon his political
blunders not as Crimes As the majority DE-, but
as errors Of the head, not of the heart; and IT
many thought that six years and thirty thou5-
and dollars amply requited claim founded
only upon the fact Of his having fought, like
thousands of other men now forgotten, under
"Old Sharks Evans" at Balls Bluff, they
neither miarepreseoted, as,ailed, nor abused
him, bu! simply expressed their preferences for
other gentlemen. and did 80 in upe1,eptionable
language; and, speaking of what we know, ne
say that had General Hutton pursued differ.
ent course in this canvass he would have been
the second choice of the delegates from this
city. Now. however, all this is changed, AID
be has changed it. He came here, abused the
city committee without cause, accused the city
paper of being actuated by spirit Of revenge
beoaus, it supported the city's candidate;
accused other papers 10 the city and dis
tliet Of being brbed to oppose bin; stirred up
i'll feeling and strife among The voters, and got
into personal qualre! with one If the Oldest
aad liuest democrats in Washington, whose
numerous friends throughout the district have
espoused bis cause. 10 other words he has
disturbed the unity and destroyed tue harmony
of the party, provoked damaging charges
against himself, and made personal enemies, and
al simply because some conscrvatlTe5-Wa are
led to believe msjority Of the district !; GER
taioly . majority of those 10 Alexandria,
think that he has not pre.empted the Congress
sioual houors and emoluments OF this district,
aud that as he is neither Daniel Webster nor a
Henry Clay some other gentleman might be
allowed chance to be elected, and the people,
40 opportunity Of testing, by comparison, the
qualifications OF those who aspire TO be their
representatives.. His course, however, has not
weakened himself as much as it has bis party,
aud If the few conservatives in the counties who
take part 10 the primaries send Huuton dele
gates to the convention Notwithstanding all the
objections that attach to him, the ditqualiGca
tions he is known to possess, and hisascertaiued
unpopulsrity, they will have themselves TO blame
for bis defeat. Party ties are not as binding as
they used TO be when there was danger Of rad.
icalism, and though all true conservatives will
work as hard for Gen. Huntons election, il be
be the nominee Of the convention, as they
would do were their Own favorite the candidate,
they will be heavily handicapped from the
start, and the race will be up bill to the last,
with defeat staring them in the face the whole
way. There is no prominent conservative now
in the district against whom so much that is
especially condemned BY Virginians-We allude
to the charges brought by Dir. AIexander-can
be sdduced as Gen. Huuton, and if the conyen.
ton be wise and desire to have its nominee
elected it will select some other man for it's
candidate.
Tomorrow will be the seventeenth apniver.
sary of the day on which the 18th Regiment of
Virgins Infantry, in which were most of the
troops from this city. received it's baptism of
IRE Ut Bull Run. When the many of those,