Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-10-15

the very vitals of the party. It is wor-
thy of your notice that these Indepen-
dent movements are chiefly contrived
and promoted by office-hunters and
their friends. Such persons are not dis
interested and trustworthy counsellors
OF the people. Some of these office-seek-
ers ask you to betray your party and
vote for them upon the modest pretence
that they are the discoveries of
SOME POLITICAL NOSTRUM
which they can administer with won
drous public benefit. It should suffice
for you to say to them that their patri-
otto purposes can be served by publish
ing their specific, and that your chosen
representatives have wisdom and virtue
enough to consider and adopt whatever
value there may be in their theories.
and that you cannot recognise any man
as Wise Qr patriotic who endeavors to
distract and divide the Conservative
party in the present condition of ma
tional affairs.
Some of these boilers and their nsws-
papers seek to win your support by
claiming to be able and ready to achieve
great public blessings by introducing
certain financial measures for the con-
sideration of Congress. Such persons
ought to know thai the very Arst step
towards procuring any reform in the
financial policy of the Government Is to
expel from power the Radical party,
which has created the financial evils of
which they complain, and put the Ma
tional Democratic party in control of
the finances. Thatspar has proved its
ability and its purposes to protect all
sections Of the country in matters of
finance as well as all other public inter
ests. The chief strength and support
of the Democratic party lies in the
South and West. For this reason On
addition to its uniform fidelity to consti
tutional prlvileges) this great national
party Is the sole rational allowance and
hope of the South for desiring and exc
cutting all reforms in government need
full for the relief and prosperity of the
southern. people. The experiment Of
introducing
on the arena of national politics will
prove disastrous folly to the South. 1t
can only end in giving a new lease of
power to the Radicals and pr9longing
thelF baneful reign. We submit that
true wisdom on the part of the Conserv-
atives In Virginia Is to help the Demo-
cratic party to complete its work, SO
auspiciously begun, of expelling the
Radicals FROM oil departments Of the
Government, and thus acquire the pow
er to correct the financial mischiefs and
all other wrong doings of Radicalism.-
Self-seeking politicians, aided by some
of the newspapers in Virginia, are striv-
ing to Fend the Conservative party by
efforts to revive the obsolete ami
mosities which once divided Wings
and Democrats. 1t Is difficult to con-
ceive motive for this mischievous at
tempt except sinister and selfish one.
Virginia owes her deliverance from
Radical rule In her domestic GenGerna
solely to the Conservative party. That
party achieved Its victories by the hear
ty union and cordial co operation of
Wings and Democrats. 1t was by this
unian only that the property, intelli-
gence, and virtue or the State obtained
control Of its government, and by the
maintenance Of this union only can
these elements retain that control.
WE EARNESTLY APPEAL
to you in tender regard for all interests,
individual and social, which depend
rebuke every artifice and expedient en-
plOyed to weaken your loyalty to the
Conservative party. Remember the
horrible pit and the miry clay from
| which it delivered you. Its powerful
arm has proved your sure protection in
the terrible trials through which you
have lived since 1865. Let no one be-
guile you into the fatal folly of throwing
away this great weapon of your defence.
Whatever evils there may be to correct
in State or Federal affairs can he most
surely reme6ied by all Conservatives
keeping close ranks and fighting to-
gether. Your Radical foe is still organ
lied and confronting you, and wants to
take advantage of weakness and divis-
ion in the Conservative ranks. If, I'M
der mistaken sense of security, you
consent to divide and disband the Con-
sentative party, all the precious fruits
of Conservative rule in Virginia for the
past ten years will perish, and our State
will become the easy prey of Radical do
minion and plumber. The corrupt am
bition and selfish aims Of place hunters
impel them to solicit your votes with
criminal Indifference to these vital pub
lie interests. None of them are entitled
to your favor who ask you to help in
dividing and disrupting the Conserva-
tive party.
In presenting this advice and appeal
WE BEG YOU TO NOTICE
that our counsel is in harmony with
that given in other southern States by
their most eminent and patriotic public
men. Senator Hill, of Georgia, has re-
GENTLY urged this oounse! upon his fell
low citizens; and that tried and true
recently pressed the following words of
warning and advice upon the Conserva-
tives of South Carolina:
1.-THE greatest evil now threatening
our party is that of an Independent
movement. He who sets up his indi-
vidual judgment as rule of action, and
refuses to act in full accord with our
platform, in spirit and in letter, is. an
Independent; and an Independent, at
this crisis of our affairs, is worse than a
Radical. He places himself, by his own
action, outside the pale of our party,
and he should be voted out of it. He
who is not with us is against us, and
should be ranked among our opponents !;
for an open enemy is far less dangerous
than pretended friend. Our party
must be kept fully organized, perfectly
compact and thoroughly disciplined
Every member of it must yield implicit
obedience to its dictates, sacrificing his
private judgment to its expressed poll
cy, and subordinating all personal ann
bition to the public welfare"
By order of the committee.
JOHN T. LOWELL, Chairman.
j. Bell Bigger, Secretary.
THE QUESTION OF THE STATE DEBT.
In speaking of the pertinancy of the
State debt question to the Congressional
election in this District, the Charlottes-
Vile Chronicle has the following sensi-