The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-10-25


TO be Thurman. An old citizen tells me
that Virginia cannot swallow the hard
money doctrine OF Bayard and Tilden, who
take it straight without sauce, and she in
stinctively turns to A. q. Thurman, born
and Graded upon her own soil, who is Just
about sufficiently balanced on the question
to make him acceptable all around the board.
Numbers express this opinion, and they are
among the leading class OF citizens, whose
weight will be felt when. the time comes.
We may say that Thurman is q sort OF ia
yorite son in the Old Dominion.
Among Republicans Grant is the favorite.
1t is thought that he could poll a larger vote
in Virginia than any other Republican, but
not enough to carry it by about fifty thou
sand. AS Grant and Thurman are both
Ohio men, they are eligible to the presi-
dency. .,.........
fuckers DISTRICT.
j. Randolph Tucker, one Of the leading
members OF the present Congress, is meet
ing with violent opposition from the Green
hackers, under the lead OF Captain Pate
son, who is on the popular platform OF two
thousand millions OF dollars greenbacks.
Tucker, who is an able and cultured man.
has no sympathy with such nonsense, and
has taken rather strong hard-money ground
FOR this quarter. He opposes the resump-
ton act. but favors payment OF the public
debt in coin. This last is his greatest Oh
fence. The popular doctrine among Green
hackers here is to pay off all the bonds
in paper at once, and thus stop the in
terest and inaugurate "good times" Be-
cause Tucker does not go so far he is
denounced as an enemy of the poor farmer
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and bloated bondholders. The Wing here,
the organ OF the Grcenbackers. claims that
Tucker Will be covered up by an ''indis-
nant people" to the amount OF five thou
sand majority. This paper also violently
opposes General Johnston, supporting New
man, the rampant Greenback candidate. No
Greenbacker can 90 to such extremes as to
Droyoke words Of caution from the Wing.
No, not il he should demand an immediate
issue OF four thousand millions instead Of
two thousand millions, which is about the
average figure 1t is striking commentary
on the condition OF things here when we
find the Dispatch, the organ Of the hard
money wing of the party, paying thirty per
cent. better wages to It's employees than the
lVhiq, the organ OF the Green hackers and
WorkinGmen. ....'
position to Johnston, and all because he ia
vors plenty of greenhacks, but-wants them
on lar with specie. 1t accuses him OF be-
ing an enemy to Ibis people," because he
would keep paper-money on par with
gold and silver. This is strange talk in
Virginia, but Of the sort one hears the most
OF now. a.. ~. ..
The Villa says that Johnston is talking
about his wounds to get votes. "What
have his wounds got to do with his capacity
to serve the people," passionately eXclaims
the editor. .sFancy General Lee applying
for civil Office at the hands of the people he
sought TO save, on the ground of merit in
the field! No! Pension General john
ston ii you choose-we wish the Federal
Government would pension all Coincide
rates-but do not convert Government OF
fcers into so many pensioners"
The friends OF
GOLD JoE,'
as he is Familiarity and endearingly called,
are very much worked up that anything
should be said against him, OF that anybody
in the district, white or black, drunk or
sober, native, foreign, or domestic, should
vote against him. On the streets one hears
many heated arguments between the adj
herents OF cold Joe' and those who
do not believe that be quite fills
the bill. However, the solid sentiment OF
the city is in his favor by an in
mense majority. Richmond claims $50 law
yers, more or less, and likely more than less
although some OF them will never set the
james river Oh fire., and the citizens point
with pride to the fact that all OF these disci-
pies OF Coke are for Joe Johnston. The
Grccnback candidate, Newman, comedies
that all the lawyers and maior-generals are
against him, which would cause a less de-
termined man to give up at once.
It is thought that Johnston needs the Of
flee, or rather the salary. His friends al
lege that he has been much reduced in cir
cumstances since the war, as his "occupa-
ton '-tbat of military man-is gone. He
has followed the military occupation all his
lie, and is not acquainted with any other
branch OF business. His whole bearing is
that OF military man, and well-preseryed
one, too; for Notwithstanding eleven
wounds, he is as straight and spry as any
Young man OF twenty. Considering his age
(seyenty-one) and hard service, he is Won
derfully well preserved. 1t cannot be that
he is as poor as some Of his friends think,
for he threw one. hundred dollars into the
contribution-bo for the yellow-IeYer SUI
ferers. .Ea Z 49,; -
1t is said here that General Sherman ia.
yors his election. No doubt, for he and
Sherman are friends. Indeed, | imagine
that northern people generally are favorable
10 him in preference 10 Newman, il for no
other reason than that Johnston is much the
sounder OF the two on the money question.
Johnston sticks, with old-fashioned honesty,
to the idea Of specie basis, while Newman
clamorS for an issue OF two thousand mil
lions OF greenbacks at once ,,
I. OF all the wild Greenbackers have ever
met those in Virginia are the widest. Their
ideas carried out would turn the financial
world upside down. None OF them call for
less than an issue Of two thousand millions,
and from that they yibrate to four. They
heap curses upon gold and silver, and say
that hard money means hard times. Give
us plenty OF greenbacks, they say, based on
the faith OF the Government, and let gold
and silver 60 to the devil. II is a relic oil
barbarism brought down from dark age to
torment fools. who still imagine that it is q
= basis = for currency. Give us plenty oil
gTecnbacks,0 shouted ON orator, Sand LET
gold and silver 90 up or down, as it do
pieases. Newman says gold is coEardly
stuff, always getting out OF the way nj the
first sign OF trouble This is. true, and he
might,hags said ithat.theti less ya!lse there Ii
in papermoney the mere 1t stays with us.
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