The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-09-25

The Petersburg dppedl conf esses its mis-.
take as to its statement d last Friday con. ]
corning call the n,terances OF the Nassa-
chusetts press il says 4:
- We had not then, aud have mt Since,
Inspected any Massachusetts paper, ana
never see one except by accident, and never
care 10 see one, whether by accident Oh
otherwise
Just as we had supposed. It will, there
fore, OF course, have TO make the same con-
fession ms to its subsequent statement con- con-
corning what Buffers organs had said. <:
We quote The AppeaLasain:
q The Dispatch quotes from variety OF
papers, some published in Massachusetts
and some out OF 1t. to the effect that ben.
iainin is fraud, that he stole the ncmlna.
ton, that he ought to be hung, and great
deal more TO the same effect. But what mas
that got 10 do With his standing or ho'
standing on the platform Whsch+the ms
patch-still in sadly suspicious and eXces'
sive intimacy with the Get eral- suggests
that be wrote with his own band!'
Nothing, perhaps. But the point IN the
case is this The appeal first expressed II:
aceuiescence In the nomination OF Genera
BUTLER because he stood on the Democratic
platform. We informed that paper that nc
did not stand upon that platform. Clearly,
| then, its reason was Il bad one. We called
its attention. too, to the fact that il FOR thf
reason given by the Appeal he stood upon
one platform, he stood upon three. Logic
ally, therefore, the appeal supports MIN
upon all three platforms. 1t cannot ieaVe
out two OF them because it does not endorse
them. Ii it desires to see BUTLER elected
II desires to see him elected as the supporter
OF all three platforms; because he cannot
be elected as the uphoider OF one only. Ii
| this is not the true state OF TIE case, oul
logic is at fault.
Own up, neighbor.
The Appeal evidently knows nothing
about either platform. It's assumption tDa'
there is nothing in any one OF them lncon'
sistent with anything in the others SHOW:
that it is as careless in making statements
concerning the platforms as in writing
about the uttcrance> Of BUFFERS organs
and the Massachusetts press. Here is The
1 first RESOLUTION CT tue NoiccSie4 SohNeH
ton:
| 1.-The Democrats OF the Commonwealth,
by their duly appointed delegates III Con
vention assembled, hereby rcatfirn and re.
iterate their adhesion to the tImc-honored
principles OF the Democracy enuncla.ed
and acted upon by Jefferson, Madison, and
Jackson, and pledge their best excrti9ns to
make them effective in The guidance and
| government OF the nation. 50 that iii The
people Of the States may be maintained
in their Just rights, subordinated only
to the rights and powers o! the tcGe-
raj Government, as defined and limited by
tue Constitution. framed by our fathers anu
the amendments thereto, which subsequent
experience hes found necessary"
The appeal knoles that BUTLER has Tor
| nearly twenty years constantly tried to de-
stroy all the 'iust rights of The State" !;
that ne is not Jacf;sonian Democrat, nor
Madisonian Democrat, nor Jetter>on!an
Democrat; and that he would lie if lie pre-.
tended to endorse the above resolution.
In a word, the Appea! is cornered. Own
up, we say again.