Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-03-12
J ohm r. Hale Large and the Other nan
Respee' able.


majority out of the party would be worse
if i: were not so ridiculously funny.
The conservative committee is COM
posed of 81 members. Five of these y
happen to be members OF the General
Assembly favoring the Brokers bill Tor
the further enslayement of the State
These FIVE members want to strengthen
their positions by putting the Conserva'
tive party in front as a breast-wofk. So
they get together, call in eight or ten
original funders of the legislature, one
e litor of a funding bill newspaper i'll
Richmond, aud three oil four outside
funding bill members, of whom John
L. Mayre, Lieut.. Governor and right
bower Of the iunders in 1871, is Ian
specimen, and issue an address, An
address. too, which neither one oil the
committee wrote. Itsmells all over Of
Richmond ringlsm and to that we may
safely refer for its authorship.
But what we wish more particularly
tonotlce is this: A few months ago an
organization wa. begun in Richmond BY
electinc a state committee and the Is
suance of circulars throughout the State,
calling on the people every where 10
organize for the ensuing clectionS-to
elect members of the next General AS
sembly in favor OF increasing taxes 10
nav the debt as now funded. This par
ty was headed by all conservatives eX-
cent three. Rives, Hughes and WICK
ham. Nearly all OF them were what we
might call prominent members o. the
Conservative party-big fellows, like
Beverly and Dulancy, of FauQuier, and
this same Richmond editor who was
with the committee last week. Thou
sands of those circulars were dissemln-
atcd and party organization Justify call
Cd for. An executive committee was
DESIGNATED and money was appealed lot
to carry out the purposes of the new
marty. Lowell and Spiller and company
opened not their mouths. No address
of warning appeared. The Conserva'
tive party was completely ignored and
the foremost Republicans in the State
were taken into the communion. " All
went merry as marriage bell"
A few weeks ago the readjusters held
a convention and avOwed Their purpose
TO defeat the iunders by organized effort
They re-aflirmed the Conservative plat
form cflSS7 in its own terms and Ian
cuaee and appointed their executive ana
local committees. 10 and behold! an
address appears accommodating Them
n kenmore! O Mores To what baser
nurposes is the Conservative party TO
be put BY the shallow pretenders dlc'at'
mo at The beck and call Of rings and
spectators.
Was the late convention republican
It had neither Rives. Hughes or
wickham in it. TO be sure it had a
delegation of cslored men, but the chlei
ofthese was Conservative whom me
Conservatives Of Halifax had nominal
ed and elected to the legislature Oh the
ticket with Walter Wood, white man,
and 10 opposition to two radical negroes.
Did he not haye more right to recogni-
ton in a Conservative assembly than
Rivcs. Hughes and wickham? What
color of truth is there in the declarations
aud warning Of this Wanted address
We have but two Republican papers IN
Virginia and both Ofthese are denounc-
no the readiuslers' convention and up
holding the Brokers' bill. where, then,
is the scare-crOw Only this and moth
inc more that the readiusters' conven-
ton impressed the funders with the
conviction that their days are numbered
the people did not respond TO their or
canization, and they would sneak out OF
their dilemma between the legs OF a
half dozen members Of the Conservative
committee. They could find willing in
struments in those members of the
committee, who were members OF the
legislature also, because these had voted
for the Brokers' bill which the rcadjust-
ers' convention had exposed and de-
nounced. Alas how sad to think that
we are all accommodated And sad
der still the reflection, by whom? Those
moguls of the PARTY without whom il
could not subsist a month. One OF
them a Senator who read speech from
sheet Of foolscap in which he said he
did not approve Of the Brokers' bill but
voted for it nevertheless, and then ask
ed to adjourn for ) days so the repre-
sentative could 90 and talk to his pco-
pie about the bill. A man so jealous
of the rights of his people that he must
90 to see them Immediately after he had
done all the mischief he could. Oh
Lord deliver:us from the wrath of the
Conservative State Committee aud the
ring! Help. Cassius. or we sink!
Lord Lowell. he stands at the castle cato
4 issuing bulls and decreeing our fate
With Uriak II. Splitter his hat to hold
While Rives and ilughe he baptized in tile fold :
While Echols and 1hns0n and Walker IT ID,
Are standing god fathers to all that j. did
In naming judicial harlOt saint
Whiting the sepulchres without IvES paint:
Iime-washing this aud Lam-blacking that,
The Broker beside. their shoulders t. pat
Aud furnish the basket Of chsmpaigne-the thing
That infuscs the spirit right into the ring
Aud sets them approving Of oil that is writ
Mayre, Lowell, Johnson, Jim walker and Spit
Fxteling cool hundred thousand of voters
Who won't SPEAK for the people and VOTE for the
Brokers.
Oh mercy dispel
You sight az It freezes orr spirit to tell :"
How those statesmen Of" Gooney the Hawksbil
and sich
Must have scratched many places that never did