The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-08-30

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COCK WINS A vICToRY-sHALL We re CON
T1SUE THE PUBLIC seHeo f-puTssNoNf
BUT TRUEANDTRIEDM MEN The GEM
RAJ AssEMBLY-AN INVISIBLE PARTY
WHERE DID OUR MONEY so9-PERsoNAL
AMBITION. -
We do not know what to call these fel-
lows who want again to read1ust tEe DEBT.
We were Rpsdjuster until the settlement
was made; now we go for standtnR up 10
the bargain. Are we not. legally pouha anu
honor bound? And besides, is 1t not 10 OUT
interest to abide blythe agreement! II
seems to us that the man VINO goes apou !.
trying 10 get another reada Is !ar gu
OF the line OF duty to bis country. Never
theless, IL he Is sincere We respect nlm
but il be is not honest in his convictions,
and ia merely after Office, the people ought
to spew him out OF their mouths. When the
people see man get up to speak and they
believe that he does not utter his real sentl-
ments they ought TO shut their ears against
him. We can hear man politely who is IN
favor OF wIping out the whole debt II we
are satisfied that he is sincere; but when we
are persuaded that he is trying to gull the
people we leave him in disgust. what Is
worse than demasoeue ?-DdnviAe lameS.
-sr BOCOCK'S GRAND SPEECH.
We have heard Bolts, Wise, Tyler. Doug
las. Baldwin, and many other OF the Ia
nous Virginians OF the last quarter CEN
tury, but we have rarely, ii ever, heard q
grander appeal or more overwhelming ar
gument than that of the Hon. Thomas S.
Bococl at Palmyra Monday; and it was
opfy what those who knew this noble old
Roman expected. BY argument unanswer-
able he proved that the increase Of taxation
is unnecessary, that the provisions OF the
bill can he met, the schools maintained, and
an the expenses OF the State government
promptly paid.-ScottsviH Courier.
SHALL WE HAVE SCHOOLS?
Is it the wish Of our people that the pub
lie schools be opened and kept open? I'm
doubtedly it is. Why, then, have not the
schools been running in accordance with
the law? Because tho large amount OF in
terest required to be paid under the old
funding hill did not, after being paid, leave
enough OF the revenue to carry them OH pro-
perly. Does the present McCuiloch bill rem
edy the evil? 1t does, giving to the school
fund the sum OF S497, 1926, the amount ne
cessary to run tue schools, with surplus OF
s320,031.21.
What would be the result II the DIcCul-
loch bill were repealed, as the agitators
would have it Why, we would be thrown
back upon the old funding bill and be COM
PEELED to pay six per cent. interest instead
Of three per cent. The public schools, which
are row on a highway 10 prosperity, would
again he hampercd. probably discontinued.
abingdon Standard.
THE TEST.
In the approaching elections the vital IN
terests Of the Conservative party demand
that every consideration save availability,
integrity, and capacity, should be ignored.
Neither our party nor it's friends can afford
at this juncture to allow personal aims or
the aspirations OF any man to stand i'll the
way Of our party's success.
The test for othce should be. Is the candi-
date good and loyal Conservative and a
man Of truth, honor, and capable OF per-
forming the duties Of the office! and, next,
Is he the strongest man that can be named
in his locality aud section fredericksburg
Recorder.
- AND so SAY THEY ALL.
The boilers have county superintend-
ent but the party is invisible, says Il dis
ratch from Farmville in regard to the large
mass convention OF Cumberland county
Conservatives on Tuesday last.
party is INVISIBLE Fredericksburg Ne,cS.
HOW OUR MONEY WAS SPENT.
The Virginia ReadiusterS, with a view
to strengthening their cause, are wont TO
cite the fact that number OF the southern
States have reSdiusled their debts. But
they are careful TO say nothing about the
fact that in every such case large portion
Of the indebtedness Of the States in QueS.
taI hx. IN
and not for the benefit OF the people. while
every dollar Of our debt was created before
the war by legislatures constituted Of our
own citizens, elected by our own white
people, and invested in the State for the
benefit OF the Commonwealth in the con-
struction OF railroads, canals, turnpikes,
asylums, &C., not q dollar Of it going into
the pockets Of carpct-basgers and knayes
such rs got control OF the States south OF
us after the great war.-Lynchturg Vtr-
1inidn.
PERSONAL AMBITION.
This agitation is kept up purely for per-
sonal ends and private advancement, by
men who we'll know that il this question is
settled it settles them and their hopes of po-
litical preferment for all time. Hence their
agitation Of the debt question, which they
hope to keep open and thus ride into pow
er-which, after all. is what they desire, re-
CARELESS OF the welfare of the State and the
unity Of the Conservative party, only hO-
ping to be able to deceive and delude the
people so as to secure their own success.
But The people, being forewarned OF their
purpose, will be forearmed, and will rise IN
majesty and show that they are not to be
made blind dupes OF to secure the success
of set Of men at such cost to themselves
as the upseiting of the compromise Dali
would bring ahout.-FaT7HuiHe journal.
TAMMANY's MANrFEsTo.-[speclal aus
patch to the Washington PoSt. !-Neao
York. August 2s.-The manifesto OF TAN
many against the nomination OF Governor
Robinson, published yesterday, ltis thousht
hy well.iniormed politicians OF both par.
tics. nuts him out OF the field. Almost all
tho members OF the executive committee
stoned il: indeed all that were present in
the CITY, and this number includes nine
;tenths OF the organization. John Kelly did
not speak for himself alone, therefore, but,
at least, for forty thousand Democrats in
New York. The address is admitted by the
Robinson wing to be unobjectionablc 80
far as it's phraseology is concerned, and yet
It is very damaging in It's facts. "Judge