The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-08-10

troll Of the state government, and the conse'
oueut fair dealing OF that government IN
lie prjuciples OF conduct towards defence
less Republican minority. Nor VIII inc
inheritance ~ this conference be In any de-
gree diminished should the result In Octo-
her. be such rs 10 break The neck oil tue
Democratic party aud end the campaign OF
Hancock as inglorionsiy as poor Mr. tree
ley's was ended In 1872, or AZ Mr.. Tndens
would have been II he had failed OF carry
ing Indiana four years ago. In that event
the one hundred or five hundred leading
Republicans of Readiuster syml'atn'es cotl.
nostng this convention or conference mlSht
In all reasonable probability arrange Tor Sc
curing part, II not the whole, OF the
electoral vote for their candidate. In The
face Of Republican triumph who can tel
what the situation would bring forth
What n previously 10 that time the Ma
tjoual Democratic Committee should nave
too,isbly pronounced in favor OF Inc Bour'
| bon ticket and issued their edict OF eNcoth,
munication against the rebel Mahohe anu
his insurgeni followerss The BourtonS are
tie regulars unquestionably, and the Demo
cratic authorities must so decide whenever
called on. But II Hancock's managers
should rcpudiate Malone and his party,
think you for a moment they would not oe
struck back at? All, we guess so.
Indeed, we are very sure the Readlusters
feel but little concern about Democratic
victory in this nation at the present hour
WHY should they, even II they carried TIC
state, trouble themselves to organize a IittlC
college of electors at the Capitol mere anO
go through the farce Of casting the vote o.
The State for a defeated candidate? III we
A.
for the great State OF Georgia declined to
trouble themselves over vain effort to elect
Mr.. Greeley, and he having been over
whelmingly defeated they abstained, either
i'm whole or part, from. voting. We are by
no means certain but the Readiustcrs here
NAV do in certain contingencies - the Geor
eians did. Surely any interference by the
leutenants Of Hancock 10 the injury OF theiT
canvass would absOlve them from all obliga
ton TO give him the vote OF the State, even
though with'it he might have 4 majority In
the Electoral College. Bat without further
speculation, prognostication, or prophecy
we will simply say that by the 10th day OF
October our next President will have been
substantially elected. Nights candles by
that time will have burnt out, and the misty
mountainous of the East and North be
lighted up with the blaze of Republican OF
Democratic victories in the great West
Then will be the time for grand convo
cation OF earnest, determined Repub
hcans, by whose conclusions the buIs
of their party will stand. But nothing less
than an assemblage Of the character de-
scribed-representative men fresh from the
peopie-would have any effect on The pub
lie mind. No committee Of the party would
for moment answer the demands OF such
an occasion. Neither Senator LewiS's COM
mittee, nor General Wickham's. nor even
Secretary A. A. Splitter would, we sup
pose, venture at such momentous and
periious time to give direction TO the popu-
lar will. We, therefore, advise conven-
ton or conference Of some formal or au-
thoritaiive sort to meet i'll the city OF Rich
mond or Petersburg on or about the time
named. aud we earnestly Invite the con-
sideration of Republicans in every section
of the State to this important proposition.