Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1880-07-07
Assistant Republicans.

assistant Republican Convention,
The two parties in Virginia-the
HANCOCK party and the GARFIELD
party-the Democratic party and
the Republican party-have their
electoral tickets already in the field.
The names of the candidates for
electors have been before the peo-
pie of Virginia for weeks, These
electoral tickets were made out at a
time when the Readjustcrs were de-
claring that their July Convention
was to be held for the purpose of
deciding whether they would sup
port the Democratic Or the Republi-
can ticket. The Wig of May IS
mot two months ago-said
"The Rcadjusters may, possibly,
nominate the same men who shall
have been named at CINCINNATI, or
at Chicago; but who they may be
soeSer. they will be the Readjust-
er nominees, and will be voted for
as such by the Readjusters.'
Here was the leading organ of
the Readjusters declaring on the
day before the Democratic State
Convention assembled that its party
had not yet decided whether it
would nominate electors pledged to
the Republican Or the Democratic
candidate for President; and yet this
party proposes to come in at this
late day and be recognized as the
Democratic party of Virginia, and
that its electors shall be voted for
as the Democratic electors ? We
don't know that it is even now Ger
tain that there will not be goodly
number of CARRIED men this in as
sistant Republican Convention,
On the Doth Of May the Wig
said
SIN their convention Of the 9TH
of July, with the defeat Of Funder-
ism as the principal object, while
not neglectful of a national affairs,
they will SO shape their policy as
will secure to the people of Virginia
there rightful government OF the
State, as distinguished from the
government of the outside world,
and as to render sure the ulti-
mate triumph the great cause OF
readjustment against all the jobs OF
brokers and their i'under allies.
The "outside world here spo-
ken of is, of course, the National
Democratic party, or the Govern
ment of the United States. The
idea is that the July Convention
will be governed in its action by
paramount regard for whatever will
secure Readjuster success in Vir-
ginia, and will consider the interests
OF the Democratic party Of the I'm
ion as secondary to the welfare of
the Rcadjuster party OF this State.
Is that party to come before the
voters Of Virginia and claim that
their assistant republican electoral
ticket is the genuine Democratic
ticket "a party which ayows its
to make national issues
secondary to local ones ? What
more could Tammany Hall do
And what would be thought of
JOIN KELLY if he should now put
forth a new electoral ticket in New
York, because the one named by !
the regular Democratic Convention
at Syracuse last Spring has no
Tammany men upon it ? Where
is there one Democrat in the Union |
who would justify such conduct
And if it would be inexcusable and
unjustihable in JOHN KELLY, will a
like course be accounted excusable |
and justifable in General MALONE?
Hardly, And we think that Gen,
MALONE cannot but know that he
will be regarded as disorganizer
and bolter by every true Democrat
in the United States should he put
forth an assistant Republican tick
1T in the guise of a second HANCOCK
electoral ticket =?
That General MALONE was in
sympathy with the utterances of
he Wing, there can, we suppose,
be no reason to doubt. His most
rusted friend in Richmond is, we
presume, Mr.. JOHN S. WISE, the
Readjuster candidate for Congress in
his district, who, in a letter to that
ournal, published a week or two
lfter the Democratic electoral ticket ;
lad been put into the field, said: