Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1880-08-04

and those who favored the hybrid
ticket. led by Colonel John r. Popham,
yehcmently opposed tbs nomination Of
any ticket there, the plan being That the
ioint convention of Republicans and
Conservatives to meet in July should
nominate the unpledged ticket in lieu
thereof. But the Republican Conven-
ton. notwithstanding their rise prefer
encc for an unpledyed ticket, refused to
sacrifice their principles or compromise
their party duty, or, what is equally
probable, knew the promoters OF the
scheme too we'll for implicit trust in
them, and nominated an open Il pl5li-
can electoral ticket. This was shock
and a surprise to their Rcadjuster allies,
and met at their hands the most furious
abuse.
Commenting on this action, the WAig
Of April Doth said:
"That it IS a sham is It's only possible
excuse. The Republican Readjustcr
who abides by it consents 10 double
suicide-invltes the blow which not on
" destroys him as Readjuster, bHt as
a Republican,"
In the same journal of May 3D. the
minority, who favored the Ggant-Aia-
hone scheme, were described as "thc
faithful sixty.throe, who were so shame
fully cheated by the Grip-Sacker5 in
Staunton."
The chairman Of The Readjustcr Ex-
ecutlve Committee of Botetourt, IN an
official manifesto, dated Nay 10Th, "to
the Conservative and Republican Read
ius.ers Of Botctourt," described the
ticket nominated by the Republicans at
Staunton as "a Carpet-bas, Sca.a"ag
Prson-Alleu, Fdndrr, PoudcXter,
Baboon electoral ticket; this
stubborn bastard aborlion"; and lhc
Wig Of the next day recommended its
subscribers to read and circulate this
Botetourt proclamation!
All hope was, however, not y9t aban-
doncd. Should Gran! Grant be noml~
mated at Chicago, there was still a
chance to bring back the majority 0!
the Republicans, and while that was
possible the coalition was promsnc.-
The leaders accordingly still held to
their scheme, and as late as May 20lh
the Richmond Wing announced lis po-
sition still to be that the electors
should dispose Of tier rotos in the
Electoral College Of Virginia TO tie
best advantage of Virginia, and then
under the instructions aud limitations
Of the Convention which should APP
point them"
Indeed, week. later one ofthc elec-
tors at present on the July electoral
ticket announced that he was ready, at
the order of the Convention 81 JIly, to
support the Cincinnati nominee, or the
Chicago nominee, or Al unpledtcd
ticket, or an iniepcnl,n. ticket, or no
ticket at all. Letter Of John ). WISE,
May eth.
Within few days the Chicago Con-
ventlon was held, and Grant was spurn-
ed from its doors. CHICAGO finished
what Staunton began. The nomination
o? Grant was an essential condition OF
the coalition. That impossible, The
scheme failed. and we hear no more OF
ian unpledsed electoral ticket" For
SIX months 1t had been hcldup as a con
summate flower of craftsmanship, prais
ell as a return to the example OF oul
forelathers; opposition to it secuted as
an evidence at once Of political igno
rance and debasement its triumph
confidently predicted, and that triumph
hailed as first and mighty step to
wards tie restoration Of the better day
Of the Republic.
In one short hour its doom was seal
ed; the effort 10 thus purify American
politics. to vindicate the wisdom Of ou
ancestors, to restore the Electoral Col
legc to its rishtfnl furctions. was ignO
mlniously abandoned, and the eulogie
Of the scheme were proved 10 be sin
sincere as the scheme itself was de
ludIng.
No honest and intelligent citizen ca
recall these known and recent fact
without being forced to .he conciusio
that if their Republican friends ha
stood by them at anton, and Gran
, had been nominated at Chicago, tn
leaders of the July Convention woul
now be Ia the field with a ticket ne
. only not pledged directly or indirectl
to Hancock and English, but a tick
= openly pledged to no one, and secret
C pledged 10 Grant.
y Does it need any argument to sho
I tha; such men deserve nOt'iluS Dnt II
, dgnant rebuke at the hands Of any Cor
servativc Democrat?
C The National Democracy met at Cir
, cinnati on the 22d of June. Not on
n were the July leaders conspicuous /
# their absence from that body, but pam
l were taken TO show that they wer
designedly absent.
n "We are merely lookcrs-on at Oh
:. cago, as we will be at Cinclnnatl,' sal
1t the Wing ofJune Sd.
II Two months before (April 5th) Il
: same paper had announced its positio
: to be "an utter refusal to recognize al
i Democratic or Republican authority.
The National Convention met ar
It nominated the exalted and patriot
Y citizens in whose Lands the STANDARD
l. .... ..o,.t,- "a / o11 opd fha Cnnonryatiy Y