Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-07-28

Of thes, ere likewise before US; ore CT i've SAM
pies will suffice:
At APR! court tho republicans Of Fsark!iu.
10 mass meeting.
"Rcsolrci That wo heartily eudors. tho pro-
passed Independent electoral ticket. and pledge
ourselves 10 stand By rea6iustment and the
fruits OF reajinstucnt. - Wig, April 18th.
o. tic 10Th Of April tho republicans of
Campbell passed resolution that "ae approve
tho Independent electoral ticket" aud then
olec,ed dele gates to the republican, convention st
S auntcr.
The oauaiy Committee Of tho republicans Of
Pfltc, Edward resolved, February oG:h. that
wo Will not icoogn!z, any one hereafter blu!
those who arc or may b, 10 full sympathy with
The eatj1sters in this State. and tho rational
republican party. Wig, Feb 2CM.
So universal vas the assent oftbe republicans
to this schem, that The Wing. commenting on
the republican c5uDty meetings, a largo number
Of which were held 90 Saturday, April lOh,
said 10 its issue Of the l3:h:
Tho rel ublican5 of Firgtia on Saturday, so
far as heard from, proaouace1 Graut their
| favciio for next president, but wisely iudc>ted
their preferences for an irdopsGdeut readiu5er
elt oral ticket over straipht re 2ubc,c ticket,
that can OIL be defeated.
The innIcl'ioa il irresistible that the pr,
&C. OF tho leaders OF The July c)yvoDiOu then
vas an alliance With tho pfgrces Ct Virginia,
knoTn TO DO iJr Grant. 10 su1rCrt ea uppIcdrud
ticket. which, it it supported Gfaot, would have
deceived tho whites. and il il ci got, would
have betrayed tho blacks,
AID the Success Of the scheme was hasud 90
! tho assumption aVowPd by tho Whig May %
that the mi orlIy ct repub icIrs GRO devoted
| real use S.
Tni, rrecicul AID epparsn!y Promising
| schema met Its frs asd most fatal blow OF the
hands ct the reput lican1 themselves, who man.
lles.ed both mare principle and m6ro WIDEN
| than the sc5cmcrs had credited them nitr.
| The repubiioan S:ats con7eution met at
Stauatoo on the DIST ct April, aud these whc
favored the hybrid ticket, led by Colouc j obn
| IL. PopAsr, v.hemeu,y opposed the nomins
ron OF any titk3t there, the plan being that the
j blot Ivantlou ut republic los anG coaselva-
lives to meet 10 Jaly should nomica.e the ua-
pledged tc<et 10 lieu thcrcof. Bu: the repub-
licln convention, notwithstanding their wise
| preferences for az uppletgcd ticket, refused to
.cii6c, their p.lociples or comprcmiso their
party du'y,. cr, what is equally probable, kocw
the proDultrsot the schem. 100 VT Il for imp';ei;
trust ~ HON, add nominated 20 open repub;i
Gao eli coral Iictc.. This was shock ord
surprise to their rCac iusicr aillce, and met at
;helr hands the III ,st furious abuse.
| Commenting 90 this &c 10. Tho Whig Of
April - h ssiG
That i; IS q IAN IS only possible ,xauso.
| TIE republican read lSicr who ntiics by i,
ooasen!s 70 q Iu5Io .u.c dc-invitts the DO y
%hich 20; OILY DIES roys him Is re.G jlltcr. tn:
rs republican"
10 the sine i9uraal Ct Mag 3, the mihrr.ly,
Who favored the Grant Msh)oc s,Atm., were
described Ms 'tho fsilt fol sixty thrao who Wet,
So sham, fatty cheated b. thY grip Suckers 10
| S!aunson.
The chairman tr the rcefiu,ter txccn,isc
c,mnittco o. D-t.t0urf, in an official IN 10 tssto,
dated May ~, TO tho Conservative aud repub
licIo rcacjus'er5 Of Bhctour:," dc,c:ib.d the
ticket terminated by tho Republicans ct SIauu-
ton as "a ca,petSag, scalsHag, Parson.AlIcn,
| iuoder. PvI1ttG or, baboon electoral ticket
i = til; still b9ru ba,tsrd abortion :" spd
ihe Willy CT the next dag recon- nenifd lis sue
sclibeIs to road and circulate TIL Bhctours
proclamation
q i hone was. to8tv,r. DO. yet abapdo1td.
Should Grant BIO nominated at Ctiaaso. there
was still ciapoo to btiog ba, k Tho mt jorts OF
the republicans, aud whlla Chs. was possible
tbs c1slnion was PROMISING. Tho leaders Ho-
c1rdiDglv still held 10 their s,hemo. ard as ltc
Is Ma? 20 I'll, Richmond Wig aououac Il lis
position still 10 DC !hst the electors should Jis
nase {! their votes 10 The clrclcr, college CT
| Virginia to the best advantage oil Virginia, aud
then under the instructions end mlta'icn4 CT
the cotVtn'l)n which should sppciai Them"
"lodted, week later one OF tho electors Al
present on tho July eli C csal ticket noncuoced
| inst he IVES ready. at the order OF tho couvea-
| tiuu OF July, TO support the Ci:c .noa;i nominee
or tho Ch,c,eo u0mincc, or a. uuptds d ticket,
Of 90 independent ticket. or 90 tck!t at oil
Letter Of John s. Wise. M,y27.
Wi!fio lev days tic Chicago Cotv.u!iou
Was held. auc Grant was spuroci from is doors
Chicago 6nishe.l what S:aup!on began. The
| nomioa!ion oil Grant was 40 essential condtion
OF the coalition. That impossible, the scheme
| Jailed, aud We hear no more OF "au ulpltdge
electoral ticket" For Sc months it had bocn
held up as a ccnsummate lo|er OF statesman
| ship. pulsed as re ura to the txinplu CT Off
| toretnhcrs; opnosiirn to it secuted al 40 eri
depcc at o. CO Ct political igncralc, sod debase.
| mcn!; lis triumph c>pGlcn,ly predicted, and
that triumph hailed as first and mighty step
towards the Ic1ttr,iiou Ct the better ,gs Of tho
republic.
10 onc short hour its doom was sealed the
tf1lt to thus purify American politics, TO viz
dloate the wisdom of our ancestors, to restore
the electoral college to its righiiu idCctiouP,
was ANONYMOUSLY abandoted aad the culagits
Of the scheme wcto PROVED to b. as insrc +; aa
the scheme itseIf was dcudiog.
No homes ard Intelligent ct:z,n co rtcAl
these known and resent facts without boug
lolc!d to the cooclu:ion that if their republican
friends had stood ny them at Siaunton, ard
Grant had been dominated o! Chicago. tho
leaders CT the July Convention W uld new be 10
the field with ticket not only not nledgod di,
rcc:ly or indirectly to Hat C ,ck snd English. but
o ticket openly pledged TO 20 ooe, and secretly
pledged TO GRAFT
Does it reed any argument to show that such
men dcstr7o notkirg but indienan. rehnko OF
the hands Of any conservative democrat?
Tho uatinnaI democracy mot ct Ci1ciora'i Oh
the % OF june Not ouy were the July esd
ers conspicuous By their absence ftom that body,
bat paios were taken 10 show tia; they wtra
desiauedly absent.
I'VE ara mere lockers n at Ch'clgo. az We
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