The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-09-24


. CtuesnssASi, invited ell persons - partici'
MN ID 90 primary meetings whe INTENDED
I. supbsrt the nominees Of the Cincinnati
QoIxtAtion. Thls invitation was Of course
fndWu 10 have been 30 worded for the pur-
nose q allowing and indscing the re
slhpstes to take part in ow meetings ans
40sutify themselves with the Democratic
sarty in the prvstacntial election. Bat toere
v,erc seversl Nshoueises on the StstcCen-
v,.l Conms,tcc who taen, as ROW, were
more auxsous % plcsse their "iMtaful al.
lies y sne negroes 1aan TO do aught to
proy,ee FOR tue Success Of the Democratic
candidate Ter President OF tse United
ststry. Dr. r. A. WISE and Mr.. J. T. sro-
YAH. manifested 10 the messing which
c,Nea The Corfsention senss anxiety To
kuoys whether the terms of the call III
~toded The negro voters. Speaking for assi-
Nm, and for nobody else, though e"ery
man syresent could see $aat he answered
correctly, Ccsonei DoSE Tephed 10 the at
1armstiye. This was very important mat
Ter FOR u. 4. SroyASs, whose boFes OF
.snttiuv to'Uongress are based upon cue ex-
;nrctat.ou that the negroes will vote for
min. andswho now hes ii. CLAY HAs'Rts ana
other impudent negroes elec,ioneering ios
him--J. II. SrovaxL, In whose interest TIE
Repub.tcan Convention which met al ban
vile tsr other day adjourned without ncmi-
mating any caadiCate for Congress-v. L.
.srovArx. for whose election II. CLAY HAR-
N and we
might say almost sill the bitterest Radicals
In THE Filth congressional district, are
now working 'constantly. 1t YVES also
very important matter to Or. II. A.
WssE, who A. the same meeting OF the
Conservative State Central Committee
declared that as between TTLsEs and GRANT
he would vote for GRANT II be voted for
seither. Tscse are the men who asked
whether the call for the Democratic State
.Conyention'w permit negroes to par
,ticipate inSthe primary meetings, and they
are the men to whom Colonel DUKE's an
Sbeing present by the cour;esyNof the CON-
mittee) that Colonel Duke had been little
demoralized by his battles with Mr. MASSEY,
and had answered too readily and too conf
IDENTIFY; but we could not deny the fact that
his answer was borne out by the phraseolo-
gy OF the call.
Nevertheless, 1t Is mere trffling with the
public to pretend that the language OF that
cal: bad any such effect upon the negroes as
would have resulted from the adoption OF
plan OF primary election which would have
allowed them to choose presidential electors
for the Democrats. 1t is one thing to per-
init afew Democratic negroes to come into
meetings OF white men, and participate In
them, and have voice merely in selecting
white delegates TO a convention OF white
Democrats, and another thing TO allow
the whole mass OF the negroes to turn
out in force and select the candidates
of the Democratic party for the high
position Of elector OF President OF
the United States. The two propositions
are rs different as any t~o could well be.
Whilst the call included nobody except
voters who intended 10 good faith to sup
port the nominees Of the Cincinnati Conven'
tiou, the proposition Of the MALONE CON-
mittee required no pledge Of anybody, white
or black, but provided for allowing every
body to vote who would by uoting pledge
himself to support the nominees OF the Gin
cinnsti Convention.
The best evidence as TO how the call for
the Democratic State Convention was IN
derstood Is to be found IN the fact that not
a negro delegate was In that Convention
aud II in any county any negroes partici-
pated in the primary meetings which APP
pointed the delegates we are not aware OF
the fact. But it Is not material. The DEM
-ocratic Convention was white mans Con- |
vention; had not negro in it; appointed
no negro committeeman, and 10 word
was as free from Negro influence As the Gin
ciuuati Convention itself. The July Con.
veniion had not only Republicans. but
negro Republicans in it, and not few |
only, but some forty, fifty, or sixty.
1t follows, then, that though the Conser- |
vatives were excussbie for wording their |
call as they did last spring, yet after seeing |
the.July Convention, It would have been an |
inexcusable biunder in our State Central
Committee to have allowed a proposition
for O Democratic primary election to be so
worded as to provide that negroes should
Totein such election. And, in fact, or |
committee did take warning from the past,
and act accordingly. They said never a
word about negroes as such In their propo-
sitlon; but Of course as it was so worded !
Is to exclude all except Democrats, and as
there are1ew or no negre Democrats, the |
committee took sufficient precautions to |
prevent our candidates fer electors from |
being selected by negroes.
The .pretence, therefore, that the conduct |
Hast week Of the MALONE committee can be |
justified by appealing to the hboraiity of |
fbe,cslI issued by the De@ocratic Central |
Committee for a State Convention, is moth
ing but pretence. Ii Is " toe chi" to de-
ceive even the most verdsnt OF Demo
erats. But the fact that the Msh0netes are
thus sendeavor,rg to justify their course
should teach the regular Democrats to press
them on this poiat. They are sick OF the
phrase "sailhfnl sllies," however willing
they may be to raceiye help from those
"faithiul allies" Let us give them no
rest 1t Is utter folly for any democrat
to expect assistance for his party from
the negroes. Let these go to the Ma
homeless, aud let us reclaim FROM the
Mabohaites oil the whites who do trulg de-
a ali Ss<~.. >g