Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1880-07-21
MEsSRs. EDITORS :

~
Grant me space in
your paper to reply TO an editorial IN
the last issue of the Virginian." As
| was instrumental in getting up the
protest to which that editorial alludes,
il is not improper that should reply,
He objects to that protest because ii
purports to being signed by ''many
Others" when all the names signed
were published. This is true, but he is
not aware of the fact tha6 "many
others " requested their names to be
signed to 1t, but it was not done only
because L did not wish to take up space
IN the "HERALD with q list OF
names. Nor is he aware that others
expressed regret that IN opportunity
was not given them TO sign their names
10 that paper. But q much more in
portant fact he might learn II he did
not wlllully shut his eyes to an un-
pleasant truth, that hundreds OF Read
ius:ers, nay, 1t would be more correct
to say every intelligent and patriotic
Readiuster IN the coun ~ will indorse
the sentiments Of that protest. lie
tells us further that he knows several
who will vote, what il suits his purpose
to call the Funder's ticket.' as the case
now stands" l know one young
man q know no o;hcrs) who b.
taunts and jeers from his friends, and
by insinuations that by si2ning thai
paper he had joined the Funders, had
been provoked to say that he wished
he had waited to sec what ticket was
most likely to carry tie State for Han
cock s. English. But what las the
Editor TO say 90 those same friends who
added ,ho infamous falsehood that tbs
man had SAID that l deceived him into
signing that paper, when the truth was
that | had not seen him, and did not
know that he had signed II? lie came
TO me expressing regret and morIiiica'
ton that any one would suppose that
he believed me capable OF an act so
base. l am a Roadjuatcr OF longer
standing than the Vrginian editor, ana
an, surc that bc will DO me the justice
10 believe that l am a Readjusicr be-
cause, and only because l think That a
settlement on the basis of The McCul-
Tough Bill would not be equitable ana
lust. IfGen. Malone and ms hench-
men had been actuatcd by unsclllsh
and patriotic motives, Virginia would
not to-day present spectacle TO the
country that rcjoices every Radical
whilst it saddens every patriotic heart
Fellow citizens Of the Readjuster party
can speak TO you, for l am one OF
YOU. let me lmplOrc you not TO suner
Yourselves TO be dcludcd BY the fatal
error that. single hand, we can beat a
united Radical ticket. How hopeless
would be such an effort! Common
sense will teach us, five but reuem-
Der, that little over forty thousand Is
the utmost that a united Democracy
can clam over Radical party. II rom
tLis We subtract the entire Funder vote
and the Thousands Of Rcadjusters, o.
whom am one, Who will no. ..''~i
their votes toan electoral ticket gotten
ND in a convention composed OF more
than sixty Radicals, black and white
aad Readjustcrs who call themselves
Democrats, but who pcrsistenty re-
fused to identify themselves with the
National Democratic party OF the Unit
ed States. And the time is fast ap-
preaching when We must choose be-
tween this ticket and the cue presented
to US by the only men who represented
the Democratic party Of Virginia at
Cincinnati, and so identified us with the
Democratic party OF the country; and
II have no other desire than that we
may choose wisely.
l2EA DJISIER,