The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-09-02

The following comes to US from geate'
man whom we have known only as an OPP
moment OF Nil propositions to compromise
with the Resdiuster party. We were, OF
course, surprised 10 receive such 'et'er
from such man. lie Is a gentleman, TOO
~ sueh stapding In the community IN
which he resides, as well as 10 the state,
that we cannot but cali attention TO his let
ter. II speaks the wishes Of one OF the
truest Democrats as we'll as one Of the most
btgh.toned gentlemen Ia Virginia:
fFor the Dispatch.]
Save the State. and 80 save the Unio"'
No cool.hesded and candid Conservative
| can deny that the disseusions 10 MS party
on the question of the State debt excite In
his mind the gravest apprehension tnat the
electoral vote OF Virginia may by minor
| ity of her citizens be cast not TOR Hancock,
the choice III the majority, but Tor Garhe'o,
the choice, OF all her worst enemies. Ana
as this " ould make difference OF tmsnty.
fspo soles in the aggregate OF the votes oi
all che states, nothing 10 more prooaoie
thss that Il would decide the next presi-
d.ntial election in favor OF the RepuD'Ican
candidate. -
! The consequences VI SUN ft'''e "
ttbe cause and maintenance OF constitu-
ltional government can be looked to by any
friend of that cause with feelings OF only
horror and despair for it will give an ap-
parent sanction by the people to oil the cor
ruptions, usurpations, and expressions OF
the past twenty years.
Cannot such calamity be avoided by
some plan by which the whole Conservative
marty OF Virginia may beat least Tor TINS
purpose--retinited and consolidated L
think so. The following has been suggest
ed TO the writer by one OF the most promi-
pent men in the state, who has ever been
foremost champion OF the Conservative
party and OF the rights and honor OF the
State. The more have reflected on u tne
! more forcibly have been Impressed WIN It's
merits and practical efficiency. III Is Ids /:
1. Let IL be agreed by the Executive Com
mittee OF the Debt-Paying and the Re-
adjuster divisions OF the party, with the
consent OF the electors chosen by each, that
the names OF all those electors-they bav-
ing each previously pledged themselves TO
vote i'm any event for Hancock and Eng
hsh-shall be placed In an ordinary jury
box, and drawn therefrom by one or more
persons agreed on by the two Executive
Committees the first two names to be voted
for by all Conservatives In the state as Inc
two electors at large for the State, and the
nine next names drawn to be voted for as
the other electors; or the eleven names first
drawn to be without distinction voted for
as the eleven electors TO which the State IS
entitled.
Q. Let this proposal be at once made by
the Executive Committee Tor its chaIrman)
Of the Debt-Paying party to the Executive
Committee of the ReSdiuster party. with
the request for prompt reply TO 1t, ana at
the same time let it be municated to the
National Executive Committee OF the DEM
ocratic party, with the request for their APP
proval and recommendation OF IT.
Should il be rejected by the Executive
Committee of the Readiuster party-a con-
tingency not to be presumed-such relec-
ton of so fair a proposal would more than
ANYTHING which could happen dsorganiZe
their party and transfer its voters to the
ranks of the Debt-Payers' Conservative
party, and so consolidate the true and re-
| liable Conservatives OF the State on the
electoral ticket nominated by the May Con-
veDtion.
To this plan it may be objected that the
| Executive Committees have not been In
vested with the authority which they are by
this plan required to exercise. But this OBJ
lection may be avoided by the agreement OF
| all the electors that all OF them VINO snaii not
he chosen as proposed by lot viii at once
resign their positions, and then both ETecu'
| tue Committees can in the regular exercise
of their legitimate po,cers appoint the
eieven so chosen by lot as the electors to be
voted for by all Conservatives in the State.
By this plan neither division Of the party
will be required TO surrender or compro-
mise any principle, and neither can claim
| IN baya ovorcome or Welded to the other,
Both will have only agreed that merely
ministerial function and service which both
profess to desire performed shall be per-
formed by those who are the agents and
servants of neither division OF their COM
mon party more than Of the other. III both
sincerely desire the success OF that party,
neither can object to such means OF Sc
curing its success, and Of saving the coun-
try from the direful fate which its other
wise probable defeat would bring upon it.
| VIRGINIAN.