The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-07-12

-. yvprn, leans WERE NOT REc0G-
xtzgp-TYE FIGHT WITH TIE fuNpths AND
IIs PROBABLE RESULTS
f.o.e,.i corre.pondepce OF the Baltimore
i'' Americana
p,cuvoyp. July Snow that the Con-
ven,ion has adjourned, and the Delegates
have scattered among the DiDety-eight coun-
ties which they represented, 1t IS possio'e 10
arrive at an intelligent Judgment concern
inc the motive which inspired tue hcao-
;ustets in their action, the wisdom OF Tue"
action and the effect which II Is iiReiy 10
have nnon the future fortunes OF the party
I'm regard to the first POM, there
can be no difference OF opinion among
those who listened TO Inc speecues
In Yesterdays assemblage, or markeu
the direction which lis oeIiper','"ns
took under the adroit management OF tne
parfy leaders. Auditor Massey expressed
Il when he said in open convention 'na, u,u
he believe the choice OF Carneld anu Ar
thur ticket would most inure TO the success
OF the ReadjuSters in the coming canpals"
he would unhesitatingly approve II. ceha-
tor Paul defined 1t when he declared II was
vastly more important to the people OF VII.
pinia that the ascendancy Of The Rea1lusters'
party should be maintained than thai any
particular candidate should be elected IRE
sident. And there was scarcely O speaker
on the Conservative side OF the party VINO
did NOT emphasize the fact that The nomna-
tion Of an electoral ticket that would carry
VIRGINIA next autumn and insure victory in
the pubernatoria campaign OF 1881 was
paramount 10 all other considerations
whatsoever. That the Conservative Re-
adiusters. who constituted the ma
ioritv Of the delegates. were IN
diyiduallv in favor Of the Hancock
ticket. and would have lamenied the occur
renee Of ANYTHING 10 make its adoption I'M
practicable. there can be no question; but
had the necessity arisen, il u equally true
that they would have sacrificed their per-
sonal preferences TO the success OF the par
~. Had Genera Grant been nominated at
Chicago, and General Malone judged 1t eX-
Incident to nominate an electoral ticket Ia
yoraLle 10 his candidacy-and il is not dis
pued that he so intended prior TO the meet
ing OF the Chicago COnventiOn-he would
have as surely had the support OF his party
rs Yesterday. when, in the conviction that
the Readiuslers had more to lose than 10
gam BY the recognition OF the Republicans
in the electoral ticket, he ordered the Con-
vention 10 support Hancock and Eng
lish. To those unacquainted with the In
ner workings Of the Convention, 1t may seem
incomprehensible that a man Of Mahone's
powers OF .fneSSe should openly antagonize
his Republican allies by the most arbitrary
use OF gag-Iaw and tactics which he must
have known would incense and disgust ITS
victims. For be doubtless knew as well as
any one else that had the Republican Read
busters been allowed vote on any oil the
propositions looking to a division OF the
ticket, and then had been voted down on
call OF the yeas and nays, the minority
would have been much less likely to turn
away in wrath; and if he did not choose to
permit this concession 10 be made it was
because a greater issue was at stake than
o o,rcili,fion of tho Rouublic1nS