The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-08-10
Campaign Documents

We have been requested 10 reproduce,
for the benefit OF whom it may concern, the
following editorial from the Richmond
Wing of July IA, 1880. Recolect that this
editorial appeared a week after the meeting
OF the eth of July Convention. The Wing
said:
"Wbat in thunder has the National Dem
ocratic Committee got TO do with us, or we
with itg That committee may deal with
the Funders as it please, SO that it do not
therebv assume 10 meddte lriM the Re
adjusiers. The less IL has to do in that
,c6y the better. Mind it!
1--WE are not standing on any National
Democratic platform. We are not pa.
rading ralsely) under the National
| Democratic name and banner. We are
not supporting the Democratic nOmi.
nees, nor the Cincinnati nominees. No!
We are the Resdjuster party OF Vir-
GINA. We stand squarely on the Read
| iuster platform, AMI ace are fighting Fund
ers, no matter lchether they call themselves
Democrats or Republicans. And we sup
port the Readiuster nominees for Presi-
| dent-Hancock and English-and for them,
through the electoral ticket appointed by
the R,ahjusters in State Convention on the
| Itn Oh July, We lutcnu " @"9V 'ho WV va
| Virginia.
"When we wish anything from the Ma
tioral Democratic Committee we shall APP
Div for it. We shalt be needed uhen zee
do."- Richmond Wing, July 14th.
[Tbe italics are the wings own.]
As an appropriate accompaniment OF the
above, we copy from The Southern LntetR
qencer-which OF course our readers know
TO be the only Republican paper printed ID
the capital OF Virginia-tbe following arti
Gle, as it appeared in its issue OF yesterday
We let the Democrats OF Virginia make
their own comments. We remind them
however, that Colonel POPHAM, its editor
is one Of the shrewdest politicians in thu
Republican party. II his party wonld fol
low his advice, it would almost always dc
the wisest thing possible for itself.
[From the Richmond Southern Intelligencer, Au
----.-. gust 8, 1901
AN OCTOBER CONVENTION OF REPUBLICANS
LET 1T BE HELD.
The editor OF this journal has in his pos
I session number Of letters from Republi
can friends in various localities asking what
under the circumstances is best TO be done
for the efectuation OF one great object In
the impending presidential conflict-to wit
the defeat OF the regular CoDservative-De.
mocratic Bourbon electoral ticket in thi,
State. He has advised all such inguirers to
await developments, promising that the first
moment after reaching conclusion himself
they should be fully and honestly advised
in the premises to the best Of his judy.
ment and ability. The time he feel;
has come for him to redeem that promise,
and accordingly he counsels that a conven
ton or conference Of Republican friends
10 the number OF five or more from each
county I'm the State, shalt meet in this city
ON or about the 10Th OF October next fol-
| final determination as TO what should he the
course OF that part OF the Republican party
in Virginia that honestly means TO give
neither directly or indirectly any aid OIL
comfort to the Bourbon Democrats OF he
STATE, preierrlng the policy aud rule OF Ma
hone In all matters, national and Stite to
the continued abuse, injustice. and oppres
sion OF their old masters and tyrants. 1t Il
now known that the great cam
paigu conference OF Republican mana
gers which has Just been held IN New
York decided exactly as this Journal advised
q month ago, 10 begin no active Canvass on
behalf Of their presidential ticket Ia any
souihern State Hniil after the October etec-
lions In Ohio and indiana. Whether Gar.
| field or Hancock Gill be elected to the pre-
sidency In November we cannot now know,
but by the 10th day OF October we shall
have heard the thUader OF enough guns In
the great West TO tell us the side on which
IL the heaviest artillery. Should the result
then and there be such as TO foretell The de-.
feat OF Garfield, this conference, assent bling
inst at the right moment. can see II, take
counsel of iis consequences, warn their peo-
pie a. home OF what Is TO come, and, BY Join
Ing the " Independents this year 10 crush
out the regulars" insure next year to
their friends OF The Liberal party the con,