The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-02-14
n. penuDlican Party in virginia.

The Valley ViraiFtoa charac'er'Ses Gen
80, u,uoxx,s proposition to run en- mae
ncndent electoral ticket In virginia as '"'
widest poIitics, movement ever suggest
edv The same paper appeals 10 kepuo-
r,c.ns 20 stand to their colors, and ngn'
. ,nder the banner which represents tner
principscs.n This latter II does after an
rou.cine that the Southern insslligercof,
Richmond journal, edite d by a leading Re
nuh,Icau, has come out for this "ws'uest
nautical scheme ever suggested" Tue
Y;rsinicn In stlll ano'. her article advises the
ssilttIe tomtit politj clans " EConserfa'iSesj
q vho run the mac hine" to make terms
with General MALONE while they cen.
The Republican party IS in much grea'er
danger OF disints grafton than Is the Con-
xeryatiye party. Soon after the November
election was over, and 1t bad come to hgh'
,h,, 60 many Of the negroes had voted with
the Readiusters, we saw that the kepuDh'
can marty was in danger OF going to pieces
On the 4th OF December we sad:
ave 90 en- 70 ask what Is TO become OF
the Republican parry; Whence are 70 CONF
the voters Chat up 10 Novc'noer last haue
M that organization: II IS none OF our
ficbt now 1t has passed over from Tue
Conservative d tIe Republican party. ine
Conservative psety is essentially ""'e
mans party.
"Tbe new psr-ty must necessarily oe com
posed largely q; negroes The new party
and the Republican party may fight Tor rue
negro cote. As for W, we shall stand upon
the ole ways.'
A, that time the Republicans were
elauehng AL over" at the prospect OF
pernnnent division in the ranks OF tue ooh'
sarvst,ye .vnrty. They had no idea *heh
,bev declared that " somebody's loot was
hurs,i,ov that IL was "the foot " OF tne
ReoubI,can party. AT that time, 100, II
was supnosed that nearly all the leading
white Republicans sympathized with the
Debt-Payers rather than with the Read
busters, The SOU bern Inteuigencer had
not then come out for an alliance with GEN.
erel MALONE. We merely accepted. the
logic OF events as an indicator OF what was
TO come in the near future.
Vow, how stands the case? The negroes
I'm Richmond seem to be almost equally
divided between the Republicans and the
ReSdinstcrs. InTain do the white managers
for SHERMAN and BLAINE try TO recall them
fe their allegiance. General MALONE is TO
Sambo, II not ga bigger man than old
GRANT" az eny rate bigger man than any
of the "tomtit politicians " of the Republic
can party IT, Virginia. Throughout the
State the same condition Of rebellion against
the wire-workers Of the Republican party
may exist so far as we know. We can only
5udge from what we see going on amongst
the negroes CT this city, and from the course
OF the thirteen negroes in the General As
sembly. These black allies OF the Read
justers appear to be well pleased with
their new party associates and manifest
no disposition to return to their allegiance
10 the Republican party. If they know and
correctly represent the feeling OF the ne
groes at home, then much more confidently
can we say now than we said last Deem
Der that il is none OF our fight. "lt has pass
ed over from the Conservative to the Re-
publican party And as the Conservative
party is essentially white mans party, The
Democratic electors will receive the votes
OF nearly all the white men. and leave the
ncgIv ,vtc to be split into two parts nearly
equal rs between General GRANT and Gen
eral MALONE,