National Republican., 1880-03-09
POLITICS IN THE SOUTH.
The Feeling Everywhere in Favor
of General Grant.
Effect OF tho Readjusters' Movement in Nir-
ginin-Ton or Twelve County Meetings
ueld-All Declare for Grnnt-Colo-
mel irady's Card-A Georgia
Declaration Against Sec
rciary Sherman.
Position of sher,nau's virginia Leader.
RICHMOND, March 8, 1850.


To The Editor Of The National Republican,:
SIR: The action of Collector Brady, Of tho
Petersburg Internal Revenue district, in sun
porting the "Riddlobcrgcr Debt bill" on last
Monday night in the Legislature has caused
great indignation among the Republicans of
that section. The Shermanites SAY that if
Colonel Brady has made bargain with
Mahouo las TO the "Iudependcnt electoral
ticket") they cannot support Sherman for the
nomination; as tho Colonel Is known and
recognized to be Sherman's leader and organ.
iz3r in Virginia.
The Sherman mon here have been very
much exercised about the presence during this
week of cX.Congressman James II. Plat, jr.
They claim that he was here in the interest
Of Blaine, but your correspondent IL assured
that he was down here attending to private
business only. Tho Grant boom" in this
State is on the increase During the last week
meetings have been held in ten or twelve
counties, and each aud every one OF them hayo
declared unanimously for Grant.
In conversation yesterday with one Of the
most prominent Republican members of our
last Legislature, and who IL one of the most
influential cOlorcd Republicans in Eastern Vir.
gnia, he said. that while he was for Sher.
man, he had found that it was as impossible
to send Sherman delegate to the StauntOn
convention as IL would bo to send a sky
rocket to the moon; that in his, as well rs
every other county in his Congressional dis
trct, ninty out of every hundred were
for Grant, and would send Grant delegates to
the convention, and that If he dared to on.
pose the Grant movement In his district, ho
was satisfied that he would lose all the inlu-
cmCo he now possessed"
In the Wing Of the 4th appeared the follow
ing:
COLONEL BRADY SPEAKS FOR HIMSELF.
"To The Editor of The Wig;
RICHMOND, March 81, 1880.
SIN order that my position upon the recent
action of the General Assembly on the dobt
bill may not hereafter be msquoted ask per.
mission to say in your paper that / knew
nothing of the contemplated movement until
last week, when in Washington learned that
another debt bill would in n few days be in
troduccd in tho House of Delegates, and my
informant stated that it would likely pass, as
he understood that u combination had been
formed between the Republican members
aud the Fundeis. A day or Two after |
saw by the kilograms in the New York papers
that Mr. Ross Hamilton had introduced tho
bill which has attracted SO much attention
returned to Virginia on Friday night last,
and on being consulted by some leading col.
ored members of tho Legislature, l advised
them to remain true and firm to their prom.
ises and pledges to the Read justers, and not
to support the Hamilton substitute.
also wish to say that am clearly of the
opinion that it is to the interest of the credi.
tors to accept of the terms proposed by tho
RiddlCbcrger bill, and in saying this do not
yiold any of my convictions upon the Debt
question. Respectfully, JAMES d. BRADY"
Your correspondent can well believe that
Colonel Brady has not yielded any OF his con.
vcions on the debt question:" as 1t is well
known that he sent the money to bring from
Washington tho chairman of county and
district committee, so as to secure tho nOmiul-
ton of n "readjustng, repudiuting" candidate
for the Virginia Senate, and then used his in
huence to secure the election of that candi-
date. In the Legislature that Senator has
bccn one of the most extreme of the ere
pudiationists." Does Sherman indorse Brady?
1t is believed here that Brady is working to
succeed Jorgensen in tho next Congress, aud
that he has received assurances of support
from the Readjuster leaders. CoNFED.