Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1880-08-04

peace 10 OH COuhbiJ'
In all this enthusiasm the July Leads
ers took no part. As they had con-
sstently denounced all allegiance to or
association with the National Demo-
cracy. as they had long been and then
were courtlng the aid of, and laboring
for co operation with, the Republican
party. as they were on the eve OF meet.
lug with them in q State Convention,
enthusiasm over, or even IN the mildest
endorsement Of Hancock and English
wonld have been both a deceit and a
danger; and the most that could have
been safely yentured vas the position
formulated in the Wig Of June 2Sth'
when, speaking Of our nominees, IL
said:
"PossiJly The July Convention may
order their names to be inscribed on
our banner, in which case we Shall
obey"
That Convention met. 1t was called
to order by General Malone. the puta-
tive father Of the "unpledgcd-clecIoral-
ticket" scheme, and who has been
publicly and notoriouslY, and without
denial, charged with purpose to c arrJ
fhe State for Grant. It's temporary
chairman was II. II. Riddlebersor, who
declared on the floor Of the Convention
that he "had no eulogy 10 pass on Han
cockand English" 1t contained with
N it between sixty and seventy known
Republican delegates, Of whom forty
were negroes. No praise Of our can
dldates or cause was heard throughout
lis sessions. It's platform contains no
denunciation Of Republican crimes
against liberty and the South, and no
real endorsement Of our party Or Its
purposes. and such apparent, endorses
mcnt as IS youchsafcd Hancock aud
English is found N a phrase whose
plain meaning IS, that while not salts
factory to the Convention, they are
more acceptable than Carried and
Arthur.
Strong opposition was made in the
body to even this mild APPROVAL and
IN effort made to call the roll Of the
| Convention on The question Of sustain
inc it; but, unwilling to risk the cons
SEQUENCES, both this effort and another
to spread on the journal the protest Of
the Republican members were defeated
by parliamentary mau@lyerng.
such is a plaza, unYarnishcd tale Of
the course aud purposes Of the leaders
Of the July Convention with respect to
the National Democratic ticket, and in
the light of this statement let every
Virginia Conservative answer for his
duty.
For fifteen years the Democracy OF
the Unlon have longed for this hour,
when their internal discords healed,
Federal interference with elections
measurably prohibited, AMI a Congress
democratic IN both houses, securing an
honest count. they might take uo .the
burden ofexecutiyc administration and
resume the record OF glory, peace, pros
perty. and fraternity where in 1850 il
was unhappily closed. To crown these
hopes or blast them IS the high alterna-
tive proposed to Virginia Conaerya-
tiyes. To maintain the regular ticket
is to secure the State to abandon it's
to put it IN great peril, if not certainly
to transfer its eleven electoral votes tC
the Republican column.
How in such contingency should
Virginia Conservative act? Let eacf
patriotic citizen answer.
We ask no man TO abandOa any posi-
ton his sense of right may induce him
to favor as to State questions. II Is
not pretended that any Federal mattel
IS susccptiblc OF solution by a State
party, or that any purely State ques
tion enters into this national canvass
Least of all that in the great struggle
now impending for restoration oi
! true union the subject Of readjustln=
; the debt Of Virginia finds any place
Nothing Of good can. come from the SUP
: port by Conservatives Of !hc July tickc
to any cause but the proper cause O
/ tie enemies of the South and popula
s liberty the Republican party.
d Already and universally the poliiica
d managers Of that party throughout tn
t country see aud glory IN the adyanlag
G the July Convention has given them.-
i Every Republican organ in the NortL
t applauds this Malone movement, anC
y as soon as it was coasummated MI
t Jewell, the chairman of the Republican
y National Committee, announced Tor tn
first time his confident hope ct carryln
Y to the Republican candidates the yoI
l. OF virginia.
/. Ii remains with Virginia Conserya
tiges, the lifelong foes Of all that Re
i publlcanlsm represents, to say whethe
Y they will abandon the regular ticket
y their party and justify these hopes
5 their enemies, aud this at the blddln
D of men now IN notorious alliance vii
Virginia Republicans, aud but recent
i. plotting to transfer the vote OF Virgin
1 to Republican candidate for the pres
dency. so bound up with all that
C corrupt, proigate, aud tyranuous in tn
n administration Of this Government tha
y his own party have turned their back
" upon him forever.
! A. NJ. KELLEY,
Il Chairman Executive Committee
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