The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-07-24
IRE psmocratic Position.

80 BRISTOL Ness says that the reSusat
ns-ccrsts for Funders, - V prefers W call
shsm, .. have predetermined that virginia
49,, 90 Re,.ublican rather than any portion
a. her vote shall be cast by kekdlusters'
shourh 4 be thus cast a. unit for the
Democrstlc nomiuees." We must express
our surprise that such statement should
have been made by Mr.. FowLxR The
ru.ders nat the namesof A. L. PRtpKxcHs.
JAxxs Y. MExirEE. and JAMks 5. kspp
mon their electoral ticket because they
were Rexdjus,era They appointed several
.ertlemeu ss delegates to tue Ctucinnsei
Convention because they were Rexdiusters~
They invited al Rexdiustcrs 10 participate
A ne county meetings and aid 10 se'cet-
Ing delegates to the State Convention
Of May ls.b. They welcomed with open
arms all the Readiusters WHO Appeared IN
that Convention. In that Couvention Mr..
JAMES BamouR made speech In which.
after sayiag that he c,ald not understand
how he could advance the cause OF read
justment by refusing to vote for the Demo-
cratic sominee for President, he plainly IN
timatcd that though he should support that
nominee this year, yet next year be would
be as ready as ever to cross swords on the
delt question with those Of the gentlemen
around him who were Debt-Payers. And
vet this last utterauce was received by that
81 bigoted" Funder Convention with much
I. applause. and Mr.. BARRoUg vas dffer,rdrds
elected delegate to the Democratic Nation
al Convention. In view OF these facts.
upon what does Mr.. FOWLER base the
statement quoted aboves Will be not cor
rect its
Even now the Funders ask no Readjuster
TO recant his views on the debt question.
They ask no Readiuster to advocate the
McCULLocH bill or to oppose the RIDDLE
BERGER bill. They do not raise such ques-
tions ut all. They have nominated eleven
gentlemen as candidates for electors, among
whom are several gentlemen as well known
to have been Re2djusters last year as the
editor OF the Neacs himself. These gentle
men, il elected, will cast the vote OF Vir-
einia for HANCOCK and ENGLISH. They
will have no other duty whatever to per-
form as such electors. The Funder
who votes for the Readiuster elect
ors viii know that in so doing he does
not thereby endorse the views OF those
electors on the debt question. So also the
Resdiuster who votes for the Funder elect
ors will know that he does not thereby en-
dorse the views OF these electors on the
debt question. Again: A number OF the gen.
tIemeu appointed by the Democratic party
to canvass The State are Readjusters. No
discrimination against Readjusters has ever
been praeticed in making these appoint
ments. Readjusters and Debt-Payers ares p-
pointed to do this duty alone; and neither
the former nor the latter are questioned
as 10 their views on other subjects.
Come, friend FOWLER, fall in.s' Your
place Is vacant. Fill 1t this year, and you
will have much stronger hold upon the
confidence OF the masses than you can Sc
cure by trying to divide the Democratic
party upon question which that party has
no desire to see or hear discussed before the
year 1881. II you can go before your peo-
pie next year and tell them that you stood
by the national Democratic party in 1880.
you will be able to claim to be recognized
then as a true Democrat. But II you per.
sist in doing all that you can to give the
vote OF Virginia TO GARFIELD, upon what
plea will you next year be able to justify
your obstinacyf