The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-01-27
No. A

alterabe determination to support garfield an
tlhuf, ana under 40 conditions will the Aepu bill
eitiiS Oh virginia consent to vote any Qancocl
electoral ticket"
Pursuant to which resolution the cAermei
OF the two committees forwarded immedi;tl ely
to Governor Jewell and Mr.. Dorsey, Chair
man and Secretary ofthe National Committee
the Telegram therein ordered, and the Execu
tive Committee telegraphed to every section O.
the State the following address, and from such
Geographic centres had handbills distributed, as
! follows:
Aconspiracy to rob General Garfield of the Repub.
an vote OF this State and turn 1t to The Read
Juser Hancock Electoral Ticket has been discovered
| 1t has been denounced by your State Central and
Executive Committees, and you thus warned of
! the DANGER. But you must keep your eyes open.
Traitorous Republicans have been out, paid to
| Substitute the Re-adiuster Hancock ticket for our
uarned tcketand deiraud you OF your tnestmable
privilege OF voting for Republican candidate for
President
Look out for these Judases, and expose and de-
nounce them. See that the ticket you vote has it.
at It's head, the names of James AGarfied and Ches
ter arthur, and that the names Of WINS O. Wick.
nam and John NJ. Dawson head the list as Electors
at Large and have the name OF John W. Poindexter
as the Elector from the Third District Any other
ticket offered you as Republican is fraud.
lished In the Wing OF to-day is base Islander on
the National Republican Committee, and is utterly
false.
Be watchful. WINS C. wIcKHAM, chairm'n.
In the meantime the Hon Joseph Jorgensen
telegraphed to Gen. James A. Garfield, and re-
ceived the following reply;
MENTOR, OHIO, October 80 1885,
Hon. Joseph Joreenxon Prfsrxburo, VI:
40 one has been authorized by me to abandon the
tight for the electoral vote of Virginia
lSigned. ia. GARFIELD.
Hon. J. Amber Smith also telegraphed Hon.
Marshall Jewell Chairman National Republi-
can Committee, asking if any one had been
empowered to withdraw the Republican cleo
toral ticket in Virginia.
Governor Jewells answer was: mo such
authority has been given to anybody by this
committee; We have no power to give such
authority"
And DR.. Jorgensen also telegraphed to S.
W. Dorsey, Secretary Of the Republican Ma
tional Committee, who replied as follows:
NEW YORK, November /, 1880.
Hon. Joseph Jorqensen, Petersburg:
Replying to your telegram OF yesterday, have to
say that no one ever suggested that the Republican
electoral ticket of Virgin should be taken down,
or that votes should be withdrawn from 1t in favor
of any other ticket have written no letters and
signed no telegram which could be construed
This committee has recommended nothing in vir-
ginia that you did not fully concur in at the time
We do not control Mr.. Brady and General Malone,
and are not responsible for their acts. lsignedl
S. w. DORSEY.
Which kilograms were given the widest pos
sble circulation, and every effort was made to
inform the members of the party of the exact
situation of affairs and to repair. as far as it
was possible to do so, the fatal ravages of
Messrs. Burr and Loveland
In conclusion your committee is thoroughly
that had the plan of campaign as
mapped out in its incpiency by the Executive
Committee been carried out without inierfer-
ence, and had they been permitted to have had
The active cooperation of Republican candi-
late for Congress in each district as was de-
signed, and had not an attempt been made to
transfer the vote of the Republicans from their
)wn candidates to the Democratic Readiuster
Electoral ticket, which attempt your commit
Zee cannot but conclude was engineered by
certain parties with view to advancing their
'wn personal ends in utter disregard Of the
interest of the Republican party OF this State
md Ofthe country, and without the knowledge
If or consultation with the Republican author
ties of the State, whose followers it was
sought to affect, there is not a question upon
our minds but that the vote of Virginia would
nave been cast tor James A. Garfield The
$4,000 Votes polled for he Republican Electoral
icket is but fraction of the Republican vote
n this State which numbers not less than
10000 voting men. Thousands of votes were
ost to it owing to the causes hereinbefore al
uded to-
The l,674 votes polled for the Re-adiuster
hancock Democratic ticket does not repre-
ent the strength of the Re-adiuster wing of
he Democracy. In the Judgment of your
Committee there was on the day of the cleo
ion and al the various precincts a stampede
IT voters from the Re adj uster-D m0cratic
ticket to the Conservative Democratic ticket,
'ccasoaed by the appearance and distribution
II the heaGless tickets above referred to, which
'evived in the minds of the Re-adjuster Demo-
acy the fears of an unpledged electoral ticket,
which had been almost unanimously .lisowned
~ their convention on the It'll July, and
which was the most powerful weapon In the
lands of the Conservative-D Democrats.
For the same reason the 96912 votes re-
'eived by the Conservative Democratic ticket,
S far beyond their real strength in the State.
Under these circumstances. your committee
re earnestly of opinion that the ultimate tri-
lmph ofthe Republican party and the noble
on which it is based, is dependent
olely upon the harmony and unity that will
hereafter prevail in its ranks.
There is but one point further that your
committee has deemed it necessary to note.
There appears i'll an address to the Re-adjus-
er party of Virginia published on the 4th of
January, 1881. over the signature of VIM.
lahone, Chairman, the folowil remarkable
the Republican Electoral
icket was only in the field by the counte-
lance, connivance and encouragement of the
5ourhon Funder managers who did not
cripple to run the risk OF a sacrifice of their
vowed purposes in order to furnish to the
republican junto the facilities for consolidat-
ny the colored vote" The best demonstra-
ion of the utter untruthfulness of the above
tatement is the foregoing narration Of facts
onnected with tine campaign IN Virginia. and
he result on the end day of November, 1880.
md in view of this it is hardly necessary for
our committee to further denounce the state
nent as absolutely false.
Respectfully submitted
B. W. HOXSEY, Chairman
I, H., l.. M1ehHAM, Committee.
The report being read by Mr. H. T. Wick
am on motion of Hon. Joseph Jorgenson, it
vas accepted. the subcommittee discharged
rom the further consideration of the subject,
nd the report ordered to be printed
Teste,
WINS. G. WICKHAM,
Chairman.