The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-08-10
YIRaINIA,s CONVENTIONS.

the Re djust,rs, the Conservatives and the
Republicans The two former hsve put
strong men in the field and have been busy
in the arranging of their forces 70 fight it
out on the line sill The summer. The Com
servatives, headed by Hon. John w. Daniel,
insist tina, the debt of Virginia must
and shall DO paid; the resdiusters claim that
II should be compromised and decline TO
impose any new taxation; the republicans
nominate for reasons similar for their putting
into the field ticket in Texas, 10 keep up
their organization as best they may, as, also
for the purpose of making some desirable
terms for the spells, the losvos and fishes
with, perhaps, the readjusterS, ii their aid
will win the day for the latter. Daniel is the
man who, some four years ago made sspeech
in the legislature in which he said he would
rather see the public school houses burned
to the ground than that they should be
msintsined by tho state with money rights
fully belonging to its creditors. This posi-
ton about the debt makes the brilliant ora,
tor and tho honosed gentleman to DO regsr-
ded as the bearer Of the banner Of honesty
and good faith. Mr.. Jas. Barbour, the
candidate for lieutenant governor, was orig
inally read ulster, but he's now Tesdjusted
himself back into the demo-
cratic fold proper, Tho ticket
represents tho blue blood, tho yeomanry aad
the d. +. V. element Of Virginia aristocracy
Both arc lawyers, well trained debaters
and skilled statesmen. Cameron, the Ma
hone nominee, Is not 80 good speaker, but
q man Of good, solid mind, distinguished IN
literary culture and rare refinement besides
being a splendid campaign manager ind q
shrewd leader. AT ono time just prior to
The last nomination, Bour5onism
seemed TO assert its supremacy
at tho primaries, but the happy
Judgment Of the delegates whom assembled
concluded to do what they soon recognized
had to BIO done, viz; TO pursue a manly,
liberal, honest and thoroughly progressive
platform. On every vital issue relating to
schools, elections, the equality of the races,
it is fully abreast with the deliverance of the
repudistors, and the democrats have the ad-
vantage in a record that largely sustsins
their professions, while the repudiatora are
in conflict with their own practices in their
professions of regard for free schools, free
elections and tho protection Of all races,
Tho Philadelphia Times in referring
TO the result observes that "Vir.
ginia hiss everything at stake in the
present contest. Her honor, her prosperity
the sanctity Other laws and the preservation
of her schools, and the harmonious efforts of
her races, all depend upon the overthrow of
the spoilsmen organization that aaunts re-
pudiation before the people and defends it
by fslsehood. 1t claims to DO tho special
supporter of the equal education of all the
races and demands the repeal of the capita,
ton tax that is the bsais of the free school
system. If reputation shall carry the
amendment repeating the capitAtion tax, and
thus deprive the free school system Of one
Of its fixed and large sources Of revenue,
will the repudiators and auti..sx leaders levy
taxes to support the schools? They assail
the cspitstion tsx as suffrage qualification
"a tax that ID imposed in Pennsylvania and
in oil we'll governed states oslensibly be.
csusei it Expresses and DISTINGUISHES the col.
ored voter, when in point of fact, it affects
nearly or quite IS many white as colored
citizens Of the state, and is equal
in its operations, and substantially
equal in its results, upon both races. They
propose TO ropudiato the adjusted and road,
usted debt Of the state that their leaders &C.
lively advised and publicly accepted, and the
only excuse they cali offer for this naked
dishonesty is that the diminished value Of
property and reduced revenue of the state at
the present rate of taxes, won't maintain the
public credit. They cunningly conceal the
fact that they last year controlled the lesiI-
lsture, elected the local judges who appoint
those who value property, and that the sys-
tematic reduction of values and consequent
reduction of revenues are part OF the net
work of tssehood and fraud they are al
tempting to impose upon Virginia. They
have been halted in their shameless repuda-
ton by an honest supreme court, whose
judgment has sustained tho inviolabilty of
honest contracts, and they propose to answer
q faithful court by electing legislature OF
regulators, repudiating tho honest judges
and seating the shameless worshiper OF a
commonwealth dishonor in the supreme
temple of justice" In the conven-
ton that is 10 assemble to-day there
may DO trouble, as the republicans are
sadly split up between the debtspayipg and
the debt-repudiating members of the party.
This is similar mixture of parties and
policies as wo recently saw in the prohibi-
ton movement In North Carolina, where
whisky drinking democrats and republicans
stood shoulder 10 shoulder against the pro-
hibitionists. In a few days the merits of the
Virginia controversy will DO drawn out and
We shall have more to say Of the canvass. In
the interim we wish for The glorious old
'mother OF presidents" "hsppy issue out