The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1882-04-27

can State ticket, but the primaries had been
so manipulated by Federal office-holders that
it did not find expression through the dele
gates, nor was there majority of them in IA
vor of coalition, Notwithstanding the ques-
tionablc means to appoint or capture a pre-
ponderatng number of coalitonists. 1t was
the fight made by Republicans on that occa-
sion which made il possible for the success Of
Col. Cameron in November last Rather than
contribute to the election of the Bourbon tick
ct, the Republicans classcd as "Straight-outs's
threw their strength into the conflict, when
they found there was division in the ranks of
their party and turned the tide against Dan
iel and carried Cameron into the Gubernato-
rial Chair
What the Republican expects to gain by its
contemptuous and sneering references to the
Republicans of Virginia we cannot exactly
understand. But for those who still maintain
their party integrity and who believe in Re
publican principles the Readjusters would
have been Overwhelmingly defeated. This
fact is so patent that no intelligent gentleman
in Virginia would dare to question it, Yet it
is the fashion of the day, with those who pan
der to power and study the influences which
assure profit. to hold up to ridicule those Re
publicans who are not yet ready to surrender
their national identity and divorce themselves
from their party record and principles, and
stigmatize them as enemies of progressive and
liberal methods-as aiders and abettors of
n \ dow
of the party for whose sake they have with
stood the prosecutions, ISLANDERS and proscrip-
tions of many of those who are now heralded
as the pnks of Liberalism and the promising
buds of National Republcansm.
The Republicans of Virginia haYe shown
in the past that they have no disposition to
interpose obstacles to liberal views or to resolve
tfo4tt into hostility as to those who profess
liberalism but are not willing to range under
the banner OF the only party that has any right
to claim identity with liberal ideas. in ma
tional sense. They have no disposition to
play the obstructionists in the future, but are
willing to join forces with others to reach the
ends they regard as intimately connected with
the general welfare. But they do not intend
to submit to taunts and misrepresentation
outside of the State, and prescription through
the power they have conferred within
the State, without a protest The Re
publican party of Virginia is q live power
yet, and when driven to the wall, it will show
its teeth and demonstrate that it is not the i'm
beetle, disgraced and condemned thing that it
is represented to be. We are counting no con-
fict, inviting no dissension. We are merely
uttering words OF healthy warning, to draw
attention to the fact that the Republicans of
Virginia gave force and vitality to all the
Liberalism that is claimed in the State,
and that knowing their power, they do not in
tend to tamely and abjectly submit to insult
and contumely either from Republicans, whose
natural sympathy ought to teach them better,
or those who have been invested with . little
brief authority in the State through Republi-
can votes and Republican influence.