The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-10-31
Tho Year Before.

One OF our exchanges says that the best
campaign work for any party is that OF or
ganizing q year before the grand contest Is
TO come of. AT this time this remark APP
peals to yirginiaus with peculiar force.
We are about to engage in work some OF
whose fruits will be gathered next year,
though its final results will not be seen for
many year. We are building for the fu-
ture.
And vet there nav be men in Virginia
who do not deem II Incompatible with pa
triotic duty that they shall vote just once
moro with the Coalitionists. There are
men in Virginia who are almost willing to
STAY at home next Tuesday and leave IL to
their neighbors 10 decide the momentous
issues involved in the elections then to
come OF. There are men in Virginia
who will risk the defeat OF the Demo-
cratic party, though they are Democrats
rstber than take the trouble to challenge
unlawful votes. There are men iu Vir-
gina who try to persuade Themselves
and to excuse their apathy by ssying-that
it does not matter greatly whether in the
coming elections MALONE shall triumph
and the Democratic flag shall go down
before host numbering among its COM
ponent parts one hundred thousand negro
voters, or whether the old national Demo-
cratic party shall triumph and MALONE
sink never TO rise again.
Are you amongst the men who compose
any one OF these classes II so, the sooner
you leave the company OF your present as
soclates and enlist under the banners
which are next Tuesday to float over a
victorious Democracy, the sooner will you
find yourself in the society of those with
whom you fought the decisive battle OF
1869 and reioiced in the glorious victory
which followed it. How did your zeal
become cooled? Whence has fled that pa
triotic ardor which then animated your
breast? Who has separated between you
and your companions OF the campaign
which freed Virginia from the rule OF
military sstraps and sent back to the
North such gang OF carpet-bsggers!
Only think OF it Who at The North SYM
pathized with you in that campaign 2
Where was Chairman COOPER thenS Where
was SIMON CAMERON then? Where was
ARTHUR then Where was CONKLING
then? Where was GRANT then? Where
was old ZACH. CHANDLER then! Every
man OF them was bounding on the PORT
ERs, and the WELLsEs, and the PLATTs,
and the rest of the carpet-baggers who had
flocked down here in order TO plumber us.
But. on the other hand, where was SEY-
HoUI then. Where was TILDEN then!
Where was VOORHEES, then? Where was
RANDALL then Where was THURMAN then ?
Where HENDRICKs, MCDONALD, PENDLETON,
and all the other illustrious leaders OF the
northern Democratic party? These were
all then, as now, your friends and sympa-
thizers-then, as now, the enemies OF the
men who came so near destroying the
South forever. Yes, these gallant Demo-
Gratis are to-day the allies OF the Democrats
Of Virginia, whilst COOPER, GRANT, AR
THUR, CoNKLrNG, and all the malignant Re-
publlcans in the northern states, are Tue
enemies Of the Democrats OF Virginia. Do
you claim ARTHUR. or SEYMOUR, rs your
ally? THURMAN, or CoNKLISG? PENDLE-
TON, or GRANT?
II, then, you are about TO go into fight
that will run into next year be sure TO join
hands with your true friends. Do not suf-
fer any consideration to induce you to omit
the performance of your duty this year.
March with the Democrats in 1888, and you
will be on the roll already when the bugle
is sounded in 1884. Stand ZIP and be
counted With your friends at this time. So
shall you make peace with yourself now,
and be happy when the year OF the presi-
dental election shall summon you to the
field where national battles are fought.