The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-09-19
THE STATE CANVASS.
r,.E MAgy.mKErIxG AT CULPEPER.
Hon. Holmes Conrad on tho stump
His Dissection OF Malone and HIS
Methods.
,s,orro.noroeuce o, the Richmond Dispatch.l


Yesterday, as telegraphed you, the DEM
ocratic County Convention OF Culpeper
met ut the Academy OF Music to nominate
a candidate for the House OF Delegates,
Hon. Thomas y. Male. cx-member OF the
Huuse, presiding. Colonel j. {. Glib
son was nominated as the Democratic
standard-bcarer OF the county, and it is
claimed that his nomination Is strong
one.
Monday was court-day ut Culpcper, and
there were several hundred people assem-
bled to hear the joint discussion between
Hon. Holmes Conrad, Of Winchester. and
\. W. Jones, OF Hanover. They had both
been well advertised through the county,
and when the hour OF ! O'Clock was
reached. Mr.. Gray, county superintendent
OF the Democratic party, called the mass
meeting 10 order, and stated il was
with much regret that he had to m
nouncc that owing to the absence
of "Jerscy Jones'" Ccalition-Republican
speaker mo other Of his party being
present TO represent them, that there
would be no Joint discussion Of political
issues OF the day. lie then introduced the
HON. HOLMES CONRAD,
Of Winchester. The issue before the peo-
pic OF Virginia, said Mr.. Conrad, is really
that OF S;alwart Repab,icanism and De-
mocracy; not the Republicanism OF 1860
and 1865, but Stalwart Republicanism rs
by Grant, Conkling, and sher-
man, the real policy OF which was declared
bv Senator ConkIing in his speech in New
York i'm the statement that the principles
of Alexander Hamilton were waxing while
those OF Thomas Jefferson were waning.
The principles OF Alexander Hamilton were
and found their expression in
the demands OF stalwart Republicanism for
A STRONG GENITAL GOVERNMENT
and It's legislation for strong protection
for capital and monopoles. jay Gould
and Vanderbilt were the representatives Of
one class; the consolidated railroads and
system OF the country OF an
other. lis needs were such rs TO induce
sherman, in his speech OF April 6,
1881. in the Senate, TO declare that any
thing that would beat down that party DE
and build up the Republican party
was iuStifiahle in morals and in law. The
increased revenues Of the Federal Govern
ment, made necessary by the demands Of
the war. had been continued after the
cause for their increase had ceased, and
were used by the Republican party for
TIE DEBAUCHERY OF THE PEOPLE.
The principle OF Democracy, as an
nounccd by Mr.. jefferson in his first inau-
rural address, has now been recognized by
The people OF this country, including the
Republicans, rs necessary TO
the preservation Of our form OF govern
ment. The name Of the party imports its
II recognizes that sovereignty
resides rot in the Administration but in
the people; that q plcthoric treasury is a
sure and certain means to monarchica
forms and principles; that revenues raised
by taxation should be accurately measured
by the demands for actual expenses OF
government, and should in 10 case exceed
hem. The destruction OF the opposition
in Virginia is Of essential importance to
The people Of Virginia to-day because 1t
has now become manifest that
GENERAL MAH0NE's COVENANT
Is with the Stalwart Republican party, and
he terms Of that covenant require that he
,hall deliver the electoral vote Of Virginia
INTO Republican hands. His course in the
Federal senate in his vote for chairmcn OF
committees and other measures. Is well as
his conduct in regard t. the last Legislature
in Virginia, all plainly indicate the object
OF his endeavor and his method for its
General Malone has demand
I'd that representatives OF the people in the
General Assembly shall by a solemn pledge
surrender into his hands in advance
THEIR JUDGMENTS AND THEIR CONSCIENCEs.
lie has required, as to both measures and
men, that Representatives should he con-
rolled by action OF the caucus, and he has,
through his committee OF nine on distribu-
ion OF offices, informed and enlightened
hat caucus as TO what shall be its course.
He lured the people into their vote on the
original Riddlebergcr bill by the objection
he urged in his Mozart-IIal speech against
-he allowance OF war and reconstruction
interest, and he provided in that bill that
the people should vote upon the provision
which excluded this interest. Yet in his
PRESENT RIDDL EBERGEI BILL,
which has become a law, This payment Of
var and reconstruction interest is fully
provided for, but the clause permitting the
people 10 vote for IT has been stricken out.
He has not allowed them TO vote upon the
sales bill-a matter eX-
.luSiveiy OF local cOncern-nOr vet upon
the bill providing charters for the cities and
owns. lie has even deprived them OF the
right they have heretofore enjoyed OF Sc
Getting through their local officers school
trustees OF counties and cities. After de-
and securing the
DISMISSAL OF FAITHFUL and HONEST RAIL-
ROAD EMPLOYEES,
who would not surrender the exercise OF
their personal and political rights into his
hands, he has sought TO purchase the sup
port Of these powerful corporations in the
future by requiring his pledged law-makerS
to sacrifice the interest of the Common
wealth in their favor. Mr.. Conrad spoke
Of the
COMAIssIONEE-OF-sALE BILL
and the removal OF the commissioners in
charceIy as having for their object the
OF newspapers in the coun-
ties and cities Of the State, TO be supported
by the patronage Of these officers, which.
in connection with the bill providing for
the publication OF the laws in the Rich
mond Wing, were intended to force the
people to support Malone party organs.
whilst 1t taxed them TO pay for the State
advertising. Not only, he said, does dis
regard OF the local interest OF the people
call now for intelligence and earnest ac-
tiyity, hut they are further confronted by
the apprehension that the success OF Ma
hone in the present election will he blow
at the very spirit and genius OF our Dem
ocralc republican form OF government.
Not only is he Withholding from the
people the power Of voting upon mea-
sures that concern them, but by the pledge
which he imposes upon the representatives
OF the people in the Legislature he is To-
Glng away the sovereignty which, under
inc constitution, resides in them, and is
assuming TO make his own will, by which
THE CAUCUS WAS ANIMATED,
The only sovereign in the making OF laws,
IN the selection OF officers, and The eXecu-
ZION OF those officers duties. What be-
comes OF the people, of their will, and OF
their interests when the delegates In the