Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-10-26
observation-disclosures 20, 1885.
The Elections.

The Elections.
THIS day week the people OF Virginia
will at the ballot-box choose between the
candidates Of the Republican and Demo-
cratic parties for seats in the next ma
tional House Of Representatives; and ~ii
either vote for the candidates OF a party
which has always manifested kindly
spirit towards them or for the candidates oil
party which 10 best known to them by
tie pains and penalties which In its re-
construction and other laws It imposed
upon them. They viii either vote
for the candidates Of the party that stole
the votes Of several southern States in
1876, and thus perpetuaied the rule OF the
bloody shirt for eight years longer or else
they will vote for the candidates OF party
which has never feared to seek to do
Justice TO southern meo, and never hest
tattd for moment 10 stand by the right
even in the northern States when u kne1
that defeat was to be its reward for its
fidelity to it, convictions.
For the first time, too, in twenty-five
years the people OF Virgins will have the
privilege Of electing Democratic congress
men to support and advocate the policy OF
q Democratic President OF the United
States. From the termination OF the war
until 1885 we had had to antagonlze the
several Administrations because the several
Administrations had antigon,zed us. Since
March 4, 1885, we have had an Admin.
jstration In full sympathy with the Demo-
cratic party. VIII you desert to the enemy
Just as victory has crowned years Of bard
fgttingS II "ingratitude Is the basest OF
crimes" the southern people would prove
themselves to be the worst OF criminals
should they treacherously march over to
the camp OF the enemy, having to their fate
the unselisb, patriotic, national Democrats
OF the North.
The Democratic party is the only party
I'm this country that can properly be styled
q national party. The Republican party
was a war party, and ought TO have died rs
soon as the war between the States came to
m end. It's present leaders proclaim 1t a
sectional party whenever they open their
mouths to commend il TO the people. The
only two men IN its ranks who are con-
spicuously before the public as candidates
for the presidency in 1883 are JAMES g.
BLAISE and JOIN SHERMAN. The latter
came 10 Virginia last year as MAuoNE's-
friend, and Iectured our people.~He Is the
very incar2atienR-6f seetionalism. lie hates
.tysof The south, and would il he could
reduce the number Of the representatives
from the southern States by more than
thirty. For thirty years he has had
his hands in the national Treasury,
and has pocketed thousands OF the peoples
money by doing all that he could to divide
them into two hostile camps. He has made
fools OF his own constituents, and clused
them to pay the price OF their folly. lie is
a cold, selfish, unpstrotic hater OF the peo'
pie OF one third Of the Union, or else he Is
q bypocrite trading upon the passions and
Il e prejudiees Of his section.
JONI SHERMAN is one OF the men for
whom you will vote next Tuesday IL you
fail to support CRoxToS, PARKS, WISE,
PAGE, CABELL, GRIFFIN. O'FERRALL, LEE,
HENRY, and BuNGARDNER. A vote for any
one OF these gentlemen VIII, on the other
hand, be vote for GROVER CLEVELAND,
who has recognized the South as part o!
the Union aud her people as being just rs
truly entitled to hold Federal Office as are
the people Of the North.
: A vote for Republican candidate for
Congress will be in ofrecta yotefor BLAINE,
the arch.enemy OF our section, who has re-
Gently reopened the walls Of his wrath and
poured out their contents upon t1e people
OF the South. Beyond doubt, every Re-
publican candidate for Congress 10 Virginia
will vote for BLAINE for President In 1888
should he again be nominated for that high
office, although not two weeks have elapsed
since he IN public speech denounced the
southern people as "rebels" whose
hands "were still dripping with the
blood OF Union men," and as perpetrators
Of such frauds uron the bsllot-box as had
resulted in putting ihirty-hye fraudulent
members into the national House OF Repre-
sentaliyes. Yes, the Republican candidate
for Congress In Virginia will all vote in 1855
for this double-dyed traitor, this sectionallst,
this disturber OF his country's peace, this
traflicker In the blood Of his couutrymen,
rather than for national Democrat devoted
10 his whole country's interests and re-
cognizing all the voters OF all the States as
equally patriotic and equally entitled to
share in the benefits and bonors Of govern
ment.
A vote against the Democratic nominees
for Congress will be q vote against the man
who lifted the pressure" and freed US OF
the South. II will be vote against the
man who has drawn The teeth OF the Re-
publican lions and rendered them incapable
1 Of doing us the harm which their malice
aud their unboly ambition lead them still 10
epdtayor TO do us.
And OF sll the southern States, Virginia
should be the last TO desert GROVER CLgvE.
LAND. See what list OF her distinguished
sons be has called into the public service
CURRY, KELLEY, MauRY, WirHgRs, WING
PIEIp, and Others who had been put under
the ban by Republican Presidents. 1t il
hardly too much to say that where Virginia
leads In 1886 the other southern States, or
some Of them At any rate, will follow In
1855. Win you be instrumental In bring
ingtbs South. bound hand and foot, into the