Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-07-28

indicates Logically and consistently carry
out yoiir assumption that the unjust seating
NJ Chicago Of pretended delegates, namedhy
pretended conventions held inside the
bounds OF our congressional districts, was
recognition Of the legality and validity OF
such alleged conventions by the NATIONAL
party. and Il follows with cumulative
and irreasubse force that Che Ike
action at Chicago with regard TO our
delegates fer the State st large pot
only gives fun national recognition
OF our state Convention. held at Tue Acsd-
envy OF Music IN Petersburg, az regular
and legitimate. hut thar that convention re-
presented the true Republican people and
only organized and regular Republican par.
" In Virginia. That being clearly so, and
as the decision az Chicago with respect 10
district delegates, right or wrong, extended
only 10 the place OF their election. You add
your associates, by your own argument are
shown 10 have no recognition at all rs a par
~, and arc utterly repudiated by the na-
tiopsl organization in all your pretensions as
an organization. That you ought 10 aban-
don these pretensioBs IL thus manifest upon
lost analysis OF national sction at Chicago,
as well as upon thousand other CONSIDERS
tions that should appeal 70 your Judgment,
your conscience, and your patriotism as Re
publicans.
The right OF State convention OF our
party 10 name Its whole electoral tickets In
dubitable; its hight 10 confer power on the
State Committee 10 name such ticket, or other
whe 10 direct its appointment, Is iudisputa-
bic; and when IL authorizes the delegates OF
each district to choose its electer, the iegitt
macy Of the transaction is beyond all discus
sion and challenge. Hence pur Srne Con-
venuon having been recognized by national
party authority, and having framed an cleo
torai ticket by Its own action as 10 electors
at-large, and By its competent direction as 10
district electors, that electoral ticket IL the
tickst of the Republican party OF Virginia,
bsth in law and fact, and by every test to
which its verify and validity can be sub
jected.
But who are these men whom you would
iost uDou the Republicans OF six districts "a
their clectorss And what Is tie title by
which they are 10 be advanced TO those high
posts OF honor and tr1sty AS illustrations
let VS. take the gentlemen you aud your asse.
ciates present for our I. concurrence " In the
Elrhfh and Fifth districts In the former
Hon. Lewis MsKenzie's claim rs founded
upon q so-csllea convention held in the city
Of Alexandra on the 26th OF May, seven
days after the expiration Of the time when
Il was competent, uuder the call OF the Ma
tional Committee, for any district conven-
tion, real or pretended. TO elect delegates 10
Chicago. These Who constituted this body
wero M6sssrs. Lewis Mckenzie and w.
Il. Graves, Of Alexandria city; W. ID.
Sweetzcr, o. r. Hlne. and Z. y. Mason,
OF Fairfax; S. L. Nichols and W. L. Brown,
OF Loudoun; and proxy for some delegate
OF Culpeper. The Eighth district consists
Of ten counties end the city OF Alexandra,
but IL is emily claimed that Loudoun, Fairfax,
Culpeper, and the city OF Alexandra were
represented land partially SOY in the sO-caiied
Alexandra Convention. the seven other
counties, including eOeTy county that giueS q
RerH6icun lnOjOrtig, not being represented
al all OF the sixtS-four delegates OF the
district only eight, or one eighth OF the
whole number, attended. representing only
1G90 OF the Il, 1858 Republican voters In the
district; ard these eight, besides being
functus o1iciO, had participated In
the regular convention OF the dis
trict on the 18th Of Msy at Peters.
burg. DO vou really think that Mr.. Mckenzie
wss duly chosen eiector for the Eighth dts
tricf? Do you believe that TO allow Mr..
Mckenzie so chosen TO supercede the eleCtor
appointed at Petersburg (hOn. X. X. Farr)
by full delegations from the city OF AleXan;
dria aud every county in the district VIII
cOnduce to party harmony and unity! IL
this an example OF the Wanted regard in
which you and your associates hold popular
sovereignty and the will OF the peopleI Is
il thus that You would rally our Republican
voters to the polls for the electoral ticket in
November 10 carry the State for Harrison
and Morton? II looks more like an example
and invitation for our political enemies to
defYAud and count uS cut in the returns, and
It may web be doubted II Mississippi herself
has ever gwen more fragrant instance or
political ugurp0tiun and outrage.
The ease Of Judge A. NJ. LybreOk. whom
you put up for the Fifth district Is even
verse than that OF Hon. Lewis Mckenzie, OF
the Eighth. In The Iat0r there was some
pretence Of convention but in the former,
although forged proceedings Of an Imaginary
convention were offered IN evidence at Chi
cag0 by Sims and Scott, there was no conven.
ton at an, and even the forged proceedings
failed 10 contain any mertion OF anybody as
an elector for the Fiflh district. II ia you
and your associates, sitting at Richmond on
the l2lh OF July, who thus seek 70 make Judge
Lvbrook an elector and d1splsce the honor
able gentleman (Dr. j. w. Sinlnons)
who was duly appointed by the Republican
voters OF the district through their repre-
seutatives 10 a regularly constituted eonven-
ton, in which every city and county in the
district Except Patrlck) was represented,
and from which there was not single boiler.
Seventeen OF YOU gentiemen-Messrs. ID. i.
Houston, OF Roanoke city; Harry Libeey, OF
Elizabeth City county; ID. NJ. Norton, OF
York county; r. s. Ryllnd, OF King william
county; ]. A. Chisholm, OF Hanover county
W. W. Fields, OF Richmond city; j. b.
Walthall, Of the city OF LyDchburg; &. A.
Heermans, Of Montgomery county; a. M.
L -
Mckenzie, OF Alexandria city; Henry
Lishtioot, Of C1lipeper county; J. A. Fra
zler, of Rockbridge county; W. G. Watson,
OF Allegheny county; John S. WISE, OF
Richmond city; J. s. Browning, OF Taze-
wen county; c. W. Murdsugh, Of Ports
mouth CITY, and j. l.. McGlene, Captain
Wise's private secretary, assemble at the
capital Of the State, rot one OF you voter
OF the Fifth district, and YOU cooily proceed
to an attempt 10 take down the real elector
Of that district and put yogr nominee in hts
place! Who delegated these exalted func.
lions to your How were you in
vested with these arbitrary powers 10
overrple the solemn action OF tie Re
publican people OF a district now repre-
sOnted in Congress by Republican, and
which gives oyaf 5000 Republican MINORITY +!
Do ron imagine that the manly and Intell-
gcui CltlSeIS WuOnl NOu ytei SoouNt"soo
would thus cOntsnn and trampfe upon will
meekly or indiilerently accept your insult
ing and tyrannicnl action or pass II by with
out indignant resentment? II so, you count
too much and too confidently upon their
pusillanimity and forbcsrsnce, and YOU will
surely meet the reward which such high
honded and wanton iuvasions OF right and
Justice merit, not only there. but all over
this Commonwealth.
Is ticket thus conceived and brought
forth worthy OF our concurrence or OF
the support OF the people whom yeu sfiront
and seek to deprive OF their dearest ami high.
est civil and political powers and privileged
And yet what we have cited are but samples
land not by any means the most audscious
and iniquitous) Of q course here and at Chi
cago. which, after expelling the honest repre-
sentatiyes of our people from the National
Convention and betraying thcir seats there
to foul invasion, would now, II possible,
proceed to cap the climax OF imposition and
spoliation by this usurpAtion OF popular
sovereignty in six OF the ten con-
gressional districts OF this State. How
ali this COMFORTS with the loud pro-
tcststious made by some OF your
leading orators, letter-wrters, aud commit |
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