Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-05-06
MANCHESTER DEMOCRACY,
Dialogue Between "a Richmond Dem o
erat and = MaucheStertan.

Richmond man (supposing he is address.
ing Dem0crac says to Manchester man
/ pleasantly: "Of course you feel pretty
safs in Manchester as 10 the election OF the
Democratic ticket brought out by your pri-
msryf"
Manchester man: "Not my primary, II
you please. ] had no hand IN that affair"
R.: Excuse me, sir; thought you were
q Hemocrat."
N, $50 l am--as true q Democrat as any
man."
r.: Democrat, and had no part IN a
Democratic primary election in your city,
ordered and controlled by Democrats, aud
for the best interests and safety OF yeur peo-
pie and our partyl Hsw can that bey"
NJ: "You take little loo much for
granted. That primary was q great farce,
and was by no means entitled TO be called q
Democratic primary. Many OF our best citi-
zcns refused TO have anything 20 DO with IL.
! The whsle thing was hatched up TO put Mr..
TAYLOR out OF the Mayors office"
| r.: 81 have taken a0thing at all for grant
ed, Your Democratic Committee published
! In the Richmond Dispatch, over their own
| signatures, the manner in which the primary
was ordered. A meeting OF three or four
| hundred citizens passed a resolution recon-
| mendmg 10 your Democratic Committee 10
| order primary. lam informed upon good
authority that that was as truly representa-
/ tive meeting Of the true Democracy as was
/ ever held IN your city. To my way OF
thinkiDg the primary was ordered after the
regular methods adopted by our party, aud
was as justly entitled to be called a Demo-
cratic primary as any which has ever bcea
/ held IN the STATE. Your assumption that the
whole thing was aimed at Mr.. Taylor IS a
very strange remark for Democrat. Are
| there not other Offices 10 I'll, and were there
/ not other candidates before the people in the
| primary? Without a primary and with a
| multiplicity Of candidates could not your
enemies have possibly ran in a Republican
/ ticketf Your remark would lead me 10 be.
/ lieye, then, that you are Taylor man."
| NJ: So am Taylor nan"
| r.: "Let one ask you q question: What Is
| Mr.. TaylOr9 Is he a Democrat ?"
NJ: your question is easily answered.
/ Mr.. Taylor has publicly pronounced him.
/ self a Democrat"
| r.: "If TAYLOR has publicly pronounced
| himself a Democrat what right had he TO
/ kick against a Democratic primary and re-
/ fuse to recognize II when regularly and
/ properly Ordered1 Or why should true
/ Democrat be seeking the endOrsatiOn OF the
/ Reform party or looking for his election over
/ a ItHNlaIly DpHludltu duu tHpluu5uis IL
/ liable aud unhinchng Democrat by Re-
| publican yOtersI Can you vote Tor such a
man and still call yourself Democrat : Not
| a bit a. il. II such men are followed aud
supported our party will come to shameful
| disaster. ] am truly astOnished to bear
! Of the state Of things in your city.
| But If he were the fitiest man II the city,
and yet would not respect our party regula-
| tons, would not submit his personal pros
| poets for that which secures safety to our in-
| stitutions, no true Democrat ought to think
/ Of supporting him. l will 90 step further
/ and say that no true Democrat will support
him. You 90 on now and iumpy your party
lines merely for personal considerations and
elect Mir. Taylor, and next fall you may
count on your city for the Republican
nominee for President. In old Democratic
/ Richmond man who kicks against our party
/ organization, whatever may be bis claims, Is
not counted any longer a true Democrat.
/ But we need not wrangle over these mat
| tiers. II don't mistake the signs OF the
| times Mr.. Taylor Will be cleyerly beaten,
and will have, with his mised friends, ample
| time 10 repent his ab0riive effort TO split the
Democracy Of your city"