The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-08-29
Democratic managers had not been allowed to

Democratic managers had not been allowed to
The progress of Republican development and
the approval Of Republican principles steadily go
on, despite the appeals to past pre1udicS1es and
honest majority of the qualified voters OF this
Commonwealth has been suppressed.
There can be no safety to the peace and we'll
being OF organized society, no security to re-
publican form of government, no protection to
life, liberty, and property, where the agencies OF
organized government and representative trust
are inaugurated by means of polluted re-
turn.
Such invention for the CONSUMPTION of the gov
ernmental power of any constituent body must
sooner or later come to plague the inventors. 1t
opens wide the field for the intrusion OF every
danger to which the interests of organized so
c1ety can be exposed.
But the time will come-it is nigh at hand
when the demand of the masses OF this people,
irrespective of party lines, for an honest ballot
and fair count must be respected.
The second better thought of honest man al
ready sckens of the tainted methods by which
representative agents are chosen to administer
the public interest. The time comes when that
better thought of honest men revoltS at the IN
SidiOuS methods which relegate the govern.
ment of our public affairs and the standard OF
representative trust generally to a class of men
expressly chosen to falsify the popular Judg-
ment.
The unmanly cover under which the Demo-
cratic managers have miSled public Thought
and have melted ungovernorable apprehension,
has been pretended concern for the safety OF
our civiliZation-the fear of the domination OF
our affairs by the colored man-and under that
cover have led too many honest and honorable
men to acquieSCe in the most shameful OutrageS
upon popular government.
The right to participate fairly in the selection
of the representative agent goes to the very bot,
tom of a republican form of government and
any invasion OF it imperilS the liberty or the
people.
Such unlawful methods as have governed the
political conduct of the leadership of the Demo-
cratic party are repugnant to the fair minded
people of this State.
They repel immigration into our borders and
deter capital from seeing profitable employment
in the development of our varied industrial re-
sources.
Neither men nor capital seek homes where the
laws are made and administered by the crea-
lures of a mere political machine.
The overtaxed masses of this Commonwealth,
it is believed, will no longer endure the malad-
mnistration of their affairs out of fear of negro
domination. The ghost of the colored man no
longer serves the purpose of the political dema-
gogue. He threatens neither the purity of our
Institutions nor the degradation OF our civiliza-
ton. The pretended apprehension OF our ad-
versaries for the safety of these has had its day
to come no more.
The thoughtful people of this State turn their
attention to questions which affect the welfare
of the Commonwealth and open the way to the
prosperity of the people.
They demand an administration OF their pub
lie affairs which shall bring back the ordinary
expenses of running the State government
within the reasonable limits to which the Re
publican party had reduced them. They will
no longer consent to pay $3OO,0O0 more Tor the
administration of a State government that
would preserve a civilization not threatened
otherwise than by the degrading hypocrisy OF
the managers OF the Democratic party-thelr
10 popular 0uuCdUlOIl, ULo1T plC-
tence of favoring the repeal of the Federal tax
on tobacco, their ever trifiing treatment OF the
vital question of the public debt-wasting the
money OF the people on veXatiOuS and unpTQht-
able suits against our own citizens while the in
crease of the debt goes on at the rate of a million
OF more annually.
Their hypocritical protestationS in respect to
the vital question of the tarff-at one time pre-
tending to favor protection, but always yielding
hearty support to men and measures that would
destroy it and Stie the future of our State whose
material development, inspired by the vltallzlnS
of o1r dv fTIUn
tlal promise of her growth in wealth ana IN
power.
The more thoughtful of our people and the
representative men OF the business interests OF
the State-thOSe who value the integrity OF the
public and private obligation-are impatient of
an honorable settlement of the State debt and
are not disposed to indulge policy which, at
the heavy expense OF our Treasury, fosters
VeXatiOuS litigation that brings us no nearer
satisfactory settlement; while to the magnl-
tude of the debt a million and more is added
annually, and in the form of an indestructi
BILE lien upon all the realty of the Common
wealth.
Sensible people tire Of the marvellous policy
which eXpendS large sums of the public feve-
nues in buying in per cent. bonds which have
forty years to run, while there remains another
class of Indebtedness purchaSable at equally adj
vantageous rates, which carries, by an ire
pealable contract, double that rate OF interest.
They are not disposed to continue tlresome
rate of taxation upon the realty of the Common
wealth, when rs per cent of the revenue derived
from that source goes to make up the excess OF
a State administration, pretendedly necessary
to preserve our civilization from the impossible
domination by the colored man, while the chas-
tity of the female inmates of our aSylumnS IS
brutally asSailed.
1t is of these matters of serious concern to the
dignity and welfare of Virginia that you, gentle
men OF the convention, are here to take conSld-
GRAFTON.
TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN.
General Malone then introduced Hon. NJ. G.
Wood, of Scott county, for temporary chairman,
who returned his thanks to the body for the non
or, and called the convention to order, with Col
onel Asa Rogers temporary secretary.
The rules of the House OF Delegates were adopt
ed for the government Of the convention, and
all resolutions ordered to be referred to the
Committee on Resolutions.
A resolution by S. Brown Allen, of Augusta,
appointing three members from each district
credentials, resolutions platform,
and plan of organization, &C., was adopted I'M
der call of the roll.
A discussion then followed as to taking a re-
cess, after which Congressman BoWden an
nounced the meeting places of the various dis
tricts.
A recess was then taken until O'Clock.
AT THE AFTERNOON SESSION,
the district committee on organization resolu-
tions, platform, &C., reported the appointments
as follows:
First District Platform: J. J. Nc donald, G. 7.
T. G. Walker, j: c. Cannon, and W. c, Diggs;
Credentials: FL. w. Daingerield, James P. Turn
by, and John S. Chewing.
Second District Organization: James Wash
ington, H. s. Holland, and j. N. Sebrell; Plat
form: R. G. Banks, W. A. Bond, and J; E. KEEL
Third District Platform and Resolutions:
Hon. Edmund Waddil, Morgan Treat, and }. f.
Wilson; Credentials: NJ. B. Ryan, R. A. Turner,
and B. I. Vandeval Organization: S: Blair
Norris f Giles Jacksor and j. a. Gh1sh0m
W. NJ Flanagan, and William E. Gaines; Gre
dentials: S. T. Drury, J: E. Harris and W. W.
and W. w. Worsham.
Fifth District-Platform and Resolutions: A. S.
G Credentials: j. w. Paine, NJ f. Brown, and j. G.
Crockett; Organization: ]. H. Johnston, J. d.
Perkins and 3; S. Parr.
Walker Bocock, R. A. Tutwiler, and 2. A. Lang
ley Credentials: ]. E. Eskridge, George o.
B. F. Fox, H. Clay Harris, and D. D. Jackson.
Seventh District Platform and Resolutions:
Latham 5 Credentials +. \ Maapn (. E. Crit
fifth, and W. d. Maiden; Organization: R. FL.
Fife, G; R. Lee, and G; NJ: Zirkle.
w. G. Elam, w. H. StrOther, and r. X. Farr; Gre
dentials W. J: Thompson, J; +. Jones, and j. A.
Harris; Organization: J. A. Brooke, E. d. Howe,
and F. W, Maddux.
Ninth District Credentials R. ". Dickinson,
AarXey dGpmg ana ohn y
Mills; Platform: J. G. Foster, E. w. Kilgore, and
II: w. Holloway
W. E. Craig, e. w Hubbard, and G.. S. Stevens;
Gre ed al $; Brown Allen Noel and
S. C. Allen and j. W. Barrett.
AT NIGHT.
Chairman Wood raped the convention to Or
der, and Brown Allen made the report from the
Committee on Credentials. There were three
contrasting delegatiOnS-Yo rk, Portsmouth, Eliz-
Zabeth City, and Hampton. Only the Malone
delegates were admitted to seats from York
and Portsmouth, and the other contested seats
were divided between Malone and anti-Mahone
delegates
The report caused quite lively discussion for
an hour.
The report on permanent organization was
reported by F. S. Blair and adopted, as follows:
Chairman George E. Bowden, of the Second dis
tTct; Vice Presidents district, W. NV. Ash
Edmund Waddill; Jr.; Fourth district, Stith
Boiling; Fifth district, j. III. Johnston Sixth dis
trct, DR.. J. I. King; Seventh district, j. 7. New
man; Eighth district, w. G. Elan; Ninth district,
HI. W. Holderway; Tenth district, w. c. Frank
lin; at large, f. s. Blair and A. N. Dickinson:
Secretary, Asa Rogers of Petersburg. Assistant
Secretaries-W. w. Evans, Of Petersburg; G. L.
Saunders; of Norfolk; L. S. Walker, of Shenan-
doah Sergeants- Arms, N. G. Read, Of Nor
folk and j. j. Mcmahon, of Portsmouth
Hon. George E. BOwden then took the chair.
and expressing his gratitude for the honor con-
ferred upon him, stated that as the night was
warm he would not detain the convention by
business. Hon. William c. ELAN then submitted
the report on platform, as folloWS
THE PLATFORM.
The Republicans of Virginia, in State Conven-
ton assembled, congratulate the people of the
Commonwealth and the Union upon the happy
restoration of Republican administration in
Federal affairs, and reaffirm their devotion to
the national Republican party and it's princi-
pies, with their earnest approval OF its policy of
a protective tariff, which favorS and renders ne
cessary the repeal Of the existing onerouS war