Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-07-18
VIRGINIA REPUBLICANS.

AT inc laI6 ubtUluS vi Nouoidi
Mahone's State Republican CON-
mittee of Virginia, in Washington,
the General had the following reso.
lutions adopted:
In pursuance of section 2, article
g, of the party code, which provides
that the State committee "shall fix
the time and place of all State and
Congressional conventions of the
party and prescribe the number of
delegates and alternates for each
county and city in the State and
the mode of electing the same to
such convention" the State COM
mittee, at a meeting held on Tues
day, the 9Th day of July, 1890, after
a full consideration of the subject,
do declare:
First. That inasmuch as there
has not been in this State, as we
believe, a full and unbinGered ex.
ercise OF the right OF the elective
franchise aDG an honest return OF
the ballots as cast since the cleo.
ton for Representatives in Con
gress III the year 1882, when cleo
ton machinery was fairly organized
and honestly administered, save
and except In the Congressional
elections OF 1886, when the Repub-
llcans carried the State by 10000
and received the returns for seven
of the ten members of Congress,
whereas, according to Democratic
authority, "had Mr.. Barbour been
at home the count would have been
different"
That, inasmuch as in the last
State election it is known that fully
1000 legally qualified voters we're
traudulently stricken from the reg
istration books, and by such means
the popular will nullified and a
State government imposed upon
the people without remedy; and
that inasmnch as it has come to
pass that an election in the State
for municipal, State, or federal
officers under the Democratic cleo
ton law, aud as administered by
Democratic officials, is a mere
mockery, and that any contention
of candidates opposed to the Demo
cratic machine candidates only
serves to give cOuntenance to the
belief that elections in Virginia are
free and fair.
That We for ourselves declare
that we will not participate, and
we advise all selfrespectIng Re-
publicans to torbear participation,
in any election in this State Except
IN such districts where the district
committees may elect to call con.
Ventions) where, and so long as,
the same shall be conducted under
the foul election law of the Demo.
cratic party, as now frdudulentIy
ENTHUSIASTICALLY biding the
time when unlawful disfranchise-
ment OF the electors, and fraudu.
lent returns, shall become so re.
pugnaDt to popular sentiment as to
make the acceptance of public
trust by such means badge of dis
bonOr; when the better thought of
the masses shall realize that an
efficient, frugal and pure admins.
tratlOn of public affairs is only to
be reached by fair elections; when,
In fact, it shall be seen that Re.
publican torn of government, as
guaranteed by the Constitution Of
the United States, the paramount
law of the land, is allowed or Ell
forced in Virginia.
But, in Difference, and only in
Difference, to what may be the wish
of some OF the districts, this COM
mittee hereby delegates authority
to every Congressional committee
that may 80 determine, to call a
district convention to nominate a
candidate for Congress, and to fix
the time and place of the same.