Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-02-21
Cracking the Party Lash.


II caused US good deal of amusement
when we read in the Lynchburg VTginidn
of day or two ago that tho DISPATCH had
shown of late "a disposition to crack the
party lash" Surely the Yuqinidn must
be jokinc. We are not qualified to play the
role our Lynchburg contemporary assigns
20 us. We have not only experienced no
wish TO crack the party whip, but there has
been. so far "a we are aware, no occasion
for us or for anybody else to indulge In
that sort OF party work. We have argued
IN favor of standing by the regular Demo
cratic organization in New. York az
well as tho regular Democratic or
panization in Virginia; but we did not
know that there were IN Virginia
.any boilers. or Mugwumps, OF other pre-
tended Democrats. who were unwilling 10
follow their leaders into political battle.
I'VE really had not supposed that there
were in this State any Democrats who pre-
ferred defeat ander the banner of the Mug
Wumps to success under the banner OF the
Democratic party, as that party IS repre-
sented by its duly-appointed authorities
Are there such Democrats in Virginia?
Are there men here who justify the meet
ing in Cooper Institute and endorse the
resolution passed by that meeting threat
enins to become boilers? We allude to
the resolution authorizing the Committee
of Fifty TO endeavor to get the Demo
cratic State Convention postponed.
and. failing in this, to devise
means of having the boilers represented in
that oonyention2 We are sure that the
viroinian will have no fellowship with such
Democrats.
In reply to an interrogatory OF ours, the
Vusiaian says that Governor Hull could
have had the date OF the State convention
changed. The State committee, IL AYERS
''would have changed the date of the con
vention at his request as readily as they
fixed the date at his suggestion in the
nrst place" We might endorse that ut
terance, for we do not believe that the
date was fixed at Governor HnL's request.
The Democratic State Committee of New
York is just such body as the Virginia
Democratic State Committee. MIR. BAR
eoun was. during bis term as chairman OF
the latter, charged with controlling it, and
Its members were denounced by the Ma
HONE papers and speakers as his tools;
Yeti when United States senator
Was TO be chosen, JOHN w. DANIEL
was elected over MIR. BARBOUR, much 10
the surprise Of the innocent persons who
had credited the story that MIR. Barbour
was party boss. New York has Demo-
cratic State Committee worthy OF the
Empire State" That committee is not
composed Of tools" of Governor Huns,
but of good men and true men who are
party workers-men who hold that the
Democratic party is the only national
party. and that upon its success depend
the welfare and prosperity and future
greatness Of this immense country. There
are giants In the Democratic party Of New
York. These giants are represented on
the State committee. To call such men
the tools" OF Governor HILL is to
wrong them and the Democratic party Of
New York IL is to ignore the facts OF the
case, and substitute for them the calum-
MES Of the Republican sectionalists.
II. therefore. we are not mistaken in
these assumptions, the Yrgsnsan hes based
IL remarks upon condition OF thinas
which does not exist. That paper for
rsts itself when Il speaks g 1t does OF the
Z bsuocssts Of New York. II ought not
ihus 70 wrong the only men In that State
kho have alwsys proved themselves TO be
friends Of the southern Democracy. We
hardly know What 10 say 10 good Viz
r1pis De1oent Who thus "trAins With
- snerny. npt ~ viii venture 70 ask
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