Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-10-28


! The Democrat who votes FOR General
/ ! mes \. walker "on personal grounds
! uo matter what these personal grounds
! may bee, simply stuitine5 himself ANY
/ honest candidate before the people VIII
! accord 10 all his private, personal friends
! their perfect right to vote - suit them
| selves. This right IL the highest guarantee
| OF our free government 10 its supporters,
and no candidate, II matters not what
| his political ambitions might be, or what
claim. h. may have 70 ones personal
| friendship and favor. could honestly ask
a. friend % sacrifice that prerogatiye.
! From this standpoint We claim and claim
| vehcmenuy thit General Walker has no
! claims On his friends Of opposed political
| views that should make them vote Tor
| him.
! Then. as regards those who feel it their
/ duty 10 vote for Walker, ION personal
| grounds" although they do not believe in
| the principles Of the Republican party, 1t
! Is impo. die - marx any difference be
! tween tine vote Of q fu.l-iiadsed Republ-
! can and that Of man who IS influenced
! L. vote Tor TIE Republican candidate Tor
! personal reasons. IL the Republican can
| d.aate gets enough V0tes-no matter from
! what causc-he is elected ~ the Office To
! which he aspires
The present campaign IS not one Of
| General James 4. Walker. the former
| Confederate soldier. able counsellor, and
| once Democrat, against Judge ii. ;. h.
| Morrison true Christian gentleman, and
! n tried Democrat and a faithful friend
| 10 all OF Nirg.nia's best interests II IS
not this. II t. q hand-to-hanl fight be
| tween Democrats ami Republ.Cans-a de-
! teImlncI fight between labor and capital;
| a Leht between Two great parties advo-
/ eating causes widely different IN nature
/ ami widely din ring IN principle When
| any man, no matter what Ills poiIilcil
! opinion or preference T., votes for Gene
| raj james 4. Walker. be votes for war
| tax protection negro 9rCeuiarcy, a one
metal currency. auI hc horde Of attend
ant evil consequent upon Republican ac-
| cession - power.
80 far SIS General Walkers war record
| goes. what is 1t after all? Hasn't he
! blightcI all the beauty Of his supposed
! patriotic defence Of the southern cause
| Hasn't he bowed the knee u the power
! which smote him 70 the ground and spill
! Ell blood from southern veins? Hasn't he
! also done this in a way that was absolute
! ~ unnecessary. ana since that time, dos
| pite his unfaithfulnsss u the South, has
| been passing as the venerable exponent
| Of the Confederacy? VIII his friends. If
| friends they ought to consider themselves
! have 20 be bound to a man who has thus
! PRAYED himself untrue?
DO those Democrats who say they VIII
vote for him wish such man 60 repre-
| sent them in the halls OF Congress- DO
| they suppose that he II he should be
| elected. exercising the powers that the
| position OF representative to Congress
would ontlte him to. would advocate ana
| support Democratic legislation "on per
| sonal grounds? II they expect this th'y
| Will be wofully disappointed. II General
| Walker goes To Congress "a thing when
| he IS nearly sure not to do) he VIII adVo-
! cate the principles Of Repubiicanism az
| thoroughly IS though he had been brought
up a Republican. He is obliged TO do this.
| II he is elected il Will be the Republican
| vote OF the district mixed with those peo-
| pie who are 50 foolish as 70 vote for Gene
| raj Walker ION personal grounds" and
| unless he intends to betray "all men lie
| must support the cause OF those VINO
! Mace him fn