Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-11-05
Our Duty To-day.

The elections TO be held in virginia
To-day are for twenty out Of the forty
members OF the State Senate and for
the entire membership OF the House oil
Delegates The Legislature thus chosen
will convene here In annual session Oh
she first Wednesday Of December next
and will elect the Capitol officers, levy
taxes. appropriate the revenues, pass
on the question of revising our election
laws, etc.
In short this Legislature will play an
important PARK In the political history
OF this State. IL 1t be a Legislature COM
posed OF trustworthy men, 1t may advance
our welfare greatly. Per contra-n IL
be a Legislature of men OF Popunstic
sendencies--it may play the Wild with
public interests. We should not ike
Virginia 10 fall into the snares OF the
enemy as North Carolina did two years
ago. Friends. see to it that each Of you
does his part towards averting calamity
so much to be dreaded
Richmond elects no senators to-day.
Senators Lovenstein and Sands hold
over" for two years longer. Our voting
will be- therefore. for five members OF
the House Of Delegates. and our Demo-
cratic nominees are Messrs Harwood.
Bryant. Cabell. Reddy, and Murphy.
There Is also an independent ticket In
the field; but the campaign here has been
such a quiet one many Of our people
do not know that there is opposition
10 our nominees. Yes; there Is oppo-
sition, and the hope of its friends is
that We may be caughl mapping and be
either defeated or be allowed to win by
Tidiculously small majority. SO, 1t is de-
sirabie that all good Democrats should go
to the polls to-day. We shouldn't give
our enemies the occasion TO say that we
won the election by the skin OF our
teeth when we could just as easily have
won 1t by majority OF thousands and
thousands. III you are a good. earnest.
Democratic party man you will vote TO-
day and vote for the Democratic nomi-
nees.
very much the same as that In Rich
mond An independent candidate is OPP
posing the Democratic nominee. The
Democrat will be easily elected II our
friends come out: but there IL danger
40 him IL the voters take 1t for granted
that there is no occasion for their going
TO the polls.
Every Manchester and Chesterfield
Democrat should 20 to the polls to-day.
That Is close district. Every one OF
their votes Is needed. No member Of our
party who wishes us to win victory
to-day will stay at home without good
excuse. let the Manchesterlans and
Chesterfieldians display the same loyalty
and activity that have ever distinguished
them and poll their full vote to-day and
give the Democratic ticket 'rousing
majority. II they do so, the district will
be safe: IL they do not-why something
uisagreesble may happen.
The campaign which will be brought 80
u close In Virginia to-day has been
very quiet one Except in ten OF fifteen
counties the voters on neither side seem
10 have been very deeply interested.
Democrats as a rule. have assumed that
the State is perfectly safe for our party,
and have given themselves little trouble
about the result This may prove TO be
all right. but II II against our advice,
We have. in season and out Of season,
warned our friends to take nothing for
granted: TO war against overconhdence.
and to beware Of the still hunt of the
enemy.
All these warnings We repeat now.
while there is yet time To reach tens OF
thousands of readers. and whilst the polls
are open TO every man who wishes to
vote. Go to the polls. we beg; go and
vote for the Democratic nominees.
Keep our State Government in safe hands.
Make no such experiments as We duped
virginians made In the Malone times;
por any such as North Carolina made
TO her great cost and shame two years
ago. Don't be 80 overcOnfident as to be-
lieve that your presence at the polls
will not be needed. III every Democrat
should take that view. instead OF our
having "a waik-over'' the opposition
would have a walk-over.
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