Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1901-08-21

particularly needs the guidance, the
prott ction and the fostering caresof the
patriotic Democratic party that in the
past has already saved her from SO
many portals.
chosen his last resting place,
and in the strength of whose patriotic
decotion Washington placed his last
hope for expiring liberty.
1t is upon the Democrats residing
west of the Blue Ridge mountains that
the brunt of the impending conflict is
to fall, They are not men, Mr.. Chair
man, who will shrink from the hottest
OF the fray; but if you wish that they
shall be at their best, that their dead
tall shall be irresistible to the enemy,
give them leader from their OVID
clans, whose voice is familiar and
whose face is known to them, and l
promise you in November next they
will return him to you with the eagles
of victory perched upon his triumphant
stan 1ards.
WANT LEADER FROM OUR OWN PEOPLE
Give us a leader from our own people
and our Oh DICE is already made; We
present to you no young and mex
perienced soldier seeking TO flesh his
maiden sword, but SCARED and griz-
civ veteran whose wisdom has been
tested and whose metal has been prov
ed on hundred hard fought fields
We are here to select leaders, and
not camp followers, and so we give
YOU man who has never hung back
until the whole army was in motion,
but who always was among the first to
raise the battle cry and rush forward
to tie fray whenever the rights of the
people were threatened with peri.
We present to you man of lofty
ideals, true patriotism, liberal views,
fignt judgment, profound learning and
broad craftsmanship.
APPEAL TO CoNFEDERATEs.
MIR. Chairman, the old veterans Of
1861 ale fast passing away. Many of
them already are sleeping like tired
children IN the bosom Of the mother
they loved so well. Those that are
left of them now ask for ono place on
the ticket that we shall nominate, and
never shall it be said that Virginia
was the first of all her sister States to
turn her back on the old Confederate
soldiers. This life time of service and
of sacrifice will at least receive its de-
served recognition, and this heroic
soldier, this patriotic citizen, this tried
and true Dem ocrat would be to-day
named as its candidate ''by this con-
vention unless gratitude has lost her
tongue. Z q. 60
Mr.. chairman this is al age of trust
and OF vice and dangerous aggrega-
tions of capital, whose seductive in
huences over the Powers that Be,
often threaten to rid the common
people of their birth right, and to re-
duce them to the condition of economic
slaves and bondmen. We therefore,,
give you a man Of incorruptible To-
Iegrity, who never Ionged for the flesh
pots of Egypt. and whose sense OF
by the the glitter of gold. A man who
will protect all rights snd just claim.
If property, but who is free from all
and other baneful influences
calculated to wean him from sympathy
With the plain and common people A
nan who while according full and
yen-handed justice, to all interests
7ill ever recognize the fact that in the |
administration of government il is the
yeak and not the strong who must
eed protection, and should be the
rincipal objects of solitude,
ANDFRsOGs DEMOCRACY