Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-06-02

"ioc" Foo" f'"rnrSsome Loco Foco paGers-no the Morn
ng PSi--'rnrn' complain about The Atlas surrs, aud the
accuracy {" oar election returns. We brstow more labor and
more expense upon matters of that description than any other
careful scrutiny. Our attention just mistake
or PtfM fraud committed BY The Editor of the Richmond En-
qnirer, IN the tabular
Virginia House OF Delegates which doubtless prepared for
Ss a aga DIf f. @nEs ss ns 'nu @
1889, Wings c. Loco Foo lsi1
found by adding up the lines Of the for 1872 that the En-
ger mas added up IN" lnco Foco line t~O too maHy and the
mistake in adding line, considered probaIe-bu that
should have made mistake in both lines, and each in his
favor carrying the joke rather far. The belief that this
petty ri Is strengthened by the fact that the Enquirer has not
since corrected the We viii put the Atlas figures
The above & from the Boston Atlas of the 25tl May.
Mr. Rtch'e attention was called to it few days ago,
and informed that various other Wing papers, in and
out of Virginia, had made similar impuations He had
seen none of them-caed for the Enquirer of the eth
ut which contained the column thus alleged to have
been des'gnediy added up wrong-and remarked ''the
additions may be right and the consist in the
tensions OF the counties, achich prored to DC the ac
upon examination. Thus-the Administration members
elect this Spring. are put down in the aggregate at
SIXTY Mrec-whereas, the column, printed would
make only sixty But the ttrO delegates from
Rockingham, Zone of the strongest administration
ties in the Stue,) are, by Typographical error put TO
the side OF the HhigS. Again-lhe Wings elected this
Spring are stated to be sixty seven-whereas the
rect addition of the column would make serenity But
the two Rockingham members, and the enumeration of
the member from Charles City and New Kent, in two
places, thus giving the appearance of two members from
that district, instead of onc accounts for this apparent
error The Administration members of 1889 are ad-
ded up 62-whereas the column, as prntCd, would
make 50 only But here again, the Rockingham dele
gates are omitted, and the member from Cumberland,
who had been placed by the Globe, of the 4th May,
from which the whole table aken) in The Admin
istration column, is also omitted And Iastiy the
Wings of 1899 added up Srty-eight-whereas, the
column, as printed, would be sEvESrY-THREE. But
here again, the two Rockingham members erronc
onsy put to the Wing sIde-the Charles City and New
Kent member is again counted tccc, the town of Pc
tersburg has given two members instead of One-and
the Cumberland member not in the Globe list is here
put down TO the Wings.
Thus the list Of the Globe, upon the data assumed
is added up correctly in every column, and the Enqu
rer in repubshng II, copies all the additions correct
~, but made several Typographical errors in extending
the numbers from the respective counties, all Of which
errors with exception only, that of the member
from Cumberland, in 80, against its oarn party.
In the republication of the list the Sth Of May,
credit given TO the Globe for it. But, in the
Enquirer of the l2th, independent article, fol-
lows
"nT We published in our last tabular statement of
the Virginia Eections-which we omitted to credit to
the Globe Making mark of the u to attract par
tcnlar notice.
Here it may be observcd-f there hal been errors
in the table from the Globe the imputation of design
upon the Enquirer its Editor had taken particular
to have credit given the Globe for the table And
next that the additions, made, upon the data of the
Globe, correciand further the typographical er
rors in the Enquirer, were all, with one exception,
againsinseG"
What atonement the Wing Editors ia Trginia will
make for thus mputing crimnalty, under the circum
Stances remains TO be seen. They should have kn0rn
that Petersburg had but delegate-that Charles
City and New Kent had but delegate-and espe
cally that the delegates from Rockingham were friends
of tie Administrations Even the Editor of the Arena,
himself always gentlemen, has fallen into this cru
SADIE against the Enquirer, for an alleged mistahe or
pittM fraud, without taking the trouble TO correct
mere typographical errors, which should have been
obvious to him "But Jupiter himself sometimes mods
II not intended by the writer to maintain, that the
data of the Globe in its estimate correct-hat is
quito another affair E.c question is confined to the
correctness ncorrecncsS Of the additions. And that
every Wing paper, which has published the unjust i'm
putation, should recant IL ought TO be desired by all in
favor OF FAIR PLAY