The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-09-25
kAUTCAL aOMINATToNS FOR T.rr
LEGEsLATURE.
ONE NEGRO AND TWO WH1rEnEO
FOR THE SENATE.
FIVE WHITE MEN FOR THE HOUSE
Dissent Of the Colored Deresates.

FIVE WHITE MEF FOR THE HOUSE,
dissent Of the Colored Delegates.
,rwo Iwo Radical conventions met in the
pnlted states courtroom, at the GIlstom.
house, on Saturday; one to nominate can.
fGiaates for the Senate from Henrico and
hlenmond, and the other to nominate can.
! 0iaates Tor the House Of Delegates from the
city OF Richmond. No notices of the meet.
ing were published, and great care WAS
taken TO have the work of nomination
! pushed through without attracting the al.
tentlon OF the Conservatives to the conyen-
TIE SENATORIAL CONVENTION s,
met first: Collector Rush Burgess presided.
and Capt. Jesse j. Underhill was seeretarv''
After D good deal of squabbline betwasn
contesting delegations from Fairfield and
Varlna townships, the Convention pro-
ceeded to nominations. The Candidates
from the city were j. Fl. Shields, fUnited
States Commissioner, Rev. VIM. Troy
(colored preaeher), Col. John 4. Popham,
and Il. N. Peterson; and from the county,
, S. L. Annable and John Woodwork.
Col. Popham and Troy received the nom.
ination for the city without much trouble.
1 but there was hot contest between Wood.
worth and Annable, which finally resulted
in the choice of the former.
/ The ticket aroused no enthusiasm either
In the convention or among the spectators,
and one Of the defeated candidates remarked
to our reporter that the whole id thin:
would be e>-..--.
DEFEATED DY 1900 VOTES.
An hour after the adjournment of the
Senatorial Convention the City Convention
met in the same place. 1t was composed
Of only twelve men, about equally divided
as to race. Landon Boyd was called to the
=: chair and Geo. Bailey chosen secretary.
; An organization being effected nomina.
tions poured in with great rapidity. We
caught the following: DR.. G. s. Mills, John
Rankin, D. W. Bohanan, Henry Miller,
! VIM. Flegenheimer, l.. N. Peterson, A
Taylor, George w. Smith, Stephen Mason,
Andrew Washburne, j. II. Shields, b. NJ.
| Manly, W. j. s. BoWe, Stephen D. Jones.
MajorJ. j. johnson was also nominated,
but declined to run. ..-.
; William r. HoWle, Of Clay Ward, read
! LONG LETTER FROM Mr.. FLEGENHEMER,
in which that candidate gave the reasons
why it was all important that his name
should appear on The ticket. The princi.
' pal one was that he Is an 1sraelite and q
German, and that it was necessary to have
an Israelite and q German to defeat Mr..
Loyensten, who it seems to be conceded is
| to be nominated by the Conservatives.
| Some discussion arising as to how nom.
nations should be made, delegate sug-
gested
! BALLoTING.
|. This brought to his feet Lewis Lindsey,
who yehemently declaimed against the bal.
lnfc 10 tod hNfl &lI I-x,o
who he voted for. The nomination should
be made by rising, standing, and count
ing" But Lewis's voice was oyerruled.
! The result was as follows : Flegenhcimer,
3; Taylor, 4. Peterson, 3; Mills, s; Mil
Ter, g.; Bowe, 8; Kent, I; Bohanan, 10 ;
Rankin, 6. Smith, 3; Shields, 8; Cox, ;
Mason, 3; Manly, 4; Washburne, 1.
F.! MIR. Burgess moved that all but the six
. highest candidates be dropped.
: MIR. Forester (colored), moved as q SUBJ
stitute that the five who had received the
highest votes be declared the nominees of
the party.
| Lewis Lindsey opposed Forresters mo-
tion. If adopted it would exclude colored
men entirely from the ticket, and il there
wasn't a colored man on it, howl would
come up from the tobacco factories all over
the city. He couldn't go back to his ward
again been sighted, Notwithstanding nine
tenths Of the party was OF that race. If
we want victory there must be
coLoRED GENTLEMAN ON THE TICKET.
owe can't stand this thing no longer"
Mr.. Forester defended his motion. He
wished to nominate ticket that would
: win, and he thought that the five names re-
ferred to would constitute such ticket.
a n6Qsapu nf tho
but he raised question as to whether Capt.
!! BOhanan would accept the nomination.
That gentleman was now in Europe, and
1t was said on good authority that he would
not accept.
Mir. Burgess said he had the best reason
for saying that Capt. Bohanan would ac-
cept. He then made stirring speech in
reply to Lindsey's, urging that to place q
colOred man on the ticket would be to risk
the success of the party. He was tired of
experiments. The party cannot afford any
more experiments; no party can long
stand such series Of defeats.
Gilbert Boyd spoke against Capt. Bohan-
ans nomination In the belief that he would
not serve.
MIR. A. J. Terry said that after trying to
run in that worthy man Landon Boyd, the
colored people ought to be satisfied that it
was inexpedient to insist upon representa-
ton on every ticket. IF another election
goes against us we may not have even this
court. house to meet in. II we are licked
again .... s,.s-.m...
THE LORD ONLY KNOWS TIE END.
Landon Boyd denied that his election
was "testical." Colored men do not raise
this question of color, but if white men
keep acting it, colored men will talk it.
The negroes are five to one white men in
the Radical party, and yet they are to be
daniod q rlnca ON the tinkpk He Naa