The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-11-18
The Day Of Dispositions.
contests for seats In the Senate.
ANSWERS OF JQHNsoH gs AND TANNER
.r5i - SERVED ON CONTESTANTS. ..
EXPERIENCES OF, ni4xz5 VOTERS }, aiIsK Il 81

II -. 2
J. General johnson and Colonel Tanner yes
] terday to the notices OF contest
some days ago. served on them BY Messrs.
Knight and Starke. bas.ls % -
General johnson. In bis answer to Colonel
! Knight, complains of the ipadequacy OF the
notice. given him, and asserts that the alleged
ground for contesting his seat is not sufi.
cient, and denies each and all the statements
relied on by Colonel knight. After recitingf
the main points In the agreement between
the Republicans and Independents General,
johnson declares that" under this arrange.
ment and by this device Knights sup
porters polled nearly the whole negro
vote, very large majority of whom cannot
read and write, aud who supposed they we're
voting for Smith, the Republican candidate,
and also for Knight and Starke. The fact is
that several hundred of them only voted for
you and ,Starke, when they would not have
| voted for you and he unless they believed they
were at the same time voting for their own
nominated candidate-Smith. The result Of
] this device, by which a large number of ne.
groes were induced to vote foryou and Starke
| on the faith that they were also voting for
Smith was that Smith got only 2,97s votes In
| Richmond and you got 4,261 votes. You
i
"There were 3,440 negro votes poIled at
the election; of these. between two hundred
| and three hundred voted the Conservative
| ticket, and you got at least 1900. Smith got
at least 400 white votes, leaving him only
2,566 negro votes. You therefore got be.
| tween COO and 700 negro votes more than
Smith, and you got these or, the faith that the
| voters who cast item thought they were Yo-
| ting for Smith and also for Knight and
Starke when they were thus deceived into
voting for only Knight and Starke.- ! there
/ fore charge that you have received by this
device OF your supporters and adherents be-
| tween 600 and 700 votes more than you. are
Justly entitled to, and that this was done BY
means of deceptive tickets, which the igDo-
rant voters believed contained the name of
Smith as well as yeur own and Starke,s."
| 1t is charged that the Independents by
their bad faith with Smith and leaving his
name off many of the tickets intended to
throw him behind the other candidates,
whereas he would otherwise have been ahead
OF all on his ticket. !, ,,,s.1.. ~. ...
General johnson also charges that Colonel
Knights friends and party managers T." made
bargain with the Republican City Commits
tee whereby 1t was agreed on the Republican
side that the influence and machinery Of that
party should be used to get out the full negro
vote for you, and It was agreed and under
st1od on the part ofyour party managers that
| they would pay the Republican Committee
five hundred andtwenty. five dollars in cash;
that they would give Normand Smith a fair
| support at the polls, and that you and Starke
would oppose and vote against the proposed
constitutional amepdmentdisfranchi par
| ties convicted of petty larceny"
| General johnson represents that the Re.
pubicans in carrying out this contract acted
| vigorously, and " reused 10 the minds of the
negroes the feelings Of race and social ostra-
cisIn, so that members of the Republican
party were forced either to vote for you and
| Starke or not vote at all, or to vote secretly
for the Conservative Candidates. The, con.
sequence has been that large number OF
negroes voted for you who were not legal
voters, and many who voted the! ConserYa-
| tive ticket have been afraid to acknowledge
| it on account Of the denunciation they meet
from their race" --5-ee----.--==---.--. -=--.--z.
Appended TO the paper are the names Of
| several hundred men who are not entitled
| to vote, yet at the election voted for Knight.
In number of instances dead men were
voted. :. r.
The reply to Mr.. starke's notice is in terms
similar to the above.
| Colonel Tanner served on Mr.. Starke
formal answer to his notice Of contest, deny
fng the allegations contained in Mr. Starke's
notice and going to show that he was fairly
and legally elected to the Senate. s. s..s.
The KnIgbs-J ohnson Contest. i
| At, A O'Clock A. M. yesterday, owing to Q
ruling of the notary, Mr.. Ward. the counsel
| for General Johnson, after entering their
protest. withdrew Mr.. Harris from the wit
ness.stand, where be had been for about ten
consecutive hours. =:
9 Colonel Knights counsel then called the
| following witnesses &. NJ. Taylor, who
voted for Knight, Starke, and Smith; L. A.
| lWhiting, who voted for Starke and Knight;
r. 2. Lambeth, who voted for Knight and
i Starke. Adjourned to $50. :. -. z ~
Atthe resum ption Of business q. c. Wick
ham acted us notary, and B. Fl. Nash de.
posed that he voted for Knight, Starke. ana
| Wortham; J. 81. Crensha " voted for knight,
Tanner, and Wortbam: Isaac Il. Hatcher
(co.oreO voted for Knight; B. r. Lipscombe
! voted for Kuight and Stsrke o.. 81. Chalk.
4 lev voted, for Knight and S|arke; 81. GuDst
voted for Johuson and -KHight Charles II.
i Simpson voted for johnson, w or than, and;
4 Knight; C. Wathall voted for Starke, knight,
Eand Wortham. ~ .Rs,52 -a - 80, :
/ In reply to interrogatories, Mr.. Walthall
deposed that Macdougal took ballot from
/ stand or table near the ballotchox While she
held the ballot in his hand which ne ten
! dered, and that he was about to place the
one in the box which he picked up from the
table, when he demonstrated with him, ana
Macdougal the reupon: put bis (Walthalpsl
ballot 10 the box. Mr.. Walthall, Sr., and
| several other witnesses testified to having
voted for Knight About 8 O'clock P. NJ.
1 the further taking of dispositions was post
poued until this morning.
| Mr.. C. Scott cMeRae was summoned q to
| give testimony in the case of Knight Us.
! Johnsou, but upon informing counsel that
he would positively decline to say for whom
he voted was not pat upon the stand. 7as7
/ .:gf GENERAL yoHssoN's EVIDENCE. i't
j About 5 O'Clock yesterday evening Mr. Q.
LG. Kean (notaryI proceeded, at the office OF
Major Stiles, to take evidence IN oehaF OF
Bradley T. johnson, defendant. There we're
tpresent Mr. Robert Howard, counsel for
Colonel William C. Knight: Hon. Robert
Ould, Major Robert Stiles Judge Es
G.. Minor, James NJ DaYis; VI lillian i,
4 Royal, and. O.. VI Meredith, counsel ZOE den'
/ eral B. T. johnson. :4szsa
Messrs. e. H. Fisher ard Willie Archer
were examined as to publications relating TO
/ the late canvass, andS Captain Louis u. Bos-
sieux In reference to the tickets used on the
day OF election and his interview With Cap
/ nasa.a. ;.9k tdItfi ssa.ihk ~ ~ = q
/ The Starke.Earner Case.
/ The taking OF depositions In che caseeof
4 Starke against Tanner was continued syester.
day morning. .4..5 sss.',a ,s's, =. j !,
/ Cbristopher Waltball sisted that he voted
for w. q. knight, II. I'll .StafEe, and Charles
i "a worshsy,, Major n a. Nash voted for