The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-11-05

: ~ .1hu wen sOt1sUu Eusf IS t1esel.I
tcrt had been made TO swtndle him, he was
glad the Independe hid been defeated.
Colonel Smith !stated that heYWas regularly
nominated for the Senate by the Republt-3
cans sof Henrico, After Some time, seeing
that his patty In Richmond Was NOT organ
ized. and receiving no foyertnres from the
Independents. he wrote . letter to Judge
Alfred Morton, fef The 81, Republican
CITY Central COMMITTEES, announcing
that he bad determined to Withdraw
from his aeaHd didacY, but would 60 10 the
county and lend his exertions to the election
g. the House ticket. Two r Or three = days
afterwards, upon the representation Of Judge
seen the Inder endent committee, and chat
name Jont their: ticket In the city, Colonel
was clearly understood by Colonel Smith.
that Judge Morton had agreed with the Inde.
pendentss. committee that his (Smith's) name
should go on. the independent city ticket,
and that the names Of the Independents
'shotih g6 on ihis Smiths county ticket. 4
4 Colonel Smith represents that his part OF
the agreement was honestly and conscfen.
tionsly carried ont, and points to the fact
that In the county Knight received 1889
votes to ,440 cast for himself, while In the
city Knight got-4.261 and he only 2.96S
votes. This great discrepancy In Richmond
arose, as Colonel Smith thinks, from the In.
dependents omittipg his name from half Of
their tickets. They had two kinds Of tickets
pfinted-one with the names of w. c..
Knight and p. H. Starke for the Senate, and
the other with the names Of w. G.. Knight,
PEI. Starke and NorBand Smith. The first
seemed to have been most generally circu-
lated. In other words, Colonel Smith charges
that the contract was violated by the Inde-
pendents, and that eolored men voted the
Independent ticket, confidently believing
that bis name was upon it. " ben itw was not.
Colonel Smith assured our reporter that
early on the day Of election be discovered
the wrong done him, and that he returned
home from the city fully Convinced that be
was defeated, because the compact by which
he alone was induced, to remain in the field,
when he desired 10 retire, was disregarded.
Thus it appeared that the independents,
by means of their :. peculiar" tickets, got all
OF Colonel Smiths strength, while they not
only failed to;giye him theirs; but kept him
out of much Of hisown, as colored men who
could not read often voted the Independent
ticket which had not his name upon it.
EC:Gsi MORE ABOUT THE VOTING.
= It was stated on yesterday to a Dispatch
reporter by prominent Republican that
Mr.. William Taylor, the Independent cam
'1idate fer the House, lost his election by re-
fusing to contribute Sl00 to the Republican
county committees campaign fund. They ask.
ed OF him contribution, our informant said,
and he neglected, declined, or refused to give
1t, and in consequence some dozen Republi-
cans voted against him. Whether or not
Mr.. Taylor could, under any circumstance,
have received as many votes as Mr.. Bryan
or Mr.. Hoeninger none but the wise can
tell. - : :: 80. =. {. = - 4.
Mr.. Hoeninger receives the certificate Of
election, having q majority of one vote.
~ Mr.. Dooley during the last session of the
General Assembly occupied the high and
responsible position Of chairman Of the
House Committee on Constitutional Amend.
ments, and as such reported the amendment
proposing to make conviction OF petit
larceny g suffrage disqualification. This
was extensively. used against him
in Jackson Ward on the day Of
election among ignorant negroes, and many
OF. them in consequence scratched !" his
name. Said one OF the colored leaders: !:
" Fore de Lord, Mister Dooley want to dis
qualify niger jess ef he steal a stick q
wood" -.
Some white man had doubtless given them