The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-04-29

CITY POLITIC S.

A NEW INDEPENDENT MOvEMENT-AyE VET
ERAN WHO DIDN'T WANT TO TELL THE
REGISTRAR HIS AGE-rHE DUTY OF THE
uOUR-N oTES OF THE CANVASS-NEW
CANDIDATES.
4 close caucus Of Independents was held
Thursday night. Dissatisfaction was eX-
nrcsscd at the action OF the City ConServa-
tive Committee in excluding negroes from
participation in the primary election. Those
present resolved to call 4 general meeting
for tonight. to determine what course ought
to be taken.
Immediately after the action OF the City
Committee in relation to the negro question
was made known q reporter OF this paper
asked Mcssrs. George a. Uundley and r.
D. Ward ii they acquiesced IN the action OF
the committee. Each Of them declined to
answer the interrogatory.
Much pleasure was expressed III Conser-
vatiyc circles yesterday when it was made
known that Dr.. A. S. McRae had renouneed
his Independent propensities and declared
anew his allegiance to the conservative
party. Whatever course Mr.. Hundey may
take, DR.. McRae will remain with the party
to which he has belonged since 1869.
Inc flnallCe VI luS Sils SoiiA-
mittcc were on the streets yesterday col
lecting funds to pay the necessary expenses
of the registration. The candidates will
pav the entire expenses OF the primary
election. AS there will be over one hundred
and twenty-five candidates in the field the
burden of each will be very light. The
candidates will hand in their assessments to
Captain &. Watt Taylor, chairman of the
Finance Committee, at the Office OF Major
a. r. Courtney, southeast corner OF Gov
crnor and Franklin streets, between II and
> O'Clock to-day.
A voter who applied to Clay Ward re-
gistrar refused to tell his age when asked.
He said he was over twenty-one, and that
was enough. 1t seems that he was at least
three times that age. The registrar, know
ing that he was OF legal age, enrolled his
name.
Complaint has been made that some OF the
registrars leave the places OF registration for
twenty and thirty minutes at time. Al one
precinct at least voters that could have been
secured have been lost in this way.
In Marshall Ward there are said to be so
many candidates that it will be dlfhcult 10
get the requisite number co. of disinterested
Voters TO serve as commissioners Of the
primary election, especially as the commits
sioncrs will be asked to scrvcior honor, not
for pay.
There are some objections heard to the
riru-roce feature of the primary election
plan. As the committee has two or three
times refusedto alter it, there is now gen.
| cral acquieSccnce in it.
The registration goes on but slowly. The
whites are entitled to Il majority OF at least
1000 in the city, and they can get it II our
people do their duty. Several gentlemen
who registered yesterday said they did not
previously know that they had to register;
that they hadn't seen anything in the pa
pers about it, Yet every paper in the city
has published columns about it.
No little good has already been done the
registration cause by the ladies. 4 gentle
man who proposed yesterday was asked,
..Are Won a registered voter:'' The young
rascal replied, "No, rye put it off till next
week" ..All right" said she, "Fll put you
off till next week. The fellow rctreated
and registered without further delay, and is
now q happy, accepted lover.
The Marshall Ward Conservative Club
are doing splendid service in aid OF the
regular party organization. The X. *. h
and Excelsior clubs are always to be count
ed on. Let them devote Monday and Tues
day to this work. Let the German clubs sc
to work too. Weknow they arc all willing,
and only need this suggestion to make them
enter the field ut once.
At one precinct yesterday morning four
hundred white men whose names were on
the old book had not up to that time applied
to be reregistcred.
Everybody must register anew. The old
registration goes for nothing. 1t has been
wiped out OF existence, in fact. The duty
OF the hour is to register. Unless you do
register you can neither vote at the primary
election nor at the general election follow
ing.
Remember that.
meeting held by the Jefferson Ward
German Conservative Club at Thon's Hall,
on wednesday evening, Mr.. Henry Gunst
was unanimously nominated us their choice
tor the City Council.
The following is the result OF the regis
tration up to last night:
Marshall Ward: First precinct-White,
1919: colored, 109. Second precinct
White, 225; colored, 151. Third precinct
White, 25I; colored, 220. Total white,
G75: total colored, 4s0. White majority, 1886
Jefferson Ward First precinct-W hite,
265; colored, 122. Second preoinct-
| White, 361 ; colored, 176. Third preclncC-
White, 1914 colored, 1T. Fourtn pr pre-,
cinct-White, 227; colored, 20. IoIa'
White, l,O4I; coloTeu,oV' n''
| ATT.
Madison Ward: First precinct Mhite'
29s; colorcd, lie. Second precinct-M nue.
2O5; colored, 161. Third precinct-M mte'
3O2; colord, ITO. Fourth precinct-W hlte,
1I9; colored, SO. Total white, 924 colored,
$50. White majority, 394.
| Monroe Ward: First precinct White,
Al colored, 215. Second precinct White,
2S7; colored, 16S. Third precinct mte,
1863; colored, 127. Fourth precinct-Whlte,
246; coored, 1G2 Total white, 1,l67; CO.
lored, 672. White majority, 495.
jackson Ward: First precinct-White,
105; colored, 4S3. Second precinct-Whi hite,
1S9; colored, 425. Third precinct-W White,
PIT; colored, 400. Total white, GIL; color
ed, 1,3l7. Colored majority, SOC.
Clay Ward: First precinct-White,3 3S4;
colored, 1lS. Second precinct-White, 223;
colored, 1873. Third precinct-White, 251 !;
colored, 1877. Total white, SOS; colored, 453.
White majority, 405.
RECAPlTULAT10N.
White. Colored.
Marshall Ward.................... S75 $50
Jefferson n........."...............1,o 570
Madison 9SE joy
Monroe. ................. .........l,l61 6l2