The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-10-23
rhe PrImnry.Election Day.
9Ne ePFimuFysETeCtIOH DHy.
WITHDRAWAL OF PROMINENT CANDIDATES.
THE PLACES OF v0T1NG-EXTRACTs FRoA
THE PRIMARY PLAN.


THE PLACES OF voT1NG-EXTRACTs FROM
THE PRIMARY PLAN.
The primary election takes place to-day.
The Conservative voters OF the city are to
select five gentlemen to become the nomi-
nees OF the party, and US such to be sup
ported at the general election in November.
According to the rule adopted by the conf
mittee the names OF all the candidates entered
up to Saturday night will appear on the Off
cial ticket, arranged in alphabetical form,
though some have since withdrawn. Each
Conservative citizen has the privilege OF
voting for as many as five, and after making
bis selections will erase the other names
from the ticket.
THE PLAN.
The following are extracts from the prl-
mary-election plan:
Resolved by the City Conservative Com
mittee, That a primary election shall be held
by the Conservative party on the 23d day
Of October, 1877, to nominate candidates
for the House Of Delegates; and that the
five candidates who shall receive the high
est number Of votes shall be declared the
nominees OF the party. ar:~, r :.
TOTING-PLACEs. ~. 49, :
There shall be one voting. place for each
ward, except Jackson, where there sh:ll be
three; and the polls shall be opened at sum
rise and closed at sunset.
wQo NAY VOTE.
None but WHITE members of the Conser-
yative party who are known or proved to
the Judges to have identified themselves with
it heretofore shall vote.
MANNER OF VOTING.
:,,J .t,,n Il lolo 1a n
OF the person offering to vote, then ascer-
tain il the person is duIy-qualitied Conser-
vatiYe uoter at the time. or ,oiU be before the
Norenber election, and then the judges
shall (if the person is found so qualitied)
proclaim the name Of the candidates voted
for, DC.
VOTE WHERE REGISTERED.
In cases where persons have removed
from one voting-precinct or ward to an
other since the last registration they shall be
authorized to vote in the ward or precinct
where their names are registered, and the
Judges shall in such cases make note OF
the circumstances on the poll-book opposite
where said voters names are recorded.
THE COMMITTEES BOOKS.
The treasurer OF the committee shall pay
to the clerks Of election the amount ascer-
tanned to be due them only when said clerks
present to the treasurer receipts from the
secretary that they have delivered to the
secretary the registrution-books in their
hands belonging to the committee.
THE TICKETS.
That all persons who desire to be candi-
dates for nomination by the party ut the
primary election be requested to notify the
secretary OF this committee on or before the
10Th instant, and that the Committee on
Printing be instructed to have all names
thus furnished printed on ticket alpha.
betically arranged.
MOFFETT TICKET RECOMMENDED.
j. r. Anderson,
L. G.. Gray,
w. w. Henry,
S. H. Pulliam,
G.. Il. Crutchfeld.
Having been selected by eight candi
dates who have announced themselves in
favor OF maintaining the honor and public
faith Of Virginia and OF raising the taxes
necessary for that purpose by all practicable
measures, including taxation on liquor
and as opposed to the repeal OF tue Moffett'
register law, to choose from amongst theil
number five gentlemen who should run n
the primary election upon that platform
we, the undersigned, have chosen the five
candidates above named, and present theil
names to our fellow-citizens-to devoted
for to-day-as Inen worthy to be entrusted
in the next House Of Delegates with the in
terests OF our fair and beautiful city and th'
honor OF this Commonwealth.
JAMES II. DoOLEY,
PEYT0N WISE,
GEORGE L. CHRISTIAN,
JAMES N. TALBOT,
W. D. CHESTERMAN,
J. L. N. CURRY,
CHARLES MnLHISER,
JOHN j. CRUTCHFIELD.
We, the candidates whose names wer'
submitted to the above committee, and no
nominated, withdraw from the canvass, ant
recommend the ticket selected to the cordla
support of our friends, and pledge to it ouI
hearty cooperation.
J. Y. ELLYSoS,
w. S. GILMAN,
WILLIAM LOvESsTEIN.
ANOTHER TICKET.