The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-01-17

Riley had Joined the camp he knew II Was
no place for a gentleman who had deter
mined on responsibility az q principal IN
Egredient in the composition OF the political
party he intended to associate himself with,
thereupou announced l,imse)fa /" Frazier
man." Another test as to where the Con-
sergatives stood in the primary meetings
Ethe largest ever held}, only had in i've. dis
tricts "a votes against mes at ColllerstoWn,
Is at Kerr's creek, 5Iat Lexington, 2 at South
River, and not c. man against 1Rein Walker
Creek district. one CT the richest, II not the
richest, in the county, and on the. final test,
the 9th OF November, after the courts, to
suUe themselves, had thrown the vast ma
chinery at their command against NE, the
whole bar, sending o,it daily a train OF the
legal fraternity TO combat me on the stump !;
the press, with its sheets teeming with
abuse and false accusation against me, re-
fuyins TO allow me to refute it in the same
source, linked and interviewer with the
Lexington Courthouse Returning-Board
l,cliquc, that g for ways that are dark and
tricks that are vain" completely envelopes
and obscures beyond our vision the Tweed
ring OF New York and Louisiana Return
ing Board. Yet, with this con@lomeratlon
ofIcourts,. lawyers, county officials, and
rinssters, forming themselves into one solo!
phaanX against me, only succeeded III
polling the following insignificant vote in
the following wealthy and influential dis
tricts in the countr-yiz., Golfers
town, 40 out OF 80; kerr'S Creek,
45 cut OF 200: Brownsburg, 50 out
OF 21O; Fairfield, 50 out OF Id;
and in like proportion in the smaller pre-
cincts. I ran rs the Conservative nominee
of the primary meetings, having received
the appointment OF 33 out OF 80 delegates,
and defrauded By the Returning Board at
Lexington, headed and controlled by some
gentlemen high in politics, who will soon
be made to roost much lower in the future
than they have in the past. owing to the
declining power OF the same Returning
Board.
With this explanation, which | should
not have deemed necessary il [ thought the
failing OF the Gazette was IS well known
abroad as at home, I subscribe myself yours,
very truly, JAMES A. FRAZIER.
COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA.
OFFICE AUDITOR PUBLIC ACCOUNTS,
RICHMOND, January -, 1878.
ROchbridqe COuntH-Insolycnt capita
tion-tax OF 1876: White capitaticn-taN.
1862 negro capitation-taE, $500.
i. a. LGHENTZ.
Vote Of RockbridSe c5unty in &c cleo
tion held the first Tuesday after tie first
Monday in November, 1876, for clectors NJ
President and Vicc-Preside2t:
John W. Daniel, 2,505-saInc vote Gen
the other electors; e. 2. Phelps, 903-sine
vote given the other electors.
Copy from the official books.
w. =. BIXFoED.
Vote at election Tor members Of House OF
Delegates held first Tuesday after the first
Monday in November 1871:
James 4. Frazier, 1902; John 3. Lady.
1852; John Letcher, 7337; john G.. Shields,
I07; II. Hutchinson. ].
This does not include the two precincts
thrown out, owing to there only being one
clerk-yiz., Cedar Hill and RockbridSc
Baths-that cast sc for Lctchcr and III for
J. A. Frazier. put them I'M. A. FrG-
zier.1
Copy from the official record.
w. T.. BlNFOEn.