The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-12-01

hefs Il dcs perass EFFORT being fnadef g
yance tbo eonssrvasIis ileaat the
General Assembly That snalortlY q sne
white people OF vlrRsnfs On sstic go
Iof November for Rex issiater cpn didates.
The figures which ne gave on saturday are
1.-The Official agnress Te named every county
/ anu city and gave the vote OF every county
land city as ascerta,ned By the State Board ~ =
lof CsnYassers. There can therefore DC s' NO
possible mistake Dc TO- the vote nor IAN 10
these official figures be Offset by calculate ons
based upon imaginary facts and figures.
AS to the classL6 cation We have set
down separately the votes cast for Read"
busters, those for Conservatives. and those
for Republicans. Every man Gun see for
himself that the vote In his own county OF OF
city Ii correctly classified. As 70 most OF
the counties, there is no room for doubt.
The issue was clearly defined and well s I'M 2.
lderssood. I II is only as to few counties lI
| that there Is any doubt. These are almost
al, counties or districts in which Republi-
cans were elected. But we have not
claimed any o. the Republican voters as
Debt-Payers except those who supported
ayowed Debl-Payersf for the Legislature.
The Charlottesville Chronicle says that
| 1890 votes were cast In Albernarle for a
Republican Debit Payer. a colored man, yet
| we counted all Of them for the Readiusters.
It was thus that we had to set down only
| 7. $50 Republicans as Debt. Payers, and add
ali the other Republican voters, 1925, to
the Readiusters' column. Certainly, so far,
we cannot possibly have claimed too much
| for the Conservatives.
Then as to the totals: There were but
147,115 votes cast for candidates for tne
House of Delegates. OF these the RepuDli-
can candidates certainly received 26,ll5
votes. There is no dispute as TO who are
the Republican memDers-elect. Ihere IS
no dispute as to who are the Conservative
MEMBERSHIPS or the ReGdiuster members
elect except as to one or two. At any rate,
| il we subtract the Republican vote from
the grand total, it will appear as clear as
day that the Conservatives and Readjusters
together received 1--WE count in the 2SO scat
tering votes as we did Saturday, $4,000
votes. We claim $4,000 (using round num-
bers) for the Conservatives, and concede
$4,000 to the Readiusters. Now look over
the list and see in what county we have
claimed too much or conceded too little.
We do not claim absolute accuracy, OF
course, but we do claim that the mistakes
against the Conservatives will at least offset
the mistakes in their favor.
Next as to the white and black vote.
Isn't il most liberal estimate to concede
that only a, 900 negroes voted in the entire
State ?-that 10000 of these voted the Re-
publican ticket ?-that OF the $1,000 voting
the other tickets only $4,000 voted Tor the
Readjusters THAT as many as 1000 voted
the Conservative ticket? Isn't that con-
ceding more than any fair-minded Read
ulster can honestly claim?
What remains? Only to subtract $4,000
negroes from the Readjusters' total vote OF
Sc, 900 to show what their white vote was.
The subtraction shows that their white vote
was $4,000. Also, to subtract 1000 from
the Conservatives total vote OF $4,000 to
show what their white vote was. The SUBJ
traction shows that their white vote was
IS, 900. And as $4,000 is to $4,000, so was
the white vote of the Conservatives to the
white vote OF the Readjusters.
The figures are official. The reasoning
is unimpeachabIe. The facts are indispu-
table. The result was as the official figures,
the argument, and the facts demonstrate.
We have good reason for claiming that our
white majority over the Readiusters is not
less than twenty thousand.