The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-07-13

6l,334 GO,4"S ZS,oSf
Scattering, IL.
Let tue reader examine this table care
fully, and see how liberia, it is TO the Read
justers. First, we have separated the ke-
publican vote from the votes OF the He
adjusters and from those OF the Debt Pay
ers. The votes thus cast for avowed Re-
publican candidates numbered 23,391. but
OF these votes 1875, or more than hall
were cast for debt-paying Republicans as
shown in the table. This, however. is not
important. The important fact is that they
are GARFIELD men. and therefore will not
vote with the Readiusters this year, whe-
Their they are DeDt-payers or not.
The aggregate vote OF the Readiusters
and Debt-Payers was 12l,Si9, OF which
number 1854 were Debt-Payers, and only
60.495 were Rtadiusters. The reader will
see that the Richmond district is credited
with only 2,G15 Debt-Paying majority, when
we might well claim 5000 majority for our
district. There were no Readiuster can
didates In The field here to call out our
strength, and so our majority is put down
at hardly bali of what it ought to be-.
1t will be seen, also, that we have given the
Readjusters all the votes cast in the Second
and Tnird districts. or course the Debt
Payers are at least as numerous in those dis
tricts as in the First. but we thought 1t only
fair to give the Readiusters the entire
vote as an offset 10 the vote in the
Fifteenth district, where the Readiust-
ers had no candidate, yet whose en-
tire vote we have credited to the Debt-Pay-
Payers. II all three districts were omitted
altogether the Debt.Payers' majority would
be increased by about 1000. In the Abe
marie district, which elected Dcbt-Payer
to the Senate, we have not set down. SIM
gle vote for our side, although Colonel
DUKE was elected to the House OF Delegates
In Albemarle, and Greene county gave over
200 majority for the Debt.Payers. We could
righ;fully claim at least 1880 or 1000 votes
In that district.
Now as to the negro vote. The negroes
constitute l0-26ths Of the voters OF Vir-
ginis. The whole vote, as above stated,
was 1887. Ten-twenty-sixths OF it would
be about $4,000. This would show the
negro vote to have been about $4,000 as
against white vote OF about $4,000. Now,
the Republican candidates received only
90, 397 votes. For whom did the other
thirty-odd thousand negroes vote 7 Ger
tainly most of them voted the Readjusters'
ticket. There can be no doubt whatever as
to the truth OF this assumption.
But let US suppose that only 4l,00O me-
groes voted; that 5000 whites voted the
Republican ticket and 1900 negroes.
Then, after THUG reducing the negro vote
and allowing that there were only Al 900 Of
them to 100000 white votes 1.-THE two make
up 145.00O], or i've whites to two negroes,
though there are only sixteen whites to ten
negroes assessed as voters, and still the
question recurs, Where did the other "a, 900
negroes 90 tor For whom did they vote
Let us admit that one third Of them voted
the Conservative ticket and only two thirds
the Readiuster ticket, and We have the fol-
lowing figures showing how the whites
voted:
Conservative vote..... ,s54
Otuuct iof hsgroes.. e,OOO
Conservative white vote. .b3.364
Readjusiefs vote. .60,495
Deouet Tor negroes. 10000
Readjusiers' white vote. .44495
Or majority Of 1900 Of the whites for
the Conservative ticket.
Will anybody in Virginia say that less
than 10000 negroes voted the Resdiusters'
ticket?
To avoid the shame OF these crushing
facts, tue Readjusters claim the Republican
vote as theirs Ia every case where the Re-
publican elected Is not known to be Debt