The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-09-01

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AM old friend Of ours writes Us tha' we
s.rbt 10 devote more spseetethe densnc'a.
~. 3, Mr.. t3ARrrsiD. For whit purpose :
WHO would be benefited or injured BY
such articlesy Let ms look into the matter.
There can be but two reasons for filing
our columns with articles exposing MT.
0AumLp's shortcomings. These TWO rea-
SOUS are;
1. To deter persons from voting Tor GAR
FIELD who otherwise will do 30.
2. To induce persons TO vote Tor HAN
COCK who otherwise will mol DO So
We holA that there are 50 few sucn per.
soos In Virginia that II would be waste OF
apsce 90 devote any considerable portion OF
our COT mns TO the publication q such arti-
c,es as our old friend likes 10 read. The
Desocrats certainly do not need such arti-
c,cs 20 convince them that It Is their duty to
suppcrt HANCOCK and ENcsxsH. The ne
rroes constitute almost the entire voting
strength Of the Republicao party Ia Vir-
e,,r;a. Take out tho Fedepal ofice-holders,
VINO OF course cannot be reached either by
.rpument or denuuciatios, and there are not
Wany more whites who will vote the Re
publican ticket than negroes who VIII vote
for a HANCOCK ticket. 80 we let the former
Offset the latter. And what sense would
there be 10 trying to ioauce the negroes 10
vote for the regular Democratic ticket! NOT
whit more than there would be IN trying
70 get the offiee.holders to vote against their
bread and butter. The negroes who vote
for HANCOCK will nearly all vote the Ma
HONE electoral ticket. aa
The whole number OF males IN Virginia
assessed with the head tax as being over
awenty-one years Of age was last year 294,-
g4s-1s2. 0O6 being whites and 112,742 me-
groes. OF these about 10000 failed to pay
the capliation tax, leaving 224,000 qualified
voters. Now, n we set down as many
whites as blacks delinquent for non-payment
OF the capitation tax we find that the quail
fed voters consist in round numbers OF
$4,000 negroes and 10000 whites. We
know this estimate to be too liberal to the
negroes, although it leaves the whites
$4,000 majority Of the qualified voters.
But let 1t go. Let us assume that a
majority Of $4,000 Of The qualified voters
OF Virginia already prefer HANCOCK to
GARFIELD, and that as many OF these
as shall vote will certainly. vote either
for the MALONE electors or for the regular
Democratic electors. OF course II the Re-
publican National Committee should fur
nish money to pay the taxes Of all the ne
groes, there wouid be 10000 qualified ne
gro votes; but, as the Chicago Times well
remarks, that committee Will hardly be ver-
dant enough TO send forty thousand dollars
to Virginia this year as means OF render
ing 1t necessary TO send $4,000 next time,
or enough to pay the pol.tax for all the
negroes. We assume, therefore, that there
will be no poll.taXes paid in Virginia this
year except those which are paid by parties
resident within the State.
Having, then, majority OF $4,000 OF the
qualified voters OF Virginia already pledged
to the support Of General HANCOCK land
this without counting any OF the negroes
who will support the MALONE ticket,
1t would seem to be waste VI both time
and space to devote many hours or many Of
our columns to the discussion Of the de-
merits Of GARHnELD or the merits OF HAM
COCK. The only thing needed to be done
In order TO carry the State for HANCOCK is
to get the voters who prefer him to vote for
the same electoral ticket. This cannot be
done, as We have shown, by telling either
negroes or offee-holders of GARFfgLD's
shortcomings. 1t can be done only by in
ducing the voters who already prefer HAN
COCK to cast for one electoral ticket enough
OF their votes to give that ticket majority
over The GARFIELD electoral ticket.
In word, we desire this article to be at
once az answer TO the suggestion Of our old
friend, msd warning to the HANCOCK mea
OF Virginia. Only nine weeks intervene
between to-day and the election. Isn't tt
time that the boilers were dropping their
independent electoral ticket!