The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-07-16
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Fair Play.
n the yAig will deal fairly With US ana
AIR acquires. we shall take pleasure IN cor.
rectlne is errors, aud Ia endesvoring to
induce Il 70 return to the path OF Demo
cratic rec,itude. But u Il propcses to cor
t,nue 70 make such assertions as the fol'cw-
ins. we shall have "a turn Il over to isssAcas.
- ErHsAM Il Joined 70 bis idols" We SHAH
have 70 say, "iet him aaons." The Ways
abatement to which we allude 10 as fcaacws ;
mAud, surely, 70 the Fcnders were badly
defsnfrd. when their chief orgsn ceesesses
shaf they received majority 81 the svowed
Republican votes, the fact IS vefs stg"W'
cant. end goes q Ioag way to d'sprove TUG
Fuudsr assumption thst the Fundcss pol'e :,
Z majority oftbe white Conservative votes
Now. the very posst at issue is, not bow
many Republicans voted the Funder
sickrt.--for we have never claimed that any
did--brt whether the Funders or the Re-
ad;us,crs received majority Of the white
votes cast 10 this State last fall, throwing
the Republican vote out altogether. Our
language was explicit. 1t was as follows.
We quote from our article OF Tuesday upon
which the Wh;s was commenting when II
made the remark which we have quoted
above:
.Iet The reader examine this table care
fully, and see how liberal 1t Is 10 the Re
adius;ers. First, we have separated tue
Republican vote from the votes OF The Re
adjusters aud from those OF the Deot,ray-
era. The votes thus cast for avowed Re
nnh,can candidates numbered 23,S97, but
OF these votes 1928, OF more than bail,
were cast for debl-payiug Republicans as
shown In the table. This, however. 10 not
important. The important fact Is that they
are Garfield men, and, therefore, WIN
not vote with the Readjusters THIS year,
whether they are Debt-Payers or not"
THIS Is the year of the presidential cleo
tion. The Republicans, we assume, whe-
Their white or black (but OF course we
know that they are nearly all blsck), will
vote for Mr.. GARPIsLD. The white vote,
or what used to be the Conservative vote
before it was divided between DebtPay-
ers aud Readius,ers, will, we also assume,
vote Tor the two sets Of HANCOCK electors.
Now. the question Is whether the Read
Justers or the Funders will be likely to
get majority Of this vote next fall and
10 order to reach reasonable conclusion
on the subject, we appeal to the vote as
east last fall. Where. then, does the Wing
find in our article any foundation for its
statement that we confess that the Fund
ers "rceeiyed a majority OF the avowed
Republican votes -! We excluded the Re-
publican or negro vote from our cal
culations on the express ground that
this year the Republicans would
all, white aud black, vote for GAR
rIELD. We do not set down any negro
as really Debt-Payer or as Readiuster.
As we have repeatedly said. the negroes
care nothing for the public debt, and would
vote either to make 1t forty millions or to
thereby secure social recognition by the
whites. For example: The Debt Payers 10 |
the General Assembly last winter could, We |
have no doubt, have secured every negroes |
vote for the McGxLocH bill, and against |
General MALONE for United States senator,
by Offering TO repeel the law OF Virginia
the intermarriage OF whites and
blacks, or by Offering to them what they
would have considered better terms
than those rendered them by Gene
raj MAHoNs:,s party sn the way OF Of
fees, emoluments, service on iuries, dc
For these reasons we exclude the negro or
vote from our table stating the
relative strength at the bs,lot-box last fall
,f the Debt-Payers and Readiusters. We
lontent ourselves with presenting the naked
official figures in each senatorial district.
Their accuracy cannot be successfully de-
he'd, and we should feel sorry fer the
Funder orator who could not use these Of
iclal figures TO the silencing OF any MALONE
orator or candidate for elector.
Let us examine the Whig's figures. 1t
picks out the First, Second, Third, Fourth,
Fifth, Sixth, Seventh. Eighth, Tenth, Eigh-
zenith. Twenty-third, Twenty-sixth, Twen-
y-ninth, Thirty.frst, Tbirty.secoud, Thir- L
y-sixtb, and Thirty-ninth senatorial dis
riots, and says:
"We have thus shirked and confused !
,othing. The total Conservatives Read a
ulster vote in these districts was 1880; =
be Conservative Funder vote, 20, 330-Con-
ervative-R eadjuster majority, 10000. But I
ne uhOte cotored assessed uote Of these
districts was only 32,5l6. The ,ohole uhite q
assessed vote OF these districts was $685." .
Now let us examine these figures. The
lexdjuster majority was only 10000. The t
egro vote as assessed was 32,5l6. The
Wig, however, admits that IL the colored !.
ote polled last year was In equal proper. y
ion to the white vote there were about h
{, 800 negro votes cast in those districts. b
low, look. The Resdiuster majority was .
O.020. Thus:
eadllHer vote. ...................43,35O 4,
eot Payers' vote. ....s"......,......23,S3O
10000 n
But II three-fourths OF the IS 500 negroes
oted the Readjuster ticket the figures may q
e stated as follows:
ga ijusier vote... 1880
axe ON negro oie.............."......" l4,I00 X
29.25O =
=-=
'ebt- Payers 23.33O 4
I'D negro vote taken on aDove.s......... l4.100 q
s7.4so n
'eduet negroes that voted for Debt-Payers. 400 .
md we SIN have. 32,7SO
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