The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-08-31


A correspondent writes us from Stauntcs
that he heard Mr.. PAUL say In pubHc
speech that the Ie,h-of-Ms 3 Convention GEN.
sisted Of only 2s2 membe rs out Of a possible
f.l00 or 1900. Aud our correspondent asks
M 70 publish the mares Of the delegates.
We cannot comply with this request. No
list Of the delegates Is In existence, or was
ever taken down. sicr Is there any list OF
the members Of tn 7ts,-ot-July Convention
in existence that sc ever heard OF or saw.
would that both lists could be kad.
As to the Den scc1a,ic Convextion we can
sag that there vas never fner body Of
gentlemen assf ssbled IN yirgisia; that there
was moi nc gro member In 1t; nor Re-
publican OF say sort. As 10 the July Con-
ventiou, on the contrary, 1t may trutbini'y
be asserted that there were number ef me-
groes and Republicans In II.
The De mocsstic State Convention divided
itself by It's own order into nine separate or
congres siouai-distrct conventions. We at
tended the one held in Virginia Hall for this
the TIL it'd congressional district. In this DIS
trict convention alone there were not less
than enc hundred and fifty delegates and
alter GATES.
t. &c Secretary OF the State Central Com
init Tee informs us that he Issued about
a thousand tickets to delegates and alter
M ties, and that he was very particular not
Il issue tickets to any persons not entitled
TO them, having refused to give comph-
nentary tickets to so prominent Demo
crat as General w. b. TALIAfERRo.
But the report Of the proceedings OF the
Conyention contains internal evidence, sur
-facient to satisfy any impartial mind, that
there was avery large number OF delegates
present. For instance, there were three
committees appointed by the Convention.
Each committee having twenty-seven menu
bers, each congressional district necessarily
had three members on each committee. so
that on committees alone there were eighty
one members OF the Convention (al OF
whose names are given). OF these eighty
one, only nine were from this district,
which, as we have already said, had about
160 delegates in the Convention.
In addition 10 the names Of the commit
tcttntu dhuutu W uuoNc Vut iOPVib vi ""N
proceedings OF the Convention contains the
names, casually mentioned, OF perhaps a
hundred other gentlemen who were con-
sidercd prominent enough to be worthy OF
special mention. So that there are some
two hundred names In our report, though
1t does not purport to name any except
such delegates as had at least State repu-
tation.
There were, therefore, as the secretary OF
the State Central Committee (who was also
the secretary of the State Convention) testi-
6es, about thousand delegates and alter
mates present in the Democratic State Con-
yention OF the 18th OF May last. That Mr. |
Paul should have the effrontery to do any |
thing that would raise question as to the |
composition or the Numbers OF the 7th-of- |
July Convention is a proof that be is a
pachydertamous animal. Otherwise he |
would not subject himself or his party to |
the retorts that must come from Democratic |
orators who know that large number Of |
che members OF his Convention were ne |
groes and Republicans.