The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-12-02
rhe Figures.

,hat we can state the case so rs tnat even
,he Jyh;o viii scratch It's head and beginits
calculations dc moro. Insurance companies
ard money-lenders recognize In theirtrans'
actions a difference between the "moral
risk and the "pccmiary risk" Weshall
initiate them and demonstrate the truth OF
our proposition by moral considerations
which ought to carry almost the same
weight as would an official statcmentoi the
number OF white and colored votes cast re-
specuyely for CAMERON and DANIEL.
Let us, as the best available means Oh
arriving at the truth we arc IN search OF,
compare the vote OF last year for President
with the vote this year for Attorney-Gene-
ral. I'VE haven't the vote for Governor as
vet. b,,t that for Attorncy-Gcneral VIII an
swer our purpose equally welL) The vote
last year was as follows:
Be,o,lar Hancock or Democratic tcket...'.96449
Re,dlrslcr Hancock tickot..............'. 3i'o2t
Republican licsct..... of'V-O
TIC two totals las. given add up........ll5,o47
Now. IL there were as many regular
Democrats voting this year as last, 1t may
be confidently claimed that they were the
same men. or TO state it in other words,
Che same voters who supported the regular
HANCOCK ticket last year supported J0HN
W. DANIEI. this year. But this argument
would amount to demonstration II 1t
should turn out that the Readiuster ticket
received this year just about the same vote
a. was received last year by the combined
Rcadjuster and Republican tickets, these
last two factions, be il remembered, having
formed last. summer coalition to deieat
the Democratic nominees. Now, look at
The vote for acknowledgements:
y lZ'gUu
L. W. Mchlnnev.....'....-'' AVV'o-'
7, will be seen at once that the regular
Democrats cast this year four thousand
votes more than they did last year. Their
whole vote Of last year with insignificant
exccptions) was cast by white men. There
can De no doubt on that point. And there
can be rs little doubt that the same men
voted for DANIEL this year. The regular
Republican ticket, on the other hand, re-
ceiycd last year almost solid negro vote.
The 81. 600 men who voted for GARFIELD
were nearly all negroes. Mr.. G0RHAM, OF the
Washington Republican. claimed last spring
that cleycn-twelith> Of the Republicans OF
Virginia were negroes and supporters OF
General MALONE, and therefore that the
Republican party OF Virginia was in favor
Of The Generals policy. In other words, OF
tbc s.. 900 votes received by Mr.. GARFIELD,
1000 were negroes. But let us he gene
rougly liberal and cOncede that only ten
fweifths. or five siXths, Of the Republican
voters OF last year were negroes, and ii Will
follow that the number OF negroes who
voted for GARFIELD was 10000. Now, for
whom did these 10000 negroes vote this
wear? Look at the majorities in Prince
Edward, Brunswick, Mecklenburg, Green's
vile, &C., &C., and you will not need to 20
further for evidence that in East Virginia,
where reside most OF the negroes, the same
counties which last year gave GARFIELD
large majoritics this year gave CAMERON
large majorities. When we get the official
figures we shall be able, we have no doubt,
10 bring out this fact in bold relief.
In view of the figures quoted above, it
would appear TO be not unreasonable to
say that 10000 out of the $4,000 votes cast
for BLAIR were cast by negroes, and that
9G. 1000 OF the 10l 900 east for MCKINNEY
were cast by whites. Then the result will
stand rs follows:
McKnnoy's white .e6'OO0
Blar's white .4o.OOO
McKfnney's Tor Daniel's) white majority. $4,000
p,s,,,s negro 10000
Mckinney's negro vote.........'...'.' '''''' OOVO
Blalr's Tor Cameron's) negro majority. 10000
Can't we write here, Q. Z. d..
In hopes that the Wing will reciprocate,
and let its readers see our figures as given
hereinbefore, we reproduce what that jour
nal said the other day on the same subject,
promising only that we could easily explain
away its figures. We quote
"Of the Go counties carried by Cameron
IS are counties having maiorities of white
assessed yoters-being four more white
counties than the whole number (34) OF
white and black counties carried by Dan
ieli Cameron carries also 2S counties hay
ing colored majorities OF assessed voters.
Daniel only carried 30 counties having
white assessed maiorities to Cameron's
3S-Cameron having majority on the
white counties. Daniel also carried coun-
ties having colored assessed maioritics.
"In the GO counties carried by Cameron
there are (see the Auditors report total
Al p a 81 - rl,An
are white and 57,32l are c0lored-white
assessed majority, 34,922. In the IS white
counties carried by Cameron there are Co.
O49 assessed white voters and 2l,30i as
sessed colored voters-white assessed ma
jority, 44,745. In the % colored counties
carried by Cameron there are 5000 as
sessed colored voters and 70, 1877 assessed
white yoters-colored assessed majority,
9,s23.
"In the "a counties carried by Daniel
there are l0S, 1856 assessed voters, Of whom
69,676 are white and $4,000 are colored-
white majority, 30.6l6, or 1906 less thar
the white majority in the counties carried
by Cameron. In the 80 white counties ear
ried by Daniel there are 64,720 assessed
white voters and $1,000 assessed eoloreC
yoters-whtc majority, 3l,72l, or 1902.
less than the ,chite majority in the arhit
counties carried by Cameron! In the fou
colored counties carried by Daniel there ar
6,Ool assessed colored voters and 4,956 Us
sessed white yoters-colored majority
1.l05.
"Cameron's majority Of the votes east II
the G6 counties carried by him is 27,54S-O
which 14,l25 is his majority in his SO whit
counties, and 3,A23 his majority in the 2
colorcd counties carried by him. Daniel
majority Of the votes east in the "a couatie
carried by him is II, i2S-of which II, 1888 /
his majority I'm his 30 white counties, ant
$40 bis majority in his 4 colored counties
Thus Cameron's majority in has white coun
.x.oonA. n.of.lf. ,,,o;o.;,.. Il. =. A.,