The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-07-19
PITTSYLVANIA.

PITTSYLVANIA.
PITTsYLvANIA POLTTICs-THE COALITION
CONVENTION - CONSERVATIVE EXECUTIVE
CONMTTTEE--CONFEssIO OF TIE MURDERER
YEATS.
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dlspatch.l
CHATHAM, Va, July Is. 1882.
You will doubtless see in the Wing IN
account OF a Charge and enthusiastic "
Coalition Convention Of Pittsylvania coun-
ty held here yesterday. The writer was
present, and being white man, though a
stranger, could not help feeling 4 sense OF
deep humiliation at the spectacle Of such a
body OF men attempting to control this
glorious old Fifth district In the councils Of
the nation.
The Convention was presided over by
W. w. Cobbs, q well-knOwn RcddiuSter.
and there was a large crowd Of negroes,
and. as a prominent citizen who was pres
ent and took down the names assured me,
only eleven white county men participated,
and three white revenue officials. the post
master. and city superintendent Of Dan
vile, all Republicans, being sixteen white
men all told-eIeyen from the county and
five from Danvilie. \ delegation, Of which
- were negroes, was chosen TO represent
Pitt>vlvania in the Rocky Mount Congress
sonal District Convention.
The meeting was then addressed by j..
+, StOyall. OF Halifax, candidate for con-
gressional honors, who pulled of his coat
and harangued his 81 ellow-citizens" in
the sty,e best calculated to win the favor OF
the oman and brother" The little man
won some rather feeble applause.
Resolutions were then introduced en-
dorsing John s. Wise for congressman at
large and rcpudiatng the "Big -Four" !;
Dut the writer was surprised to hear only
= very few ayes-nOt hali-dozen, | think.
They were then declared adopted.
William BarkSdalc, a youth OF near
" eighteen, then offered a. resolution
instructing the Pittsylyania delegation
to ago for" the Hon. j. b. Stoyall at
the Rocky Mount Convention. substi-
t,te offered by Mr.. Wood. Readiustcr, to
the effect that the delegation should 30 to
the Convention untrammelled,w was support
ed by Mr.. Cobbs, the chairman, and adopt
ed a. a substitute for Barksdale's original
resolution, at which the Hon. j. i. was
very indignant, jumped upon the floor and
demanded fair play, and cautioned his
hearers to beware how they trifled with
his claims. He went on with Singu-
larly good taste 10 advocate the adoption
Of Young Barksdale's resolution instruct
in@ for Himself. The chairman then. with
remarkable good nature, put the original
resolution. which was lost by decided
vote. only four voting for instruction for
Stovall.
Claiborne, Of Franklin, was then intro
duced, and spoke to a greatly thinned ana
always thinning audience. He announced
himself as favoring the claims OF State
Senator Waddy T. James, of Franklin, at
the mention OF whose name there was con-
siderable applause. He said that Nh. James
oendorsed President Arthur's Admins
tration. and all the fundamental doctrines
and principles ofthe Republican party" and
your correspondent left him telling some
very smutty anecdotes to squad OF grim
ming darkies, who heartily seemed to relish
it. Oh Temporal! Oh mores!
In striking contrast to this meeting there
was meeting OF the County Conservative
Committee at the office OF b. b. Munford,
ESD. consisting OF the first men OF the
county. IL was we'll attended, there being
present John =. Whitehead (chairman), b.
II. Munford Secretary, DIR. Ed. Williams,
! CAPTAIN Walter Coles, George W. Jones,
Esq. Captain w. T. Mitchell, DIR. John X.
Cabell. DR.. Il. Z. Hutchinson, c. a.
Pritchett, Esq, J. J. Lampkin, Esq, Col
onel S. L. Mastain, John 1ngc Pritchett,
ESD. and DR.. Crispen Dickinson, who
Amounted the 18th OF August for the
county district meetings to elect dele
gates to the Congressional Convention,
which meets at Henry Courthouse in Au-
gust. II was the sentiment OF the commit
| tee that the action Of the State Central
| Committee i'm not calling Convention
was wise one.
w. Yeats, who is to he hung on the
| 2Sth for the murder last February OF Z. r.,
! Anderson, says his sentence is just; thai
| he ought TO suffer for his crime; that lac
killed Anderson because he had reason "a
know from his wife's own statements thai
there had been criminal intimacy between
them before his marriage with her. III VIII
be recollected that Yeats was married 10
Miss Fannie Reno the day before he killed
Anderson. whom he invited to take walk
with him the night he killed him. He says
he aimed to shoot Anderson over the eve
but he lodged, and the bullet struck him
behind the ear. He regretted the deed imme-
diately after il was committed, and that the
| immediate prospect OF death has no terror
for him. The culprit Is good-iookine
young man. said TO be very vain, ana ap
parently quite enjoys the bad notoriety NJ
crime has given him. lie is now engaged
In making full confession OF his crime
which Mr.. l.. II. Pigg, the editor OF thu
Chatham Tribune, is writing out, and viii
give to the public in printed form imme
diately after the execution has taken place
NJ.