The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-09-23
PROGRESS In POLITICS.
Mr.. MADDOX DECLINES TO OBEY
MAHONE AND BRADY.
Prfm mary Preparations - Staples,
Tucker, and Conrad to Speak
Hore-HanOver Moeting.

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city will be held Thursday to nominate
four candidates for the House Of Delegates
We do not elect senators this year-Sena
tors III. A. Atkinson, Jr., and William
Loyenstein were elected i'm 1881 for foul
years. The polls will be open from sunrise
TO sunset at all the usual places OF voting
In the city, and rs near as possible the elec
tion will be made to conform to an election
held under authority OF law. The voting
will be by secret ballot. The judges ant
clerks will be appointed by the City Com
mittee.
Tickets will be ready for public distribu
tion on Tuesday evening.
| SOLICITORS OF VOTES.
In firtherance OF unmistakabe public
sentiment, the City Committee have adopted
a resolution discountenancing the employ.
ment OF paid solicitors OF votes at the polls
and they earnestly request the candi.
dates TO unite with them in having the bal.
| lot perfectly free and unconstrained on The
day Of the primary" Since to follow this
advice will save the candidates good deal
OF money, and TO reject it will lose them
| both votes and money. il can scarcely be
doubted that it will be followed.
CANDIDATES.
The candidates who have so far an
nounced themselves are Messrs.
Archer Anderson,
Joseph Christian,
John A. Curtis,
T. Wiley Davis,
James n. Dunlop,
Thomas j. Evans,
NJ. l.. Spotswood.
These names will be printed on the
ticket In alphabetical order. and the voter
will erase the names OF all but the four
whom he prefers to represent us in the
House.
Candidates names must be entered with
the treasurer OF the City Committee (Col-
onei John b. Cary on or before to-mor-
row. The candidates are, ac usual, to bear
the greater portion OF the expense OF this
primary election.
CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICES.
The only offices in this city government,
great or small, that would not be wholly at
the mercy OF a Coalition Legislature are
Clerk Of the Hastings Court, Clerk Of the
Circuit Court. Commonweath'S Attorney,
Sergeant, Treasurer, Commissioner OF the
Revenue, and Mayor. Every single other
office or post or employment in Richmond
Is at the mercy OF the Legislature; these Of
ficers the Constitution requires that the
people shall elect.
Our people, knowing the stake for which
they fight, ought 10 nerve themselves for
an effort that VIII insure victory, and every
man not bowed down with old age or dis
ease should join ward club.
STAPLES. TUCKER, AND C0NEAD ~ RICHMOND.
Under the heading Of appointments for
public speaking the State Committee have
long announced Waller X. Staples, Holmes
Conrad. and j. Randolph Tucker for meet
! ings here in Richmond, dates and other
matters to be fixed by our City Committee.
The committee night before last referred
the whole subject to a subcommittee for
report, and the idea seemed to be TO have
the three gentlemen to speak at one meet
ing. No arrangements as TO that will,
however, be made without consultation
with them; but really it seems pity to at
tempt to crowd them all into two hours
| time.
Judge Staples's speech delivered at Sa-
lem will hold the attention OF any Demo
cratic audience for all hour and half. Mr..
Conrad has made the most powerful review
OF the acts OF the last Legislature yet given
to the public. He needs nearly two hours.
| Mr.. Tucker is an adept either at long OF
short speeches, but here, before a seated
audience Of the character that we can give
HIM, it would no doubt be agreeable TO him
| TO have an evening TO himself.
1t won't do to say that speaking is un-
necessary here. 1t is more needed here
than at any place in the State; not that there
can be doubt about our ability to elect
our four delegates, but Richmond really Is
not yet aroused to the gravity OF this con-
| test and TO the full measure OF her duty to
the communities which under less favora-
bic circumstances than we are placed in are
soon to meet the enemy.
| There ought TO be two or three meetings
| held indoors, where the crowd can be
seated, so as TO attract elderly citizen,
and the prOperty-holders and business
men. Later on we can have an open
air rousement," where the ardor and
enthusiasm Of our glorious young Demo
cracy may have ample play. There vii
be room for them in the indoor meetings
| but they need rather more range than that
NAss-MEETING OF MONROE-wARD DEMOCRATS
| There will be mass-meeting OF The
Monroe-Ward Democrats at sanger Hal
tomorrow evening at s O'Clock. Speeches
will be made by the different candidates
for the Legislature, as well as by other dis
tinguished gentlemen. Immediately aftel
the adjournment Of this meeting there vii
be held consultation OF the precinct com
mittees and ward club officers, every mai
OF whom is expected to be present. Th
call is issued by Ii. NJ. Smith, Jr., super
| intendent and president.
|
Mr.. W. s. Catlett, superintendent o
Marshall Ward, has called mass-meetin:
OF voters for Wednesday at 8 p. NJ. il
Rockets, place OF which will be hereaite
more particularly announced.
JEFFERSON WARD.
The Democrats OF this ward will hold
mass.meeting at the Police Courtroom ol
Tuesday night, and they announce tha
speeches will be made by the candidate
for the Legislature and by Messrs. Witt
Beirne, Pulliam, Atkinson, Hancock, ant
Others.
| THE MEETING AT TTAYL0RSYlLLE.
The Democratic meeting at Taylorsvill
Yesterday was grand success. Their
were three or four hundred persons pre-
sent, about forty or fifty OF whom wer
negroes.
About u O'Clock the meeting was calle'
to order by Major Thomas W. boswell
who is enlisted heart and soul in the con
test.
The first gentleman introduced was Sen
ator Henry A. Atkinson. OF Richmond
who reviewed in a graphic manner The act
OF the Mahone-C Coalition party. He SAT-
that the Coalition party is largely com
posed OF men whose only object seems I
be to secure Office and to put money i
their pockets regardless OF the honor, wei
fare. and peace of their State. He refer
red in terms OF eulogy TO General Wick
ham and to Mr.. K. III. Cardwell, the candl
date for the House OF Delegates. Mr. Al
kinson spoke about fifty minutes, and in