Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-10-30
SUNDAY. ...OCTOBER 30, 1885.
To Democratic Knights.

Hon. ]. s. WISE Is represented as having
said, In bis speech at the skatiug-rink on
Broad street, night before last, several
things which are worthy Of your attentive
consideration, and which should induce vou
20 reflect profoundly upon the present
condition Of parties III this city and con.
gresaonal district.
In order TO influence the negro voters to
drop MULLEN and support WADDILL, Mr.
]. 8. WISE predicts that MULLEN will get
seventeen hundred votes 10 this city, OF
which number twelve hundred will be
white men who have always voted the
Democratic ticket. What sort OF opinion
must Mr.. J. s. WISE have OF the Demo-
cratic workingmen, when he charges In
effect that, although in this city the negro
Knights OF Labor largely outnumber the
white knights Of Labor, not half as
many negro Knights as white Knights
will vote for MULLEN In other words,
the negro Knights OF Labor will have
sense enough to refuse to throw their votes
away upon MULLEN, but OF the Democratic
huIkutS VI A<dVot tWsiNC
not have that much sense, but will
match to the polls next Tuesday
and vote for q dummy candidate, mere
man Of straw, put up, not to be elected, but
to draw votes from GEORGE d. WISE. VIII
the Democratic workingmen Of Richmond
allow themselves TO be thus used as cats.
pawsi Will they "vote in the air"
Migbtthey not, as JOHN SHERMAN once said
OF certain other voters, just as well go into
the woods on election day and deposit their
ballots In hollow treei Who Is to be
benefited by such conduct on their
psrti Tbemselvesi Surely not. The
Democratic pareyi Again we say surely |
not. The object Of running MULLEN is to
divide and distract the Democratic Knights
OF Labor-not the Democratic party as
whole, for even Mr.. JOHN s. WISE only
claims that one Democrat out OF five or six
VIII vote for MULLEN. Will you. reader,
be that onef
Again: Mr.. j. S. WISE is reported as
having said on the same occasion that %
King William county MULLEN's colored
Tote would not amount 10 huckleberry in
! four.h0rse wagon, but at West Point
MulIIS would get some Democratic
Knights Of Labor; that In Chesterfield, at
the quarries, and in Manchester, lots OF
Democratic knights OF Labor would vote
Tor MULLEN, which was good work for
WADpILL and the Republican party"
PROFESSIONALLY The Democratic Knights OF
Labor, whether in West Point, or Man.
chester, or Chesterfield, or Richmond, or
elsewhere, who shalt vote for MULLEN will
be doing, as MIR. j. 5. WISE claims, "good
work for WADDIIL and the Republican
party" Is that what you went into the
order Of the knights OF Labor for f-to do
" good work for the Republican party?
What possible benefit could result to
In the world from tho election
TO Congress OF one Koight OF Labor p
such knight as Mr.. MULLENy
Mr.. S. WISE also predicts that the Re.
publican NOMINEE will come to Richmond |
with good majority. That is to say the
negroes in the counties will rally to the |
support Of WAI'DmL and send him with |
good majority 70 this city, where the usual |
Democratic majority Is expected to be re-
duced by twelve hundred, this being the |
number Of the white Knights OF Labor here |
who, II Is calculated. will vote for MULLEN. |
But WADDuI. is not coming to this city |
with majority nor are there twelve hun.
dred white knights OF Labor here who are |
going TO throw away their votes on Null
LEN. Suppose, however, that twelve hun
dred good Democrats here might be eX.
pected so far to forget their duty to them
selves and their country as to vote for Null
LIN, GEORGE II. WISE would still have a
majority. A vote for MULLEN is not fun
vote for WApDILL, but hali-vote for him.
The election is at hand. Three days
hence, the die will be cast. and you, Demo.
cratic Knights Of Labor, will have decided
your political status, perhaps for years.
win you cut the cords OF respect and good
fellowship which have so long bound you
TO the other white people Of Virginia, or |
will you rally once more to the standard OF |
the tried, true, and trusty Democratic |
partyf