Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-03-21
PRIMARY ELECTION.
AN ERROR IN TIE PLAN CORRECTED
BY THE CITY COMMIrTEE.
The Man Who Gets a Plurality OF Votes
Will be the Nominee-Club
Meetings, &C.

in the Circuit-Court room last night, and
was called to order soon after o'clock
by the chairman, Colonel Tazewell FL
lett There were present Messrs. q.
Watt Taylor, James Gibbons, W. Il.
Wood, James l.. Botto, Meade Haskins,
Barney Frischkorn. L. B. Grymes, f..
G. Cummins. Lewis Rawlings, G. Il.
Wingo, &. II. Tenser, Joseph Hulcher,
Joseph Levy, A. G. Houston, t. j..
Smith, c. +. Ingersoll, L. p. Hill, W,
w. Wood, Charles P. Bigger, and Dem
mis- Wren.
PLURALITY.
Mr.. Levy called the attention OF the
committee to the fact that the word
majority" appeared in the plan adopt.
ed for the primary, whereas it should
have been plurality" and on his mo-
ton the change was made.
This refers to the provision that the
candidate receiving a majority of the
votes cast in the primary shall be de-
clared the nominee. As changed it pro-
vides for a plurality of the votes.
INDEPENDENTS.
The attention of the committee was
drawn to the following advertisement
which appeared in Sundays Dispatch:
NOTICE
Voters should be careful not TO pledge them
selves as there viii soon 10 an Independent
Popular Ticket In the neld.
BY ORDER OF COMMITTEE.
The subject was discussed, but the
committee deemed the notice" not
worthy of serious consideration, and the
matter was dropped without any action
being taken.
INVITATION ACCEPTED.
Mr.. Gibbons, for Mr.. George ID. Pear
man, president of the Union Democratic
Club OF Marshall and Jefferson Wards.
extended to the committee a pressing
invitation to attend the celebration by
that club after the adjournment of the
committee The committee accepted the
invitation, and large number of the
members went over to Church Hill i'm
mediateiy after adjournment.
WHO MAY VOTE.
Mr.. Grymes read from the sixth sec
ton OF the plan defining who will be en-
titled to vote the following:
provided that any one who has moved from
one ward 10 another and has not acquired resi-
dence in his new ward mot having lived there
thirty days may vote in his old precinct and
ward"
He said his attention had been called
to the matter bv one OF the registrars,
who thought this defective, rs a man
who changed his residence forty-fve
days before the primary would not be
entitled to vote at all. He thought it
would be better to strike out this thirty
days and not make any limit in the time.
Mr.. Wingo suggested that this would
be an inducement TO such persons to get
transfers.
The matter was settled by referring it
to a committee of three to look into the
law bearing on the subject and to report
at the next meeting
Messrs. Grymes, Gibbons, and Wingo
were appointed as this committee.
PERSONAL.
Mr.. Gibbons asked that he be excused
from service as superintendent of Jefter-
son Ward until after the primary, and
that Mr.. Frischkorn, who was the unani-
nous choice of his delegation, take his
place. Agreed to.
MIR. Rawlings stated that he would have
been present at the meeting last week,
but was caught in the blizzard.
Adjourned at $50.
YOUNG VOTERS.
A man who will be twenty-one years
Of age on the fourth Thursday in May
can register to-day, tomorrow, or any
lay up to and including the day of re-
gistration, which is ten days before the
election.
Then why should he be permitted to
vote at the primary without being regis
tered
This provision was in the plan years
ago, when voters could register only on
the public day of registration, and is
unnecessary now.
The man who votes at the primary
usually takes it for granted that he can,
without more ado, vote at the general
election, and so it has more than once
nopponad that bo hoe lost biq vota