The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-09-14
THE COUNTY RAIDS
Hold a Big Black and
Tan Con nventiOn
Yesterday.
WADDILI AND JUNK" SMITH con-
GREssIoNAL CANDIDATES.
Waidiil Beats smith.

on for al. that it was worth The main
contest was between Waddill aud smith
for Congress. bur it sOOl became appsr
cnt that Nr Smith. a new recruit, was
left and left badly. This, before the
convention met, and in the yard.
In the courtroom the crowd of dele
gates. alternates and country darkeys
Hooked iu at u O. clock There was some
DELAY. however Nessrs Hudnsll, De
priest. B TAYLOR. McCue and others were
in side room looking after credentials
suddenly Mr. Younger Loving appeared
and cried out % the eNpcctnt crowd,
we are in wonder ard want to know
what your candidates are The reporter
Investigated the question and found out
the crcdentia business.
After every thing had been arrangat
In the side room. the convention was
CALLED TO ORDER
by B. Taylor McCue, district chairman.
1he crowd did not get quiet The chair
rapgel He had list ot delegates. lie
raped again Finally he succeeded in
getting somebody's attention, and Edgar
Thompson read the list. \ Hanover negro
said bis name was left oil. II vas in
sianily added.
TEMPORARY OBGANIZATION.
Nr Russell nomina ed Mr. Rowland
Hill as temporary ch lirman. w. w.
Fields. a black man from Jackson ward,
nominated :. b Clafkson. yellow man.
Randall Burwell nominated Squire llcze-
! kiah Jonathan o. llenrico. Clarkson de-
clined to run.
Another darkey wanted to nominate
somebody but could not get II out, and
was sat down on by the chair
lie persisted, and, getting his mouth
open wide, claimed lnat this was a gag
aw game.
The Chair "Can the roll, Mr. secre-
tary
names
Confusion reignod supreme, and the
chair pounded with half-p0und gavel
until the head few oil. skipped those OF
/ the reporters and landed IN the land OF a
yellow del gate.
ROWLAND HILL.
4 ballot was finally taken, and Row
laad Hill Esq, was elected, getting 3Jt
votes, TO his competitors lit.
As Mr.. Rowland Hill mounted the
bench in the Courthouse, he saw before
him a crowd OF men IL saw delegates
from Richmond and the counties com
nri.ing this Congressional district, but
he had o search with a peerlng eye TO
find the few white men scattered among
the American citizens of African descent.
Mr. Hill said that he accepted the
position with pride 10 which TWO ne
groes responded: That's short ana
sweet
TROUBLE.
Four sergeants alarms were appoint
ed. composed Of men not delegates. The
negro iallOr Burwei was m lie chalrmen
Of them.
An attempt was made to get the crowd
bev0nd the railing, but il 0ii not sue
ceed.
Mr.. TAYLOR OF King William moved
the appointment Of Two committees, one
on credentials and one on organization,
the committees 10 consist OF one member
from each ward Of the city Of Richmond,
one from Manchester, and one from each
county ia the district.
\ col0red member moved that it be
made TWO from each county.
rise 20 a pint of order. don't keer
who's got floor" The pint" was never
explained
Major Joseph Walker said the conven-
ton should not place a county on the
line Of ward in Richmond.
The convention didn't
COULD NOT 90 AROUND.
A colored delegate said he wanted the
committee appointed one white and one
colored. II was found that there was
not enough whites TO 90 around.
COMMITTEES.
The following committees were sp-
pointed
Credentials-R chmond JacksonW Ward.
! IT, Barrett; Jefferson, X W Carter;
NJ. .iison, X. r. Wakes; Monroe, Young
er wing: Clay, jeff Powell: Jackson,
Johf. Mitchell Chesterfield county:
Io,rph Walker, Allen Hill; New Kent,
J. " Saunders ;. q. Macon King VII
liam. W. II Brown, J. H. Montague,
Hanover, r. F. Robinson, Robert Light
foot: Goocbland, r. w Scott, Captain
Winston; Henrico, r. A. Atkines, Jo-
sepn c. Claiborne, Manchester }. Il.
Johnson. =,
Organiza'ion-Ric Marshall
ward, !. W ThrogmOrton Jefferson,
f. =. Murphy Madison, : B. Ciarkson;
Monroe, Edward Holmes; Clay, L. IL.
Noble Jackson, Robert ". saunders;
Chesterfield county, Wilson West,
ThomAs Heath; New Kent. Captain Ed
wards, R,land Tyson; King william,
Bsv. Booker, Berkley Taylor, Hanover,
Captain Gates, C. L. Woodsoa; Gooch-
land, Frank Scott. Isaac Beale; Henrico,
Joseph b. stewart, b. I. McCue; Man
chester, Captain Edwards.
MORE TROUBLE.
Joe Wilson, sometimes called Col"
, pitched into the appointments made by
ihe chair. and for little while there
were a dozen negroes seen talking at
,, once. Seven "pints' Of order were
/. . raised al once, which created more disor-
der. An eighth pint" was raised by .
genrico negro, who claimed that all re
marks were out OF orderV This started
the entire crowd TO their feet, one who
(LOcal Continued on Eighn Idgs.