The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-12-20
WADDILL TO CONTEST.
Notifies Hon. George ID.
Wise that He Wants to
Be Counted In.
THE NOTICE GIVEN THE CITY
SHERIFF TO BE SERVED.
He Claims that Negroes Were Dulldorsd


tive from this the Richmond district,
was placed In the hands Of Sheriff Win
ston yesterday to be served.
The notice says, In substance, IS FOL
lows.
Hon. george D. Wise
Sir,-This Is 10 give you notice that |
do, and shall, contest the election held on
the 9Th day Of November, 1888, In the
Third Congressional district OF Virginia,
composed Of the counties and corpora.
tiOns following, to-wit: the cities OF
Richmond and Manchester, and the
counties of King William, Hanover, New
Kent, HenricO, Chesterfield, and Gooch-
land, which election was for Rep
resentalive in the Fifty-frst Con-
gress of the United States Of
America from said district ! con-
tend and aver that you were not,
and that ! was at the election aforesaid
legally chosen and elected as a Repre-
sentaiiAe from said district in the Fifty
first Congress Of the United States by a
majority Of the lawful votes cast at said
election; that you did not, and that |
did, receive the greatest number OF law
election for any one for Repre-
sentative as aforesaid; that large
number of votes were cast and
counted for you, and awarded
to YOU by the Judges, commissioners, and
canyassers in said election, which were
and had been unlawfully cast; and that
a large number Of lawful votes cast for
me as Representative, as aforesaid, were
refused. rejected. destroyed, and not
counted for me by the judges, commits
siOners. and canvssseTs OF election. which
had been lawfully offered and cast for me
bv qualified electors In said election, ard
which should have been received, count
ed, and awarded TO me.
The notice of contest then says that
he would contend and insist before the
House Of Representatives that in the
city Of Richmond alone be was deprived
Of 500 or more lawful votes offered by
friends Of his who desired TO cast their
ballots for him. He will prove that they
were at the polls with ballots In hand,
and were compelled TO leave finally with
ont casting them.
The notice further AYERS that said vo-
tiers were
HNDERED, OBsTRucTED, AND PREVENTED
from voting by shameful conspiracy
on the part OF your partisans and
friends" by pretending to act as chal-
lengers OF illegal voters, and upon such
pretence consuming period OF time
sufficient 10 have enabled TWO or three
persons TO have voted.
The notice further says that these dila-
tory questions were kept up after the
oath as prescribed by law had been taken,
and perslsted in even after the voters had
voted; " that your partisans and friends
behaved in 50 noisy, bOislerous, aud
threatening a manner as to frequently
cause the reception Of ballots by the
officers Of election 10 be suspend
ed until partial order could
be restored at and around the polls, and
lid thereby, and by their insolence and
offensive manner and conduct, so
ALARM AND INTIMIDATE MANY coLoRED
VOTERS
who were present at the polls OF SAID
precincts for the purpose OF casting their
ballots for me, that they left the polling
places In fear and alarm. without voting
at said election as they desired and had
right TO DO"
The notice then claims that United
States marshals carried of to the station
houses more than twenty voters on
charges Of perjury or attempting TO vote
illegally. THE utter groundless charac-
ter OF which charges | shall prove by
showing that in every instance, save one,
The parties thus charged and imprisoned
we're before a police justice, who was
your political friend, honorably acquitted
and discharged"
But this. so far as your said partissns
and friends are concerned, was after their
aim and object in intimidating other
voters had been accomplished.
VOTING AFTER THE POLLS CLOSED.
The notice then at length refers to the
fact that large number Of colored peo-
pie I'm the presence OF United states
voted in box prepared by
him after the polls closed, and claims
nat they should be counted for the con-
testant. II further says that the colored
people were formed in one line and the
whites in another, aud there being so
few white people in Jackson ward com
oared with the cOlored people, the whites
All voted and the cOlored did not.
The notice further charges that all this
etc happened only in the
precincts where the contestant was De-
Iieyed TO have majority OF the voters
Judge Waddill further says that he Will
contend and insist that the votes OF voters
In Jackson ward who were in line with
ballots In their hands on which was his
name shall be counted by the House OF
for him.
A LIST OF coLoRED PEOPLE
who voted in Commissioner Carter Hsr-
rison's box after night, 25O in number,
Is given, and all are claimed as ballots
which should be counted for the con-
testant
A list Of other voters, whose votes
we're rejected by the judges on the
ground that they were not legally quail
lied voters, is also given, and the claim
made that they should be counted for
the contestant.
Other lists of voters at all four OF the
precincts IN this ward who did not vote
are given, the total number aggregatlng
about 500, all OF whose ballots the Judge
claims should be counted for him by the
House of Representatives
OTHER CHARGES.
The notice further claims that In the
First precinct of Clay ward twenty -one
white men voted who were illegally
-egigtered, and other small Irregularities
are claimed In several other precincts OF
he city.
In Chesterfield the claim is made that
men were deferred from voting for him
because threatened with discharge, and
hat their votes should be counted for
lim though they never voted al all.
In Henrlco II is claimed that fifty.six
persons voted for Wise who had no right
70 do so. :.
Other small claims are made about the
,ther counties OF trlhing nature.
SUMMING Up,
bis notice claims that Waddill should
nave counted for him SS7 votes which be
lid not get-which, deducting Wises
majority Of 26l, will leave Wsddill
majority of 626.