Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-04-07

| that any voters were bargained for
| purchase by me; but since you have been
| bold enough TO confess your guilt In this
| particular. I deny your right TO be now
| heard on this ground Of complaint. deny
| your right TO examine the books and the
ballots until you have frst shown. by
| evidence. sufficient grounds TO justify
| the County Committee In believing tha'
| enough Illegal votes were cast To chahSe
| the result Of the election"
ANOTHER STATEMENT.
Mr.. Beverdg& then submitted JOINT
| statement for Messrs Anderson ana lay
| Tor. asking that the nomination IN queS-
| ton In question for County Treasurer
| and member OF the Board OF Supervisors
| be set aside and nrw primary oruersu.
| or some other means adopted whetsoS
| fair means would be provided for h''lhs
nominations for these officers.
| They gave the following a. the reasons
| for this request: -.
81. That there were about Loo new votes
cast. OF which number there were ABOUT
| 100 transfers, and of these transfers .
| considerable number were fOfgeh sh's
| otherwise fraudulent. We can prove u'ae
| forged and fraudulent transfers y" re
voted at Smither's. Hardlns, baksi >
| .Tones's. Shumaker's, Carriers. and Barton
Heights precincts. and there may "
others. but we have not had time OF IA
cilItIes to establish the facts as 70 o'her
precincts.
"2 That while the plan required mat alI
tickets used should be printed by the
chairman. we can prove that SEQ otner
tickets were printed and issued by moi
vidual candidates without the autnofly
of the committee. and large numosr Vi
those were voted and counted
'S. A. name Of a candidate for Commits
sjoner OF the Revenue in a lower district
was put upon the ticket aiter the nou'
fixed by the committee for closing tne
list--to wit, IL NJ. on the 80 OF MdrCn'
lSg5-and that tie placing or TINS cah1i-
date on the said ticket operator 10 '"e
injury of your contestants.
81 And n further evidence or fraud IL
the fact that a larger number or votes
were polled for the Office OF TREASURER
by about 7O0 than were polled in the
hotly-contested election for Clerk between
Sands, Waddill and BnforG, etc
MR.. wENDENBURG SPEAKS
Mr.. Wendenburg addressed the commit
tee for twenty minutes, opDosihB the
views expressed In the statement OF IN
contestants. He said that IN ACCORDANCE
with the plan they could not come ioF-
ward and ask for a new primary Ihey
canvass OF the votes, which they had not
done Counsel for the petitioners had
made general and not specific charges,
as they should have done. and these
charges were simply allegations presenter
without one word or testimony. AS 10
the irnputation that Mr.. Brauer had bar
tered for and bought votes In the cont ST.
Mr.. Wendenburg made absolute denial
adding that he regretted that Mr.. Ander-
son, in his notice OF contest, admitted
his own guilt In this connection. How
ever. he anderson could not hope TO
have the nomination thrown out for what
he himself had done.
CART BEFORE THE HORSE.
Hon. George y. Wise took practically
the same ground that Mr.. Wendenburs
did. He thought Mr.. Beverage had put
the cart before the horse in that he came
before the committee suggesting what
should be done before he had produced
one word of evidence. Not even the as
sertion had been made that these alleged
Illegal votes had been cast for Mr..
Brauer.
a short additional statement was made
by Mr. Beverdge, for the contestants.
He said that h had been denied the
privilege of seeing the poll-bOOlSs. and
had to secure his information from such
OF the registrars and others having con-
nection with the primary as he could see
in this short time. II was unable 10
assert that 700 Illegal ballots had been
cast but he thought the facts set forth
in his notice and former statement were
sufficient 10 warrant the committee in
doing as requested.
THE OTHER CASES.
The committee then dropped these cases
for a short while, and took up the con-
test OF Caskie Smith against G. W. Chill ]
dTey. I'm the nomination for the office Of
Commissioner of the Revenue I'm the
Upper District In the county. IL will be
will be rememb red that in this case Mr.
Childrey was nominated over Mr.. Smith
by a majority of twenty-three votes. The
contestant in his notice Of contest al
legged that number OF fraudulent votes
were cast. and that the nomination
should be declared void. Mr.. William NJ
Justis Jr., was on hand as counsel for
Mr. Childrey, but Mr.. G. Y. Meredith
the representative of Mr.. Smith. was de-
tanned on account of pressing matters
elsewhere. After going carefully over the
papers in this contest the committee went
into secret session.
THE RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
The committee had been In secret ses-
sion about an hour and a half when Mr..
Russell offered the following resolutions,
which were unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That the contestants, George
T.. Anderson, c. T.. Smith, and j. W.
Taylor, be, and they are hereby, accorded
the right to copy the poll-books Of the
precincts designated in their notices Of
said copying 10 be done under
the supervision OF the subcommittee of
this committee, Messrs. Brauer Childrey,
and Hecher TO have the same privilege
Resolved. That the contestants be, and
they are hereby. required to present their
proofs before this committee by Il o'clock
NJ. April 20, 1895.
Resolved, further. That should the
proof of fraud not be sufficient TO change
the result as formerly announced, that
result will be allowed to stand"
The committee then adjourned 10 meet
at noon next Saturday.
Republicans Indorse Independents.
The Republican Committee of Henrico
held a largely attended meeting at the
courthouse yesterday. Chairman j. w.
Southwark presided, and the following
resolutions, expressing the intention OF
the body in the approaching county cleo
ton, was adopted:
"Resolved, That the Republican County
Committee OF Henrico. assembled this, the
18th day OF April. 1895, to consider the
part we will take in the coming election.
do declare that We favor an independent
ticket for county and district officers. and
that the chairman of this committee APP
point two members of this committee
from each township 10 act with himself
as n subcommittee TO meet a citizens
committee and agree upon an independ-
ent ticket 10 be voted for on the fourth
Thursday in May, and that we pledge
the Republican vote OF the county TO
said ticket.
Second, That the candidates seeking TO
get upon this ticket shall be admitted TO
the Joint meeting of these committees"
MRS. DAVIS AND MISS WINNIE.
The Latter Visits the Confederate