The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-09-19
A Card from Messrs. Booker and
BOWdCn.
M Edifnr M ma UiSnntCh :

| To the Editor Of the dispatch:
Permit me through the columns OF your
paper (the channel through which the mat
ter was first introduced to the public a few
words in reply to q communication APP
bearing in your issue OF the 18th instant
under the formidable heading of "Bribery
and Corruption" OF which John W. Volt
is the author.
Mr.. Wolff either Intentionally peryerts
facts or he too has been imposed upon by
Laws.
Laws, as / am informed by Mr.. Bowden,
sent him three several messages soliciting
interviews. Finally, at his request, pre-
ferred at Princess Anne Courthouse to me,
he met Mr.. Bowden and myself. Garter
was not present, as Volt states.) He COM
menced the interview by expressing in
strong terms his disgust of Mr.. Dezendorf
and his candidacy; claimed he had been
misinformed and duped as to the nature OF
the fight in the Second district; expressed
the desire in warm language to undo any
harm he might have done by taking the
stump as q canvasSer for Mr.. Libby, ana
| further stated that he had been employed
by Mr.. Dezcndorf at a salary OF S100 per
month, which had not been paid him, and
that he then owed him $50. which he eX-
DtcItu anu w rs WHILE W lOcts
In reply he was told that in view OF the
stand he had taken that we thought he
could do no good in this district, but
finally, after considerable further talk, and
recognizing the fact that he was forciblc
speaker, we employed him as canyasser
| from that time until the 10th OF October,
with orders to report to the chairman OF the
State Committee for assignment wherever
| Al 10 inf bo foto hni
understood after that date he was to re-
ceiyc for compensation whatever amount
might be mutually agreed upon by him and
the chairman of the State Committee for his
services, and he LETT Norfolk to fulfil these
instructions.
Upon the representation Of his impecu-
Nous condition and the statement that he
had pressing and immediate want for it in
Washington, gave him my check (as stated
in VOLTS letter. for one hundred dollars,
there being nothing in the transaction that
| was not thon and am not now willing
that all should know.
| positively deny the statement that any
promise or mention OF $500, or any like
sum, was made him; that any promise, in
| ducement, or mention OF office, was made !;
OF that General Malone had any knowledge
OF the transaction.
The sum OF the transaction is that upon
his solicitation he was employed as cam
vasser, and in view OF his representations
| paid him in advance; for which payment
| now hold his receipt, given in considera-
ton OF "services to be performed " under
the orders OF the State Committee.
| also append copy OF note which he
sent Mr.. BOwden the day he left Norfolk,
in which he asks Mr.. Bowden to advance
him $40 to pay his expenses to Washing
ton, as he did not wish to break in upon
the check. The note is, uerbatim, as fol-
lows:
NORFOLK, VA, September 8, 1882.
G. E. Boicde1,, Esq:
Dear Sir and Frnd,-I wish you would LET me
have Ten 10 Pay my way home as | do not care 10
brake that until get home this | aske a per-
sanal faver of you which will allow you to con-
troud In the future consideration please do not
fail 10 comply and obige Yr truly
| "W.R. LAWS"
Very respectfully, JOHN BOOKER.
Hampton, Va, September 10, 1882.
Knowing Wolff as i do, did not pro-