Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-09-11
A LIE NAILED.

There is but one way Of killing a
lie and that is TO hammer it to death
with solid chunks Of truth. Ii has
been reported and repeated that
Attorney.General Blair refused to
divide time with Judge Harris in
Luray. Every reading man knows
this is not true because it is a mat.
ter of public notoriety that bour-
bon speakers are forbidden by their
committee to divide time of theirs
anywhere. They will occasionally
propose to divide our time.
AS an answer to all the Harris
braggadocio we reprint the follow
ing from the Page Courier:
A misunderstanding having aris-
en- last Monday as to whether OF
not any proposition was made for
Hon. Jno. T. Harris to divide time
with Hon. Frank s. Blair, we deem
it due TO the truth TO state the
facts in the case. Early in the
morning it was reported on the
street that Mr.. Harris had come to
Luray for the purpose of having a
Joint discussion with Mr.. Blair, and
later that a division of time had
been refused him. G. ID. Price,
Esq, Chairman Of the Democratic
Executive Committee, was waited
on to know whether or not a dis
cussiOn was desired by Mr.. Harris
or his friends. His reply was that
they then had that matter under
consideration, and that he would
answer in twenty minutes. If we
are correctly informed he was call
ed from the room in which Mr..
Harris was at the time. After the
expiration of the twenty minutes,
Messrs. Martin Stricken, A. X.
Grim, +. NJ. Russell, and W. b.
Kendall again waited on Mr.. Price
for his answer. Mr.. p, replied to
their inquiry that if they should
want a Joint discussion they would
ask for it. Fifteen minutes after
the time agreed upon fol Mr.. BLAIR
TO begin his speech, he took the
stand, and it was again publicly
announced, both by the gentleman
who introduced him, and by Capt
Blair himself, that he was ready to
discuss the issues then and there
with either Mr.. II. or any one else
who might desire to enter the lists.
If we have in any way misstated
the case we cheerfully offer our
columns TO Chairman Price for cor
rectiOn. Indeed we ourselves heard
Mr.. Price say that he had replied
that if they wanted a discussion
they would ask for it, And yet
when Mr.. Harris took the stand an
hour after Mr.. Blair had left the
court room, he labOred hard to
create the impression that he had
been anxious for a joint discussion
and that his failure to have it was
due to Capt. Blair and his friends
stating that he was anxious to
meet him here or at any of his ap.
pointments. When he had left the
stand a gentleman informed him,
in our hearing, that he was author
lied and requested by Mr.. Blair to
say to him that lie would be glad
to meet him at Marksvile, at which |
place Capt. b. had an appointment
that night. His only reply was
that lie was sorry he had not known |
in the morning that Capt. b. desir.
ed to discuss the issues with him
in the morning, adding something |
about having to leave the county.
Now it is for Chairman Price to
say that he did not apprise Mr..
Harris of tue visit of the Committee
to him and of bis reply. 1t is di-
rectly charged that he was in con
ference with Mr.. Harris.
We have referred to this matter
only because the remarks Of Mr..
Harris were intended and calculat-
ed to make it appear that Mr.. Blair
had misrepresented the facts IN the
case.