The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-01-24
evidence that these negroes camo from
their homes in Virginia and North Oar.
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Q their homes In Virginia and North Car
Q olina2 Let anybody answer-who can
A MEAN ADVANTAGE. e =. y ]
!: Mr.. s.. y, ,Clair-l'll tell youS in my owl
time. I, N iis3
Mr.. Hubbard-Yes, you'll tell m,
!. when! I have no chance to reply, to you
, Judge johnson couldn't tell me, and 4
am sorry you couldn't find 1t for him
! 1fpropose to challenge every materia
statement OF fact, and i assert that no,
one OF their statements Is supported BY
evidence. f;you have any, come oui
/ with 1t, and come out ow.FgAny one o.
.. you who has it. or knows where 1t Is tc
be found. ]. Not one Of you, committee
Or counsel, speaks. I have no respect
for that kind Of evidence which may be
brought out when there Is no opportu.
nifty to reply to It. n There Is no evidence
that these men were there In a purely
migratory way. "a The evidence as to
many Of these votes shows that the men
were shown by thepay.roll to have been
there twelve mouths. 's r = ,iIl <
Mr.. St. Clair-Can you give; me some
names m AZ ms
Mr. Hubbard-Yes;ss John Patterson
occurs to me now, 4 and l will give you
some more before I get through. ~ It
Isn't only the darkey who Is migratory.
We are all regarded by the courts US
migratory There lis no evidence to
show that these men had any intention
Of going away from their counties. n Z,
S5;Si &, 4 J, 4! DISCARDED IDEA.
That discarded and destroyed iieta. 81
a property qualification crops up in this
report. 1t is said that none Of them &C.
CURED any real property OF. in any man.
ner indicated their purpose aud intent
to do what RI Acquire real property or
to become q citizen Y The majority
says: y i / ,i,5ij y l.sg9s
express himself at all on that subject
before said election he claimed his home
in Virginia, or North Carolina, the State
from which he came. 1t Is clear, there
fore, that yall Sof said negroes, whose
names do not appear on some one or all
Of said pay rolls for the period OF the
twelve months next preceding said elec.
tion, ard upon some one or all of said
pay:rolls, in either Mercer or Mcdowell
counties, for the sixty days next pre-.
ceding said election, were not entitled to
vote at either OF the precincts aforesaid"
What logic Because one expressed
himself all the voters were bad because
it is a certainty that a man had not been
there = twelve months Il when eleven
months or one month are proved by pay
rolls. il II "a mans name isn't on those
pay rolls at all then he wasn't there lat
all, and has no right to vote. That is
lame logic. There were, perhaps 1000
men there whose names were not on the
pay, roll. Sworn party friends OF FIem-
ing, acting as election officers have said
that these contested votes are good.
.ss THE CONTESTANTS; DUTY.
1t is for the contestant to show, be-
yond doubt that they were not good.
Moreover there appears to be no evyi-
dence to establish tho identity Of the
voters attacked :and men 5of the same
name who lived in Virginia. Here again
We challenge proof. Nothing to identi-
fy men on the Virginia pay roll with
men who voted in West Virginia! Some
Of these very witnesses tell you it is COM
monitor different negroes to have the
same names. Right here 1t has happen
ed lin some colleries as the evidence
shows, and it is in the printed testimony.
You will find ~ ohm Patterson working
twelve months in Pocahontas, Virginia,
and John y Patterson 4 working at the
same time ten months for John Cooper,
in West Virginia. Is lit reasonable to
suppose that this is the same John Pat
terson ~ Yet on behalf OF the contestant
a vote is taken from the contestee on ac-
count Of this Virginia Patterson, who
worked for the Southwest Improvement
Company, With others the case is rs
bad. Here are the facts from the testi::
mony. What are you going to do with
them +? Are they evidence Of anything
against anybody ?NAll this appears from
evidence introduced by Judge Fleming.
Is any man't vote, however black, to be
! denied him on counterfeit evidence so
base and bold as these pay, rolls OF the
Southwest Improvement Company si
SCRATCHED OFF JUST THE SAME. i55l.]
zf-s4kH 7trF
Here is Lowry Jones. 1t is not shown
that he voted at all, but vote is scratch
ed off the Gotf list just the same. / I
have gone over this ground to show You
that the sort OF evidence on which the
committee relies is 'utterably unreliable.
On this sort 2of evidence 100 votes are
thrown out, denied to 3 ten \ who had a
right to cast them. The names OF some
OF these men appear on the registration
list of Tazewell county, Virginia, for
1855. Thirty.four such names are given.
Nobody knows what a registration list
in Virginia is or shows, how it il made
up or what the voter has to do =; with 1T.
It may properly be assumed that this is
the act Of the registrar and may, contain
the names Of persons who, have ceased to
be voters. The majority say: = III !.
There is likewise filed a transcript OF
the Registration book I Of Clear Fork
district Of sTazewell county, D. Virginia,
with the deposition Of the Registrar; OF
said district, which shows that num-
Der OF said persons, who are charged to
have voted illegally as aforesaid, were
registered in the State of f5Virginia with
in the twelve months next preceding
said election. The evidence identifies
all Of said persons charged to have voted
Illegally as aforesaid, as being the same
persons whose names appear upon said
pay rolls both in West Virginia and
Virginia and on the Registration book
aforesaid. = fJ. q a hi; Il;
a. A QUESTION OF IDENTITY. III E.rS
The committee knew this was not true
when they put their names to it., for
the declaration is inconsistent with their
acts. There is no evidence Of the kind
more, thanrthat the committee left on
Is OF the 81, OF WI hom they say the ...eyi-