The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-01-27

facts. I clip from the Rockbridge county
News Of January 18th. giving an account
OF the recount OF the vote III the county
the following;
= cali the ballots cast. both those
accepted by the judges and those reJect,
ed were opened, examined and passed
upon.
"a tabular statement showing the re-
sult of the examination of the ballots
az agreed upon between Mr.. Yost and Mr..
I4tcher QHon. Harry fuckers personal
representative in the recOunD, was pre-
pared for use In the contest"
THE first columns OF the statement
>show the number OF faultless ballots cas-
for each candidate. BY faultless baiioU
are meant those which strictly coInpnei
with the provisions OF the Walton eiec-
ton IawH or these II shows that Iuchei
received l,5sl'vOtes, Yost l,1eo, ana eni'
gives Tucker, as admitted by fost' ma
jority OF 81 In Rockbridge on su,0s
construction of the Walton law. Ohue'
the returns made by the Judges vi eteN
ton Yost received a majority OF 20 woes,
"Other columns show the number OF
ballots not included in the above count
because in their preparation the voters
did not comply with the requirements u
the law. Among the rejected were INC
following:
with the caption of the ticket struck
off, as we'll as all names marked except
that of Tucker, ballots; with the cap
ton struck off and all names markeu
except that of Yost, l72 ballots; win an
names marked except fuckers, out wiz,
one or more names imperfectly marked
mot marked three-fourths of length or
ticket. III; with all names marked put
Yost's but with one or more names I'M
parfectly marked, 149; with fosts name
scratched and all others unseratched' -
votes; with fuckers name scratched anu
all Others unscratched, % votes. twenty
five votes with both the names OF luchei
and Yost on them and no one else ana I
with names of Tucker, Yost and some
one else; tickets with every name
scratched, u tickets with no marks on
them, IS with Yost and some one
else, II with Tucker and some one else.
Thirty-nlne imperfect ballots destroyed Dy
judges of election"
have it from the best authority that
what Mr.. Yost says. he readily agreed
to" required an argument on the part OF
Mr.. G. d. Letcher Mr.. fuckers personal
representative In the recount. to convince
Mr. Yost to readily agree to II. In re-
ply to Mr.. Yosts card in the stanton
News the Rockbridee County News OF to-
day will say in defence of what 1t has
sad on the recount materially the very
same thing all the correspondents sent
out:
He finds fault with the de-
duction made by the County News from
the facts he certified to at Lexington
on the 18th about the recount of votes in
the congressional contest.
I'VE do not assent to his statement
that our deduction is misleading. He goes
behind the law for his standpoint. Throws
the law aside, and asserts that the intent
OF the voter, as shown by an inspection
Of the ballots, shall decide the result.
We do not undertake to say what view
the House Election Committee may take
of his position, but we do maintain, in
spite of Mr.. Yost's declaration, that there
was nothing in our deduction to warrant
its being styled either misleading or err
roneous.
The truth Is that, whilst Mr.. Yost
makes light of Il. Mr.. Letcher got him
into hole when he properly insisted that
the ballots should only be tabulated as
they actually were prepared. and not as
Mr.. Vest would have it-as they appeared
to have been intended to be prepared.
This tAbulation Mr.. Letcher was sharp
enough 10 see placed Mr.. Yost on the de-
fensive before Congress and people, and
here we find him talking to the people in
that very attitude. while jumping on
the County News back for its 'deduc-
ton"
This Is submitted for the consideration
Of all fair-minded people to show that
what I said Of the recount of the vote of
ROckbridge county were the facts, and
hold good to date as part of the record
in the Yost-Tucker contest. What I've
had to say about this recount meets with
the endorsement of an who know any
thing OF the facts in the case, and the
articles above quoted from the Rockbridge
County News close the argument against
Mir. Yost.
The card of MIR. Yost in the Stanton
News, in which he takes the Lexington
correspondent of that paper to task for
the very same statements | made in The
Times, contains this paragraph:
AT Lexington Mr.. fuckers local coun-
sci asked for separate grouping of these
voters. and, knowing that such an ar
rangement could by no possibility affect
the result, | readily agreed TO it."
These are the facts, taken from the
columns of one of the fairest, non-par-
tIsan, independent Democratic papers in
the South. unvamished by any flights OF
imagination or coloring of falsehood, from
a paper that Is the organ of no party
or sect, and journal conducted upon the
highest plane of fairness to it's political
opponents. 1t seeks TO publish the news,
without fear or favor from any source,
froWns down sensational fakes, and never
gives a line of space to anything but
facts. | think | have sufficient authority
for the statements that | originally made
IN the case, and to which the honorable
gentleman takes exception, and here rest
my case with the public TO decide whether
I've told fairy tale or simply the I'M
vanished story, and / make bold TO say
that | believe that the verdict will be
that what the newspaper correspondents
and the Rockbridge County News have
said on this great national question will
be against Mr. Yost and in our favor.
h. G. X. HUMPHREYS.