The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-08-01


them TO be true. On the morning before the
Governor, July 18th, as | went in the room.
DIR. Roman had signed the charges, and |
said, what is Roman doing? Some one said
They are signing charges. You go and sign
Them l said-"Ill sign them believing
them to be true And | now believe them
to be true.
Ques.-Have you not for the past wear, had
a strong personal and political feeling against
John II. White, and have you not been
active Il do not mean in any improper sense)
in this prosecution against him?
Ans.-l have not. In 1895. bought two
acres of tomatoes Of his son. After the
freight bill racket, being on speaking terms
with him then after that he refused to speak
to me. When tomatoe harvest came David
{. Bentz asked me, if | would take Mr.
Whites tomatoes if he would buy them and
fetch them. | said | would, but you tell
White to bring them himself, and will take
them from him.
have no strong personal feeling against
White.
CUES. You don't speak us you pass by?
Ans.-No: Mr.. White stopped speaking
first to me.
Qucs. Have you not said in your vicinity
that you believed the charges against White
were true?
Ans.-No. l had nothing to do, with get
ting up the charges in any shape or form.
still believe they are true. | discussed them
us every body was talking about them.
Ques.-Who wrote those charges?
Ans.-l do not know.
CUES. Was not the removal of White from
his office discussed between you and the dele
gates to Annapolis last winter? Collected to
by Mr.. Mccullough as irrelevant.)
Ans.-It might have been, but it had been
talked of for IA year or more.
CUES. You aud your political friends in the
Eighth district. not only desired to remove
Mr.. White, but have industriously sought to
bring upon him the condemnation of all good
citizens in that vicinity have you not?
Ans No. sir
CUES. Is not that the effect of the charges?
Ans.-I do not know.
Cues. Did you read them before you signed
them?
Ans.-No; but l knew their character
Ques.-Now. MIR. A. l.. Crothers, cX-Statc's
Attorney, states he was not 1T Stephen Nc.
LANES. Now you state in these charges that
Mr.. Crothcrs was there. What personal
knowledge have you on which you state that
he was at McLainc's.
Ans have no personal knowledge that
b.. h,. I
Laine. | was there that night waiting for
them to come. The personal interest | was
talking in politics in 1893, was no more than
the Democratic leaders of the Eighth district
were taking, we had to watch them to keep
them straight
lucs. The buying of votes, then, in the
Eighth. is exclusively Il Den ocratic industry?
Ans. sir
CUES. Are you acquainted with John W.
REGAIN, W. A. Montgomery and Peter L. Hall?
Are they recognized Us Republicans and
we're they delegates in 1894?
| bcliGv" so.
Mr.. Writ read II protest. in 1894 from Re
publicans in the Eighth. against the manner
IN which primaries were conducted Mr..
Whites vote was refused il 1885. | was mis-
taken when | said 1894. Ia 1894 | took no
interest in it.
Ques. Look at the charges and point out
which you have any personal knowledge Of
Ans. have no personal knowledge of
any of them.
Qucs.-What motive had you in assuming
the responsibility of charges grnvely Affect
Ing II mans personal character when you
knew that your act must give very wide pub
LEFTY to them
Ans. My motive was for the public good
of citizens in the upper end of the county.
as they kept coming to me every time | came
home from Annapolis, asking me what they
were going to do with John II. White. | told
them Il did not know That | mentioned
the matter to the Governor one day, and he
said that charges must be preferred against
him. | knew no more about it until | re-
ceived copy of the charges by mail.
Mr.. Logan was still under examination
when the Wing went to press.