The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-01-20
SPECIFIC DENIALs.

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into the teeth OF the opposition.
a GENTLE FLING
In referring specifically to Williams
burg, Dr. Wiscs home, this gentle
fling Is made:
Il deny that you received more than
us votes in williamsburg How could
you have received more where YOU had
lived for so many years."
SAYS IT WAS ILLEGAL
Coming To Norfolk county, in which
Mr. Young received 2.12S votes against
$500 for Wise. ana 2S7 for the other
two candidates, MIR. Young settles the
matter thus:
81 charge that the election claimed to
have been held in said county on No
vcmbcr I'd, lS9G, was null and void and
invalid. and | shall ask that the re-
turns from said county be rejected, and
for the following reasons:
rnSt-Because there was no electoral
board. legally constituted as such, in
said county
Sccond--Bccausc the judges were not
appointed in the manner required by
law
Third no member of the clcc.
toral board was designated to attend the
printing OF the ballots. nor was he pres
cnt continuously during the printing:
because the requisite oath WAS not ad-
lnlniStcrcd To the printer who printed
said ballots: that the same were not
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board. as required by law: that the
ballots were not counted. wrapped and
sealed. and kept in the exclusive posses
sion OF the secretary. until given TO the
Judges of election. and he did not take
proper receipts for said ballots from
said Judges of election
Fourth-Hecausc the judges and clerks
who conducted said election mt East
Berkeley and GlCbc precincts all of whom
were Your partisans. conducted the same
,r ~,
the election law, and especially did they
allow voters to concrc-atc i'm large
numbers within less than fifty feet of
the polling places. and did allow voters
70 assist each other in the preparation
Of their ballots.
That $. II. Carney. n member of your
state committee. was in charge of the
polls at Gi!cbe precinct and was actively
engaged in violating the law.
SHOE ON THE OTHER FOOT.
Concluding, the following language is
used
You are in error when you charge
that the election in this district was no
election. and was Il conspiracy between
the 'Silvcrites.' the electoral boards and
election officers to defeat the will of
the people On the contrary, YOU are
seeking to form II conspiracy with the
Mckinley men in Congress to defeat
the will of the people and To elect YOU.
and this, too. in face of the fact that
your managers did all in their power
TO reduce the vote for Mckinley in this
district in order TO conceal your unpop-
lulnrity.
This statement / will prove by Re-
publicanS. and not by Democrats
II deny that the judges We're partisans
| OF Bryan and myself, or We're men
without character and without regard
for the sanctity of their oaths, or that
they wilfuly hindcrcd, delayed, OBJ
structed or prevented Republicans from
voting for you; or that they falsified the
vote cast; or knowingly marked falsely
| the ballots of illiteratcs who desired to
vote for you; or refused, in plain viola
| ton OF law, to assist iliteratcS who
desired to vote for you. or destroyed
lawful ballots that were cast for you,
under the pretcnSc that they were i'm
properly marked; or falsiiied the re-
turns of such ballots as they did not
lactually throw out or destroy; or re-
fused either to receive the requests for
assistance made by llitcratcs who de-
sired 10 vote for you. or To assist them
or that they generally so conducted said
election that YOU were robbed of not less
than 1000 votes. as charged by you.
| On the contrary, | claim, and will
prove. that the Judges who conducted
the election were men of character, and
| having due regard for the sanctity OF
their oaths. and neither hindercd, de-
layed, INSTRUCTED, nor prevented Rcpub-
licans from voting; that they did not
| falsify the vote cast; nor mark falsely
the ballots of illiteratcS who desired To
| vote for you; nor did they refuse, in
Iplain violation of law, to assist illiteratcs
who desired to vote for YOU; nor did They
destroy lawful ballots that were cast
Tor you, under the prctcnSe that they
were improperly marked: that they did
not falSify the return OF such ballots
as they did not actually throw out OF
destroy; that they did not refuse To