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The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-01-09
Contested Election Case Of Wise vs..
Young Comes up Tomorrow.
COULD NOT Be REACHED SATURDAY
Hrsefs Submitted by Counsc,-Wise
cinins n Majority OF 7,eza young
INSISTS Thnt Ills Minority Is r,,5A
After coneedinS Everything in
Ronsan,
Especial Cor. Of The vlrglnian.)

Washington, .. c., Jan. 8, $685.
9 The hearing OF the election contest
OF Wise against Young before the
House Election Committee No. 3 was
postponed to-day until IL O'Clock Mon
day morning. The committee had ex-
tended the time for hearing the case of
Patterson VS.. Carmack, and the time
set for considering the Young Wise
case had arrived.
3. Chairman Wallzer-The chair has
been asked when the Young-Wise case
VIII be taken up. What Is the pleasure
or the committee? tg7g E
Counsel Wise-I suggest that as the
record Is very extensive, the time late
and the committee already almost done
! a days work, the Wise-Young case be
postponed until next Monday
5@ Counsel Brooke agree in part with
captain Wise, but would suggest that
the case be postponted until next
Tuesday 5}3s5
& Committeeman Burke, Democrat
move that the Young+WEse case go ove.-
I 10 II o'clock Monday morning.
chairman Walker put the motion and
1t was carried unanimously. Both sides
MED their brief with the committed
81 John 8. Wise and James d. Brady,
counsel for contestant, DR.. Richard 4.
Wise. in their brief state that the evil
dence in this case clearly establishes
! "a conspiracy to carry the Second
+ Congressional District OF Virginia for
gcontestee, regardless Of whatever vote
might be cast for his opponent"
t7 This conspiracy, counsel assert, was
made possible by a series of acts of
partisan Democratic Legislatures in
virginia. the first of which placed the
selection of registrars, judges and
clerks and the electoral machinery in
the hands Of partisan Electoral Boards
Z IN IN each county and city OF the State.
,ssIhese Electoral Boards, they say, con-
; sist entirely of partisan Democrats.
chosen by partisan Legislature, and
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mote fair elections" Upon this point

mote fair elections" Upon this point
Ithey say:
There can be no doubt, therefore,
mat this law has been sincerely and
honestly declared valid by the highest
court in this State, composed Of men
whose ability and integrity confer ad-
dational lustre upon Virginia and whose
umarnished regulations will be q be-
neficent legacy to their posterity; and
IL Is not believed that this committee
VIII give ear to the ungenerous and
objectionable insinuation of The CON
tcstant that their decision was the re-
suit of dishonest subserviency 10 the
Legislature which elected them. To
know these men is 10 honor them"
counsel here take up the subject of
free ballot and 4 fair count and con-
lend that the law provides for It. and
that the law is enforced. They say:
The votes are canvassed countcl
and returned by the urges of election.
PROVISION Is made for this process to
dc witnessed ut each polling place by
persons representing the different l,oli-
tical parties. The ballot CONTAINING.
the names of all the candidates for ali
the Offices voted for Mt the particular
election, the voter to scratch off the
names of those candidates for each
Office whom he does not wish TO vote
OF election. in canvassirg and counting
the vote. TO determine, in the case of
every fmperfectly marked ballot. for
whom the voter casting such ballot in
tended to vCfc."
Going into details and examining the
returns in detail by precincts, counsel
contend that from any point of view
Young was elected Ivy n majority rang
ing from Oh to 1890 votes.
TO rccapitulate result:
Take from contestants as
serted majority OF. 1850
!. Asserted gains in Al pre-
cincts" ............... S57
:. i.Aciuced vote. at ieast... Gi
uhs difference between 1859
ana 1,0i5)
5. 1oung's asserted loss at 10
precincts. ............... 1,517
!. 1ounSs asserted less at a
precincts. ................ 1856
.. Nounss asserted loss at is
precincts. ...... ........... 25C0 9,O5a3
Leaving Young majority OF 1,a5i
And If the committee thinks
that the contestant should
receive the benefit of the
ballots lost to him by alleg-
cd misdirection OF judges
Gable. p. q. then deduce
from this majority. 3i2
And possibly the. .. 19S
votes. claimed by us MS the
most that can be, by the re-
hottest possibility, due him
OF the asserted loss at 10
precincts, and we still have 5jO
a majority for Young of o.,
Add TO this Wises majori-
ty in Norfolk county, where
we claim there was fraud
violating the entire election 1172
And we have still a majority
for Young Of. .......,... 2.oSS
IN examining alleged frauds nv coun-
ties and cities. cont2stee's counsel
have this to say about Norfolk city:
SO far as the charges as to First and
Second precincts, First Ward we
would call attention to evidence of
the witnesses introduced by both sides
rs TO First precinct, Third Ward.
we simply refer to testimony OF Thoro.
good. y. 2@et, etc.
He Is an Intelligent colored man
whose Republicanism has been good
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Majority for contestant. 7e7a

i"1o'i'S lSE SonicSlalll.. ,6l3
No conclusion, counsel assert. is to
be drawn from the fact that the dis
tr.ct returned q Democrat In 1890, 1892
ana 1891. The frauds. they say, were
as glazing then as now.
The fact that W:se's vote exceeded
Mcltinley's vote by $50. counsel assert,
is no evidence that Wise knitted Nc
Kinley.
ID. Tucker Brooke and Thomas Fl.
Wilcox, counsel for w. A. Young. con-
testec, pay their respects at the outset
to the charge of conspiracy, and assert
In n sentence that the claims of con-
testant reduced means that mo good
thing can come out of Nazareth"--that
is Virginia
Continuing counsel say:
TO such wholesale charges against,
and defamation of the Chracter Of
men of the highest official and personal
standing in the State, no other rEpIv
need be made than that 1t is of a niece
with the entire conduct CT the comics
liant, both in his conduct of his can
NasS and OF this contest. There must
De some good people in this State he
SIDES The Wise family; and If the peonla
or the whole State, legislators, iIldTne
ana ALL have combined to keen the
contestant out of Congress, il l., y.
least suggestive that he does not uri.a
IN himself all those elements of fitnaSs
Tor me position 10 which he laws claim
or when should commend him to the
voters of the Second Compression Dis
trls: of Virginia." 61|.. =
Counsel 2;henN take M thu Parker l,,v
coraininea or by cgntestant's co;ins-,
anu assert that 1t vas passed to pro
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no other party has any representation
upon them. They fill vacancies, they
assert III their own bodies
Inc counsel complain at length at
the various election laws OF the State.
and coming down to details counsel
assert that at lightweight precincts Of
the district, exclusive of Norfolk
county, So2I7 votes We're deposited in
The ballot box and but 25.aS3 returned
FOR Congressman. The differences were
suppressed and this constitutes they
allese, the conspiracy. The whole re-
turns OF the counties OF Southampton
ana YORK, they assert, should be re-
Jected a9 false and fraudulent, and
mat fourteen other precincts should
DC thrown out, where contestec had
1,7S5 votes.
The counsel proceed 10 examine tho
election figures in detail, and concludes
his figures by electing Wise by 7,G73
majority. This marvellous conclusion
Is reached In this way:
SUMMARY.
l,Gains of votes in A precincts. 2 357
:. Gains of excluded votes in 2S
precincts ...... $50. Sc3
1920
aou!S .'...' ........ ..............2,3 800
Without throwing out vote re-
turned for Young. Wisc's ma
jority ........ n oo1
But in addition to this, Youns's
return must be reduced by the
loii@wing loss at 10 precincts.
where there are false returns
of votes for Young ....1.5I7
Wise's majority ...... ...3A3S
Z. And further loss TO Young at
II precincts, where there Is a
false return of votes Cor Wise. .735
). And a further loss to Young at
is other precincts. where the con-
duct of the election was such as
TO justify the rejection of the
returns $3.50. ......... $500
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, OF an order of the Court of Law and
EIhancery, Of this city, rendered January
1th' iS'S, IN the matter Of the nttnchmnnt'
OF Inc Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
SSlnpanE vs.. Frank Norcross and Min
ne NE y; N9rcross. Will sell at public auc-
non nt no. % and 50 Concord street, on ,
ssoWinS property: Thrty-scven Pieces of(
scenery, Drops. 10 or 20 Lanocs, / Box,
DTan. with back; Z Trunks and contents.
BoT; l Crate of Railing. l Garnet. 8
aliScciinncons, pieces of Railway, Small
Sul,inEa. l Piece of Stage Setting / Fold
lnE screen, about % Stanchions. G Pieces
Sonru, Pair Steps, etc
TEliMS-Cash. ~.
j. +. LAIvLER, Sergeant.
1an9-tdS JOSEPH JONES Auctioncer
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one Minute Cough Cure cures ouic,,1v
lhat what you want. J. NJ. ,rrotter
ana u. j.. Walker, Norfolk, and Truitt &.
Smith. Berkcy F"
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-01-09
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Whle they last Lancaster Branded Apron Gnghams are
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AUCTION sA1Es-ruTtInEn,y


BY Joseph Jones, Auctioneer, No "a
Bank street.
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Growth of the Soul.

Though times and seasons are not
as important as many would have us
think, still nearly every thoughtful
person at the coming of a new year
remembers how old he is and wishes
he were not quite so old. Let us turn
our minds away from the tabernacle
of flesh, the least real thing in our
lives, and think little of the inward
growing old. For the body every add
ed period is loss; for the soul every
added growth is almost incalculable
gain. How old are we? How much
older than year, two years, ten years
ago? How much quicker to recognize
the Divine voice? How much stronger
our hand and clearer our voice against
evil? How much swifter our feet to
bear the message of good will to men?
How much gain has there been in pow
er and willingness to serve? How much
more faithful are we in the chaos of
small and common duties and cares?
How much truer are we in friendship,
warmer in the home loves, more pa
tient with the mistaken and the bad?
Round our tree of life, as it has strug-
gled up toward the sky, whether
it bear the spring buds or the sum
mer green, or the dead russet of the
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ther and mother lavished all their love
and their generosity upon this one eve
lamb of theirs. | can remember what
scene Of falryland their house was
at Christmas for the little girl and
for her troops of friends, for all that
love could suggest and wealth could
secure was brought and laid at the
feet of their darling.
".tnd what a dreadful change when
the fifth Christmas came. In the Sep
tember before, the little girl, u bright
and beautiful child, suddenly sickened,
and within a week she slept on the
sunshiny slope of a gentle knoll lock-
ing out over the beautiful blue river
sweeping by with murmur as of
angels wings. For weeks the father
and mother refused to be comIorted,
nor would they 60 away to other
scenes. There the little one had
filled their hearts and lives and there,
they insisted, should the empty shell
remain. Elsewhere il the world there
was nothing; in that spot were, at
least, the memories of their iiollZed
one. l was with them a great deal,
and as often as | could | sent my own
children to visit them, and from these
and other playmates of their lost one
they derived much comfort. Eut [
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cry whose gladness cannot be de-
scribed, heran to me and, snatchlng the
baby from its covering, he kissed it
and laid it down on the bosom of his
wife with it's fat little fists digging
into her cheeks and neck. | don't
know, nor does anything human. What
the baby's power is, but in a minute
the woman began to stir uneasily, and
to move her hands about as if search
ing for something, and then, with
cry like her husbands for gladness,
she opened her eyes and her arms, and
the baby, with a satisfied coo, cuddled
close to the mothers breast.
"That was the crisis, and as the
father dropped beside the side of his
wife with the child in his arms, and
prayed fervently, l broke down com
pletcly and cried as if all the sorrow
in the world instead of all its gladness
had come into that lonely house this
Christmas eve. So they called the
baby Santa Claus, and as she grew up
she became indeed, as you say, a veri-
table Santa, bringing only good things
to all the world that lay about her"
".And do they know nothing of herr"
l asked.
"Everything,' she answered. "Her
mother was a widowed relative of the
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enough during the early twilight OF
Christmas eve, but as night came OF
and there were only shadows and
stiffness in the great house where lights
had cleaned and children's merry
laughter had filled their halls, the de-
preston became so overpowering that
| began to feel as if a crisis were ap-
preaching and that something was 60
ing to happen to make great change,
either for the better or for the worse,
and end the painful chapter. Once
or twice as thl evening dragged slowly
along and the streets became still, l
started nervously and gazed anxlously
at the chimney place, feeling sure that
Santa Claus would come down that
way, or if he did not | would very
soon go off III Il fit Of mysteries. If you
have never had such an experience,
you should pray that you never do.
About midnight, and just minute or
two before the bells Of the city rang out
their Christmas welcome to the day,
| ventured to suggest that probably
they would find some forgetIulness in
sleep, and as did so arose and with Inc
the mother stood up, leaving her hus
band sitting with bowed head. She
stepped forward to touch him and,
as her hand was laid upon his shoul-
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der, there came a ring at the door
bell so sudden, so powerful and so in
sistent that the woman screamed and
fell to the floor in faint. Instantly
her husband was bending over her,
and telling me to go at once for doc
tor who lived directly opposite. l ran
away in obedience, quite forgetting
the cause of all the disturbance. jerk
ing open the front door, | almost STUN
bled over a basket sitting there, and
then | nearly tainted, too. You men
never know why women do such things
as they do, but they do them just the
same, and the minute | saw that bas-
ket l knew what was in it, and l knew
that there wasn't any need of going
after the doctor then. And l didn't.
l simply picked up the basket and car.
ried it back to where the stricken
mother lay, with her husband over her,
chafng her hands and kissing her
white face as his tears fell upon it.
without 4 word to him, l opened
the white silken flannel which was
folded thickly all over the precious
package within, and as l dug down
into the soft folds I found something
warm, and then l came to bit OF
filny lace, and under that the sleeping
face of baby, six or seven months
old. l turned up the light and the
baby opened its big blue eyes won
deringly and, with chubby fist held
up at the light, it crowed as only
baby can crow. The man leaning over
the woman had not even noticed my
return, but this baby's crow was to
him like a call from some other land,
and he turned toward me. With a
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autumn leaves or the boughs of win
ter, these things are marking their
line, and how old we are is being
written day by day so clearly that he
who runs may read. God gives us
eternal youth in the vigor with which
we press upward, and in all best
things gives us such rapid growth that
we may soon gain eternal years.
I'VE live in thought, not breaths, in
deeds, not years,
In feelings, not in figures On the dial;
We should count time by heart throbs,
he most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest,
acts the best"
Washington Home Magazine.
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Christmas in New York.

Jacob 4. Riis, in an article in the
Century Magazine on Merry Christ
mas in the Tenements," says:
In hundred places all over the city,
when Christmas comes, as many open
air fairs spring suddenly into life. A
kind of Gentle Feast of the Iaber-
nacles possesses the tenement districts
especially. Green-embowered booths
stand in rows at the curb, and the
voice of the tin trumpet is heard IN
the land The common source OF all
the show is down by the North river,
in the district known as "the Farm" "
Down there Santa Claus establishes
headquarters early in December and
until past New Year. The broad
quay looks then more like clearing in
a pine forest than a busy section of
the metropolis. The steamers dis
charge their loads of fir trees at the
piers until they stand stacked noun
tain high with foothills of holly and
ground-ivy trailing off towards the
land side. An army-train of wagons
is engaged in carting them away from
early morning till late at night; but the
green forest grows, in spite of it all,
until in places it shuts the shipping
out of sight altogether. The air is
redolent with the smell of balsam and
pine. After nightfail, when the lights
are burning in the busy market, and
the homeward- bound crowds with
baskets and heavy burdens Of Christ
mas greens jostle each other with
good -natured banter-nobody is ever
cross down here in the holiday season
it is good to take stroll through
"the Farm" if one has spot in his
heart faithful yet to the hills and the
woods in spite of the latter-day city.
But it is when the moonlight is upon
the water and upon the dark phantom
forest, when the heavy breathing of
some passing steamer is the only
sound that breaks the stiffness of the
night, and the watchman smokes his
lonely pipe upon the bulwark, that
"the Farm" has a mood and an at
mosphere all its own, full of poetry,
which some day a painters brush will
catch and hold.
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and spend two or three days, but they
would not hear to leaving, and, fear
ing something, I knew not what, 1
determined to slip away from the
brightness and cheer of my own home
and go into the dreary darkness OF
this one of my friends. 1t was sad
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Johnny's Suggestion.

Johnny ION Christmas eve)-"Mam-
ma, can't you give the baby something
to make him sleep to-night?' Mamma
why, Johnny" Johnny - BE
cause if Santa Claus hears him yelling,
he might think we're all just as bad y
Current Literature.
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family who died only few weeks pre-
viously, leaving two or three children,
and this little girl was sent to the
stricken parents as a Christmas gift
in this way with the hope that has
been so happily fulfilled. Nv. j.
hampton, in Detroit Free Press.
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the graces of sweet womanhood. l
saw her one evening at a reception,
and though | Was long past my beau
hood days, l could not resist the ra-
dance of this sweet girl, and, follow
ing her with my eyes as she fitted about
among the guests, | asked who she
was.
"Why,' laughed the gray-haired
woman of whom | asked the question,
don't you know her? l thought ev
erybody knew Santa Claus Conway"
"Why do you call her Santa Claus?
Because she brings joy and gladness
and all good things to all whom she
meets?" | inquired, bowing gallantly.
Il shall tell her that" smiled the
lady, though that is not exactly why
she was so christened. STILL she
went on, musingly, that was the rea
son, too, though hadn't quite thought
of it So
please go on with the story" | sug
gested, for | knew there was a story
that must go with the pretty girl who
seemed to be rather a being out of a
book than one of the everyday crea-
lures her associates were.
II here is a story said my com
panion, 'and | shall be more than
glad to tell it to you. Twenty years
ago, living not a dozen blocks from
where we now are, was a couple who
had been married ten years before the
light of a baby's eyes shone into their
home and their hearts. When at last
that wonderful light came which never
was on sea or land except it came from
a baby's eyes, and of which no one
knows the radiance except those upon
whom it has fallen, that father and
that mother almost forgot there was
yet a light greater than that which
blessed them from their baby's eyes.
| do not say that l am quite of the
belief that God is such jealous God
that He will break the hearts of His
creatures to crafty His pride, but |
am quite content to believe that we
should not worship any gift we may
receive to the exclusion of our duty
and debt to the giver, and particularly
the Great Giver Whatever my opin-
ion may be, ii has naught to do with
the case, and for four years this fa-
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feared for the coming of Christmas.
That was the joytime of the year when
the child was the very soul Of it all,
and / did not dare think what that
father and mother would do in the
thick darkness that had fallen upon
them.
when the time came around tried
to get them TO come to my own house
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Mrs. Crawford-I always thought
smoking was such an expensive habit.
Mrs. Crabshaw-Well, isn't it?
Mrs. Crawford-W Why, no; l bought
my husband whole box of cigars for
Christmas, and all they cost was SO
cents.-N. Y. World.
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Willie Richdad-See what | got for
Christmas!
Bobby Fivehites-Aw'-say, if you
let me play with it awhile, Iil-TI
let you lick me.-Up to Date.
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A Modest Wish.

At mission Sunday-school at
Woods Run the children were talk
ing Of Christmas. Johnny, what
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would you like for Christmas?"
teacher asked of one little fellow. "Id
like pair of pantaloons without
patches, ma'am," replied the boy
Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph.
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HAT a very pretty
girl she was, and
how the 20 years of
her fair young life
had combined to
crown her with all