The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-09
JUDGE GREGORY
WINS HIS FIGHT
! Convention Votes fer Him TO Retain
His Seat Overwhelmingly.
NINE mocRAIs FOR TREAT.
g..ssis. 1urnbu,l and ouar!es Close Tor tic
Two dss-conyen;ion 10 Hold
Night Sessions Next
Week.
NINE DEMOCRATS FOR TREAT.


Week.
the Constitutional Convention yester-
aay by a vote OF IS to 6 declared Judge
Roger Gregory entitled to seat IN that
body from the counties OF Hanover and
king William. The vote was taken after
sble speeches by Messrs. Turnbul ana
oua,les
Only two Democrats voted on roli-cail
against the resolution seating. Judge Gre
CORY. though seven others were paired
against the resolution. making nine in all
They were: Messrs. Thorn, Marshall.
Quarlcs Dunaway. McIlwaine, Gordon, OF
Nelson: Bolen, Richmond, and Waddill.
The convention met at 1880 o'clock.
There were eighty present and q great
many ladies and gentlemen We're on the
floor The body decided to hold night scs-
SONS. commencing next Monday night, the
chair to be vacated at o'clock p. NJ. and
resumed at S p. NJ.
Indefinite leave of absence was granted
Senator Daniel on account OF sickness
Mr.. TURNBULL'S FINE SPEECH.
: As soon os the morning preliminaries
had been disposed of the Treat-Gregory
case was called up and Mr.. Turrball took
Tie floor to conclude for the contestee.
Mr. Turnbull said members of the
.rcnnittee who had signed the minority
report had not been treated fairly by
The speakers who had advocated the seat
ing of Mr.. Treat.
Hard knocks had been dealt them.
w;ser, were un5nstifable and mislead-
ing. lie analysed the report of the MAJ
iority and showed that Dr. Dunaway and
Judge Quarles. the Democrats who sign
ed the majority report, did so on grounds
as far removed from that assigned by
the floor Republican members as the
North Pole. He then argued that it was
not fair for these two to sign a report
with the floor Republicans in that way
and call it majority report. He then
related the proceedings OF the last meet
ing of the committee. in which it was
argued that each group OF members
should send in reports to tle conFen-
ton, representing their views, not agree
ing upon any majority report at all.
but that each report should stand on its
own merits.
Mr.. Turnbull then proceeded to discuss
the record of the case and went into the
transactions on election day of each pre-
c!ac..
He then stated that intimidation of
voters was as much a violation Of law
rs fraud in elections. He read from the
record to show how voters had been in
Inundated by the Treat forces at several
precincts. He referred to the testimony
CT the SlKty-fire negro witnesses, and
said that the convention and the commit
tee sitting as a jury had the right to
weigh the testimony according to the
character and manner of the witnesses.
COMPARED RECORDS.
He then compared the record, showing
that the testimony of witnesses and his
argument which the advocates for Mr..
Treat had made We're not responsible
TO the issues made up in the pleadings.
In discussing the vote at Cold Harbor
Mr. Turnbull showed how Mr. Treat only
claimed difference Of five votes in the
returns and said it was a cold day for
Treat when those ballots We're sent for.
lie then explained how inspection Of
the ballots anG a. comparison with the
returns of the Board of Elections showed
that the Board had made a manifest
clerical error in favor of Treat The
count Of the vote showed that if fraud
was intended or committed it was a fraud
by which Mr.. Treat alone had reaped
benefit in the election returns.
He referred to DR.. Dunaway as having
advocated a higher law than the statutes
of Virginia in deciding this question and
declared that that was Emma Goldman's
doctrine and would lead to anarchy in
Virginia as it had led to assassination Of
The President in New York. He claim
q ballot should be marked, and if not
properly marked should not be counted
for anybody
This was not question Of intention
as to how the voter desired to cast his
ballot. but was intended IS an cducation-
al tesla means of demonstrating wheth-
er he had sufficient intelligence to know
how to vote.
AFTER MIR. GORDON.
Bic smoke the Scprpjl,l way in which
Mr.. Gordon had spoken OF those ballots
and congratulated him on not going so
lar as other speakers on that side as to
advocate the higher law in disregard of
the plain mandates Of the General AS
scmbly OF Virginia.
lie denied that the mismarked ballots
We're an evidence OF attempted fraud ana
said this was disproved by the fact that
on those same ballots We're names erased
according to law. which resulted in the
election OF Republican negro over a
Democratic white man.
He referred to the old way in which ne
eroes We're marshaued to the polls by a
drum and a flag, and said it was not stop
ped until the drum got a hole shot
through it. and the man who carried the
flag received a gentle reminder that his
foolishness had better cease. He said
after that the negro preachers would get
from two to three dollars a head for ne
gro voters. ana dividing the money
among themselves, would proceed to hold
a church meeting and decree tina. all
negroes should vote the way they had
sold them to vote. Mr.. Turnbull proceed
cd to call attention TO numerous and open
examples of such practice until as a mat
ter of absolute necessity the white men
OF the State had TO pass a law whose edu-
cational features would cffectually break
Il up.
Mr.. Flair: II raise the point of order
that the gentleman is not discussing the
matter at issue. -
The President: TT is difficult to draw
the line as to the range of discussion on
such matters, as the one under consider
elton. The gentleman VII proceed
IN a BRIEF CCILOQUY.
Mr.. Turnbull said Mr.. Gordon raised his
hands in holy horror ct this election
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