The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-07-15
HOT TILT BETWEEN
GLASS AND CLAYTOR
The Two Candidates Meet in
Joint Debate in Campbell.
GLASS REITERATES CHARGES.
Clayton Undertakes to Prove He Was at
Home Sick During Vote on LA
bity Bll-Glass to Withdraw
IF He Cannot Prove 1t.
Especial Dispatch to The Times,

IINCHBURG, VA, July H.-At Camp
bell Courthouse to-day before a large
audience Of Democrats, Hon. Graham
Clayton, candidate for Congress, made
an attempt to eXtricate himself from the
charge brought against him in Roanoke
Friday night by Senator Glass that he
(Claytor) had in defending his course
on the liability bill made statements that
We're in direct conflict with the official
record. Senator Claytor's defense was IN
the nature of personal letters addressed
to Mr. Glass. which ne read to the aud
ence and commented on at length. The
Bedford candidate has claimed that the
reason he was not in the Senate cahm-
Der at Richmond to speak for the en-
ployers liability bill and to work for 1t
and to vote for it, was because he was
at home in Bedford City sick in bed at
the time and was there sick three weeks
THE MAIN POINT.
Mr.. Glass had shown from the record
that Senator Claytor was in the Senate
chamber on the very day that the en-
ployers bill came up for decision, and
had participated in the proceedings up
to within ten minutes of the time fixed
for the consideration OF the bill, when
he left, and had also returned at the
night session of the same day and par
ticipated in the proceedings of the Sen
ate
To-day Mr.. Claytor undertook the ex-
plain this inconsistency by furnishing
a certificate from DR.. O'Hara, Of Bed
ford City. that Mr.. Clayton was sick
with grip some time about March lst.
1905 but had gone to Richmond against
his advice. Senator Glass replied to MI.
ClayIor's statements by reiteraung every
word of his Roanoke speech as true to
the letter and said if one sta tement con-
tanned in his presenta ton of the record
could be proved untrue, that he would
retire from the Congressional race.
CALLED ON The JOURNAL.
The Lynchburg candidate stated and
presented the journal 10 fortify what he
said that Mr.. Claytor's entire attempt
to extricate himself from an unplea easant
dilemma had been vndicated by declara-
tions the truth of which were positively
disproved by the journal. The great
crowd present listened both to Senator
Claytor's defense and to the repetition
of Senator Glass charges with the IN
tenSeSt interest.
A dramatic incident of the meeting oc-
Cured when Senator Glass. alluding to
Mr.. Ciaytors statement in his Roanoke
speech that he had been sick at home for
three weeks. and to Senator CIaytors
further statement made to-day that he
was confined to his room in Richmond
for week prior to leaving for Bedford
City. declared that the Senate journal
showed that Mr.. Claytor had participated
in the proceedings of the Senate every
day for ten days prior to his departure
for Bedford City. and therfore. could not
have been confined to his room for a
week in Richmond
OFFERS TO WITHDRAW.
Nh Glass then exclaimed, IF the dis
tinguished Senator from Bedford City
can take the Senate journal from lid
10 lid and prove that he was absent for
seven days consecutively from the Sen
ate chamber during the sessions of the
Legislature from the time the General
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