Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-10-30
THE TRUTH OF IT.
How Some Statements Don't stand
the Light, and The Clamor is
For Effect and sympathy.

How Some Statements Don't stand
the Light, and The Clamor is
For Effect and Sympathy.
1t had been the intention of the
CITIZEN to have nothing to say on
one side or the other in the presen;
fight for county officers, as Democrat
was ritted against Democrat, one
faction against the other, but such
gross injustice is being done the
county electoral board and the newly
appointed judges by the Lewis Down
ing people. it needs correcting. The
votes of the county are against them,
and they feel it, so they pretend they
are not to have fair play in the cleo
ton, and that nearly all the Judges
are of the Newbill stripe. That this is
without foundation we will soon show
But in the meantime we cannot re-
frsin from calling attention to the
fact that four years ago the Lewis
Downing people left the county
convention and went out of the hall
with the taunt from their leaders
mouth-"We have the judges of
election; now elect your ticket if
you cam" And the threat held good.
All of the regular nominees were
forced to withdraw because the
judges Of election, except at Irving
ton, were of the other faction, and
how well they kept their threat was
shown in the narrow escape of Com
missioner Brent at the hands of Mr..
Sisson, Republican, whom Judges
OF the other Democratic faction tried
hard to elect, and whom they would
have elected if it could have been
known that Paynes Shop was going
30 strong for Brent-that they
would have taken more votes
from Brent at Litwalton was the
outspoken assertion of one of the
Lewis Downing leaders after the
election.
Had they control of the electoral
board now it is not doubted by any
within this county that they would
make things "hum." Fortunate
ly the three gentlemen appointe
by Delegate Lyell-R. T. PIERCE, w.
L. Marsh and G. w. Sanders-are
men of honor, who would hesitate to
appoint partizans of rank stripe, and
who have named the judges in an
absolutely fair manner and such men
as no imputation eau be cast upon.
The Lewis-Downing people presen ted
a full list of judges and clerks from
their faction, from which they wanted
as many appointed as possible. A
copy of this list we have before us,
and from comparison we see that
more than third of the whole list
was selected. Yet they now cry that
they wanted only one man at a pre-
clnct, and actually declare to the uu-
informed that they have been un-
fairly dealt with. BY the same
right every one of the candidates for
county office might ask for one-third
representation. The absolute inn
possibility of conforming to this is
apparent at once. The friends Of
Newb;ll asked only for judges at
lrviugton, and when these were an
pointed consented to allow MIR.
Downing to name one of the two
Democrats. Of the eight pre-
cincts Mr.. Downing gets his request
as follows:
Litwalton-All the judges and clerks.
Ottoman-None.
Courthouse-All
ktlmarnock-None.
Weems-One clerk.
Irvington-One Judge.
White Stoue-One clerk.
Island-One judge and one clerk.
When it is stated that at eyery
precinct Except the Island, where
there are no Republicans one Repub-
lican Judge was appointed it will be
seen that Mr.. Downing while not get
ting the "whole hog" gets more than
his share. He gets eight out of the
"a Judges, and out of the 40 men in
the poll rooms of the county he
gets 10 of those asked for i; how
many of the remainder will not sup.
port him we cannot say, but some of
them have never signified how they
will vote, and certainly the Newbill
faction cannot count them all among
Its number. These are absolute facts.
and from them will be seen how un-
founded is their Cry. They have
been fairly dealt with, which GER
tainly was not done by electoral
boards when under their control.