The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-22
WALKERS ACCUSATION
NAYOR OF ALEXANDER CITY
 WRITES OPEN LETTER.
Priyate Secretary Jackson Says Repub- ucan Candidate for Congress was Supplied With Papers When
 He Applied for Them.

At the capitol yesterday it was said khat the reason Captain B. w. Walk sr Republican candidate for Congress In Fifth Congressional District against Consressman Heflin, did not obtain the pardons papers in the Jacobf case on his first visit to the capitol was be- cause he did not go to the right place for them.
 When he went to the Governors s once where all pardon papers are filed it was said the papers were placed in his hands within three min utes after he had requested them. Ine papers were secured from files III which are stored all pardon records.
 This is the statement of the Cover nor's office in reference to the chat in Captain walkers speeches 'ha. there had been connivance amone State oficials to keep the aJcooi pa ners hidden away so that Congress man Heflin's course in the matter might not be made public.
 Governor Cunningham was Tn Ahnis- ton yesterday to deliver an address fore the Alabama Commercial anu III dustrial Association. In his aoseneo an omen letter written by Mayor Flu ana of Alexander City to GoVernor cunningham and forwarded 10 lhe Advertiser was shown Private Secre- I citsd tne allegations made by Captain woILer and asked that some state- ment he made as to their accuracy. when shown the letter MT. Jackson said: the Jacobi papers. Mir. Walker would have obtained the papers on his first visit to the capitol If he had inquired at the right place. The pardon papers have never been stored in the office of the Secretary of State. There has nev- CT been a law providing that they should be filed there and no custom of filing them there ever prevailed When a pardon Is granted by the Gov ernor it is sent to the office or Sec retary of State where the date Of Its issuance is transcribed. The papers are then sent back to the Governors office. The endorsement by the Gov ernor upon the pardon is transcribed into a big book. Tie papers are then filed with the pardons that have gone before.
 Captain Walker came to the Gov ernor's office, made & courteous re- quest for the papers and they were Instantly supplied him."
 The letter of Mir. FuQua Is as fol- lows:
 Alexander City, Sept. 20, 1904 'TIon. R. M. Cunningham, Acting
 Governor. Montgomery Alabama.
 Honorable Sir:-In his speech here yesterday afternoon, the Hon. Benj. W. Walker, the Republican nominee for Congress in the Fifth Congression- al District. gave his Democratic op- ponent Hon. J. Thomas Heflin. ss- were arraignmeut.
 Chief among his accusations. after having shown that Mir. Heflin had flat ly refused to meet him in joint debate, MT. Walker then proceeded to prove that while MT. Heflin was Secretary of State and as such one of the pardon ing board, that he. (Heflin). did sign the pardon of one white man, Jacobi. who had been regularly con victed and sentenced by the courts for the crime of attempted rape upon 2 white girl
 He further declared publicly that Mir. Heflin and his campaign friends during the race for his present nomi- nation last Spring. had on many oc- casions denied signing the pardon of Jacobi, and moreover. the Jacobi pa pers~ when called for by Walker and others, later on in the Spring cam paign were misplaced CD and could not be found.
 MT. Walker alleged, to the pro- found astonishment of all who heard