The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-12
HON. BIBB GRAVES
Answers Charges Brought Against Him Yesterday
 MOrning--CardS Of Other Citizens.

under the. heading Vote for wiley,'' ir which was this paragraph:
 | "A vote for Col. Wiley means to be represented by a man who stands upon record of what he has done and is do- ] ing, A Na M
 "He does not ask your support upon what he never did.
 However, Col. Wiley never did one thing, to wit: Col Wiley never went over the country making speeches to negroes urging them to go to the polls and vote or they would be disfranchised." | Such statement would not have been made by the friends of Col. Wiley with out the strongest testimony of It's truth fulness. The statement is challenged In The Advertiser of to-day by MT. Graves managers. We dislike to destroy a good story and an easy denial by MT. Graves i, on the heel of the canvas. but as his memory has evidently failed him, it win be refreshed by the following card: | TO THE PUBLIC:
 I notice in the card published by MT. Graves or his friends, in The Advertiser Sunday morning that the statement that MT. Bibb Graves, who is a candidate for the Democratic nomination against Col. Wiley for Congress in this district, made speeches to negroes, urging them 'to go to the polls and vote or they would> be eskoht atASAASCds ls DEdnucQ dS IaH56s uc- sire to state that was present at A. H. Clark's store, McGehee's Switch. in this county, as a manager of the election of Beat g. and Mr. Bibb Graves, before the polls were opened on the morning or November 1901, the time the new con- stitution was to be voted upon, appeared before a crowd of from 75 or 100 negroes who had been drummed up by his man Friday, Jim Bibb, for the purpose, and in speech, earnestly and eloquentiy urged every one of them to go to the polls and vote against the new consti- tuition, and. to go out into the beat and get the other negroes to come up and so vote. There are between six or seven hundred negroes in the beat and less than a hundred white men, and I well remember how indignant the white men present were at MT. Graves action. did not desire to take any active part in poli- tics at this time, but do not hesitate to state what heard, and my statement will be substantiated by Messrs A. H. Clark pr. Frank McLain, anu John Mills, and l doubt not many other citizens who were present that day, and heard Mir. Bibb Graves remarks.
 HERBERT A. JONES.
 Montgomery, April 10, 1904.
 A simple denial is met by a positive statement. and we leave the voters of the district to decide as to the case that has been presented. We have no fears that the verdict of the people will to- day be in favor of continuing the man in Congress who has SO ably, so faithfully and so conscientiously' represented them in Congress for the past three years. A Half Dozen Citizens of McGehee's
 Switch Corroborate MT. Graves.
 T desire to state that was present at the polling place at McGehee's Switch, Beat Nine, in Montgomery county, No- vember, 1901, when the constitution was being voted for. got there sometime before the polls opened and remained un- til in the afternoon. During the time I was there Bibb Graves did not make any speech of any sort to negroes or others, and this morning Is the first time I ever heard of such a thing. have lived in that beat ever since the war. and if such a speech. had. been made, would have certainly heard of it for it would have7been the talk of the whole county. do this as matter of justice in the interest of fair play.
 Monday. April Il. 1904.
 McGehee's Ala, 10:10 a. m., April 11th To Hon. Bibb Graves, Montgomery, Ala:
  bert Jones, will say that left the vot- ing place very early in the morning of that day. and did not hear you make a speech to the negroes. You asked me that morning if would be willing to di- vide the negro vote, thus eliminating 1t and I told you. no. Yours truly,
 A. H. Clark.
 McGehee's, Ala, f. Il, 10:40 a. m. To Hon. Bibb Graves, Montgomery, Ala: I was present at the polls the day Her bert Jones mentions, and Mir. Graves did not make any speech to negroes nor urge them to vote against the constitution. On the contrary, he did advise them to go home and leave the election to the white people.
 (Signed.) J. T. Mills.
 McGehees, Ala, 10:30 a. m. To Hon. Bibb Graves, Montgomery, Ala: We state that the card of Herbert Jones published in The Advertiser Is absolute ly false; no speech was made, and the entire contents of Mir. Jones' cnrd is un- true. You advised the negroes to go