Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-10-26
Judge Lewis Turns Loose AS.
founding TRADE against
Democratic Charm al.
PLAIN, HARSH TERMS US5D
Less Than Hundred People Gathered
at Academy of Music to Hear Re-
publican Candidate for Governor.
Says Charge That He Favored Mis-
ccgenation Was malicious Lie"

and n few Democrats at the Academy
of Music last night heard the most
violent. bitter and plain-spokcn per.
sonal attack ever made in public here
at n political or m other kind OF
gathering. The speaker was Judge L..
l.. Lewis. Republican candidate for
governor. who came to address a
ASS meeting under the auspices of
The city Republican committee, and
The man against whom the judge
launched his astOundingly bold TRADE
was Hon. j. Taylor Ellyson. State
chairman of the Democratic party and
his party's candidate for lieutenant
governor.
Rain lnterierec.
Rain poured down i'm torrents last
night for two hours before the hour
set for the meeting and continued ~
come down , until midnight. Judge
Lewis did not begin to speak until
nearly . o'clock, the local committee
holding the meeting with the hope that
the rain would cease. When City
Chairman Williamson arose and called
Tor order all the people in the house
might easily have gathered on the
stage TO hear the candidate, who was
Immediately introduced by Mr.. f. c..
Bivlns.
Didn't Cut 1t Short.
Ihr Judge opened by saying that he
would speak briefly, but as he talked
he warmed to his subject and before
bidding the audience good night he
had been ON his feet for an hour and
n iialf and practically had repeated the
speech he had delivered in Richmond
Tuesday night. He must have been
warmer" here, however. for if he
was correctly quoted by the Richmond
papers his remarks in Richmond con
corning the Democratic chairman
were mild compared to those turned
loose last night.
Discussing what he termed the
Democratic lack of IA platform, the
Judge spoke ut length upon the various
Issues of the campaign. He declared
mat. having no platform and not da!,
ing to attack that Of the Republican
party. the Democrats had seen fit to
make him an Issue and were spreading
all sorts Of false accusations against
lin. Concerning the charge that he
was In sympathy with the disfranchisc-
. Ing clauses OF the Underwood consti.
tuition. he stated emphatically that
the first vote he ever cast in his life
was cast in 1869 in favor of striking
those clauses from the constitution.
Irresponsible TOR Free Schools.
lie admitted that the personnel az
the convention which framed the TN
constitution vas nothing to
be proud of, but said that that c,,nsti-
tuition was responsible for free schools
IN Virginia and that many distinguish
ed lawyers were of the opinion that
iIpon the whole ii was better than the
one which cost the State half n mil
lion ala Further the speaker de
clared that he believed the diSfran-
chising clauses, which were afterwerd
siriken out, were placed in the IN
constitution through the in
fhcnce OF the .mOcratic members,
who wished to make the constitution
so obnoxious that il could not be pro.
claimed.
"a Malicious F~alsehood."
Judge Lewis discussed this and
many other questions in a mild and
quiet manner, but when he began to
talk about the charge that he had IA
VoTed miscegenatiOn, his bearing
changed entirely. AS to the charge it.
self he simply declared that it was
Il malicious falschood," but he spoke
az more Length concerning those who
made the accusation and circulated it,
The charge was said TO have bcen
['G ~ VI hoJU Dbu lGlI
lays aga by Congressman William A..
Jones. who was credited with saying
that he was informed that Judge Lewis
ha1 expressed himself as being i'm ia
vor of miscegenation in a debate with
Judge Hundley about twenty-five years
ago. Congressman Jones denied that
ne had used the word ''miscegenation'
IN repeating the accusation that
Judge Lewis had opposed a law pro
mbiting marriage between the white
and negro races.
Wrote to Mr.. Eliyson.
During his speech Judge Lewis held
up y dodger which was headed 'Seri.
Gus Charge Against Judge Lewis and
which bore a reproduction Of the orig
iuai version OF the charge against the
Republican candidate. He said tina.
On tuesday he wrote a letter to Hon.
Iayior Ellyson. telling him that he
intended TO refer to this matter In his
speech at Richmond that night and
ASKING whether or not the dodgers re.
erred 10 were circulated by or with
We approval Of the Democratic State
Committee.
He read Mr.. Ellyson's lengthy repIv
IN which the latter stated that n
SINAI numbcr of the dodgers were cir.
cuiated before Congressman ZONES
made his denial. hut that most of
Inose printed had been held up npoh
the appearance Of the denial
Knew 1t Was False.
Nbeh the chairman OF the Demo.
cratic committee OF Virginia wroto
mat paragraph he knew that IT. was a
i~aisehood. declared the speaker ve.
hemently. He then went ON IN say
that the dodgers were SEN, on after
the denial Of Congressman Jones had