The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-10-05
ASKED BARNES FOR PASS
GRAVES WROTE LETTER, RE.
ouEsTiNG TRANSPORTATION.
AFTER HE WAS ELECTED JUDGE
Fusion Candidate for Congress In the
Third District, While Declaring That
He Considers a Pass a Bride, Is
Found to Have Asked for a Pass.
(From Wednesdays Daily

| Found to Have Asked for a Pass.
[Fron Wednesdays Daily.l
| Judge Graves, fusion nominee fO
congress from this district, who has
made his whole campaign thus fal
upon the pretense that he has never
accepted railroad favors, wrote let
ter to Judge ]. b. Barnes of NorfolR
in the fall OF 1901 and expressly asked
for free pass over the Chicago, st
Paul, Minneapolis g. Omaha railroad
from Fender to Minneapolis and re
turn for his wife and her mother.
The letter was sent to Judge Barnes
because he was attorney for the rail
road. II was forwarded to the head
Office and the pass for two was issued
by the railroad to Judge Graves. 1t
was used by Mrs. Graves and her
mother. absolutely free, and for the
sake of saving money to Judge Graves.
The pass was not, as Judge Graves
declares, issued "by Judge Barnes"
The letter written by Judge Graves,
asking for the pass, came after Graves
had been elected Judge Of the district
court and after, as the democratic
platform expresses it, 'he was clothed
In the robes Of the magistrate"
This information was gained by the
republican congressional central COM
mittee from Judge Barnes yesterday.
In letter written to C. A. Miller,
editor of the Madison County Report
err at Newman Grove, Judge Graves
recently stated that a railroad pass to
Minneapolis and return had been is
sued to him in the fall of 1901 by
Judge ], b. Barnes of Norfolk, at that
time attorney for the Chicago. ST.
Paul. Minneapolis & Omaha railroad
and that the pass had been used by
Mrs. Graves and her mother. The
letter carefully avoided to state wheth-
err the pass had been forced upon
Judge Graves or whether 1t had been
asked for by him.
This question has been settled with
out the assistance of Judge Graves
memory. The republican congression-
al central committee. somewhat inter-
ested in the matter, took steps to
learn just how ii happened that Judge
Graves had received these passes for
his wife and mother-in-law.
Judge Graves Wrote, Asking II.
1t has developed, as a result Of an
interview with Judge Barnes by Chair
man Ward, of the central committee,
that the pass was not offered to Judge
Graves, but that 1t was issued to him
at his written request.
1t is believed by many that this in
consistency between Judge Graves &C
tual record and the platform upon
which he is trying to be elected as
the congressional representative from
the Third district of Nebraska, will
cost him any chance of victory.
The democratic congressional plat.
form declares, on this point
The nominee of this convention is,
in himself, the right sort of platform
as touching the free pass evil. He
takes the democratic position that
there can be no difference between a
free pass bride and a money bride and
he has lived true to that position.
During all the years of service as dis
trict Judge, his pocket has never been
polluted by political or other kind
of free pass"
In his speech of acceptance before
the democratic convention, Judge
Graves gave out the impression that
he had never accepted a pass from
any railroad and that he considered II
as a crime for any Judge to Tins ohli.
gate himself to a railroad