The Washington herald., 1908-05-29
WASHINGTON HERALD BUREAU.
(Bell Telephone 60.)

80 King Street.
Alexandria, Va, May 2S-The Congress
sional fight between Charles c. Carlin.
of this city. and r. Lindsey Gordon. jr..
Of Louisa, Democratic nominees for the
primary which will be held June 9. is
v2xing warm.
Tonight the Carlin lieutenants got
busy to answer an address Just issued by
Mr.. Gordon to the voters of this dis
trlct, in which he alleges that during the
last Congressional contest lis Illegal
votes were cast in this city. The pam
phlet issued contains sixteen pages. and
is dated May g.
The charges against Carlin in Alexan-
dria are
Ninety-hve persons voted in primary according 70
said poll books whose names appear on the delin-
quent list for 1904 OF 1896 OF both and whose
names do not appear upon the list Of persons e1-
empted from the payment OF poll taxes as aforesaid
TWenty-sN persons are shown by said poll books
20 have voted IN said primary who were not at the
date thereof the registration books Of the wards
IN which they voted
OF the said twenty-six. four have since been reg
isteresl.
One hundred and twenty-six persons voted accord
ing 20 Oid poll books who do not appear on the
treasurers voting list for any ward Of sid city
and whose names are not upon the exempted list Of
citizens aforesaid.
One hundred and fifteen persons who were shown
by the treaslrers list not 70 have paid their taxes
for Or two Of the three pTecrng years voted as
shown by said poll books
Several afldavits were made in reply
to this circular.
The AFFIDAVIT Of City Treasurer Thomas
w. Robinson shows the manner Of col
lecting taxes, and justifies the list as
voted a year ago.
The affidavit made by n. S. Greenway.
clerk OF ths Corporation Court, is as fol-
lows:
l am the clfrk Of the Corporation Court Of the
city ~ Alexandria. and prior 20 May s. 1907. SIS
white persons paid 20 their delinquent poll taxes
for 1871 aud 1906 for both Of these years all Of
whose names appear upon the statement / rendered
% the auditor u the State q Virginia The de-
hnqusnt poll taxes paid by these persons aggrCated
the of S5a.9i All II these persons were ccr1i-
fed by me to lho treasurer q the city * Alc1an-
dria in oraeT that their NAMES might be PLACID
upon the tressurer's list Il qualified voters The
said trcasurers list to my positive knowledge 50
far as the rvcJrds of my Office are concerned arc
absolutely and entirely correct All Of the delin-
quent taxes of said persons paid % me and 1
have accounted % the Commonwealth u Virginia
for al o; such money according % law ! challenge
any one % coutrvvert the tuthfuness q these state
msuts
| wish to add that In tho Congressional primary
a June ls last / was not supporter Of the Hon
/ G.. G. Carlin and was IN nJwise interested h his
success. but cast my ballot against him. / wish %
further state that Mr. Carlin never paid me any
delinquent taxes Tor any person IN his life and
that al delinquent taxes paid In my ofce were
paid according % law and duly accounted for by
me 70 the Commonwealth Of Virginia
Capt William II. Sweeney also made an
affidavit in which he states that he made
minute examination OF the poll books
used in the primary held June 70 last,
and they showed l,S9 people voted. He
says in the affidavit that a comparison OF
the poll books containing complete list
/ OF all persons who voted with the treas
urer's list found only two people who
voted whose names did not appear on the
treasurer's list or on The twenty-One-
4 year-old voting list.
Ahidavits We're also made by Wayne f.
/ Beyers. Conrad Schwab. T. J. Fleming.
and James T. Lawler attesting the cor
| rectness Of their books as registrars OF
the four different wards.
The Mount Vernon Avenue Association
( this afternon elected the following direc-
/ tors:
William r. Smoot. z. z. Downham. NJ.
B. Harlow. Park Agnew. James r.
Caton. ]. x. VI. Norton. Hubert Snow
den. Gardner L. Boothe. J. Marriott HILL
/ John b. Henderson. D.. J Tabor John
/ son. Andrew B. Graham, James +,
( Clements, Joseph E. Willard, r. Walton
! Moore Alexander ]. Wedderburn. John
/ r. Mclean. Frank A. Munsey, Theodore
| ". Noyes. Scott c. Bone, Gen. Robert
/ C. Smith. n. II. Shea. Fred Mertens. and
| Robert y. Harper
The following were elected members OF
the executive board: William B. Smoot.
+. Z. Downham, NJ B. Harlow. Park
Agnew, James r. Cation. J. Marriott
| Hill. James Z. Clements. Joseph Z. VIII
/ lard. and John r. Mclean.
The following officers were elected:
William B. Smoot. first vice president:
+. z. Downham, second vice president,
and NJ. 3. Harlow. secretary and treas
uTpr