Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-05-06
WEDNESDAY EVENING. MAY 6. 1908


Mr.. GoRDoN's campaign OF purify in
elections has recently received serious
setback by the publication Of the vote cast
In his own home county 10 the last cleo
ton. The Culpeper Exponent about
two weeks ago published a statement OF
facts taken from the recoIdsof the aU-
dltor's office at Richmond, which show
that men were put on the eligible list as
voters of the county of LOuiss whose de-
linouent taxes were unpaid. and that
these men voted in the last Urinary
election. The same article also shows
that there was an increase in the vote Of
Louisa county of Sc per cent. over the
pteVIous year and that there was only
turotd into the State for delinquent
faxes BY the clerk OF the court for that
county the sum of 1888. The most
serious part of the article is the state
ment of the fact that Mr.. Gordon was the
commonwealth attorney of the county
until January of the present year, and
that ne over his own signature actually
certified that he had examined the &C
counts of the clerk and had found them
TO be corec'. His certificate Is 10 the
following language;
81 r. L. Gordon, it,, Common.
wealth's Attorney of the county Of
LOUISE. State OF Virginia, do certify that
1 have compared the above statement
with the record Of taxes and other money
belonging TO the commonwealth, col
lected, or which should have been col
Iec,ed, by Jesse j. Porter, clerk OF the
Circuit Court of LouisS county, State OF
Virginia, and do certify that said state
ment is correct
Given under my hand this the sixth
day of Septt mber, 1907.
(5igned)l r. l.. GORDON, Jrp
commemorative Attorney"
This certificate was made three months
after the primary election was over and
when the clerk was settling his accounts
under the law with the State auditor, and
when Mr.. Gordon had no political can
vsss on hand and abundant time to make
the examination which his certificate
states he made. The same article shows
that in the county OF Orange, where Mr..
Gordon had control of all the machinery
and where he received his next largest
msjority over Mr.. Csrlin, that there wss
only turned in to the State for delinquent
taxes by the clerk of that county the
sum or $lO.O3, and yet there was an in
crease 10 the vote of Orange county oil
"a per cent or 1874 votes. The clerk OF
the court of Orange county, and the
treasurer of the county were managers
Of Mr.. GOrdon's campaign and his close
personal and political friends. Alex
audris city oDly increased her vote %
per cent. and yet paid TO the State auditor
Tor delinquent taxes the sum of 1854. 81.
Up to the present time Mr.. Gordon has
not explained this unusual condition of sf-
fairs iu the two counties referred to, viz:
Louisa and Orange. The election last
year in the city OF Alexandra WAS con-
Quoted with representative of Judge
Nicol in each precinct in the city.
There was no effort or desire for fraud
aud the result was fairly, squarely and
honestly attained. la Louisa county
there were no friends of either Judge Nicol
or Mr.. Carlin present in any OF the pre-
ciDcts and these gentlemen received only
a small vote, viz: Judge NicOl Z, Mr..
Carlin 81. 1t looks as il Louisa made a
clean sweep Of everything in sight, as
Mr.. Gordon received S73 votes out of
possible 9Ol. There are l6 precincts In
the county of Louisa. Orange treated
NJ. Gordon nearly as well, as 1t gave
him $40 votes, Nicol is, and Oarlin 100.
Mr.. Gordon has not IS yet made any re-
ply to the strong statement Of facts
which has been published, although he
has had two weeks in which TO do SO.