Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-04-30
THURSDAY, APRIL 80, 1905.
SERIOUS SITUATION IN the E,eH1H

triCI the contest between Mr.. r. l.
Gordon, of Louisa, and Mr.. C. c. Carlin
the present incumbent, has assumed a
serious aspect. We have observed il
with interest, but heretofore have seen
no occasion for comment. Some weeks
ago, however, Mr.. Gordon printed
direct charges against Mr. Ca-lin, the
substance of which was published in
The News Leader at the time.
One of these was an affidavit by Mason
Throckmorton, of Bluemont, Virginia as
serting that in the last canvass he had
been personally told by Mr.. Carlin that
all the money needed to make the fight
at Bluemont in Mr.. Carlin's behalf would
be furnished and asked how much he
could profitably place. C. W. Voolfolk
OF Orange county, swears that at the
Horse Show at Orange, in July, he had a
conversation with Mr.. Carlin and told
him that money and whiskey had been
used IN the primary in Orange county in
Mr.. Carlin's behalf and that Mr.. Raleigh
l. Green had offered citizen of that
county money and whiskey to be used for
Mr.. Carlin- The latter denied all knowl-
edge of such transactions, but when Mr..
voolfolk offered to bring a responsible
man. then on the grounds, to prove the
truth of what he had said, Mr.. Carlin
made no further inquiry.
M. Vaughan, of Orange, asserts un-
der oath that in the canvass he was an
preached by Mr.. Raleigh T. Green. who
asked if he could not handle whiskev at
Halls precinct in Mr.. Carlin's interest
Teis being declined, Mr.. Green offered
money for use at that place.
j. H. Morris, of Orange, also under
oath, asserts that in the canvass for the
primary an Orange county official re-
quested him to receive money to be
distributed among voters in Locust
Grove precinct to induce them to vote
for Mr.. Carlin.
W. p. Powell, of Fauquier, student
of the University of Virginia, swears
that at Morrisville precinct of that
county on the day of the primary sup
porters of Mr.. Carlin had whiskey on
the ground and were using it freely in
his interest and that the voters known
to be subject to the influence of whiskev
or money as rule voted for Mr.. Carlin.
Mr.. Throckmorton is justice of the
peace of Loudoun county. Mr.. Wool
folk Is clerk of the circuit court of
Orange and the other witnesses have
substantial evidence of their character
and responsibility.
Mr.. Green, Of Culpeper, in an aft
davit, denies so much of the testimony
presented as refers to him, but the
witnesses who make the accusations
seem to stand their grounds.
These publications are serious. Thew
charge directly, on the evidence of men
apparently respectable, that money and
Whlskey were used freely TO corrupt and
deoauch voters. They do not connect
Mr.. Carlin directly with such methods,
except In the Loudoun county case.
They do say that his friends used them
IN his behalf. When the friends of
candidate spend money to elect him the
natural suspicion in the public mind is
that they act with his knowledge and
consent.-Richmond News Leader.
1t looks like our esteemed Richmond
contemporary has been profting by our
advice, that it seriously engage in home
mission work, in its own family, before
1t undertakes to reform political condi
tons in the Ninth District. And it
seems that we were not mistaken when
we told the News Leader that it could
find ample employment for its abun-
dant energy on these lines in the Eighth
Congressional District and its home
city. We say to the News Leader:
''You have large venal vote in YOUR
own party that needs looking after;
and you have lot of political crooks
that are prominent cogs in the Demo-
cratic Machine" Some of these are
men who occupy high positions, both
State and National. They have &C.
cepted certificates of election to Office
In the past when they must have known
that they had not been elected thereto.
If the News Leader will reform the
leadership of its own party and secure
for the people honest suffrage and non
partisan election laws, it may expect to
see clean politics in Virginia.
When these things are accomplished
our contemporary will find that the
charge that the Republicans of the
Ninth have been corrupting the elector-
ate has been made for masking frauds
that Democrats have been practicing
against each other as well as against