Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1908-02-01
SENATOR NOEL FILES
SPECIFICATIONS
Lee County Man Prefers Charges
Against Judge Rhsa
NAMES THE WITNESSES
Judge Rbea Hastens 20 Capitol
aud Makes Emphatic Denial
and Demands an Open
Investigation
RICHMOND. vA-Specia.

senator Noel has filcd the fOiiOwirs
pscinoauons and charges agalns
udee Rhca
To thc Joint Committee on Con
nrnation:
hold th.t W. r. llhca should
not bc confirmed a. q nicm Der OF
the state Corporation Commission
Tor the following re- SINS:
1. because he j. believed BY
Ooth D,mocrais AMI Republicans
IA Solthsptst Aircsnia 10 be an
unscru puioUs politician
>. In 1900 H. il believed TO
have won his election TO Congress
b. CCuntCnanCinE. cnCoGr.i glng
ard abctsin- the most outrageous
frauds. such - Nutin- oi dead
men Whose names remained on
the C-i~tratiou bnoks. the infa-
Sfous ~cott county ballot and
othc like frauds
s. IT 1909 he l. believed 90
have AloNin-ly permitted chang
ing and falsifl in- OF election re-
turli~ IN S~ott- Russell and Blu
Chgugi counties.
& &c Las been accused OF &C
Ccpunr a briSc while jud-e OF this
state
10 euhstartiate these charges I
refer tnc committee and General
Assembly 80 the TT MED records
en- thc " alkcr-Bhca and the
Sicmp-Hhca contested election
ca~c-- indictments and orders en-
tered in judge Bhca's court In the
Jori CASE.
-IVc to the committee tho fol-
lov 'u- tst or Witnesses. whom I
believe VIII sustain most ~ the
above rhar-r~-tossit:
W ID. smith. Isaac Colcv. Col
ouCl = ~ EiCLmond. W :. Cox.
- Doltwrl-ht. sam Haynes, Of
Gate C.tN. Va. =. NJ Garter Dry
den. Tom Tcmpieton. ApualaChia.
Va Calvin C'vCcn. Rye Cove.
Va. - Pcnick- NJ r Powers.
g. w Hnumctt- Major c. Wood.
bristol. Va; Henry Ruth and
Prank Ruth. Lebanon. Va; r..
Walter Dickinson. Castlcwood.
Va. w {. Prndlcf0n. Tarcvc'l;
w NJ Tdds. Wisc. toward Miller.
or Norton. Va.
The names % other witnesses
viii bc furn. ~hc~i tf the comm ittce
ard General Assembly decide 10
hold an invcSf lcatlon.
Respectfully submitted.
J. {. NOEL
Judge Rhea Arrives
WITH the 6eterul l0atlon 70 clear
good name. ana make % warm
those VINO assan g. eH-JutEe vienna
r Rhea. % bristol. accom- panied
former senator A. A. PhieEar. q 7
ASK. 4 a Campbell. % Wythe a
others. today reached Richmont
lie and his parry are staying az
Richmond shorty after their arri
JucEe Rhea went over 20 the Capt.
where re Vas most cordially gree
on al sides The Dem ocralc "a
makers almost tumhl~t over one l
other in their e-orts 70 show IN
regard for him and o. prove their \
shakabie BELIEF IN his eminent nth
T FOR the position OF Corporation CO
mission. 20 which once ne has b
dominated ~ the Governor
Judge Rhea's Statement
Jude Ehca this morning mad
+ the following statement:
Il have held public position
Tor eighteen Years. being elcCtc'
Judge OF Washington county whe'
twenty-five years old. and hcl
that Office four ycnrS. was the
elected % the State senate. scrv
Ing for four years. ! WAS the
elected. by unanimous vote OF IA
General Assembly. AZ / now re
member. judge % the Corpora
ton Court Of the city % Bristo
and served nearly six years. an
resigned 10 resume the practice q
law soon thereafter ] was elect
Cd 90 Congress. my majority b.
Ing $50. when. two years befor'
the district had gone 1000 Re
publican.
Il served two years In Congrcs
was una nimouSly reuomiu1tc
and my majority for ny secon
term was 1850. while Preside
NcKinley's MAJ oTity in my coz
Eressional district was 500 OvS
Mr.. Bryan. and ] served that ter
IN Congress
II court the most public. OPP
and searching Investigation
; my whole judicial and polite
career. ] VIII go further and -
shat a. after having been naTns
for the high and honora bic of1i'
, 40 which the Governor appOfnts
} me. the Joint session OF the Gel
eral Assembly had confirmed n
nomination. with the charE
; made sill pending. I would p
, have accepted the position IN
. the General Assembly had mas
en- Investigation OF said chers
and I had bern completely exc