Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1909-04-02
Continued from last week.
CHARLES W. <swisHER AND
SHERMAN DENHAM.
THE TWO MEN WHO WENT TO WASH
INGroN FOR TAR sLusH FUND,
ACCORDING no CONGRESS-


INGT0N FOR TAE sLusH FUND,
ACCORDING no CONGRESS-
NAN w. r. HUBBARD.
On February ., Theodore Alvord, on
account Of whose statsmsnts the CON-
nittee was appointed, bsing duly
sworn, testified before the committee
In part a. follows.
30. Now. We want ysu 10 give ~
the name Of the man whe yOn ray
lives In the northsrr part Of the stats,
and whom you say told you that two
men, prominent in politics, went 10
Washington to get the money referred
to IN the articleg
A. That statemstt was made to me
in confidence. and / don't want 10 ans
wer II unless the COMMITTEES tnaists
upon ii.
Here the Ommittee directed the
witness to answsr the question, which
he procesdsd - DO under prstsst.)
a. Well, uDdcr protest, give that
name as the Hon. w. p. Hubbard,
Member Of Congress, from the first
district Of this state.
@. When did Mr.. Hubbard tell you
this, and whore?
A. In his office in Wheeling, and
should thIak, a little before the cleo
ton, but l would not be sure about
the time; it was last fall. IcouId not
give the date very closely.
/ q. Who were the reported two
men who went to Washington?
| A. 1t was reporssd to me to be
! Charles w. Swisher and Sherman
Denham.
/ @. Who gave you that informa-
tionY
J A. am only able 10 remember one
person who told me that, and that
was, | think ! stated, Hon. Ws~P..
4 Hubbard.
/ Q. You have elready stated, Mr..
Alvord, that In your opinion there was
fund raised, and that that opinion
WIS based upon rnmors that came to
you. Whence came these rumors?
1908 VOTE Of 10 TO II PREDI TIED
! A. FromyMr. Weethe, ticket agent
at the K. 4 M. station vt CharIestoa.
He IL reported TO have said that the
day befsre the amendment was de-
feated In the Senate, at the extraordi-
nary session Of 1908, tive men were In
bis Office, and purchased tickets FOR
Wheeling, that one Of them was COM
planning that after they bad paid for
license fees and taxes, they had to give
down money to defend their business
before the Legislature. The other man
asked him Il they would be able 10 de-
feat the amendment, and how much
would 1t cost to 90 so. Hereplied that
II would be defeated the next day by a
vote OF eleven to ninetsen, and that
it cost ths m 500, 900.
By Senator Littlepage.
@. Now, can you give the CON nit
tee the name and address Of either Of
these men whom you understand tho
agent heard talking about this matter?
A.. No sir. | az defstand that Mr..
Wsethe didn't know them; he only
knew that they purchased tickets for
Wheeling. Now another man 10 Mr..
VIM. r. Book miller, President of Bal
timore Office Supply Co., l0e 8. Eu
taw Street, Baltimore, Nd. He stated
last year when the amendment was
pending before the Senate he was In
he office Of the Clarksburg Brewing
Company, and was trying to sell them
something-I don't know what--and
the person in charge, whoever he
might be, said, "We are not buying
anything. We have all our money at
Charles ton TO defeat the amendment;
that every Senator has his price, and
we know what his pIice 10,
Then w. X. Gray, Of Mt. Hope,
Fayette county, told me thai J. w.
Bragg. a saloon keeper Of that place,
stated 10 him, 10 the presence of other
Witnesses, whose names 1 do not
knoS, that he had been solicited TO
Contribute 10 fund 10 beat the amend
Inent las winter
ATTEND FAMOUS ALL NIGHT
MEETING.
Mir. Cars.B, a saloon keeper at 16
Charleston street, West Side, Of this
city, told Mr.. Young, groeeryman on
the West Side, that he was present last
winter at a NEE in held for the pur-
pose Of raising funds to defsa the
amendmeut; that Wheeling brewer
wired in bis contribution.
Alexander Z. Lawrence. OF this city,
told W. G. B. Moore last winter that
he was solicited 10 contribute to fund
to defeat the amendment, and he has
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