Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-07-02
MANN AT MATHEWS C. 4.
Charges Tucker With Lack OF
frankness And TruthfuIness.

Judge Mann In his speech at Math-
ews Courthouse Saturday scored Mr..
Tucker very severely for what he de-
clared was q lack Of frankness and
truthfulness in stating his record as a
member Of the Senate. az do not wish
the Senate Journal to be regarded as a
sealed book, as Mr.. Tucker has stated.
1 have no objection" he said, ito Mr..
fuckers quoting from the record, so
long as he quotes it correctly. but l
do object and protest to his pretending
to quote the record and stating as facts
borne out by the record things that have
never occurred.
He cited as an instance of Mr.. Tuck
er's method of quoting from the record
the statement which he said Mr.. Tucker
has frequently made to the effect that
Judge Mann had introduced bill in the
Senate which would prohibit man from
crossing a railroad from one part of his
farm to the other. He said that in an
open letter to him Mr.. Tucker had de-
MED making the charge that he had in
troduced such a bill.
He then quoted from his letter re-
plying to Mr.. Tucker as follows:
fou state in your letter that YOU
have never said that introduced q bill
that would prevent man from CROSSING
railroad from one part of his farm to
another. You did make that statement
at Boydton. | was present and heard
you make it myself; and 1 am borne out
IN this by the reports of what YOU said
which appear in the Washington Herald
the Norfolk Landmark, the Virginian-
Pilot. the Times-Dispatch, the Harri-
sonburg Daily News, and again your
own organ, the Richmond Journal. and
other newspapers of April goth. 1909
Although l Immediately denied YOUR
charge, you are reported to have made
similar statement at other times and
places. / say most emphatically that
have never offered or voted for such
bill, and l call upon you now to specify
the bill. so that it may be printed for
the information of the public that they
may judge by its language whether you
are right in your statement. If YOU
cannot specify a bill offered by me
bearing the construction for which YOU
contend, you should say SO as publicly
as you have made the charge.
Mr.. Tucker has never answered nv
letter, and his campaign manager has
stated in the public press that it is not
his purpose to answer il; nor has he
specified the bill to which he refers. In
addition to the evidence quoted in
my letter, have a stenographic re-
port of a speech he made in Lebanon.
on the third day of May last, in which
he stated twice that / introduced such
bill. l don't suppose any one regards
this particular charge very seriously,
but 1t is good instance of the methods
my opponent is pursuing.''
This lack of frankness of truth
follows all of Mr.. fuckers CHARGES
against me. | have called Mr.. fuckers
attention in writing to large number of
his statements, which distinctly said
to him were not true. and asked spec
ideally for his proof. He has not
answered my letter and has not pro-
duced his proof, and yet he continues to
make the statements. | have here a
list OF seventeen statements that have
been made by Mr.. Tucker in reference
to my record and to his own, which are
not true. know this is a hard thing
to say about any man, and / would not
say it now did not think that i owe
it to myself in consequence of the
things that Mr.. Tucker has said about
me that are untrue. and which do not
want the people of the commonwealth
10 believe"
He said that he regretted exceedingly
that the campaign had taken personal
turn. and said that he had refrained as
far AS possible from mentioning MIR.
Tucker in any of his speeches. al
very much prefer" he said. Ito dis
cuss those matters which are of interest
To the people. and with which the gov
ernor of Virginia will have to deal. /
want to be elected on my own record
and on my own merits and not on any
dement's my opponent may possess"