Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-07-11
JUDGE MANN QUOTES
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
Anderson's Opinion Offered as
Proof Of Fa|sfy Of Pullman
Car Liquor Charge
GOES NFRER TUCKER ONCE MORE
In Speech at Meherrin Nottoway Can
didates Declares He Regrets Per-
. sonaiities. But That Unfairness and
Falsity of His Opponents Attacks
Made Retaliation Necessary.

MEHERRIN, VA, July 10.-Judge
Mann, in his speech here today, read
an opinion OF the attorney general
and certificate of the auditor of pub
lie accounts in refutation of the charge
that Mr. tucker has made that he
failed to vote fer an amendment to
the Byrd law designed to stop the
sale of liquor On Pullman and dining
cars. He also declared and offered
the opinion CT the attorney general In
proof that by the express terms of the
Byrd law, of which Judge Mann was
the senate patron, the sale of liquor
on such cars is prohibited.
Judge Mann said on this subject:
Mr.. Tucker, has been going all
over the state saying that avoided
vote on the Folkes amendment 10
lie Byrd bill, which he states was de-
signed to stop the sale of liquor on
Pullman and dining cars because L
was attorney for railroad company
at Tat time and could not decide
whether | loved the railroads or the
temperance cause the better. This
charge is false not only as whole,
but also in the following details: The
amendment was offered by one OF the
four senators who voted against the
Byrd bill. and was designed to permit
not to stop the sale of liquor on such
cars; | was not at the time, as Mr..
Tucker very well knows, attorney for
any railroad; / did not have an oppor-
&.rr,s IN let
amendment, as il was offered without
notice, and my attention was not even
called to it until after the amendntLi
had been defeated; and consequently
the scene that Mr.. Tucker so graph
cally depicts did not occur, and could
not possibly have occurred.
absolute Falsi.y."
But the absolutely falsity of the
whole charge will Re manifest when
attention is called To the fact that !.
did vote against the sale of liquor Oh
Pullman and dining cars the very day
after this amendment was offered In
an official opinion, which has just
been given by Attorney General Ande--
son, he says:
by the express terms OF the Byrd
law, no intoxicating liquors can be sold
in Virginia without a license, AMI no
license can be given for the sale OF
such liquors on a Pullman or dining
car
The attorney general further says
that the general assembly refused to
Authorize such license, referring, Of
course, to the FoIkes amendment. i
have also the certificate of the audi
tor of public accounts saying that no
such licenses have been granted. |
will furnish copy of this opinion and
certificate TO any one who desires
them.
~And in order to make 1t clear be-
yond question that the statements
which have been made by my oppo-
nent to the effect that / wsvered in
my allegiance 10 the temperance cause
during the last session of the legisIa-
ture, are not true, I need only quote
from the report CT the legislative CON-
mittee Of the Anfi-Saloon League, in
charge of the Byrd bill. which is also
a complete refutation of Mr.. Tuck
er's charge in reference to the Pull
man car matter:
Anti-Ssloon League Report
Judge Mann, with the assistance
Of other temperance workers. notably
Senator's Walker and Lincoln. led the
Eight for this bill. as he has done Ter
Temperance legislation ever since he
has been a member of the Senate. In
view Of the fact that Il has b,cn stat
ed in some of the ncwsDapt . that
Judge Man was not as actively IN
favor Of anti-liquor legislation in the
General Assembly o. 1905 a. he has
been in the past. your legislative CON-
mistec regard Il TO be not only a duty,
but a privilege. To declare that thcsc
statements are entirely without foun-
sdation In fact.
Judge Mann further said that u
was a matter Of extreme regret 70
hin that personalities had come INTO
the canvass. and declared that he had
avoided any reference 70 him WREN
ever h. could
= did not mention Mr.. fuckers
name cxcc-f in a complimentary man
ner during The hrst, tao m.Juths q The
campaign; tut 80 repeated. and a