Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1909-07-28

brand. .
Was this accident or design.
| quote another OF his letters of
great interest and importance in
this connections
Richmond. Va.
April Is, 1908.
MIR. FRANK WkIGuT.
IL Union Street,
Norfolk. Va.
Dear Sir:
Allow me To again call your at
tentlon to the fact that YOU are
sending IN too many duplicate
samples When you draw sample
of particular brand. check il off
your book and do not draw another
of that brand during this season
unless there Is special request
for 1t during this season.
Hoping YOU will he more par
ticular in the future. am.
Yours very truly.
u. w. koINER.
Commissioner.
Does the Commissioner repre-
sent the interest of the farmers or
that of the manufacturer.
Judge for yourself.
In my Harrisonburg speech.
which MIR. koiner ATTEMPTED to
answer ut Charlottesville. | used
these words. The friction be-
tween the Commissioner and the
Board of Agriculture was in no
sense personal. hut grew out of an
attempt of Mr.. koiner to sneak
through the Legislature of 1903 n
substitute bill comforting the power
OF appointment of certain officers
OF the Department of Agriculture
upon himself. leaving the Board
OF Agriculture advisory. when he
had sat with the said Board and
the Joint committee on apricul-
ture of the House and Senate.
and had heard it stated i'm his
presence without objection. or
correction from him, that he was
IN full accord with the measure of
the Board of Agriculture as per-
fected and finally presented for
passage.
l have shown upon the written
testimony of the president of the
Board of Agriculture and of the
Joint committee on Agriculture of
the House and Senate that Mr..
koiner denied all KNOWLEDGE of
such a substitute or any RESPONSE
bllity for its being offered. and i
have produced a copy of his own
letter TO "A Senator incloSinp the
substitute and requesting his sup
port of it, and | have added
This evidence i have quoted in
speeches delivered at Boydton June
II, Abingdon June %, Lebanon
July & and Tazewell July Is and
the speeches have been printed in
full In the press time and time
again.
This incident is equally as dis
credltable TO Mr.. Koiner as the
fertilizer matter. and he makes no
allusion TO IL whatever in his
answer nor has he ever referred to
1t elsewhere at any time.
To make good my charge. moth
ing more is needed.
/ might refer TO the undisputed
fact that he accepet Federal an
polntment in 1906 rs State Stats
ucian vacating his position to
which he was elected by the people
IN 1905 and when found out and
forced by the Board of AgricuI. |
ture TO resign Office he plead inno-
cence and was then reelected bv
the Board whose memoirs he now
denounces for their exposure of |
his practices.
Mr.: Beverley states in the South |
ern Planter in June, After Mr. |
koiner had been Informed by |
the Attorney General he had |
violated the law, and after the
Board, acting in good faith. on his
plea of innocence. had reelected
HIM to an office he had forfeited |
he simply had his daughters name
substituted for his own as a dummy
on the records at Washington. con
tlnued having the States clerks do
his family
Is not this attempted deception
Every letter / have seen that has
been sent out by Mr.. Koiner in
his canvas-and | have had MANY
given me-waS enclosed In an
Envelope of the State Department
If Agriculture bearing the seal of
he State. the name of the Depart
nent and his own name as Com
missioner and under all the word
Official" II
II the communication is an OF
iclal one the State should bear the ,
'oSt and pay for the envelope and !.
tamp. {
1t this is done it Is graft. If =
his Is not done the word Official, \
has no place on the envelope and !
S an attempt to deceive.
Let Mr.. Koiner take his choice
iraft or Deception.
Many further instances might S
'e cited 60 prove my charge that
'lr. koiner rs Commissioner O.; H.
agriculture reeks wiz. the stencil
+ fasehood and deception.
But is not this enough! +"
The voters will decide 81
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