The Washington herald., 1909-11-01
Charges on Eve of Election
Create High Feeling.
KENT AGAIN DENOUNCEs GLASS
Claims IL Was UnmRnIy and Unfair
to Make Public Charges so Late.
Says the Whole Trouble Is Family
MisunderstnndinE, and No Fraud
Was Committed or Intended.
Special to The Washington Herald.


torial campaign approached it's end with
ors making charges and counter-charges.
fired with bitterest feeling and denuncia-
ton. as In the present fight
To put 1t mildly the Republican head
quarters here is a seething furnace OF
fury, Judging from the statements issued
this afternoon by Gubernatorial Candi-
date Kent. whose professional integrity
has been attacked by Representative Car
ter Glass. and the statement Issued by
Republican State Chairman Slemp.
While It is generally believed the Glass
charges have hurt Kent there are some
who believe their publication upon the
eve OF the election has created feeling
Of sympathy for him.
Glass Position False, Says Kent.
Kent's new statement to-day. in part.
follows:
To-day for the first time appears a
direct first personal statement from Car
ter Glass making charges against me.
based on his own inferences and con-
clusions from documents which he claims
to possess. Preceding these charges OF
Mr.. Glass is a long attempt at defending
himself for the false position IN which he
finds himself. Withholding these charges
til the very eve OF the election. Mr..
Glass now says that ne referred 10 the
charges a month ago in his speech al
Christiansburg. October and ne re-
peated them at Charlottesville, Luray.
and other places.
Il denounce this statement OF Mr..
Glass as false, ard he knows II to be
false
1t was not TIL Thursday. ths 2sth.
that The Washington Herald printed the
news OF what It calls bombsheu thrown
into thc campaign by Glass at Staunton.
"a. v.tN'l twenty-four hours thereafter
l VS. ~ my way 20 Roanoke 10 answer
the charges.
"Nr Glass has made the two state
ments; first, that he has been making
the charges since October J. and, sec
ondly. that he has ref-ained from making
them uI provoked by my misquoted
statements. In one or the other state
ment he tolls an untruth.
Unfair, Says Candidate.
nv. Glass is even getting credit in
I Democratic editorials for his vaunted
forbearance in delaying these charges.
In short. Carter Glass is selt-convlcted
/ OF falsehOod- I charge him with the at
tempt to take an unfair. unmanly. un-
I lawful advantage. which not even the
eXigencies Of political campaign can
justify.
"As for the charge itself. I have an
swered every essential and reiterate my
denial that there was any committed or
intended fraud. Mr.. Glass gives only his
/ own conclusions from such portions OF
such letters as he may choose 10 use.
/ No honorable, fair man resorts 70 such
methods. There has not yet been a sCrap
I Of evidence produced that would be ac-
"epted IN any court IN the land The
public knows nothing Of the reasons and
motives for actions that are simply the
result OF personal disagreemcnts. No
fraud was thought OF at the time OF the
/ transaction. 1t IS only through a per
verted use OF the documents and a wrong
construction Of disconnected acts that
there could be found even a pretense OF
wrongdoing
viii Help Kent, Says SIemp.
Republican State Chairman SIemp gave
out a statement IN which he denounced
the attack OF Representative Glass on
Capt Kent, and predicted a victory FOR
the State ticket at the polls Tuesday and
an increase in the members OF the legisla-
ture. The statement in part, follows:
"AlthoE1h Capt Kent has answered
fully and satisfactorily the charges which
have been advanced, yet there IS a much
( deeper and more significant aspect 70
/ tho case which every Virginian must
consider. The charges were publicly
made not many hours before cleo
/ ton. AS soon as Mr.. Kent learned of
/ the specific accusations he gave the pub
/ lic the fullest possible explanation. NIr
/ Kent ran for lieutenant governor four
years ago, and he was nominated FOR
4 governor more than three months ago.
/ There was no reason then for waiting
[ TIL the eve Of election 20 spring this
sensational and mysterious conception OF
a transaction satisfactorily concluded
/ over quarter Of a century ago.
Worked Same Trick Before.
"a similar eleventh-hour accusation
was brought against Judge Lewis four
years ago on the very eve OF election.
words were put in his mouth he had
/ not said and statements he had not
uttered. The same method was resorted
/ TO at the close Of the primary by the
| machine in coupling Mr. Tucker with
conditions and circumstances untrue and
unjust.
| ''It has come to this IN our political
/ campaign in Virginia. that IL the Repub-
licans show any strength. II II seems
necessary TO get out the Democratic vote
/ resort must be had 70 the most despicable
methods and devices, which discourage
! clean. honest men from aspiring to public
Office"
Substance of Glass Charges.
Lynchburg Va, Oct. 3l.-The substance
Of Representative Glass charges are:
'The documentary evidence against the
Republican candidate was placed In Mr.
Glass hands by DR.. ]. L. Kent. a ply
sicifn. who stated that he gave the ma.
terial for public use under certain re-
strictions
Capt Kent retained $500 as fee and
/ expense account on his reported sale OF
$1,000 for one tract OF land and retained
the entire amount Of 5000. which ne re-
ceived for the other tract. the sale OF
which he did not report at all, but title
to which he said could not be established
capt Kent not only was compelled by
Randolph r. Blain, an attorney OF Louis
vile, KY to make restitution Of the
5000 received for the second tract OF
land. with interest from date Of the deed
TO time Of settlement. but was made to
correct his expense account.
The documents show that Capt. Kent
transferred both tracts in a single deed
on June 2, 1855, under power OF attorney
Tor $4,000, and yet nearly four months
thereafter, on October Is. 1883, he wrote
Mrs. Pauline McGavock to the effect thai
ne had litigated in the courts and had
failed to establish title TO one Of the very