The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-03
ASK NEW PRIMARY
WITH BOTH MEN OUT
Citizens Committee trge That
This Course be Followed Con
tentlens Of Both Sides.

Especial IL The Richmond Virgihians1
NORFOLK VA, Oct 5e--Tht Sub
committee from the Dem ocratfr State
central committee " hleh investigated
the rscen ut Second district Democratic
congressional primary. spent to-day
behind closed dears III going oSef the
record aud weighing the statute ait
thorities which mad been Submitted ny
both Maynard and Young as Well az
by citizens counsel ia substantiatlon
VI the contentious az various sia"s
The committee eariE to-day T.
cefVed a brief from citizens counsel
calling FOR report recommending
that the primary ir' thrown eat alb
solutely. that new primary be or
dered and that both Maynard and
Young be eliminated from this be-
cause Of alleged contempt before The
committee bH failure TO pFodutc" amy
statement Of their primary expenses
and alt other matters in their poSses-
sion that might throw light on the
election
Counsel fer Young submitted in re
ply that att legal authority tortnds
thN throwing out % any election uu-
less il becomes impossible IL do
otherw ist. the law contemplating that
all possible means 10 establish who
mast be exhausted before the thought
Of throwing nUt the Whole can he an
tprtainea II AaS further rHutenaed
for Mir Young that with the ctimi-
nation OF all votes proven In have
been tainted or bad ia hoth Norfolk
city and Hail Corner. ia Norfolk conn
~. for Young and ia Portsmouth,.
Southampton and Isle of Wight for
Maynard. There stln remains ma
Jority ef SaVcnty-throe votes FOR
Young, who su1tst ho awarded tn. cer~
tihcate, Young adherents say, unless
the committee dtsregards all laN ana
legal precedent aith a simple Yield
ing 10 public clamor expressed
through new spaper columns
For MAYNARD IL VAS submitted that.
according 10 the best legal authority,
the committee must either throw out
the precincts in all places whore fraud
has beer shown and order a rev pri-
mary as Ia tiaasa- precincts ss1ttf4t--ttf
the judgment of the committee throw
out the whole primary and order "a new
election, hut win this election 10 be
held down 10 the iwu candidates only.
Maynard and Young. who We're IN the
fight in the beginning. and put up their
money for The conduct OF the Last pri-
mary.
Citizens counsel fought this PROPOSE
ticn hard Ia their brief, declaring that
the idea OF new election otlS IN the
precincts in which fraud had been
established would not do. because with
SO much fraud shown as had been
shown IN other places ttthe good p|o-
pie of Princess Anne and other places
not attacked are bot At ali sure that
the conduct Of the election wiih them
WAS fair or that their real sentiments
have been properly registered by the
returns ~ the last primary. Citizens
counsel declared that much fraud could
have been shown had there been tiple
10 t-t,ifett t.s=issrfFt-r- md had the eandi-
dates themselves been willing 10 teal
all they knew about everything. fiti-
gems counsel gave a last hard rap lo
the judges OF election In exposed pre-
cincts, who stood by and heard all The
bad things that We're being said aud
were yet unwilling fo come upon the
stand and make personal denial The
late brief pointing Ia evidence Al The
Court house precinct of Norfolk city
0aid II was evident from the poll books
that they we're faxed up afterwards and
that II they had been correct one per
son had 10 voted every thirty three
seconds during the last last l07 min