The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-09-29
CONTROVERSY OVER
ELECTION UNSETTLED
But the Maynard People Want
Norfolk City and County Books,
While Young People Are No
Less Eager for the Ports
mouth Books.

NORFOLK, VA, Special.-With
ballot boxes, poll books and other
election paraphernalia piled up in the
parlor OF the Monticello Hotel, the
subcommittee of the primary election
investigating committee stood guard
Tuesday over this inner history of the
recent primary election in the Second
District of Virginia, while alleged
mlScarr1ages of justice in the conduct
OF the primary were being searched
Tor by representatives of Mr. May
nard, Mr.. Young and the citizens of
Norfolk. large number of local peo-
pie being gathered around watching
the proceedings.
The subcommittee in charge Of the
examination of the books and ballots
are Major Mcintyre, ex-Lieutenant
Governor Echols and Mr.. Ailworth,
the other members of the investigat-
ing committee having gone to their
respective homes till next Tuesday.
when the real probing of the primary
is to begin.
The first of the primary books, bal
lots, ETC., to be delivered by the COM
mittee were those from Norfolk city,
Norfolk county, Suffolk and Nanse-
mond county. Those in which Mr..
Maynard was most interested, Nor
folk city and Norfolk county were
turned over to his counsel, who at
once proceeded to copy the poll books
OF the Second Precinct of the Second
Ward of Norfolk city, where Mr.. Nav
nard is expecting TO show the largest
irregularities sufficient, he claims, to
prove that he was nominated for
Congress over Mr.. Young, who holds
the certificate of nomination.
The subcommittee of investiga-
tors permitted nothing to be
examined out of their presence. even
requiring that the seal of but one
precinct be broken at the time, every
thing else remaining sealed. In the
meanwhile Mr.. Young and his friends
were sitting around the parlor during
the morning waiting anxiously for the
coming of the Portsmouth books and
ballots, on which they are depending
largely to show that the returns for
Mr.. Maynard were not a correct tran
script of the vote in the district as
cast They had been promised this
morning, 1T was said, but had not
shown up at noon and were then
promised to be delivered by 2 o'clock
this afternoon. The friends of Mr.
due to Mr.. Young's friends in Ports
mouth, who were delaying the deliV-
cry of the books from Portsmouth.
The eagerness of the Maynard people
today to get at the poll books of the
Second Ward of Norfolk and of Nor
folk county is very great, as upon the
revelations which they expect from
those sources practically rests their
protest against the action of the Dis
trict Committee in having awarded
the certificate of nomination to Mr.
Young.
The public interest as to the result
OF the examination of those particu-
lar books is intense, owing to the
fact that 1t was the holding back of
the returns in the former on the even
ing of the election that first caused
suspicion to rest on the primary, and
for the reason that it was on account
OF the allegation of irregularity and
fraud in that ward of Norfolk, and
at Halls corner. in Norfolk county,
the present inquiry was demanded
The public interest in the books re-
ferred to is also intensified by the
fact that it is upon the result of the
examination of them that Mr.. May
nard has indicated he will base fur
ther specific charges which he told
the committee could not be formu-
lated till the primary books had been
examined by his side.
Want Portsmouth Books.
The Young people evinced today no
less eagerness to get at the poll books
In Portsmouth, Mr.. Maynard's home