The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-11

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Fl" oodstock. Va July i0-Congress-
man w a. Jones Tired his FIRST gun
In the Valley here to-day. il being
the regular court day. His address
was taken UP in part showing the re-
cord OF Senator Martin, particularly
on the lumber schedule OF the tariff
inc crowd did not number more than
100. and was composed OF the anti
machine Democrats and some Repub-
hcans In anticipation Of state
inent upon the denial Of Senator Mar
,'n or any knowledge of the yellow
dos" fund, the small audience swell
tered.
MIR. Jones said;
In speech delivered by me in
Halifax county twelve years ago / de-
clared that when Senator Martin was
nTst elected TO the Senate. he was
known chiefly as a railroad lobbyist
and agent.
Senator Martin replied through the
Richmond Leader. July 20. 1889. that
ne did not know where 90, my in.
formation in falsehood and malice.
quote MS exact language;
Mr Jones states that at the time
OF my first election to the Senate
was known TO the Virginia people
only as the agent and LOBBYIST OF
when Mr. Jones gets this idea. bu,
do know that II had its origin in
fa!sehoods and in malice, because
have never at any period of my life
been the representative OF any rail.
road or other corporation. or OF any
person or persons in connection with
any matter pending before the legis.
iative body. state or national MANY
such retainers have been offered me
- frtxf - ~
declined them. have never in my
life had my course as q citizen in
respect to any public matter embar-
raised by retainer. No one can
truthfully say that l have been re-
tained TO represent, or have, in fact,
represented any interest for a corpo-
ration or any one else before leg
islative body
The denial Is explicit, direct, sweep-
ingly comprehensive. 1t simply raised
question OF veracity between VIII
liam l. Royal, who had testified in
the Lee-Martin contested election case
the late Mr.. Joseph Bryan. OF the Rich
mond Times, on the one hand, and SEN
ator Martin on the other.
I'm a speech delivered by me In
Lynchburg last Friday night, / retter.
ated the charge asserted by me
against Senator Martin in Halifax
prepared to furnish other and add.
tional evidence to sustain the charge
If that Of Mr.. Royal and Mr. BRYAN
was deemed inconclusive; and l fur.
Their asserted that l was prepared to
prove that Senator Martin was one OF
the discussing agents of the yellow
dog fund of the railroads.
Mr.. Martin. in a telegram to yes.
terday's Times-Dispatch. which 1 FIRST
lCf MIC n a.
charges in the following language
Your paper of this date reports
Mr.. Jones as saying in his Lynchburg
speech last night not only that Mar
tin represented the railroad interests
before the Legislature of Virginia, hut
that he was actually one OF the dis
bursting agents of the yellow dog
fund for the railroads.
"'Mr. Jones made these same statc-
ments twelve years ago. and they
were then denounced by me as false.
I desire to say that said statement,
and every word OF it, is absolutely
false. The reiteration of these vicious
and slanderous falsehoods, which have
been denounced by me time and
again. simply show the extremties to
which Mr.. Jones is driven in this
campaign.
referring to what Mr.. Jones has
stated ABOUT the Lorimer invest ga
ton. simply desire to say 1 voted
against the right OF Mr. Lorimer to
hold a seat in the Senate when that
question was before the Senate, and
that the resolution which was offered
by me for a further investigation into
the charges of fraud in connection
with his election was offered in order
to procure further and exhaustive
Investigation. in view of newly dis
covere evidence. and it was offered
by me under the instructions OF the
caucus OF the Democrats of the SEN
ate.
~ repel as false and slanderous any
statement or fnsinuation tina, the reso-
luton offered by me. under the instruc-
lions of the Senate Democratic
caucus, was Intended to screen. or
could by any possibility screen Mr..
fCnntipnad IN Do