The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-07-11

My agreement with that company
! was to prosecute and defend suits
| and transact all legal business in
| which they might be interested in five
| counties. for which received an an
! hual salary, 1t was retainer solely
/ IN legal matters. / did not even know
| the president Of the company. MIR
| r. f. Ingalls,. until after + was elect
| ed 10 the Senate. He. as well as
every other railroad president in Viz
giIha' was opposed-te my election.
| L neeVr represented any other cor
poratlon. but as the records OF the
courts will show. / brought suits
| against them.
hen | was elected TO the SEN
/ ate | resigned my position as local
/ counsel for the Chesapeake and Ohio
/ Railroad Company. and have since
| that time represented no corporation
| whatever. In fact. / have been I'M
] able to give any attention To the
/ practice or the law and have devoted
my tuine ,e&clusly ely to MY public
duties.'
| The statements made in that in
serFiew were repeated by me in
| many public speeches in Virginia, and
| | thought these old ISLANDERS had been
/ forever put to rest unit Mr.. Jones
1 I
day night last. In q mum Der of Viz
ginia paper the morning after Mr..
Jones Lynchburg speech the follow
/ ing reply from me to what he said
was published
Washington, n c.. July S. 1911.
! 70 The Times Dispatch, Richmond.
! M Va.
our paper of this date reports
Mr. Jones as saying in his Lynchhurg
speech last night not only that Mar
| TN represented the railroad interests
before the Legislature of Virginia
! nut that he was actually one of the
discussing SCENTS of the yellow dog
1und OF the railroads. Mr.. Jones
made these same statements twelve
wears ago, and they were then de-
/ nounceo by me as false. ] desire to
say that. said statement, and every
word of it, Is bsolutely false. The
reiteration OF these vicious and SLAM
derous falsehoods, which have been
denounced by me time and again,
simply show the extremities 10 which
MI Jones is driven in this campaign
Referring to what AR Jones has
| stated about the Lorimer investiga
ton. / simply desire to say | voted
against the right of MIR. Lorimer. to
! tod seat in the Senate when that
't'NSN&'H was bSlOfe the senate. and
that the resolution which was offered
ny me for further investigation. into
tine charges of fraud in connection
with his election. was offered in order
to procure further and exhaustive
investigation in view of newly dis
covered evidence, and it was offered hv
me under the Instructions of the can
Gus or the Democrats of the state
4 l repel as false. and slanderous. any
statement or insinuation that the reso-
luton offered by me, under the in
sructtons OF the Senate Democratic
caucus. was intended to- screen. or
could by any possibility screen Mr..
Lorimer. or that 1t had any relation
whatever to the lumber interests In
the United States.
Any statement or insinuation that
nave at any time had any relation or
connection with any lumber trust or
lumber association, that have been in
any way influenced by them, Is also
false, and sIanderous
(Signed) THOMAS S. MARTIN"
Reitsrates Denial.
Now referring to the letters read
by Mr. Jones at Woodstock for the
purpose OF proving his statements, /
desire to reiterate every word which
II, set out in the Richmond Leader on
July 20, 1899, and in my above quoted
reply OF last Saturday to Mr. Jones,
il Lynchburg speech. I have never in my
life represented railroad corporation.
Tor any other corporation or any per-
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