Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-07-11
MIR ZONES LATEST CHARGES.

NIX. JUEES LA1GoA SAhNoHo'
When former Governor Montague
was stumping Virginia in his inrffrc-
tual effort to unhorse Senator Thomas
S. Martin, he seemed to play upon one
stripg-his only tune being the chrome
charge that Mr.. Martin was railroad
lawyer. The Gazette al the time called
attention to,a verse in Mother Goose 5
Melodies:
Tom, Tom. the piper's son.
learned to play while he was very
young.
.ut the only tune he could play
Was "O'er the hills and far away.
Congressman Jones, who is on
another fruitless crusade, is saving
aYay on the same old sonnet, and IS
becoming rs tircsome as squirrel IN
cage turning out necessarily The Girl
Lett Behind Me-" In Woodstock
Yesterday lie exhausted his culver by
going back twenty years and in one
instance opening grave in his asser-
ton that Virginia. senior Senator Is .
railroad lawyer and received political
contributions. The best commentary
upon Mr.. Martins ability is the Tact
that it was employed by railroads, as
such corporations are always looking
for the best in the legal field. Chaun-
cey M. Depew, president OF the New
York Central and Hudson River Rail
road, has been corporation lawyer all
his life. This fact in no way weakened
his standing rs United States Senator.
But to come back home. The late Sen
ator John S. Barbour has been presl-
dent of the Orange and Alexandria Rail
road Company almost from its organl'
cation, and during the memorable cam
paign OF 1888 aud in subsequen: polt'
ical battles in Virginia he douhf'e'
disbursed monA,- -'"'' 'o'''su y p'op'o
-s,oouehout the commonwealth.
The people recognized the abilities
OF the great Virginian, and no one ever
urged an objection to him on the ground
that he was or had bcen identified with
railroads. Such charges against MIR.
Martin never have been regarded serl'
ously by the large majority III Nlr-
giuia. OF course, aspirants Tor the
shoes OF others necessarily search for
hobby, and on each occasion when
such have entered the arena against
Mr.. Martin old Rosinantc is brought out.
There is another in the disappointed
upon Sancho Panza's "Dapple. 5" he
Will come along later.
Lieut.. Gov. ]. Taylor Ellyson, who Is
one OF Mr.. Jones' targets, 10 an inter
view In Richmond last night, said that
Jones knows rs well rs anyone else IN
Virginia that the party had always to
the time the new constitution went into
effect received contributions from rail.
ways and other corporations. In the
years 1891 and 1898, to which Jones re-
sers, Ellyson said the late Senator
Daniel, Joseph Bryan and others rend-
cred valuable service and the fullest
cooperation and support in securing
contributions from every source known
to be friendly to Anglo-Saxon denom-
ina:ion in Virginia. Campaign funds,
he said, were always distributed through
the regular channels OF the party.
Mr.. Martin, under his own signature
says:
Mr., Jones made these same state
menss twelve years ago, and they
were then denounced by me rs false.
I desire to say that said statement.
and every cord 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 eStremlties &c
which Mr.. Jones is driven in this cam"
DalRu. htlciIius ~ hheC ~hi' eodSs
has stated about the Lorimer inveu-
tigation, simply desire to say ! voted
asainst the right OF Mr.. Lorimcr to
hold seat in the Senate when that
question was before the Senate, and
that the resolution which was offered
by me for further investigation into
the charges OF fraud in connection
with his election was offered in order
TO procure a further and exhaustive
investigation, in view of newly dscov-
cred evidence, and it was offered by
ma under the instructions of the eau
rus of the democrats of the Senate.
I repel as false and slanderous any
statement or insinuation that the res
olution offered by me, under the III
structinns of the Senate democratic
caucus, was intended to screen, or
could by any possibility screen, Mr..
Iorimer, or that it had any relation
whatever to the lumber interests in the
United States. ANY statement or in
sinuation that I have at any time had
any relation Or connection With any