The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-10-31
.sIlNDER0Us TO0GUE
GETsWALKERIN COURT
And George Summers Too
and They Must Answer
for Their Falsehoods.
GOVERNORS LETTER
AS Well as Statements and
Affidavit Shows Them
Up as Falsffers.

r ,ao al0lllSI ,,
PARKERSBURG Oct. 2S.-A dam
age suit. for $4,000 was filed satur-
day night in the office of the circuit
clerk Of Wood county. the style OF
the case being III. D. Hatfield VS..
Stuart W. Walker and George W.
Summers" The action is the outcome
of scurrilous attacks on Or. H. D..
Hatfield by the headquarters of the
Democratic state committee here
through Walker and Summers and
was .brough principally as the result
of an article which appeared In the
Cincinnati Enquirer in which the Re-
publican nominee for governor was
charged with having been instrument
tai in, securing the pardon of A. l..
Calhoun, negro divekeeper of Key
stone. Mcdowell county, and also Of
voting to grant the same person a
license when Dr.. Hatfield was mem
Der of the Mcdowell county court.
Attorneys v. B. Archer and Robert
L Gregory prepared the praecipe In
the case and it was filed with Clerk
Walter E. Stout about 10 O'Clock.
The necessary summonses were
placed in the hands of Deputy Sheriff
Petty who was able to get service on
Mr.. Summers, but could not find Mr..
Walker and was informed that he had
left the city, though no information
as to his whereabouts was given. All
the deputy sheriff could learn was
that Walker would return here Tues
day.
Vicious Charges.
The charges made in the article in.
the Enquirer are most vicious, the
article stating in an interview with
Chairman Walker that DR.. Hatfield
had dominated the politics of Nc
Dowell county; that he had granted
licenses to the negro divekeeper; had
been Instrumental in having the lat
ter pardoned after he had been con-
victed of Illegal selling on Sunday. IL
legal restriction is charged, the vot-
ing Of dead men and mules and bull,
dogs alleged and other charges are
made running from the accepting OF
graft in the issuance OF license, 10 sa-
looms by the county court 10 the de
bauching Of the ballot al OF which
are denied by Or. Hatfield and his
friends.
an attorney. speaking FOR Or. Hat
field stated last night that suit for
a similar amount would also be
brought in the unlte1 States court
against The Cincinnati Enquirer which
published the scurrIlous article.
Hatfield Discusses Ii.
Or Hatfield took MP this attack in
his speeth al tho. Camden theater
Saturday night and in most scath-
ing manner arraigned the parties
responsible for IT, Later he gave the
following interview to the Dispatch
News
"All have 10 say a this time re-
garding the slanderous article pub
lished in the Cincinnati Enquirer of
October IS, and purporttng to come
from Stuart w Walker state chair
man of the Democratic party, re-
flecting upon me personally and 9TH
erwise is that each and all OF the
statements are absolutely false in
every particular, Conceived and cir
culated by the paid hirelings of the
Watson machine, Stuart w. Walker,
state Democratic chairman, and
George W. Summers, director OF the
publicity bureau. This article was
published by these men for the sole
purpose of deception and detracting
the minds OF the people from the real
issues of the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Doodle and fraud.
Il have letters from Governor
Glasscock, E. G. Pierson, pardon at
torney, both of Charleston, and Rob
ert B. Bernheim, clerk of the Nc
Dowell county court completely ex-
GENERATING me from any connection
whatever with this matter"
The letters from Governor Glass
cock and Pardon Attorney Pierson
referred to by Dr.. Hatfield in his
statement are as follows:
STATE OF WEST VIRGISIA
Governors Office
Charleston
October "a, 1912.
In justice to DR.. H. D. Hatfield l
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