Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-07-23
GtDGER DENIES oONNECTI0N
WITH SUIT AGAINST REYNOLDS
Attorneys and Hotel Management
Deny Dirty Politics as Charged
by Reynolds.
BASKERVILLE citizen. J

s1yeta Park hotel against Robert r.
Reynolds, Congressman James NJ
Gudger, Jr., yesterday wrote the fol-
loving letter to The Citizen with the.
request it be published
Asheville. N. c.. July Is. 1914.
Editor Citizen:
have read with regret the two
Interviews given by Mr.. Robert r
Reynolds in The Gazette-News on July
1a. and in The Citizen of July IA. rel
atiye to his controversy and litigation
With Miss Cameron in charge of the
sllyeta Park hotel in WayesVflle oyer
a hotel bill alleged to be due by him
1T appears by Mr.. Reynolds state
Erlent that Miss Cameron claims ball
ance due her of $525. In the Gazette
News OF the thirteenth, he states that
he only owes her a balance of $175,
While in The Citizen of the fourteenth
he claims that he owes her $3.50. Theirs
Il gate discrepancy in the two state
n,ents.
This controversy and litigation
arose after the congressional conEen-
ton met-at WaynesyiIle and while
was in Washington city on official
business. On my return to Asheville
the latter part of June / heard for the
first time of the controversy and the
same came as a surprise to me, for
Under the United States statute. all
candidates for congress are required
hey 1aw to file with the clerk of the
house of Representatives within fif=
teen days after the convention, sworn
statement of all expenditures and liza
bilities connected with his campaign,
Ia Mr.. Reynolds sworn statement
filed with the clerk of the house of rep
resentatives, he does not mention the
hotel bills contracted for and paid by
him at the Gordon hotel, $500; at the
SuyetaPark hotel, cash paid $500 and
balance due of either $525.25 on
$4,000 which amount is in coRtrover-
tsy, and of $500 paid by him, as am
informed to the Waynesyille inn and
the Swannanoa hotel in this city, maxi
.g sum total of $2,50O.00 paid out By
Mr. Reynolds in hotel bills, which was
not mentioned in his fled statement
in July / went to Waynesville. and
] incidentally called at the law Office OF
Hannah, Leatherwood and Davis tand
i l also called at other law Offices that
day. my visit to this firms Office had
70 connection with this controversy
or litigation.
81 had nothing to do with the mat
ter in any shape or form, either di-
rectly or indirectly as I am informed
this account against Mr.. Reynolds
was in the hands of the attorneys
with instructions to bring suit unless
raid, before my return from Washing
ton. and Mr.. Reynolds had employed
Captain Howell to represent him at
least ten days before l went to Way
nesYille, and understand that the firm
of Hannah, LeatherWood and Davis
notified Mr.. Reynolds and his attorney
that unless they paid the account on
or before June 29 they would begin
suit to collect the same. This was
four days before went to Waynes-
vile, and Mr.. Reynolds states in The
Citizen, 4 was advised by my friends
! in the town of Waynesville to stand .
suit This advice was given just after
1.-THE clerk of the aSuyeta Park came to
Asheville, when he and Mr.. Reynolds
/ failed to come to an agreement; this
determination on the part of Mr.. Rey-
/ holds to ntigate was reached before
/ the. account went into the hands OF
fHannah, LeatheIsweod and Davis
= hieh is absolute proof that he knew
several weeks before the beginning OF
tie suit that litigation was inevitable
IT state these facts merely that the
4 Iublic may have clear understanding
/ of the case. challenge Mr.. Reynolds
Ito produce his proof that have had
anything to do with the institution q
t1sis litigation.
en- his interview, Mr.. Reynolds
ssates This whole thing is a politica'
Iframe-up and Congressman Gudger i
behind it This statement is chargs
| 1uade Without a single fact to suppor1
it and is absolutely untrue, unjust ane
| unfair and his evident purpose mus
he to divert public criticism. H'
further charges Mrs. Cameron witt
i attempting .to hold him up, and rol
him of his money. While have new
Ell met Mrs. Cameron, / UNDERSTAND
she is a lone woman trying to max
an honest living in the hotel business
8 / am informed that she is the daugh
tier of a prominent Mason and fee
justified as a fellow Mason in sayin;
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