The Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1927-1930, 1927-10-27
]. c. SMITHS FALSE STATEMENTS
DISCUSSED And The PEOPLE TOLD
What HI is AND HAS BEEN

:, One j. G.. Smith has put GU
circulars in which, he makes
personal attack on me and Will
I dislike very much to refer t
!, personalities and especially t
; discuss the record of mai
! like J. C. Smith, whose reputat
,, ion is so we'll known that /;
! mere reference to it is stencil
to the nostrils of all decen
, people.
However, l have scent my
life among the people of Dick
enson County and while | fee
that any charges that j. C
Smith may trump up or make
against me need no answer.
still | feel it my duty to submit
to the people few facts and re-
cords concerning this j. C.
Smith, so that when they see
his words they can beware of
second Annias.
J. C. Smith charges as fol-
lows:
1. That I have been procured
by his opponents to secure af-
Ifidavits against him.
2. That Rufus Mullins is also
responsible for the affidavits.
3. That Rufus Mullins and I,
once before, did this kind of
dirty work and had it thrown
in our faces by Judge Skeen in
Judge Burns Court.
No. /.
! I desire to say that Mr.. Walter
B. Phipps had nothing to do
with the taking of the affidav-
it's and was not present and so
far as I know he, Walter B. Phi
ltos had nothing to do with the
taking of the affidavits
and so far as I know
he, Walter B. Phipps did not
know that the affidavits were
being made. | was called as at
torney to prepare the affidavits
land the parties who made the
affidavits had told about it to
other people long before | saw
them, and the parties told it to
me in he presence of the officer
and it was written down then
the affidavits read, the party
sworn and the affidavit signed.
Itook the afidavits as told by
the witnesses and without re-
gard to who was named therein,
as the people are entitled to
know the conduct of everyone
who joins this midnight brigade
of election trickery.
No. 2.
Rufus Mullins is not respon-
sible for the afhdavits and did
not know that any Of the affidav
it's had been made until after
they were made and he was not
with me at any time in connect
ion with these affidavits or
either of them.
No. 3.
A more infamous falsehood
never was put in print and only
today the Judge Skeen referred
to has told different people how
false and untrue this statement
by j. c.. Smith is. He will tell it
to anyone who desires to ask
him about it. Ask him yourself :?
But let US see who it is that
attempts to falsely make state
ments to try to make a snake
screen to hide behind, so that
his record and character both
of which are as black as the
wings of a midnight raven, may
not be seen by the people.
WHO IS J. C. SMITH?
This is the j. C. Smith, who
in 1918, while Commemorative
Attorney, according to his own
|evidence, committed the act of
adultry in his own town and be-
meath the shadow of his own
home and thereby violated his
marriage vowand the laws of
the land which he had taken
All oath to uphold as we'll as his
oath as an officer.
THOU SHALT NOT COM
NIT ADULTERY"
THOU SHALT NOT BEAR
! FALSE WITNESS, etc."
This same j. c. Smith was sc
degraded as to subsequently. or
the streets of Clintwood and al
other places beasted of his
; acts of infidelity and adultry
and attempted to heap disgrace
: on the woman whose confid-
ence he had betrayed.
Pursuant to information Civ.
!, en- out by his boasting and vol
lntary affidavit by him giver
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