The Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1927-1930, 1927-10-13

give LIle p0OEle Ollly d SIlldll L
dea of the practices being re-
soreted to by some individuals
in order to try to prevent the
will of the people being freely
and fairly expressed in the COM
ing election.
VIRGINIA:
DICKINSON COUNTY, tolWit;
/, Fate Blair, after being duly
sworn by Ora Grizzle, al pstice
of the Peace of Dickinson Ceun
ty, Virginia do make the follow
ing statement:
My wife, Tennessee Blair and
my son and were going to
Nicewonder's store and on our
way we passed the home D.. w.
". Smith, a brother of J. c..
Smith, and while in the road
near D. w. v. Smiths home,
the wife Of the said d. w. w
Smith asked us (my son Bill
and y if | wanted to borrow
some money and / said I did
and the said wife, Annie Smith,.
said "They were some folk try
ing to arrange to get me some
: money" and / said IT would
like to borrow a little of some-
body" and we talked few
words and my son and went
on toward Nicewonder's store.
1 later saw said D. w. v.
Smith and he asked me if I wan
ted to borrow some money and
told him I did and he said that
he was arranging with Cowan
Smith to let me have some mon
ey and for me and my wife to
come to his house on Friday
night October Z, 1927. We went
to the home of D. w. V. Smith
and after we got there the said
Cowan Smith q. CO., w. E. Ras-
nick, Milton French, Shade Bow
man, the registrar at Stratton
Precinct in Dickinson County,
w. H. Smith and L. D. Mullins
came and they began to talk to
us about filling out some papers
and J. c. Smith (Cowan) asked
my wife and / how we wrote our
names. He was writing some
thing and requested us to take
the pencil and we did, thinking
we were signing a bank note.
After this occurred the said j.
G. Smith took out of his pocket
two ballots and marked them
without asking us how we want
ed to vote then my wife, the
said JIG. Smith, w. E. Rasnick
and l went in a room and the
said J. c. Smith asked us if it
would be alright to give us $40.
each fir my wife and l and SO.
for our son Annis to work in
the election and then the said
w. E. Rasnick offered us $1,000
each and we refused to take it
and the said w. E. Rasnick laid
It down in a table and J. C.
Smith and the said w. E.. Ras-
nick both insisted on us taking
the money and my wife took
the money, then we went out of
the room and the said j. C..
Smith started to put the papers
ballots and etc. in some envel-
opes which the said Shade Bow
man had and some way they
discovered it was wrong and
said that Leonard Stanley, the
segistrar at Caney, should be
present and my wife asked if all
peonle were having to register
AGAIN and j. c. Smith said mo-
NV wife then asked what was
all of this and said J. G.. Smith
said we were voting and begun
to beg us to come back next
dav at the same place before
said Leonard Stanley and that
what had been done was not
legal and my wife said we
Thought we were signing a bank
note and the said j. C. Smith
laughed and then she told him
she did not want to vote and
belonged to the church and did
not want to get into trouble and
the said j. C. Smith said for nc
one to tell what had happened
and for us to come back next
day. October s, 1927 and every.
thing would be fixed up. The
said j. C. Smith said it woult
al have to be- ,.one over before
Leonard Staut;@, the registrar
of Caney Preci4ict, which is the
precinct where we live. TIL.
said J. c. Smith said that thu