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ACCOMAC COURT BOUSE, VA.
Saturday, July 29, 1905.
Intered at t.e Postofflce at Aooomao C. H.
Va., aa aeoond-olaai matter.
Chairman Ellyson in a recent letter
to Governor A. J. Montague, candi
date for United Statis Senator, an?
swers questions propounded by the
governor and explains the primary
election law. The law, as he inter
preta it, gives each candidate voted
for the privilege of having one friend
within the room where the election i:
being conducted, to remain until after
the completion of the eount of the
vote and the certification of the re?
sult. This is all right hut ought not
to be necessary. The officer! selected
to conduct the election should he so
free from bias that a lair count will
be assured, whether favorable to the
candidate of their choice or not. The
better way, perhaps, in order that
they may be above suspicion, is to
have each candidate, as far as possi?
ble, represented by someone conduct?
ing the election. Surely all of the of?
ficers ought not to he partisans of any
candidate.
The editor of the News-Leader with
others have been indicted for thc vio?
lation of the Barksdale pure election
law in the recent municipal and legis?
lative primary held in the city of
Richmond. The charge against thc
editor is that he paid ?26.00 to Mr.
