Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1910 — ALLDS DENIES CHARGES [ARTICLE]

ALLDS DENIES CHARGES

States on Stand Testimony of Moe and Conger are Lies. Refutes Statements Charged In the Bribery Case as Untrue in Every Important Particular. Albany, N. Y„ March 4.—Senator J. P. Allds went on the stand tn bls own behalf Thursday and sworo that the bribery charges were untrue. He looked Senator Conger in the eye and ■aid that the stories told on the stand by Conger and Deacon Moe were Iles in every important essential. Allds Insisted that he never met and never knew Frank Conger and never went to Senator ‘ Conger's apartment to demand >5,000 from his brother Frank or for any other purpose. In his general denial of all the allegations made against him, Senator Allds referred to the correspondence which passed between Editor Smith of Oswego, Senator T. C. Platt and himself. Senator Allds also stated that Platt had appealed to Speaker Nixon in an effort to defeat the bridge legislation and that it was because of this Influence that the Malby Stevens bill was killed.