The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, October 23, 1912, Image 3
GIVES SOME CASES
IRREGULAR OR FRAUDULENT VOTING
IN COUNTIES
BFPI1RT RY MMMITTFF
11L?K UU I ui vuiiiiiii uw
\ In Some Boxes Dead Men, Negroes
and Boys Under Age Were Allowed
to Vote.?At Other Places Men
Who Could Not be Found Were
Recorded as Voting.
The following report in reference
to irregular or fraudulent voting in
the first primary was made by the
sub-committee of the Democratic
Slate executive committee appointed
to investigate the many charges of
fraud in the first primary:
Abbeville County?The boxes of
Antreville and Cold Springs are the
cnly boxes about which there is any
Question. In those it seems that the
managers were not sworn, and some
of the voters were not sworn. Of
the votes cast at those boxes Gov.
Blease received 186, Judge Jones 50,
Duncan 6. Total 242.
Aiken County?This county was
carefully abstracted. The votes at
the Bath precinct were challenged
J ia unriicnntori th?r the
diiU tUC pi V/V/i UUUAU^ VV/v? . >
managers were not sworn. At that
precinct there were 149 votes cast.
Id addition to that irregularity, it
was proved by affidavits that a number
of parties voted who were not
citizens of South Carolina.* Nearly
all of them, however, voted at Bath
precinct and are embraced in -149
votes. A few other votes were cast
fcy parties that were charged with
not being eligible to vote, running
the total number of challenged votes
in Aiken county to 189.
Anderson County?In Anderson
county there appears to have been
252 votes cast by voters not on the
club roll and one case by a colored
man without the proof required by
the rules of the party.
As far as the committee examining
the poll lists were able to report,
there were 78 instances of the same
name being on the club roll more
than once, running from two tc five
times, and in one instance as high as
eight. The average is safely three
A large number of affidavits shewing
that in many instances this occurred
by there being several persons
of the same name have been filed
with us and are herewith submitted
with the evidence.
Total challenged in Andersor
county, 4S7. This running down ol
duplicates extended down througc
the letter "?".
Berkeley County?The authorities
reported ten votes cast by persons
not on the club rolf and one alien voted.
Affidavits were filed that liquoi
{ was used at Friendship precinct b)
I county candidates.
Charleston County?The newspam
per there published the club rolls
and the authorities at our expense
made an alphabetical list of the pol!
lists, but they were not published ir
the paper. t
The club rolls and poll lists have
been checked partially against each
other and no irregularities found.
Cherokee County?There is reported
votes of 23 persons not on tht
club roll, but the committee of the
county executive committee reported
that they were satisfied that there
was no fraud practiced in the election
in Cherokee county, but some irregularities.
In Darlington county there are 16
voaes apparently irregular and unex
plained. There were 57 votes at La
mar reported as not being on the clut
roll. The report of the managers
shows that they were on the clut
roll which was formerly adopted, bul
in attempting to transcribe from thai
roll to the alphabetical roll these
names were left off, and that thej
used the official roll and every mar
* voted was on the roll.
In Dillon 43 names were added t<
the certified club roll on the day o1
the election, but the affidavits state
that they were taken from the old
club roll used two years ago, not having
been brought forward before the
roll was certified to.
The committee has received letters
charging that 34 men voted at the
Maple mills and also at Dillon, anc
that one man voted at Latta and alsc
at Kirby, and that no poll lists oi
managers' oaths were sent in fron
Bermuda.
TV? i r- nnrnm itfoQ hoc cV/Sfl t h (
A u JO I'Vcimnwvt ttuu v v* v ? <
county chairman to send up copies o
the club rolls and poll lists, and foi
any ether information in its posses
sion in order that it might deter
minued these, but has received n<
response.
In Dorchester County there wen
125 votes counted at Summervilh
that voted in the wrong boxes. I
was reported by letter that minor
at Pregnals' precinct but neithe:
rames or proof were furnished, al
though requested.
The Greenville committee reporte(
128 votes in Central, where 752 vote1
were cast, in which the voters coult
not be found. They reported 24<
repetitions on the poll list and "ay
,;We are satisfied, however, tliac ?
considerable portion of this duplica
tion is natural and proper, due to th<
identity of names in different com
hiunities. On the other hand, man]
of those names thus duplicated ap
pear to be repeated on the part o
those 'voting'." They reported tha
a good many voted without bein^
sworn.
In Greenwood County there an
reported 179 men as voting who an
not on the club rolls and there are 44
names that appear twice; but thej
have not investigated ?is to whethei
they were repeaters or different mer
of the same name.
In Hampton County twenty-?even
men reported as voting whose names
were not on the club roll, at Camp
REPORT ON COTTON
?
THE CENSUS BUREAU'S SECOND
GINNERY REPORT.
?
South Carolina Ginning Considerable
Behind Last Year's, While Texas
is Much Larger.
The second cotton ginning report
of the census bureau, announced that
2,015,033 bales of cotton of the
growth of 1912 had been ginned prior
cc September 25, counting round as
half bales. To that date last year 3,
676,594 bales, or Zo.t> per ueut. vi
rhe entire crop had been ginned; in
1908 to that date 2,500,639 bales or
19.8 per cent, of the crop had been
ginned, and in 1906 to that date 2,057,283
bales of 15.8 per cent, of the
crop had been ginned. Ginnings prior
to September 25, by states, with comparisons
for last year and other big
crop years, with the percentage of
:he entire crop ginned to that date
in previous years, follows:
/Jabamn.
States. Ginnings. PerCt.
1912 194.334
1911 360,244 21.2
1908 \ . . 316,349 23.7
1906 221,851 17.9
Arkansas.
1912 40,447
1911 43,626 4.8
1908 80,465 8.1
1 906 . 35,837 4.0
Florida.
1912 1 9,575 2.0
1911 21,510 29.8
7 2 3
. * ??v " ?:
1906 10,479 17.0
Georgia.
1912 273,086
191 1 765,697 27.4
: 1908 514,898 26.0
\ 1906 281,585 17.2
Louisiana.
1 1912 73,657
191 1 89,069 23.4
! 1908 79,042 1 6.9
1906 139,511 14.6
Mississippi.
. 1912 59,226
1911 .. * 96,829 8.3
; 1908 199,001 12.3
| 1906 156,573 10.6
> ' North Carolina.
i 1912 102,999
1911 156,390 13.9
1908 89,063 13.0
1906 . . 44,877 7.0
J Oklahoma.
I 1912 78,453
1911 116,328 11.4
, 1908 5,705 0.8
f 1906 17,570 2.0
i South Carolina.
1912 . . 177,827 . . .
5 1911 338,090 20.0
J 1908 289,969 23.8
1906 131,262 14.4
Tennessee.
1912 992
1911 15,541 3.6
. 1908 28,109 8.4
J 1906 7,394 2.5
[ Texas.
i 1912 2,001,697
1911* ..1,667,875 40.6
? 1908 966,607 26.6
1 1906 % 1,008,856 25.5
All Other State.
> 1912 2,740 ....
I 1911 5,395 3.9
I 1908 4,774 6.5
, 1906 1,488 2.2
Branch; and they report that others
were allowed to vote without being
* oil the club roll, but no fraud is
* charged.
The sub-committee of the sub-com>
irittee went to Orangeburg to ascer5
tain why the poll lists were lost. It
* developed there that the county ext
ecutive committee had appointed a
- sub-committee to investigate the loss
J of the poll lists, as well as any other
r irregularities in the election. They
L reported that they could find out
nothing.
) The sub-committee of the sub^
committee had a public hearing, took
i the evidence of the officers of the
* county Democracy ana evidence from
" two of the members of the sub-corn*
mittee. As a result it was found that
the poll lists had very mysteriously
5 disappeared.
The committee sent to Orangeburg
I reports that the carelessness dis)
played in that county?said carelessr
ness being the usual custom used in
1 that county in not preserving all the
records pertaining to the election, h
severely condemned.
; In Richland County two hundred
r and ninety-two votes cast in dupli"
cate names, which the committee re
' ports are some of them explained l\i
5 being two persons having the sarru
name; and we have not been able tr
3 ascertain how many are in that sicuu
5 tion.
? In Spartanburg County there were
3 23 2 irregular votes reported, suet
r as voting and not on the club roll, oi
" like irregularities, and 559 appareni
repeaters were shown by the lists oi
* voters whose names appear mon
3 than once. Running these dowi
* demonstrated the fact, by a grea'
mass of affidavits, which are herewith
? submitted, that these apparent repe
^ i fitinns wprp lare'olv ttuo to differenl
" men having the same name, and were
5 not in fact repeaters; the same ex
" perienee having been had in the
f county of Anderson.
York county reports C- irregulai
f votes.
r :
Bought Up Entire Town.
; All the residents of the town oi
j Conowingo, Md.f have b"?en ordered
t;t.? vacate their houses ac once. The
r j entire village has been purchased b>
a power development comnar.y and
i will be flooded in convener, with
the erection of a big power dam act
ross the Susquehanna river. The
[ population of Conowingo is about
? 400.
?
SHOT IN HIS STORE"
A COLORED MERCHANT KILLED
BY ROBBERS
NEGROES DiD SHOOTING
George Hanford, a Colored Merchant
of Darlington, Was Shot to Death
in His Store in that City on Thursday
Night by Two Negro J Jobbers,
Who Made Their Escape.
I
A special dispatch from Darlingion
to The News and Courier says
tleorge Hanford, colored, was shot
and killed in his store at the corner
ct Main Street and Avenue D, Thursday
night about nine o'clock. There
were no witnesses to the shooting except
the two negroes who did the
shooting and made their escape.
Elias Davis, an aged negro, who
lives with Hanford and his wife in
the small house adjoining and attached
to the store, was sitting on the
piazza and heard the shot, and sawtwo
negroes leave in a run.
Robbery was the motive, it is
thought, as it is said the same negroes
held up and robbed Elias Furman
in his store about two blocks
away just before the killing of Hanford
occurred. They took about $30
from Furman.
Peter Smalls, also colored, was at
the Furman store at the time of the
robbery, and he and Furman identified
one of the three susbects arrested
Thursday as being the one that
went through his pockets while the
other one held a pist ol on him.
Apparently they had robbed Hanford
and were making their way out
of the store, and owing to Hanford's
loud cries and shouts of "robbers"
tbey turned back; and it seems that
Hanford must have been following
them towards the door, and he, too,
turned when he found they were
coming back because it was just at
this time that the shot was fired and
from an examination of the wound
it was found that the ball had entered
from the back and made its way !
through his heart and out of his
chest.
An inquest was held over the remains
of Hanford Thursday by Cor-j
| cner John H. Kelly, and a jury found i
, that the deceased came to his death i
, from wounds inflicted by some person
or persons unknown to them.
Sheriff Register and his deputies
> have been dilligent and have exerted
themselves vigorously in their ef;
forts to apprehend the guilty ones.
1 Three negroes were arrested at Darlington
the following day. All stran- 1
gers. Circumstances, together with
| the identification by Furman and
I Small, point strongly to the guilt of *
the accused. There is less proof '
against the other two, but upon being
arrested they were found to have
pistols on them, and are now being I
; held to answer for this offence.
TRAIN GOES INTO DITCH.
Engine and Three Cars of Passenger
I Tiain Derailed.
Passenger Train No. 3 2 from Augusta
to Florence was wrecked just
. as it ar.'roaclied the stuio i at ne
' Star Wednesday afternoon. The en- ;
i gir,e and three cars went down an
1 embankment that is variously stated
1.0 be from eight to eighteen feet.
. Engineer J. L. Wysong was severer/
! injured. He was thrown out on the
| side that the engine fell an ! was ouried
under, the coal from the tender
until only his head and hands were
left out.
His escape was a most remarkable '{
one, and he would have been very
, much worse injured had it not been
j fcr the fact that he remained con.
scious and could direct tne rescuing
, party in their work of digging him
. out from the coal and wrecked tender.
His ankle was terribly dislocated
and there were concussions on
. his head and body, but Dr. Gregg,
J who met him at Sumter says that the ,
. ir-iuries will not be serious.
I
This same foot was injured i? an
acc'dent some years ago on the E. T.
and G. road in which Mr. Wysong
had nearly as narrow escape as ne
had Wednesday nght. Mail clerk M.
S. Broom was slightly hurt, and several
other of the crew had Injuries
that were so slight that in the first
excitement of the wreck they passed
unnoticed. A physician wno was a '
py.aStuger on the tram gave the first
attention to Mr. Wysong's injuries.
A relief train was sent out from
Sumter with. Dr. China in charge. .
The passengers were carried to Florence
shortly after one o'clock. The
track was cleared for 85 to pass going
to Augusta Thursday mornmg
hut the wrecked engine will he some
time in getting in. The accident ,
was one of those that might have ,
happened from a number or causes,
t but nothing definite can be said of it
f now.
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1 Shot by Unknown Man.
At Benson, X. C., John Smith, a
1 well known horse dealer of Smith"
field, X. C., was shot and killed and
his brother. James Smith, was seri*
ously cut in a fight there Monday
night. James Smith wen' into a res- ,
J taurant, where there were four unknown
men, and picked up a chip
lying on a chair. An altercation was
ctn nrl n rl B r\ i t * n a ^ r?o nfn T aB n
oiai itu cinu, aiu ui an 11, u unu
Smith entering during the fight, was
shot through the body and died soon .
f afterward.
, Lost Her Life for Hat.
' Caroline Comer, a negro cook, was
I struck by a Southern Railway locoi
n-.otive Wednesday night just south
of Danville, Ya., and killed. While
> crossing the track ahead of the en;
gine her hat blew off and she turned
to recover it with fatal consequences.
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White Flame Burnei
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Mt. Olive, N. C. j smoke. Guaranteed
* pie by mail. Age
Indian Kuuitti l?ucK??cat n <luu L. Wells, Atty.,
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1 ,nn' For Sale?324 acre
o i ^ I miles from Jaeksor
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N C. I W. L. Holiday, Jac
C.
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and Auxiliary Nests Order of Owls nery and press \ }
.Mjurh Bend. Ind. last year 3>000 b?
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Come, all lonely bachelor-maias ana . on
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Engraved Visiting Cards are neatest THE BAILEY-1
and best. Write for showing of the
latest styles and prices. Sims Book
Store, Orangeburg, S. C. # f) .
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See the Dixie Land Company for the
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land that can be had. The Dixie
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!
Clenn Springs?The "Garner House", CHARIEST*
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" ~ ~ " " (Wants Twenty Mill
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vpipptiops. Rates reasonable Address
Mrs. J. H. Howell, Waynes- Governor Dix, of
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A gen's?$10 a day, sell slip-on rain- demands "an apolo
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SaS": AIKKX MAX AMONG INJURED IX
nts wanted. H.
Sumter, S. C. j WRECK OF EXPRESS.
?s of land, four'
i Springs, 35 ac- ? , A
good building: Many Passengers Probably Caught
5 cash. Apply to in i5urning Wreckage, Which May
Lson Springs, X. w
Increase Death List.
A A 1 A. I.MIAJ
a., complete gin- ai least eigni persons wcic- mucu
'ears old. ginned late Thursday, when the negine of
iles, bought 400- the second section of the Springfield
1,000, price $fi,- Express, bound from Boston to New
into this. Rare York, failed to take a cross-over and
d money making nearly the entire train was ditched
?s. Augusta. Oa near the Vestport-S^gatuck station,
on the New York, New Haven and
: Cough-Cure It! Hartford Railroad. It is believed the
cription, D. O. injured will run to fifty,
re. Never falls. Four parlor cars, heaped up in a
less and perfect, mass of wreckage, immediately
burst into flames, which brobably
Lever, 18,884. imprisoned and killed some passenand
guaranteed, gers. The exact number of fataliy.,
Sumter C. H., ties in the wreck is not known and
may not be determined for some
h 01)06.
The identified dead are: G. L.
?EBBYCO Clark, engineer; J. J. Moker, fireman;
Mrs. James B<. Brady, of Albany,
N. Y.; two children of Mrs.
Brady. There are also three uniir
dentified bodies, two of them women.
3 BBR The injured includes: Elliott HarFIHG-*
rison, of Aiken, S. C., leg broken.
The locomotive, which was run0N
S.C. n*ng at ^igh speed, went over on its
side, after leaving the roadbed, and
Tile OOIier, IU <111 ai)tJcaiam,ca,
j AMOUNT. ploded. Engineer Clark was taken
out alive, but died soon afterward.
ion Dollars For Joseph J- Moker, his fireman, was
crushed to death. The baggage car
sonment. and the four chair cars next following
it were overturned, and in these
New "iork, has occurred the loss of life. The three
ned "J. P. Winn, (jay coaches, although derailed, revhich
the writer majne(i upright. The wreck carried
gy from you as down the poles beaiing telegraph
te of New \ork wires and delay ensued before outimages
for fals-> sjc]e assistance could be called,
rustration of my The South xorwallc fire depart,
o ... ment was called our and began worknds
are comp lec Qn the kurnjng cars an(j surgeons
cation continues, were summoned from nearbv towns,
gainst New Wk Meantime darknras had fallcn and
Z . ! -rmJ a' "le w<)rk of rescue of the injured
, , . , , passengers was slow. The fire burnl
he did not take e(^ severai hours in the wreckage.
, but would turn dead,, except the engineer
n n vmpr ^
LaKri- were all believed to have been pas
sengers in the first chair car. Fears
Reward. are held that in this car many pas
CIroenville, has senders lost tneir lives, t nuer me
f $700 offered by wreckage were found the bodies of
arrest of T. U. tu'o women, who died with hands
E. Allen Jr., the clasped.
riding a medical ? + *
e, who detected Ten Cliildren l>urne<I Up.
lien, it is under- At St. Bernard, Quebec, ten chil>
turn over $300 dren, 18 months to 15 years old,
e detectives who were burned to death in their home
during the absence of their parents,
Alexander Gravel and his wife.
ithernn Synod. ? ? le
meeting of the Automobile Kills Congressman,
leran Synod has Congressman Carl C. Anderson of
his year it meets Fostorio, 0., was instantly killed
le church of the Wednesday night when the automo ing
October 22, bile in which he was riding turned
ough the 26th. over near that city.
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