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. 'M ' - t-'fs TOLUJfE L, SUMBEB 69. NEWBEBET, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, AUGUST SO, 1912. TWICI A WX1K, tlM A T1AJL : I COLE Executive Com ^ rr/5 ?? GOGGANS IS ELECTED DEFEATING WHEELER EYAXS IX SECOND RUT. FOR HOUSE WITH tVYCHE. Pugrh Thrown Out of Race for County Commissioner?Petition Asking 1>AoAnn4 PafnfiA/1 ilCXVUUl JUV A uovua k Since the following report of the executive committee meeting was written, the committee-s tabulation placed Mr. H. U. Evans in the second race with Dr. C. T. Wyche. Mr. Evans finally received 19 TOte$ more than Mr. Long, and Mr. Evans, and not Mr. Long, will ran over with Dr. Wyche. All the official totals, as finally declared, will be found In another colnmn of this issue. _____ f Meeting at noon on Thursday, the county Democratic executive committee was still hard at work at 4.45 Thursday afternoon tabulating the official returns of the recent Demoerac ic primary election in Newberry county. At that time the official count had changed some of the results in the county races, and it seemed jmprob "able there would be any further changes. By the discovery of a a err ror of ten votes in the report of th? ^ Walton precinct, as given in tue newspaper returns, Mr. Jno. C. Goggans, the encumbent, took a lead of ten over his opponent, Mr. J. D. Wheeler, for [ clerk of court, the result, according to the unofficial count of the newspapers, having been reported a tie. Tfca Miint r?f cpvprnl vntec which ha.*? been withheld by the managers for various reasons as stated in the re*port tjelow, slightly changed this majority of ten, but Mr. Go^gans kepi well up in his narrow lead of ten, and unless some further action should be taken with reference to ary box by the committee which would change Mr. Goggans' lead, he is re-elected clerk of court by a majority of tea > votes. The official tabulation and the count ^ of challenged votes had at 4.30 o'clock ' placed Mr. H. 0. Long in the second race for the house with Dr. C. T. Wyche. On the face of the unoffi > . ? .. ciai returns, wmivut ui uuurse account of the challenged votes, the L newspaper figures had placed Mr. H. f H. Evans in a second race with Dr. # Wyche. For a while on the official ^ount Mr. Long and Mr. Evans had a tie vote for the place of running over with Dr. Wyche, but the count of th?last challenged rote placed Mr. Long in this race instead of Mr. Evans. Messrs. Kibler and Mower are rem elected to the house, as heretofore re ported. On motion of Mr. R. T. C. Hunter, the executive committee threw Mr. W. L *. Pugh out of the race for county P* commissioner, on account of Mr. Pugh's failure to file his expense account, a? " ^"-id^v^the statute. Mr. .LBL OMIN mittee Count | County Results t j Pugh would have gone in the second l mm hut fnr this omission. There was no division asked when the executive | committee voted in the affirmative on j this matter. This places Messrs. Leitzsey, Epting, j Livingston and Epps in a second race for county commissioner. On account of the late hour at i | which the executive commutes w<?s in session, it was impossible for The Herald and News to publish the tabulated returns in this issue. They will be published in full as soon as the executive committee has made its final report. I For congress Aiken's vote in the county was more than four times that j of Evans for congress. Alan Johnstone defeats Col. D. A. Dickert for the State senate. Ponn/vn /~1 DlflOCO TO oV?QT?ifP V/dUUUU \J AkJ ViVVVVU CU^l 1X4. over Capt. M. M. Buford, the encumbent F. M. Lindsay is elected coroner over Bouknight and Cromer. Werts is re-elected auditor over Hanacre. Schumpert is elected probate judge over six competitors. Brown and Aull make second race for superintendent of education. Hill and Wicker run over for county supervisor, Feagle, the encumbent, being defeated. J. C. Sample is elected magistrate in Townships 1 and 8 over both opponents, Messrs. Wilson and Stewart. The Herald and News in a number jof election extras has given the un; official results in detail in all the i icouiUy elections, for both State and county offices, and will publish both State and county races in Newberry county, in detail, as declared by the ' executive committee. When the committee reconvened at 13 o'clock on Thursday afternoon the matter of two ballots from Hartford, which had been held out by the man-; iagers because no candidate for attor! nov o-onor-jl Viorl Vioon cr>ra orl woe ^5 ** * fcSV'Wl V?, " | taken up. The managers had not placed the ballots in the box, but one of them brought them to the meeting. The committee ordered the ballots not counted. Two ballots at Mollohon, about which the managers were in doubt on i | account of the tickets being mutilated, were ordered counted in the manner prescribed by the rules, the tickets be| ing properly sent up by the managers. At Ward 4 in Newberry and at Whitmire there were challenged votes ?one at each precinct?but there be ing no person present to sustain the challenge, the votes were ordered placed in the box and counted, according to the rules. Following is given a report of the morning session of the committee: The county Democratic executive committee met at the court house on Thursday at i2 o'clock noon. The ! roll was called and showed a majority i i EASE a tin* n. jl i\yi of the members present. Mr. Joseph L. Keitt read the following petition, asking a recount of the vot?: STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY. To the County Executive Committee of Newberry County: We, the undersigned qualified voters, hereby respectfully ask that a recount be made of the votes cast in* this county at the primary on August 97 1912 R. M. Werts. W. H. Wallace. J. W. Earliardt. J. T. Mayes. ' ( B. P. Griffin. G. B. Summer. R. D. Smith. T. K. Johnstone. H. T. Cannon. T. P. Johnson. Wm. Johnson. ! R. H. Swittenberg. W. S. Mann. C. R. Wise. R. L. Tarrant. J. Y. McFall. F. A. Bradley. S. G. Brown. E. M. Lane. P T. Wntkiris. * J. Hv Summer. ? C. T. Summer. R. D.Wicker. W. C. Wallace. J. A. Jay. | W. E. Wallace. M. L. Spearman. D. B. Cook. j W. T. Brown. H. L. Parr. W. B. Wallace. J. C. Neel. E. H. Leslie. W. 0. Miller. A. J. Bowers. A. J. Bowers, Jr. C. H. Cannon. James Mcintosh. G. L. Summer. Wm. C. Bynum. P. S. Halfacre. J. A. Dennis. W. E. Long. 0. T. Feagle. Maxey Morris. J. H. Clary. T. R. Summer. C. B. Martin. A. F. Lambright. W. H. Anderson. 'J. J. Hitt. P. E. Anderson. * R. M. Caldwell. | JtLi. nugu summer. . j B. M. Dennis. 0. 0. Copeland. Geo. C. Hipp. R. A. Welch. W. Y. Fair. .T. T. Dennis. T. J. Wicker. W. 0. Wilson. D. D. Darby. A. C. Welch. G. A. Shealy. \ W. W. Farrow. \\\ H. M. Harmon. \ \V J. R. Boge. W. H. Shelley. L. M. Graham. "B. T. Buzhardt. I M. A. Counts. J. T. McCrackin. Jas. W. .Johnson. P. D. Johnson. S. W. Brown. H. S. B. Kibler. H. T. Long. Paul Johnstone. L. Q. Fellers. M. H. Buzhardt. L. r. reinam. Jno. M. Kinard." Mr. Keitt moved that the petition (CONTINUED ON PAGE 8.) RECE N MJK WINS OUT /A GREA Over 135,000 Votes Reporte Lyon and Peeples Run C Elected Treasure In one of the greatest political battles ever recorded in a Democratic primary in South Carolina, Coleman Livingston Blease has been nominated for re-election as governor of South Carolina, his majority over both Jones and Duncan, according to the tabulation of the Columbia State of Thursday, being 2,296. GOV. COLE. L. Who Has Been Over 133,000 votes were cast in the j primary. The count was slow, and for a time , it seemed as if the vote received by j Duncan would make a second primary ! necessary. The reports on Tuesday j night, with the first tabulations in jhand, showed Jones running ahead by j several hundred votes. Late Tuesday I jj? FRED. H. DOMINICK, Gov. Blease's Campaign aMnager. j night Blease took the lead and stead-' ily maintained a small lead over Jones until he gained a substantial major- 1 ity over both his opponents. All day Wednesday, when the election continued to hr?n? in do'ibt. with | a second race apparently imminent, IVES oMrv r f ONE OF STA TEST POLITIC d?Tillman Apparently Will 0 )ver?Richards May Run Ove r?Intense Interest in the Rc The Herald and News was kept busy answering inquiries. Many contradictory reports and rumors were received, but the fact seemed to remain that Blease was maintaining his lead, and about 8.30 o'clock on Wednesday night The Herald and News received a bulletin from Charleston giving the result in the State at large, which at ' - i'.iV"; . . <W&Wi :: ,:U.V- I If BLEASE, Re-elected. ? that time was: Blease, 66,777; Duncan, 1,941; Jones, 63,755. On the face of these almost complete returns the j News and Courier gave out the 'statei ment that Blease was apparently elected. Several hours earlier in the afternoon the News and Courier had : wired The Herald and News that Biease was leading by a majority of about three hundred over his two op tt'r* r* r\-n/\KoK1ir ponents, ana mat Diea.?c ?ao elected. I Mr. Fred. H. Dominick, who has managed Governor Blease's campaign, came to Newberry on Tuesday morni^rr n-horo hp remained since. "'SI ""V,. V. Mr. Dominick received returns Tuesday night and all day Wednesday from Columbia and Charleston and from the various counties throughout the State. He has confidently predicted victory for the governor since the beginning of the campaign, and at no time during the reports did he lose confidence in the result. He was, of course, very much delighted when the message from the News and Courier was received, and a little later when he received a report that the Columbia State's figures showed Blease's election by about 2,000. The figures published by the Columbia State of Thursday morning showed the following vote: j Blease, 70,300. Jones, 65,986. I Duncan, 2,0i8. ! The State reported that it had about FERM l - ij&i ltlb :al battles | Wifn Chit on First Rallnt? r With Cansler?Carter ice For Governor ''rx? m The figures quoted above from the News and Courier, received by The Herald and News on Wednesday night, were based, according to the News and Courier, on the total vote of the ? ' r State with the exception of seven precincts. ft Tillman Apparently dominated. r B. R. Tillman did not develop the strength which has been his in political days of the past in South Carolina, but the indications at an early hour Thursday morning were that he would go in on the first ballot He more than doubled N. B. Dial's votes and lacked but little of gaining a similar decisive advantage over W. J. Talbert, his other opponent The Columbia State's figures stood: Tillman, 6i,7O0. Talbert, 31,i76. Dial, 23,563. Lyon and Peeples ti.m ?*ier. For attorney general, J. Fraser Ly on, candidate for re-election, was well in the lead on Thursdav morning, but the returns showed that a second race would be necessary between Lyon and Thos. H. Peeples, of Barrm-il. The vote stood: Lyon, 51,142. Peeples, 38,285. I Earle, 12, 042. Evans, i0,678. Carter For Treasurer. For State treasurer, S. T. Carter r, > ?, ??? ? ???????I JUDGE IRA B. JONES, Defeated Candidate for Governor. 'kept up his remarkable run, bringing his vote up to 72,557,, to 41,396 for his opponent, D. W. McLaurin. For R. R. Commissioner., In the race for railroad commissioner John G. Richards has a bare I majority, but it seems likely that later ; returns will overthrow this and force I him into a second race with James j Cansler. Mr. Richards, the incumb i 1 J ent, at one lime naa a gooa ieau ovex his opponents, but the votes that came in cut down his advantage until he was just above the half-way mark. The vote stood: Richards, 55,592. Cansler, 34,236. Wharton, 21,001. Tie Result by Counties.