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SO SECOND PRIMARY IN NEWBERRY COUNTY TODAY (CONTINUED FROM PAGE i).' mittee in regard to the investigation as to the alleged fraud and irregularities throughout the State, several gentlemen on the committee very vehemently protested against their counties being included in those imputa tions of fraud, and asked if there was i any probing into fraud that their counties be released from any such charges, but that it was ruled by State Chairman John Gary Evans that under the protest and contest as filed by Judge Jones that every single county in the j State was affected, of course including [ Newberry county, as well as those specifically named. Mr. Keitt's Remarks. Mr. Joseph L. Keitt said: "It seems; to me this whole matter devolves upon the ruling o'f the chair. I understood the chair to express something that is | published in the State this morning? * ~~~~ if tViot tho nnncHtnHnn l na.veil L seen ii? is nothing as between friends, and I think that can be attributed to Thomas B. Reed; years ago he made some such expression as that. I want to say, Mr. Chairman, that I am one of those who believe that the constitution of any body?the constitution of the United States, the constitution of South Carolina, the constitution of the Democratic party?should be observed as sacred instruments, and that you should abide by them, and whenever you go to tampering with or disregarding the constitution, why, you throw down a gap that will bring chaos and disorder. * "Now, as to Newberry county, this executive committee can act, as I understand, as it sees fit?I can not say that, either; I think we are bound to act under the constitution. Take the ?+t->~ ctoto ova/mtivp commit aCUUII UJ. Llic Utow vawu>,..v tee: Fraud has been alleged?thatyis, acts that constitute fraud have been alleged, and protest has been made, and I believe that the chairman of the State executive committee has ,ruled that the State executive committee has original jurisdiction as to all State matters, but only appellate jurisdiction as to county matters. Therefore, you can not get any matter before the State executive committee from the county except on appeal. The constitution of the party unquestionably fivps next Tuesdav as the day of the election. I presume there is no objection on the part of any one of the executive committee here today as to that election except the fact that we are not provided with boxes." Chairman Dominick: "That is one, and tfcere are no tickets, and the fact, as I stated"? Mr. Keitt: "You will not be able to have tickets?". Chairman Dominick: "We might be able to get them, by some rush order." Mr. Keitt: "Is it possible to get the ? uu-\es iiiauc; Chairman Dominick: "I suppose so." Mr. Keitt: "If those two conditions can be met, w^ have absolutely no power to defer the election on next Tuesday, and it seems to me?I do not propose to suggest to the chair as to his ruling?but it seems to me the chair and every member of the executive committee is absolutely bound by the constitution, -which expressly provides that this election shall be held next Tuesday. I think there is no question about it, and I say, for one, that I am always ready to stand by the constitution." Committee on Boxes , Suggested. "My motion," said Mr. sfewart, "was along the lines suggested by the chairman, because I understood that it would practically be impossible to go , ahead and hold the election absolutely correctly all the way through, that there would be a shortage of boxes and may be a shortage of tickets. I will withdraw' that motion and move that a committee of three, Mr. Keitt being chairman, be appointed to go ahead and have those boxes made so everything will be ready." Mr. Sam M. Duncan said there was J no protest as to county officers, as lie; understood, and if the committee, under the telegram from the State chairman, wanted to preserve verything, he thought the committee would have the power to remove everything from the boxes, seal it up, and preserve it. He saw no use in postponing the election. Chairman Dominick said in addition ] to the matter of getting boxes and! everything in shape, there entered in- j to the question the expediency of hold-! ing the election and of having 132 managers in the county come for boxes and bring them in Tuesday night, and going through the whole machinery of the election, when it would have j to be gone through again on the attorney general's race. Motion To Proceed IVitli Election. Mr. W. A. McSwain, following the withdrawal of Mr. Stewart's motion, J moved to proceed with the election, I under the constitution, on Tuesday. , Mr. Jospeh L. Keitt seconded the mo- j tion. >Ir. Eugene S. Blease's Remarks. Mr. Eugene S. Blease -said Mr. McSwain's motion brought the same question up. He said that what was the proper thing to do next Tuesday had puzzled him considerably. "I have thought over the matter a great deal," he said, "since the meeting of the State executive committee on Wednesday. I happened to represent Newherrv countv at the meeting of the State committee. One of the members of that committee moved, or made the suggestion, even if it was not a formal motion?my recollection is it was a formal motion?that all the primaries in the several counties of the State fixed for next Tuesday be postponed until another day to be fixed later. The chairman ruled that suggestion out of order on the ground that the holding of the second election was left, so far as the county ticket was | concerned, to the discretion of the! county executive committee, that thej State committee had no power to or-' der that election on or to order it post- i ; poned, that the State committee sim-1 ply had power as to ordering the elec- j j tion for the State ticket, and that com-; mittee ordered that election off. The \ ruling of the chair, without any ap-j peal from that decision, left the coun- j ty primaries with each county com- j ; mittee. The State chairman ruled that j {the county committee had the right | j to postpone this election. Now, if j | the ruling of the State chairman is j | correct?and I presume we have to j ; bow to his ruling in that matter?the < I right of this committee to order off j J that election is fixed, just as the right I i - .. ~. ... . .? i | or tne state committee to order olt tne t | election for State officers is fixed for! | them. The State chairman used these' ! words; that the law and the constitu-I I tion and rules of the Democratic par-1 i i ! ty at no time contemplated an impos-' sibility, that these matters set out in j ? the constitution were fixed in order to { have some guide, but that the State | committee, so far as the State ticket; > j was concerned, and the county com- j mittee, so far as the county ticket; was concerned, had power to disar- j range those things under certain nec- j essary conditions which might arise." Mr. Blease said the reasons, as he saw them,, for putting off the county; primary, were, briefly: First, that | there was the absolute necessity of; a second primary for attorney j general, and Newberry counttl j would have to hold that elec-! | tion some time between now aQd the ! general election, and if the committee i ' went aheau with Tuesday's election i : it meant at least two more electionsj in Newberry county, with all the man-1 agers serving twice, bringing in the1 | boxes, taking them out, and with the i | executive committee tabulating re-. turns in two elections. Another phase of the matter, said | j Mr. Blease, which presented itself to ; his mind,*was that the contest of Mr. j Jones charges fraud and irregularity i, I at every precinct in Newberry county.! "The State committee has held that; that committee has a right, without any protest of anybody, without the filing of any contest, to examine into: the vote at every precinct in this! i ! State?without a protest, mind, you? j and to make a thorough examination j of conditions and happenings at every' precinct in the State, and if they come ' to the conclusion that there was such. fraud as would affect the result of the; j election, to cast that election aside and order another election. That is! what the State committee is now pro-' posing to do?to make that examina-j tion. It may be that the State com-! I i mittee will decide that not only, so! far as the race for attorney general 1' is concerned, there must be another i' election, but they may go on and de-' cide that for every office on the State! ticket, from United States senator on down through the office of railroad, commissioner, t'naf thev will order i another election?another election for; f the whole thing. "Moreover, in our district Mr. Evans, oposing Mr. Wyatt Aiken for' Congress, has filed a protest against! the election of Mr. Aiken." Mr. Blease, said that had not vet been considered by the State committee; that he did;' not know that there was anything in that contest except what Tillman j calls a mere technical irregularity,! ' , 11- _ a * i .x :j j j! DUt mat naa yet 10 oe cunsiueieu anu ; under the rules the candidates for j Congress are placed on the county; ticket. Mr. Blease said in addition to j this was the further fact that the box- j es were tied up, by order of the State : chairman. He said if the State commit- ; teo should decide themselves right j ; in their presumption that fraud had i been committed, and that enough! j fraud had been committed to vitiate j tne state election, tnen tnat irauu j would certainly vitiate the county e- j lections in whatever counties fraud; should happen to be proved. "I state franklj^ he said, "that I do not be , ' 1 ^ V \ s ; OCH< JUPI Remember, sc September 16th. books to exchang bring them now,. old books on op< time and worrv Books and Suppli Books sold for I CALL ANl MMmmammmmammmmxmmmmmmmm BETTER GOODS AT' in i urr? boo [mm vai "THE HOUSE OF A J lieve there has been any fraud in New berry county, even if an editor 01 one of our newspapers has referred to it as the rottenest election that has ever been held. I know of no fraud; as a member of your committee 1 have heard of no fraud. I have heard of a few slight irregularities, but I do not 1 1" *1% ? ftntr in went; ve uieic uas uccn c.uj nauu m Newberry county. But one of the candidates for governor charges fraud in every county in the State?Newberry county included?charges it at every, precinct in Newberry county. Now, if he can prove that there has been ". - I fraud in Newberry county, certainly as members of this committee we do not want that election to stand. We have had some close races here. If i there has been fraud in one box in Xewberry county it may affect our race for clerk of court yet. I do not believe it will affect it, but it may do it. If they can prove there has been fraud, it may affect soma of the other races. "I want to say to this committee that in the State committee I have stood for a full, fair, honest investigation, even if some of the newspapers of the State have tried to make it appear that I was opposed to that investigation. I voted for every resolution in that committee looking for a full fair and honest investigation. 1 differed with them as to the method in which they were proceeding with that investigation, but I always favored a full, fair investigation. I favor that for Newberry county. If any man has won his election in Newberry county by fraud that man doesn't deserve the support of the Democratic party, doesn't deserve to be the candidate of the Democratic party. "Now, we face all these things, these charges of fraud against our county, against every precinct in our county, and the fact that if we vote on next Tuesday we have to vote on the same club rolls we voted 0:2 two weeks ago ?we can't purge them at this time, J* 1 cuiu ii uiiuac iuiis were iiauuuieuL two weeks ago they will be fraudulent on next Tuesday. You can't get aroud that fact. The same men who voted two weeks ago will be called on to vote next Tuesday, under the same rules, the same regulations, and the very same conditions, before the same sets of managers. I believe every manager in Newberry county has acied honestly, but it has been charged that .. ,1 ~ J T 4. nauu nets ueen cummiucu. iu was unly possible, as I see it, for fraud to be committed, if committed, with the connivance of the managers of election. I do not see how you can escape that conclusion, that if fraud has been committed at a box that it is almost necessary for the managers of election to have connived at that box, because they had charge of the election on that day, t/\ O (yitnot Avtnilf nlmrtcf .* J-* ^ ! KKJ CI w, 1 ^CA I CUiliUOl Clilll Ci V 25U. Now, if it can be shown to us that any manager has b?en guilty of fraud, that manager certainly should not sit in next Tuesday's primary, or any other primary to be held." .Mr. Blease said he could not see the use of put- J ting i32 managers to the trouble and ; - 1 -,-J. <i . j._ OOL ii ire I L1LO hool will begin n ? 1 1 if you have old j e do not wait, but | as I will not take sning day. Save by buying your es now. CASH. ! i 2 SEE ME. THE SAME'PRICE AT ir Awn nmAnn (ietv MUKEi THOUSAND THINGS" expense of Tuesday's primary when another primary -would have to be held. The candidates were entitled to consideration, but so were the managers and the people. Ruling %Asked By Mr. Keitt. Mr. Keitt said he thought he would have to ask the chair to rule upon that matter. "Mr. Blease has stated that the chairman of the State executive committee takes the ground that this matter is in the discretion of the county executive committee, for the reason that the constitution of the Democratic party does not contemplate placing the burden of an impossibility upon the county executive committee. Now the question I ask is, Does any one here assume that it is an impossibility to carry on this election next Tuesday?" Phaivmnn rinminipk said the onlv way it would be possible for t.he elec- j tion to be carried on would be for the j secretary and himself to start to work i as soon as they left the court house and work all day Sunday fixing up the boxes to have them ready to go out Monday morning. Mr. Keitt said he certainly did not I wish to impose the task of Sunday work on the chairman and secretary. He wanted to know if there were not eight boxes sent out to each precinct in the general election. Chairman Dominick said he did not know the exact number, but it was!, called the eight-box law, and he thought there were possibly four or six to -each precinct?something like six, he thought. Mr. Keitt wanted to know where | those .boxes were. Chairman Dominick said most of them were tied up by order of the State chairman. Mr. Keitt said those were only two to a precinct. Mr. Dominick said there were a great deal more precincts in the primary than in the general election. He asked Secretary Hunter if there was any appreciable. number of boxes available, Mr. Hunter said there were some boxes but no keys and locks to them? that the keys and locks were generally lost or broken or mislaid between I elections. Mr. Keitt suggested that it would j r..ot take any great amount of labor to fit them with keys and locks. Chairman Dominick said no, that in the management of an election and getting out boxes and tickets and preparing them, there was very little trouble, as any one who had ever tried it would know. Killing Of The Chair Mr. Keitt: "I will ask the chairman to rule whether or not, under the constitution of the'Democratic party, we are not obliged to carry on the election Tuesday." Chairman Dcminick: "Basing my ruling on the ruling of the State chairman I will say we are not?just following the precedent set by the State i chairman." Mr. McSwain said when he made his motion to proceed with the elec i - Shoes! She For Mother, Sister BUY TH 1 45 Dozen of the Brown SI Shoes just receive T. A. Dominici Successors to Bo-v Prosperity, So Npw Fall fin Everj Come and buy fr Staple Dress Goods Riverside Chambray wear and the famous | , 20 Doz. Headlight ( at $1.98 per pair. Farm and Garden ' by the Pittsburgh S pany, at close prices. 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He said he had been informed, however, by a gentleman in the audience, since the matter had been under discussion, that the gentleman would un ? - xi? T ? dertake to have twenty 01 uie uuxws ready himself by six o'clock Saturday afternoon. Chairman Dominick said that be/ fore lie l?ft for the meeting of the State executive committee directions had been given and were under way for the holding of the primary, but ;!r>or. his return on Thursday, in view of the action of the State committee, he had called this meeting and sus pended all preparations for tne eiec- , tion, pending this meeting. Mr. Eugene S. Blease moved to lay on the table the motion of Mr. McSwain to proceed with the election on Tuesday.. 1 By a vote of 21 to 12 the motion to table was carried and Mr. McSwain's motion killed. Mr. Stewart renewed his motion to postpone the primary, subject to the further action of the executive committee, and the motion was carried. 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