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PATTERSON FILES PROTEST. Alleges That Marked Ballots Were Used and Other Irregularities. Aiken. SeDt. 15.?To-day at noon, when the county executive committee met to canvass the vote of the county, a protest was filed by Claude E. Sawyer, W. Q. Davis and T. G. Croft, attorneys on behalf of J. O. Patterson, candidate for congress, alleging irregularities and charging bribery and fraud at Langley box and other irregularities at Graniteville and Montmorenci. The protest asked a recount at these boxes and protested against the whole vote of Aiken j county being counted. It was alleged that the rules of the party and the criminal statues had been violated. At Langley, the protest alleged, marked ballots were voted and of these it was alleged that a number were cast for a valuable consideration, all being taken into account, so changing the result as to injure Patterson's candidacy. It was also alleged that minors were allowed to vote at Langley and many others whose names had not been properly enrolled. At Graniteville the same allegations were made but it was stated that time forbade making individual allegations as to misconduct. It was alleged that at Montmorenci a number of ballots were thrown out which should have been counted. A recount of all ballots was asked and especially for the boxes named. The protestants also asked to be allowed to protest specifically against other boxes at a later period. Col. Sawyer stated that the irregularities might not change the result at Langley but might put some one in the penitentiary. The committee first took up the Langley allegation. On opening the State box 13 tickets pinned together were found. It was said that these w-ere not counted as the names were not on the club roll. Mr. Henderson filed a protest on behalf of Mr. Byrnes against counting the votes at every box which gave Patterson a majority. The committee decided to go into the matter of the Langley box and a recount was begun. It was found ^that in the county box were 41 ballots which had been previously marked on the backs with pencil and other marks, apparently for identification. Of these ballots it was found that Byrnes had received 34 and Patterson 7. The recount was declared as follows, for the whole box, including the marked ballots which were kept apart from the others: Patterson 165; Byrnes 257. The managers had reported Byrnes 269 and Patterson 165. At 2 o'clock the committee adjourned for dinner. When the committee convened in the afternoon Attorney Sawyer stated to the committee that he will be able to produce proof tomorrow that some of the marked ballots were bought; that he did not claim that all of the purchased votes were marked, however, that some were marked that were voted for others than congressmen. D. S. Henderson then stated that he and Mr. Byrnes would welcome the investigation and wanted a time specifically set for the hearing. On motion it was agreed that the hearing of the protest wouid be resumed at 10 o'clock Friday morning. The result of the vote at all boxes was then " " ?* i ? canvassed and tne congressional vote will be investigated Friday. When the Graniteville box was opened a number of marked ballots were ? found. In the Montmorenci box one ballot' was found containing a note on the back that the party who voted it was not enrolled and that the ballot had been counted. The ballot was cast for Byrnes. Man Kills Himself. Flora, Indiana, Sept. 16.?When Mrs. John E. Lodd, wife of the superintendent and treasurer of the schools of the city, read to her husband from a newspaper last night the report of examiners of the State board of accounts that the funds in his care had been discovered to be short $200, he made no comment, but to-day she found his dead body in his bedroom and a bottle that had contained carbolic acid clutched in his hand. The schools and most of the business houses were closed to-day out of respect to him. Prohibition Leader Arrested. Little Rock, Ark., Sept. 17.?The Rev. Ben Cox. a prominent local minister and leader in the recent prohibition fight, was arrested to-night * and taken to jail in a patrol wagon because he refused to disperse a gathering of several thousand persons whom he was addressing on a down-town street corner. The arrest of Mr. Cox hrings to a climax as question of the right of the city officials to prevent religious gatherings assembling at the intersection of certain street corners of Little Rock. ' Rev Mr. Cox was later released under bond to answer a charge of obstructing traffic. - BYRNES ELECTED. Aiken Committee Throws Out Patter- j son's Charges. Aiken, Sept. 16.?With all the votes of the district in, with the contest in Aiken and Hampton dis- c missed, James F. Byrnes, for two ? years solicitor in the second circuit, * is elected to Congress by the small ? plurality of 58 votes. The contest 1 was a warm one, and the exact result * of the primary was not known until c every county had made the official c count. * After hearing the contest in Aiken t this morning, the executive commit- y tee dismissed the protest and declared the result of the election as can- * vassed yesterday, which gave Byrnes in this county 2,153, and Patterson 1,286, thus ending one of the most remarkable campaigns ever experienced in this district. Protest Dismissed. The committee met this morning at 10 o'clock to hear the evidence on the charge made yesterday by counsel for J. O. Patterson as to fraud and bribery at the Langley box. The protestants put up only one witness. V. D. Kellev, of Gloverville, who testified that he received two one dollar bills for casting his vote for Byrnes, Fallaw, Cleckley, Marchant and Blease. He explained in detail who gave it to him and under what circumstances, declaring that he did it so that he could come up and tell about it. The witness was not taken seriously, and he provoked a hearty laugh all over the court room by his vivd recollection of the incidents of election day. His testimony was practically annulled, so far as weight was concerned, when he said in reply to a question from Mr. Byrnes' counsel, that he had not worked for three years and that his mother supported him. He said he was sick, though he looked very hearty. Witnesses Missing. C. E. Sawyer, counsel for Patterson, said that he could produce no more witnesses. They had promised him to come to Aiken to testify, he said. Mr. Sawyer, in his argument, maae the point that he did not care who * was elected congressman, but that he 1 wanted to see cleaner elections in this 1 county, and besought the committee 1 to begin a campaign of cleaner poli- 1 tics by making an object lesson of ] this county. * D. S. Henderson made a clear and 1 impressive argument on behalf of Mr. 5 Byrnes, and immediately after he was seated a motion to dismiss the pro- * test was made and carried unani- ] mously, as to the Langley, Granite- * ville and Montmorenci boxes and the * official result was declared. ( - 1 Taft's New Departure. ( ] Beverly, Mass., Sept. 14.?Presi- ( dent Taft has taken his first import- 1 ant step toward cutting loose from J the old Republican custom of dis- 1 pensing patronage in the southern ] states according to the recommenda- 1 tions of referees, who. being given < control of the patronage, generally 1 deliver the delegates of their states ' to the administration at the nation- < al convention for the nomination of 1 a president. This is taken to mean 1 the ultimate disappearance of the 1 negro as a factor in Southern '< Republicanism. The new arrange- < ment has been started with North Carolina, according to information received to-day. Mr. Taft and his ' advisers believe they have a chance ! to carry North Carolina in the com- < ing elections, and they are busy < building up a business men's party. ? They desire to make Republicanism ' respectable in North Carolina and ' other southern states. North Caro- 1 lina's committee on patronage will '> control the Federal joos, aDsoiureiy. If the committee cannot find good 1 Republicans it will pick out good Democrats, it is said. The intent is to make an end of the old cry in the south that the Republican party is dominated by an objectionable element of the population, whether that element be black or white. J. T. Barron Dead. Columbia, Sept. 16.?Jacob T. Barron, senior member of the most prominent law firm of Columbia and the State, died this morning at a hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, after a long illness. He leaves a son, Charles W. Barron, associated with the firm, and a daughter, the wife of E. 0. DePass of the Columbia bar. Mr. Barron was very prominent in Masonic circles. "The religion of some people is too lenient," said Bishop Heslin in a recent address in Natchez. "Some people suggest to me in their view of religion a little girl whose teacher said to her: 4Mary, what must we do first before we can expect forgiveness for our sins?' " 'We must sin first,' the little girl answered."?Tribune. [ I \ . . . ; FIGHT AGAINST GRAFT. \V Leader in Frisco's League of Justice Ji Tells of Dramatic Experience. In my own city of San Francisco, t handful of women have been doing ni i piece of work new for our sex, says to Elizabeth Gerberding in the Deline- 6: itor for October. For the first time, ju )erhaps, we have openly and formal- W y assisted in the man's work of m dearing up a city's politics. Our of >pening battle is over and we have bj ost?gone down to defeat this time, G: i T on oKi/^i'nor fQitTi that OO .liUUgLi X L1CL V C au auiuiu^ ve shall win in the end. t0 I, who am no longer young, had J" jeen a club-woman for many years. : had risen with the women's clubs 2< )f the West through all the stages b< )f development from reading ency- cc jlopedic essays to undertaking real 01 nvic effort?if only in the fancy work ei )f a city's sanitation. I was in P* Europe when our city began her real m struggle against organized impurity, si kVhen I returned in the summer of 01 I 90S. the fight had been on for two m . ears. st Since the first yea re of the cen- f? ;urv, a corrupt mayor and a corrupt fa joard of supervisors, creatures of m ;he supremely corrupt boss, Abralam Ruef, had controlled the city. Thev had traded in franchises, licen;es, permits, special privileges, as el )erhaps a political ring never tradid before. More, they had organized ai ;rime and vice, given it protection, m mtered into partnership with it. ? rhe climaz came when they accepted cc i bribe of two hundred thousand s* lollars for a "free" trolley franchise w vorth millions of dollars to the city - - ...... , t? lad the city soia it rairiy. rairicK ? Calhoun, head of the street railway system, was charged with giving this & jribe, but upon his trial the jury t disagreed. A group of reformers, ed first by the San Francisco Bulle;in and then by Francis J. Heney, had ?xposed this condition of affairs, had ndicted the little bosses and bribe- tc :akers?to the universal applause of " ;he community, and had reached out Sl 'or the big bribe-givers?to the uni/ersal horror of the "upper class." ai At the very moment when I re- a :urned, the Supreme Court of Cali'ornia, on a trifling technicality'? :he fact that the term "mayor" was ei eft out of the indictment?had just ^ reversed the conviction of Eugene 01 E. Schmitz, the robber mayor. There H s a system in California as else- iE jvhere, I learned afterward; and the system must take care of its own. iE And this was the mental state of ^ San Francisco as I found it: Not a ^ man or woman in San Francisco, ai ?? - 1 A K/\l 1 Atrn/1 .11611 Or ill <111V UU1C1 Uliic, ucucy cu ;hat Patrick Calhoun was not guilty *r >f giving bribes; yet the "better part" of the community, their minds douded by prejudice, self-interest, minor and oblique considerations >f every kind, justified him and ^ plead for him. I have wondered 0 since if I myself, had I lived through 01 :he fight from the beginning, might w aot have acquired the same moral 1,1 blindness. But I came new and cler?ved to the shock and wonder of it. [ saw people whom I had considered 31 tionorable all my life upholding r( jrime, condemning the law, denouncing reform. I found men and vi women of my closest acquaintance s( virtual anarchists?and without the 11 anarchist's excuse of injustice and oppression. "What can I do?" I asked myself. ^ And the situation as it grew in intensity, found me an answer. The second Ruef trial was drawing to a plose. As the trial went on, the attorneys for the people found the >i courtroom packed with paid thugs, si whose duty it was to laugh at every a: serious point made by the prosecu- D tion and to seem impressed by every t< argument of the defense?all this to influence the jury. The prosecu- w tion needed support in the court- c< room. There was a League of Jus- a tice in San Francisco, whose purpose tl it was to uphold Heney and the peo- a pie. But these were clerks and pro- E fessional and small business men; c< they had no time to sit through ses- a sion after session of the trial. So k we women formed an auxiliary and prepared to encourage justice by t1 our presence?a little t hing, per- a haps, but more important than any c one can appreciate who did not live F through that strange episode in our C civic history. We knew, as well as v we know now, that it would mean n ostracism, slander, vilification, un- s< pleasant newspaper notoriety, finan- = cial injury, broken friendships. But t< we organized nevertheless?only a ii handful at first?and took up the t< one piece of work which we could do. c Xo Rosalind in buskins and jerkins p was ever so timorous as we members t of the Women's League of Justice d when we presented ourselves in the v mysterious, unknown land of the s Hnr odvflTlt TY1 a (") O O CPT1- O LUlfil 11 UUiil. VUl UUf vuw niuuv w WM ^ sation. t The trial dragged on; and in spite n of jeers and insults our number n grew. Wherever we found other wo- r men, we made converts. t So, as the days passed, our league t grew; we had enough members now t so that we might take turns in at- 1 EST T. GREGORY CONVICTED. iry Says Cal Furr's Slayer Guilty of Manslaughter. Laurens, Sept. 16.?"Guilty of anslaughter, with recommendation ' mercy," was the verdict found at 30 o'clock this afternoon by the iry in the case of the State against 'est T. Gregory, charged with the urder, in July, of Cal Furr*. Notice 1 a motion for a new trial was given r defendant's counsel. The trial of regory commenced yesterday and cupied the court practically through -day's session, the case going to the iry at 5:30 o'clock. The killing of Furr occurred July 1, on the streets of Clinton, where >th men lived as employees of a >tton mill. .Furr was shot to death 1 the spot by Gregory, who, after nptying the contents of his own stol into Furr, picked up the dying an's revolver and fired several more lots into his prostrate form. Greg y's plea was that Furr had "ruined y home," and had subsequently ated that he (Furr) was prepared >r the defendant; also that when the .tal encounter took place it was erelv by accident and defendant lot to save himself. On the other hand it appeared, om testimony, that several months apsed after the alleged discovery : Gregory's wife's unfaithfulness id the slaying, by Gregory, of the an accused of invading his home, efendant had made threats and, acirding to witnesses, fired the first lot when the men met; in fact it as not proved that Furr returned ie fire, though one witness swore lat deceased shot twice after fallig. Furr, it seems, was paralyzed r the first shot and fell limp at the let of his assailant. "Suicide" Shot in the Back. Lunenbury, Vt., Sept. 18.?An au>psy to-day having disclosed that "illiam Heath, a painter, who was lpposed to have committed suicide ^sterday, was shot in the back, the ithorities placed Mrs. James Dodge prominenet resident, in custody in sr own home. Heath had been employed for sev"al days painting at the Dodge resience. Yesterday Mrs. Dodge ran ut of the house exclaiming that eath had shot himself while at work i her bedroom. The revolver with which the shootLg was done was owned by Mrs. odge, the authorities declare. Mrs. odge is about 48 years old, a widow, ad active socially in the town. The authorities will hold a hearing i the case to-morrow. Anderson Man ines 01 reuugru. Anderson, Sept. 19.?J. Perry lenn died at his home here at 6 clock this morning after an illness I two months from pellagra. He as 60 years old and one of the romiment and substantial citizens of le county. He had been in failing ealth for two years and recently regned as a member of the beard of agents of the State Hospital for the isane on this account. He is surived by his wife and one adopted m. The funeral will be held tolorrow aftenoon. OMICIDE NEAR BRANCHVILLE. harley McAlhany, Aged 45, Shot by Bryant Dukes, a Lad. Branchville, Sept. 17.?Charley [cAlhany was shot and almost in:antly killed this afternoon by Bryut Dukes on the place of Curtis ukes, about five miles below this )wn. It sems that Charley McAlhany ould not allow Bryant Dukes to )me into the field to gather fodder nd ran him out with a shovel, in le meantime using profane language nd continuing to run after Dukes, ukes, it is said, ran as far as he Duld, and. being exhausted stopped nd shot McAlhany with his gun, illing him almost instantly. It will be remembered that about ? r*v> o riov \Tr> A1 ha nv was rtu t trai s agu v/uunv,- ( ..? rrested, tried and acquitted, in Dorhester county, for killing young 'ressley Reeves, the game warden, lharley McAlhanv was about 45 ears old, while Bryant Dukes is a cere boy. The coroner has been ent for to hold the inquest endance and still keep up our showig. We began to feel something ense in the situation, as though a able were straining to its breaking oint. Now we know what it was; hrough all those days an assassin? ~ii,+iac.p Trjtv, r>nn fpderates?was VUWUCOO >V itu -- raiting to shoot down the repreentative of the people in open ourt. 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