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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
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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.
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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. (
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Taft's New Departure. (
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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. [
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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
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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
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raiting to shoot down the repreentative
of the people in open
ourt. I refer, of course, to the atempt
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