The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 21, 1919, Image 1
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t VOLUME XXXIV.
I ELECTION ON 26TH
f UNDER NEW PLANS
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f As A^tralian Ballot System
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! ijOOTHS PROVIDED AT
i '' MOST RURAL PRECINCTS
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j Provisions of Ballot System as
Amended by Act of the
Session of 1919.
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The Australian Ballot system passj
cd in this State in 1918, has been
|l amended so as to apply to all pre
, -cmcts in ine country whore there arc
J fifty or more voters enrolled on the
club rolls. Before this amendment
[j which was passed at the recent ses'
sion of our Legislature for 1919, the
| system providing for booths, etc.,
| only applied in incorporated cities
^ and towns. The law as amended
f> reads as follows, and the primary
1 election for tho selection of a con{
gressman on August 26th, will be
controlled by the following:
I Section. 1. That in every primary
i election in this State there shall be
, provided at each polling precinct one
. booth for each one hundred enrolled
voters or majority fraction thereof.
The booths shall be made of wood,
| sheet metal, or any other suitable
r. substance; shall not be less than thirf
jrtwo inches wide and thirty-two
jfiolVes" d^p and six feet six inches
I) high, shall be provided with a cur''
'iain hanging from the top in front to
J within three feet of the floor, and
J shall have a suitable shelf on which
II the voter can prepare his ticket: ProK
vided, The provisions of this Act
W :shall not apply to any precinct where
Ji there are less than fifty (50) voters
I. enrolled on the club roll at such pre[f
cinct.
) Section 2. Polling Places.?The poll
Ing places shall be provided with a
( table for the managers. The polls
| shall be provided with a guard rail,
V so that no one except as hereinafter
provided shall approach nearer than
t, five feet to the booths in which the
voters are preparing their ballot.
f Section 3. Tickets.?The tickets
j shall be printed on clear white paper
{ in the usual manner, but shall have a
| coupon at the top perforated so as to
) be ca?A^ detached. On the coupon
( shall be printed "Official Ballot."
' "Club , Ward , No "
( The numbers shall run seriatim for
, ?ach club. There shall be 50 per cent
more ballots than there are voters
/ enrolled at each polling place.
J Section 4. Preparation of Ballot.?
The managers shall be responsible
[ for all ballots furnished. When a
{ voter presents himself he shall be
? -given a ballot. The manager in
charge of the poll list shall enter the
/ number of the ballot next the name
' of the voter. The voter shall forthwith
retire along to one of the booths,
/ and without undue delay prepare his
B "ballot by scratching out the names of
"the candidates for whom he does not
r care tftrfrote. No voter shall remain in
booth longer than five minI
\JfcVs. After preparing his ballot, the
voter shall present himself to the
manager. His ballot must be folded
in such a way that the number can
be seen and the coupon can be readily
I detached by the manager without in
any way reveling the printed portion
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uuiiub. xi tut; vuiui in nut cuuilen^ed,
and takes the prescribed
oath, the manager shall tear off the
coupon, put it on file, stamp the ballot,
and the voter shall deposit his
ticket in the box, and shall immediately
leave the polling place. If a
voter shall mar or deface his ballot,
be obtain one additional ballot
upon returning to the manager in
charge of the ballots the ballot so
marred or defaced, with the coupon
attached. The manager in charge of
the poll list shall change the number
of the ballot on his poll list, and place
the defaced ballot on a file. No voter
shall be given a second ballot until
he has returned the first one with'
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ELECTION MANAGERS
ARE DULY APPOINTED
And Will Hold the Election on
August 26th to Select Congressman.
At a meeting of the County Executive
Committee held at the Court
House on Saturday last, the following
managers of the primary to be
held on Tuesday, August 20th, were
appointed:
Adrian?J. J. King, P. M. Dorman, J
<J. A. uartrette.
Aynor?J. M. Boyd, E. W. Page, E.
W. Martin.
Bayboro?Geo. W. Cartrette, P. O. I
Bell, I. C. King.
Blanche?D. M. Alford, H. J. Sarvis,
U. A. Johnson.
Cedar Cirove?W. F. Jordan, J. H.
Hendricks, J, B. Hucks.
Conway?C. R. Scarborough, C. H.
Snider, S. C. Dusenbury.
Cool Spring?W. M. Mishoe, Pearley
Doyle, I. M. Rabon.
Daisy?VV. M. Carter, W. E. Porter,
Davis Paul,
Dog Bluff?Wm. Hucks, C. C. Reynolds,
J. B. James.
Dogwood?T. B. Parker, B. II.
Todd, John Adams.
Ebenezer?-W. L. Long, N. P. Gore,
J. H. Bellamy.
Farmer?J. H. Richardson, Oscar
E. Todd, B. S. Butler.
Floyds?C. F. Dubose, W. C. Hooks,
H M. Elliott.
Galivants Ferry?Ed. Doyle, H. K.
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coupon attached.
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ownwn o. nnen ana now voier
May lie Assisted.?No person shall
be allowed within the guard rail except
as hereinafter provided. If a
voter can not read or write, or is physically
disabled, and by reason thereof
did not sign the enrollment book,
he may appeal to the managers for
assistance, and the Chairman of the
managers shall appoint two of the
watchers representing different factions
to assist him in preparing the
ballot: Provided, After the voter's
ballot has been prepared, the watchers
so appointed shall immediately
go behind the guard rail: Provided,
further, That !f there he no such
watchers available, the Chairman
may appoint two bystanders who are
qualified electors to assist the voter
in the preparation of his ballot.
Section 6. Admission to Polling
Place.?From the time of the oepning
of the poll until the announcement of
the result and the signing of the official
returns, no person shall be admitted
to the polling place except the
managers, duly authorized watchers
and challengers, the Chairman of the
Executive Committee or member of
the Executive Committee appointed
ir. his stead to supervise this polling
place, persons1 duly admitted for the
purpose of voting, police officers admitted
by the managers to preserve
order or to enforce the law: Provided,
however, That candidates for public
office voted for at such polling place
may be present at the canvass of the
votes: Provided, Canvass of the votes
shall be opened to the public.
Section 7. Interference With Election.?If
the watchers or officers of
the law who are admitted to the polling
place by the managers shall interfere
with the managers or obstruct
the voting, it shall be the duty
of the managers to suspend the election
until order is restored, or as may
be provided by the rules of the party,
i No person shall be allowed to approach
polling places within twentyfive
(25) feet while polls are opened,
other than the persons herein provided
for.
Section 8. Managers to Account
for Ballots.?Upon the close of the
election, managers shall account <o
the Executive Committee for all
ballots delivered to them, and
make the following returns: (a)
The number of official ballots
furnished to each polling precinct.
(b) The number of official
ballots spoiled and returned by voters
(c) The number of official ballots returned
to the Execuitve Committee.
(d) The number of official ballots
actually voted.
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CONWAY, S. P., THURSDAY
FLOODS OF TOBACCO
SOLD AT CONWAY
When Warehouses Reopen
Monday Following Removal
of Embargoes
WAREHOUSES DISPOSE OF
VERY LARGE QUANTITIES
Sales Will Likely go on Every
Day Until Whole Crop is
Sold.
With the removal of the restrictions
made by the Railroads following
the strike, the warehouses at Con
way opened for sales again beginning
last Monday morning. Some of
the warehousemen stated before
hand that it might be well to keep
the news from getting too widely
scattered as more tobacco might be
brought in than could be sold, especially
during the first days of the
week. The news got scattered in
some way and tobacco poured into
Conway the first of this week to
such an extent that the sales at all
the warheouses could not be completed
and tobacco was left on the
floor unsold overnight.
On Monday morning at an early
hour, tobacco began to come in, and
the warehouse floors were all full
before time. No sales at all that day
could be made at the Horry Warehouse,
as all the time was taken up
at the others. The same conditions
| continued only on larger scale on
Tuesday morning, as every warehouse
floor was full to overflowing
before ten o'clock. Some of the farmers
were starting back home with
loads of tobacco that they did not
take off. This condition of affairs
shows more than ever the need of
more buildings at Conway for handling
the tobacco business. The buyers
dare not bid off more tobacco
than they can get packed and shipped
unless they have some place to store
it and take care of it. The town has
| no prize houses or other etablishmcnts
to rent to the buyers for the,
tobacco season.
Still the warehouses here are selling
an immense amount of the weed
i and the farmers are accommodated
if they wait. The rush will be over
in a day or two.
So far as the Herald understands,
the sales will go forward as rapidly
as possible until all of the crops arcsold.
In the meantime, if the farmers
of the County were organized
so they could hold meetings and
bring the tobacco in according to
some system, they would, no doubjp
get rid of it more conveniently than
they will if they put it all on the
floor at once.
Cooke, W. Ash Page..
Grahamville?W. J. Jordan, J. D.
Watson, B. H. Vaught.
Grahams Cross Roads-?P. L. Hard
wick, V. B. Housend, H. H. Graham.
Green Sea?E. L. Buffkin, J. T.
Mills, J. M. Fowler.
Greenwood?Willie Dusenbury, C.
G. Shelley, H. W. Cannon.
Gurley?E. W. Prince, W. R. Tyler,
F. B. Black.
[Hammond?J. D. Royals, J. J.
Rheuark, G. A. West,
i Homcwood?Manzv Gause. Hinaon
Spivey, W. E. Sessions.
Horry?E. C. Smith, J. E. Hughes,
J. E. Allen.
Jernigans Cross Roads?W. J. Sarvis,
J. J. Harrelson, E. O. Sarvis.
Jordanville?T. M. Lundy, R. 1).
Jordan, S. C. Davis.
Knotty Branch?Mc. Johnson, H.
L. Richardson, N. B. Johnson.
Little River?P. K. Bessant, J. E.
Vereen, A. V. Bessant.
Loris?J. J. Elliott, M. C. Butler,
G. C. Butler.
Marlow?S. Tom Jordan, Van B.
Turbeville, S. P. Vereen. .
Port Harrelson?A. C. Harper, Her
l ert Thompson, B. F. Moore.
Sanford?Levi G. Gerrald, Sam
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SAYS FARMERS ARE
NOT RESPONSIBLE
Expert Declares Manufacturers
and Strikers Guilty of
Living Costs
ABNORMAL PRICES
WILL CONTINUE
Unless Capital and Organized
Chestnut, S. W. Vereen.
Spring Branch?J. J. Enzor, C. M.
Hammond, R. M. Bullock,
Taylorsville?S. B. Small, B. F.
Harrelson, P. D. Gerrald.
Soeastee?C. G. Newton, G. M. Mc?
Cormick, B. F. Watts.
Vardelle?G. L. Williamson, T. A.
Harrelson, H. Hinson.
Wampee?R. V. Ward, F. H.
Ciardy, C. C. Suggs.
Withers?Geo. W. King, P. D.
Owens.
Labor Cease Profiteerings.
Washington.?"Unless capitalistic
monopoly" and organized labor
"cease profiteering in goods and
wages" the next cycle of the seasons
will effect a condition of living now
undreamed of, the senate and house
agricultural committees were told by
J. R. Howard, president of the Iowa
Farm Bureau Federation.
Mr. Howard appeared as spokesman
for the committee recently appointed
at a conference of farmers
from Iowa, Nebraska, Indiana, Ohio
and Illinois. Denying that the farmers
were responsible for present conditions,
Mr. Howard said:
"The high cost of living is not due
to lack of desire or effort on the part
of the farmers to produce to the limit
of their physical ability. The farmer
has not struck, walked out, or other
wise slackned in production. He has
Increased his effort, extended his operations
to the limit of physical ability^
arird financial credit, and striven vo
feed the world, believing the world
would fairly and gladly recompense
him. Instead, he finds those who, in
their eagerness to find an answer
where there is none, and to shun the
real facts of the situation point to
him with scorn and malevolence, saying
"thou art the culprit."
The high cost of living is due to a
stagnation in production of manufactured
goods and prepared foodstuffs
Every labor strike that shuts down
any plant engaged in the preparation
of foods or the making of clothing,
that shuts down a mine or mill, adds
to the high cost of living,
"If capitalistic monopoly wants
enough food produced that it may be
feasted, if organized labor wants food
pioduced that it may be fed, if the
do-nothing dwadlers want enough food
pioduced so that they may occasion
a'ly eat, let them stand forth now at
this time when the farmer must deter
mine his 1920 food production progiam,
and declare by deeds?cutting
out of profiteering in goods and wages,
going honestly to the business of
preparing and surveying the necessities
of life, going honestly to the job
of doing a full day's work for a full
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a pajr viiuii ? mi iivo'i iu tuoperate.
Failure of these forces to do
this now will be a boomerang that
ere the next cycle of the seasons, will
effect a condition of living now undreamed
of.
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DEATH OF M. P. BORDEAUX.
Manly p. Bordeaux died on Wednesday
of last week after a lingering i
iliness, suffering from a chronic case
of tuberculosis. He v/as a son of
Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Bordeaux, HL
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remains were interred at Lakeside
cemetery on Thursday, the funeral
services conducted by the Rev. D. L.
Hill. He was twenty-two years of
age.
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Herald office.
Stevens, W. A. Suggs.
Shell?W. Chancey Todd, Sam P.
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RETURNED SOLDIERS
ALLOWED THEIR VOTES
In the Coming Election For
Congressman on August
26th.
A meeting of the County Executive
Committee for Horry County was
held at the Court House in Conway
on Saturday with practically a full
representation of the Committee, the
Object being to name managers for
the special election to be hold August
26th to nominate a candidate to
Congress to succeed the late J. Wilh
id Ragsdalo.
At this meeting, carrying out the
plan adopted by some of the other
counties of the District, which was
proposed by the County Chairman,
Mr. E. J. She mood, the Committee
unanimously agreed to allow the returned
soldiers in the county to vote
in this election.
It was pointed out by the Chairman
that so far it had not been found
to be legal under the rules for the
soldiers to enroll regularly in the
primary, but at his suggestion it was
agreed that those of the returned
soldiers whose names were not on the
last club roll would be allowed to
vote.
The plan agreed upon was that
every discharged soldier who is otherwise
qualified to vote in the primary
and whose name is not on the
club roll may, on the day of the primary,
go to the voting booth of his
precinct, secure his ballot, mark it
pioperly and deposit it together with
a slip of paper containing his name
and organization, in a sealed envelono.
Thoso vntn< llui? will Ko
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turned over by the managers at the
election at the several precincts to
the County Executive Committee who
will pass on the ballot.
Mr. Sherwood stated before his
Committee that while the State Executive
Committee had not taken any
action in this matter, yet he had
wired the Chairman of the Committee
urging that some arrangements
bo made for the men who fought
abroad to save the country to have a
voice in who should rule the country
and make these laws. ^
NO SPEECHESMADE
BECAUSE OF RAIN
Florence?Voters of Florence County
gathered in small numbers Aug.
12, to hear the candidates for congress
from the Sixth District, but the
opening gun of the campaign was not
fired. The rain kept many from attending
who would like to hear the
ambitious aspirants tell their troubles
so the Florence meeting was
postponed until August 21.
The real opening of the speech mak
ing tour therefore took place at Kings l
tiee and the itinerary as previously
a: ranged will be adhered to, with the
exception of Florence.
SERIOUS SHOOTING
AFFAIR NEAR LORIS
iThe news about a serious shooting
affray four or five miles above Loris
occurring about two weeks ago, came
to Conway very late; although, it appears
that warrants have been sworn
out for Nabe Ward, who it is thought
did the shooting. The wife of Benjamin
Ward was shot with No. 2
shot, a greater part of the load taking
effect in the back, and at iast accounts
she was still in the Florence
Hospital seriously ill.
There seems to be some doubt
about the identity of the person who
committed this crime and it is generally
said that it was Nabe Ward,
brother of Benjamin Ward; that he
had had a racket with his brother
and that later when Beniamin Ward
and his wife were passing his place
Nabe Ward shot at his brother and
hit his brother's wife. Nabe Ward
made his escape after the shooting
and at last accounts he has not been
caught. It is thought that he is
across the line in North Carolina
hiding from the authorities. I
NO. 18.
GONGRESS CANDIDATES
ADDRESS HORRYITES
Sherwood First on Program and
Gets Ovation From Home
Voters
CAMPAIGN IS BASED
ON CLEAN LINES
People Attending Montis TP^
A ? Q l/Jllt'g JLJ^V"
ceeded What Had Been
Expected.
The meeting of the candidates for
Congress took place here last Saturday
at the court house; all of the candidates
being in attendance and addressed
the people along about the
same lines as they have been talking
at the other places over the district.
The people who came to Conway
from the country to hear the speakers
in number exceeded what had been
expected. The voters bgan to arrive
in the town at an early hour on Saturday
morning. The Conway Concert
Band was on hand in honor of the
candidate that Horry has in the fieid
and for some time before the speaking
began, the band entertained a
i crowd of people with Stirling music
near the town square. The band stood
in front of a large banner stretched
in front of the corner store occupied
by L. H. Burroughs, and bearing the
words: "Vote for Sherwood for Congress."
The friends of the Horry candidate
got busy on Saturday morning and
carried round a petition which was
numerously signed by the merchants
agreeing to close their places of business
until after the meeting should be
over.
The candidates in this race are J.
V.. LeGrand, Julius S. Mclnnes, E. J.
Sherwood, \V. F. Stackhouse, Philip
H. Stoll, and J. J. Evans. They all
spoke at Marion on Friday, the day
before, and at Georgetown the day
before that. They were tired and did
not arrive in Conway until about 10
o'clock on Friday night, most of them
a. l iving in automobiles.
Friends of Mr. Sherwood went io
Georgetown and showed their interest
in his behalf, not only there but at the
meeting at Marion on last Friday.
They were of c urse more in evidence
than ever at the Conway meeting.
The candidates began speaking
about 11 o'clock in the morning. They
continued in regular order until all of
them had addressed the people. Hon.
E. J. Sherwood, being the chairman of
the executive committee, was introduced
to the audience by Jeremiah
Smith, and he received an ovation in
his home town. After he had addressed
the meeting, he introduced the
other candidates to the people.
The race is being made in a clean
way and the candidates all make their
pleas for the votes on a high plane*.
There is no mud-slinging yet apparent
in the campaign.
The speaking took place in the
court room and the building was pack
en with voters to hear the speeches,
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INCREASED BONUS
Washington.?Declaring the $60
bonus paid to discharged soldiers and
sailors was "paltry" as compared with
$240 [mid war work err., Representative
Pou, Democrat, North Carolina,
in the house asked for nonpartisan
consideration of Republicans and
Democrats in dealing with additional
bonuses.
"When we deal with the soldiers,''
he said, "I hope there will be no political
difference. I hope there will be
no sparring for political advantages.
The additional bonus should be large
enough to give all discharged soldiers
and sailors a good start as civilians."
" 'The watch dogs' of the treasury,"
Mr. Pou stated, "would be horror
stricken at the amount of the appropriation.
Justice should be done these
men at any cost."
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