The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-06-03
whIttemore's Dunn's Black vote

But even If Dunns hopes are verified, ac-
| ton has been taken by the Ring in Columbia
| whcn indicates that he is to be cheated. An
act of the Legislature passed in September,
1868, provided that the managers. Of the
polls, on the closing of the same, were at
once to publicly canvass the yptes and re-
turn a certificate of the result to The county
canvassers, who were 10 send those certil-
Gates to Columbia. There are eleven counties
in the district thlrty-three county canvassers,
and, In all, eighty polling precincts. Last
spring another act was passed, that carefully
does not provide that the managers of the
polls shall publicly canvass the votes, but that
the votes Of the respective precincts shall be
canvassed only by the county canvassers when
| they have received the sealed ballOt-boXes Of
all the precincts. Thus, a political conspiracy
to change the result OF the vote in the district,
which before would have been known to
the managers of perhaps the whole eighty
precincts, can now be conducted with facility
by the thirty-three county canvassers alone
The counting Of the votes cast in each county
may be done at any time within ten days after
the election, and the county canvasscrs have
an opportunity during this period to arrange
and consammate any fraud which they may de-
sire. There Is also another curious circum-
stance In this curious case. On the 18th Of
May, only seventeen days before the election,
Governor Scott appointed new body of coun.
ty canyassers, composed almost exclusively OF
Whiltemore's personal friends. The law re-
uuires that the canvassers shall be appointed
sixty days prior to the day of election, and the
appointments made by the Governor only
seventeen days prior to the election are there
fore illegal. But We suppose they will never
theless serve to secure Whittemore's return to
Congress, so that he will be there to take ad-
vantage Of any future rise in the price OF
cadetships.
| Mr.. Dunn, the opposing candidate, has not
confined his attacks upon Whittemore to facts
! that are already universally notorious. He
has freely exhibited to the voters of the First
District letter, Of which the following Is the
boston, April l6, 1870.
| z. C. Dunn ESQ, Little Riuer, S. c.:
- have had long talk with W. F.
Shaw, the man from whom Waittemore stole
money. He was in Mr. Shaw's employ, and took
the money at various times IN stock, which ne
| sold. His peculations extended over quite O
| space OF time. and amounted in the aggregate to
some s50e0 This amount was ascertained, but
| whether more was taken Is not known. Shaw
has writing OF Mr. Whittemore acknowledging
| as soon as he can. UP 10 this time he has not
paid anything Shaw Is now quite friendly to
Whttemore, and you will see 1t Is for his Interest
to have him in Congress $ p snrrrARp
-. or the firm OF Morse, Sheppard Co.,
Dry Goods Merchants, Boston.
The reader will see that ar Shaw's desire to
have Whittemore in Congress, so that he can
make money and pay back the $4,000, is
rather hard on Congress. Perhaps White
more has already entered upon his duty to
Shaw when he soldthc cadetship.
WhIttemore's "Charities."
From the same paper.I
The Rev. Mr.. Snedder, colored, who breaches
in Darlington County, S. c., says that some
time ago Mr.. Whlttemore came along with a
bevy oil schoolmistresses, and got dinner pre-
pared for them in Snedder's house. One of
the mistresses made remark which SUBJ
sequently induced Snedder to inquire oil
Whittemore: "What did you do with the
dollar head that you collected Of those
schoolmistresses for the dinner that they
had in my house?" ~ expended the
money for charitable purpose" was
Whittemore's reply. He said the same thing
in relation to the fifteen hundred dollars which
he received for the cadetship sold in Washing
ton, through broker, for Two thousand dol
lars. Yet the most careful investigation in
South Carolina has failed TO show that he did
anything with the money except put it in his
own pocket, where he has it now. The pub
lie school records in South Carolina conclu-
sively prove that he did not disburse the
money for the benefit Of any OF these schools,
and contravene the statement he made that he
expended the money for the benefit Of the
public schools in his district.