The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-03-13
TIE REGISTRATION MuDDLE.
What Webster. Republican State Chair
man. Says About 1t.

COLUMBIA. March Yesterday q
good many applicants for registration
certificates were granted certificates
| by Supervisor Green in this city under
! the provisions CT the new registration
Act. Early in the morning a good
! supply OF bank forms prepared by the
attorney General, stricken off exactly
ike those ordered by the Irby commlI-
tee were delivered at Republican head
quarters and all day leaders were busy
filing out the blanks for illiterate col
ored voters. y large number OF such
voters got their registration certificates
during the day The only trouble the
Republican leaders are laborIng under
now, they say, Is that the supervisor
stiil has no renewal and lost certificate
application banks.
The following card from State Chair
man Webster of the old-line wing OF
the Republicans is self-explanatory, IN
| this connection:
Orangeburg, S. c., March 5th 1895.
Tothe Editor of The State, Sir: In
your issue of today in giving an ac-
count of the contemplate trickin with
holding from Republican applicants
for registration the blank form prepar-
ed by the Attorney General, he is re:
ported as follows: Mr.. Barber went on
to say that he had notified Webster,
as chairman of the Republican party.
when he completed the preparation of
the forms that he had done so, and
that they were ready to be sent out.
He saw that Webster got copies.
This statement is misleading Or false
in every essential particular, and l am
reluctant to believe that you correctly
reported Mr.. Barber. I was not furn-
ished with copy of these forms by
the Attorney General and was notpre-
mitted to make a copy Of those in the
possession of the Supervisor here un-
til ) o'clock yesterday afternoon. The
following are the facts in reference to
my connection with this matter as
State Chairman. About three weeks
ago called at the Attorney Generals s
oilicesand inquired if he had prepared
the forms of application for registra-
ton as required by the law passed by
the last General Assembly. He inform
ed me he had not asyet been able to at
tend to the matter, but assured methat
the forms would be prepared and cir
culated in ample season for use on the
first Monday in March. Not hearing
from him further in regard to this I'M
4 portant matter, I wrote him last week
requesting that he would furnish me
with a copy of the forms prepared by
him or inform me where l could secure
one or supply of the same. In re-
plv he did not send me the forms or IN
form me where / could secure a copy
but stated that ''the blank forms re-
quired to be prepared by me for appli-
cants for registrasion, under the con-
vention law, have been prepared and
turned over to the Secretary of State.
It is his duty to furnish all the books,
blanks etc, to the supervisors regis
tration." l Immediately informed the
! Republican county chairmen through
1 out the State that these blanks could be
obtained, ION the Supervisor of Re-
gistration. Great was my surprise on
yesterday morning to find that the
Supervisor here had only three of these
blanks, and that he refused to even
alloy me to makea copy of them until
he had wired to the Attorney General
for instructions. Soon dispat chs from
every section of the State began pour
ing in showing that there vas gener-
al conspiracy to withhold these blanks
! from Renublican applicauts for regis
tration. I understood the Attorney
Generals letter to me to mean that the
Secretary of State would furnish the
Supervisors with a supply of these
! blanks, and l submit that under the
circumstances it admits of no other
reasonable construction.
Respectfully,
z. 4. WEBSTER,
State Chairman.