Semi=weekly graphic., 1898-07-16
THE WAY NcCoY's Nom1NA- TON WAS MADE BY
 THE COMMITTEE.
Proceedings of the Democratic County Central Com.
 mittee.

| Inc DemOcEablc 1OUHty CtH Ii al Committee adjourned yesterday l Wednesday, afternoon about 1 o'clock after an almost two days sitting in hearing the dispositions in the contested election case of Brewster ys. Mccoy for Sheriff.
 A mass of testimony was intro dueed ca the part of both contestant and eontestee to show that negroes and illegal votes had been cast in the primary held on June 16th.
 Evidence was adduced showing that eleven negro Republicans had voted for Mccoy in Richland township, and one negro Democrat and two negro Republicans had voted for Brewster
 A mass of testimony was intro duced by both parties relative to votes throughout the county by minors and persons whose names do not appear on the tax books.
 The reading of dispositions was concluded about 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Then Secretary, G. E. Lytle introduced a resolution de. c!aring for a new primary for August 3rd to settle the race for Sheriff between Brewster and Mccoy, stating in his speech that from the mass of testimony intro. 0uced he did not think any member of the committee could say which of the candidates had received the greatest number of votes, and stating that he introduced his reso- ution in the interest of harmony.
 Mr. A. B. Grace, attorney for H. A. Mccoy and who held proxy for J. D. Bush, made answer that the people had had enough of primaries, and he thought the committee should declare the nominee on the face of the returns as canyassed by the committee at it's previous ses- sion, giving Mccoy a plurality of one vote. In the course of his re- marks he said that all the threats of bolting he had heard came from the Brewstew side. Whereupon Lytle retorted by saying that ho re- membered time after the first primary when the committee had met to hear the first contest, that the Mccoy people threatened to bolt if Brewster was declared the nomi- nee.
 Mr. J. W. Adams, proxy for J. ". Crawford then arose and made few brief remarks. He stated in re- ply to Mr. Grace that Mr. Brew ster had not asked a second pri- mary, butthat it was ordered by the county convention over Mr. Brew ster's opposition, and that if the people had had too many primaries, tue Mccoy forces, who were de- feated in the first primary, were responsible for them. He also pointed out that if the committee then made nomination. the nomi- nee would be nominated by mi nority vote of the county, for in the June primary, on the face of the re. turns, Mr Mccoy received 757 votes; Edgar Brewster, 757 votes and T. M. Philips 558 votes, where as there had been nearly ?, 2,200 votes cast in the primary. Whoever, therefore was the nominee of the committee would be the nominee of the minority of the party. This was contrary, the speaker said, to the precedent established by the State Democratic K xecutlye Com mittee, which, in the present cam palgn, required each Democratic aspirant for a State office 10 receive Q majority vote of the party. Ii a new primary was held between Brewster and Mccoy alone one or the other of them was bound to re- ceiye a majority vot4 of the county and would be the unprecedented nom inee.
 Hon. W. T, Young then made speech in which he said that ne- groes had urquestionably partici- pated ln the June primary, and that the negroes had sworn that they were both Democrats and Re publicans, and reputable white citizens had sworn the same way, and as these votes played quite material part in the result of the election, he therefore thought