The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-09-17
WENT FOR TALBERT.
One Of tie Greatestiisurprises of the
Primary.
A CONSERVATIVE STRONGHOLD
Voted Against Hayward for Cover
nor, but Gave Latimer a
Very Small Majority.

The Columbia Record says the re
suit Of the election in Richland coun-
ty is the surprise of the day. 1t was
so generally believed up to Tuesday
that Hayward would get so over
whelming majority in the county
that when the statement was made
late in the afternoon that Talbert was
making great and close run with
him, the report was received with in
credulity. The first returns showed
that there was something in the state
ment. Up town wards showed that
Hayward by 40 means had walk
over and when ward 5 turned up al
most unanimous for Talbert, the Hey
ward men saw that the jig was up.
The majority was not large, but still
it was there.
Explanation? Well, nearly every
body has different one. Some say
the morning papers course did it;
Tiers thought South Carolinian's''
article in The Reeerd cut a considera-
bic figure; others said one Side>got to-
gether and voted solid, while The
other divided; and, finally, one man
ventured the opinion that it happened
just because the people voted that
way, and that is a fact beyond a
doubt. ANY man can take his choice
Of all these reasons, but the last one
is the only certain and undisputed
one.
County returns were received by the
executive committee at the court
house. They came in pretty fast and
by II o'clock every precinct had been
heard from except Horrell Hill and
Gadsden, and neither Of them turned
up during the night: but as neither
were expected to change the general
result, the crowd was satisfied so far
as their curiosity to know the result
was concerned.
at one time there were five hundred
people in the court house listening to
the returns. In such crowd there
was much noise and confusion, and it
was hard for many people to hear the
votes announced. Secretary Logan
finally persuaded Col. Frost to an
nounce the returns as they were re-
ceived. Col. Frost was happy, as it
was evident from the returns that he
was elected, and he had his voice
along with him. Everybody knows
what that is when he gets it in good
working order, for it can put to shame
any other man with a megaphone.
Suffice it to say that everybody could
hear when Col. Frost got in action,
and the crowd owes him a vote of
thanks.
There were several fellows on hand
who had ronkied with Fust K and
though they were quiet noisy at times
they were in good humor and their
sometimes witty remarks served to
keep the crowd in a good humor Tai
bert men were on hand in good num-
bers and the place rang with cheers as
anything favorable to him was an
nounced. But this didn't last long
for as the totals for the state were
announced from time to time it was
shown that Hayward had good lead
Talbert men took back seat and the
Hayward crowd had their inning and
there was noise enough to wake the
dead almost.
Secretary Logan had made arrange
mentS with the South Carolina long
distance telephone company to receive
the returns from those counties in its
territory and the service was quite
satisfactory. In the city Latimer got
1,O6O votes to Evans 95S, majority
of 102. Latimer carried every up town
ward, but Evans 356 to Latimer 125
votes in ward brought him. up so
close.
Hayward only carried the city By
Is votes, the results being 1895 and
1,O19. Again ward was the deter
mining factor, Talbert getting $50
to 123 for Hayward. But in the up
town wards Talbert ran closer to Hey
ward than anyone would have thought
before the election was held. Latimer
and Evans ran neck to neck in the
county, while Talbert beat Hayward
at nearly every county precinct, there
being two exceptions, Eastover and
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