The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-08-30

Furthermore, that this bill originate
in the senate, when under the const1
tuition, article 8, section Is. bills TO
raising revenue shall originate in CD
house Of representatives, but may b
altered, amended or rejected by th'
senate, and all other bills may origi
nate in either house, aud may be al
tered, amended or rejscted by the
other.n
The plaintiff alleges upon informa
tion and belief that the petition fol
an election on the question OF dis
pensary" OF mo dispensary" was moi
signed by one-forth Of the qualifiec
voters of Union county, and that the
supervisor ordered it without ascsr.
.aining same; that the plaintiff is in.
formed and believes the election was
frsudulertly and Illegally held and
conducted, In that many persons Ehc
we're not qualified voters were allowed
to vote, and many persons who were
qualified voters we're not allowed tc
vote; persons were allowed to vote at
precincts other than those at which
they resided; no registration books
were furnished the managers, as re.
quired by law, and in many ways the
Law was not complied with; and as
result Of this fraud ard these iYre9u
larities the election resulted in mo
dispensary," whereas, If it bad been
conducted according to law, IL wculd
have resulted in favor OF the dispen.
sary. That the plaintiff, as a citizen
and resident Of Union county, has a
right to purchase intoxicating liquors
form said dispensaries, and ii same arc
closed, as threatened, the plaintiff and
other citizens Of Union county viii be
deprived Of their rights and privileges
to purchase alcoholic liquors, as he or
they desire to do, and the county will
be deprived OF the revenue it is en-
titled to under the provisions Of the
dispensary law.
On these grounds the plaintiff prays
that the Injunction be issued to pre-.
vent the said dispensaries from clos
ing, and the election to be declared
unconstitutional, Illegal and void.
Following this are a61daVits signed
byJ. B. Wilbanks and A. B. Burgess,
mill operatives, and J. F. Wilbanks,
farmer, who allege that they did not
authorize the signing Of their names
to the petition, and that as taxpayers
they will be damaged because the elec-
tion cost the county $500.
THE SUPERVISORS PART.
The next affidavit is that signed by
G. .. May, beer dispenser, and J. G.
Howell, dispenser, who allege that
they, with W. Boyd Evans, visited Su-
pervisor T. J. Bstenbaugh on the
nigh Of August 11th, and shat Beteu.
baugh said In their presence that
when the petitions were first present
ed to him there were about 1000 sig
natures to said petitions, and that he
took them and carefully examined
them for several days, and Of the L..
600 signatures to said petitions be
found only 274 qualified voters to said
petitions, and that he refused to order
the election and returned the petit
tions to those who had presented them;
that those interested took the petit
tions and went over them, and said
they had found SO or 90 additional
qualified voters, but that he did not
Investigate to see whether or rot this
was correct; that later the same petit.
tions we're presented to him again,
with less than 200 additional sigma
lures, that he took the petitions and
ordered the special election to be held
In Union county on the question Of
'dispensary" or mo dispensary" on
the 18th day OF August, 1905, without
further Investigating the said petit
tions to see whether they contained
the one-forth OF the qualified voters,
as required by law, or not. At the
same time be ordered the special cleo
tion he did not know whether the Pc
titions contained the one fourth OF
the qualified voters or not, and did
not know them; but that he ordered
the said election because those who
presented the petitions said that they
had the one-foursh Of the qualified
voters; that II be had known what he
knew tnen, that 1t was not bis bust
ness to find out whether the petitions
contained the one-fourth OF not; that
the supervisor OF registration did not
make an affidavit that the petition
contained one. fourth Of the qualified
voters, neither did those who present
ed the petition the last time make
such an affidavit, that he only took
their word for it, that he has been
over the books Of the supervisor Of
registration for Union county, and
that he knows that there are at least
l 800 qualified voters In the county Of
Union: that he could rot make an az
idavit at time he ordered the election
or then that the petitions asking tor
an election contained one-fcu1th Of
the qualified voters OF Union county;
that he would make an affidavit to
blitS CNSCC uCAo WO1A1Hk, aug ooo tSsl3
1905, when ne came to his office; that
instead OF making said affidavit next
morning, as above stated, he refused,
stating that he preferred to go to his
Office and write out history OF the
whole matter, In the form OF an afh-
davit. Instead Of going to his own
Office, be went to the Office OF ]. A.
Sawyer, where he spent the whole
morning, and about o'clock that
Afternoon, August 18th, he sent a
letter to ". Boyd Evans stating an
entirely different thing than that stat
ed the night before in the presence Of
them; that the said letter is affixed to
the Affidavit.
The letter referred to has already
been published. In closing it be s.7s:
Sat the time I ordered the election I
was satisfied that the petition con-
tained one. fourth OF the qualified
voters Of the county, and I am now so
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