The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-09-01
BENNETTSVILLE, S. O., FRIDAY.S SEPTEMBER L. 1905

raising revenue shall originate in the
house OF representatives, but may be
altered, amended or rejected by the
senate, and all other bills may origi.
nate In either house, aud may be al.
tered, amended or rejected by the
other"
The plaintiff alleges upon informa.
tion and belief that the petition for
an election on the question Of "dis.
pensary" or mo dispensary" was not
signed by one-forth Of the qualified
voters Of Union county, and that the
supervisor ordered it without ascer.
kaining same; that the plaintiff is in.
formed and believes the election was
fraudulently and illegally held and
conducted, In that many persons who
were not qualified voters were allowed
to vote, and many persons who we're
qualified voters were not allowed to
vote; persons we're 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 q
result of this fraud and these irregu
larities the election resulted in mo
dispensary," whereas, If 1T had been
conducted according to law, 1t would
have resulted in favor OF the dlspen-
sary. That the plaintiff, as a citizen
and resident of Union county, has o
right to purchase Intoxicating liquors
form said dispensaries, and II Same are
closed, as threatened, the plaintiff and
other citizens Of Union county will 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 1t is en-.
titled to under the provisions Of the
disponsary 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 atlldavits signed
byJ. B. Wilbanks and A. B. Burgess,
mill operatives, and j. II. Wilbanks,
a farmer, who allege THAI they did not
authorize the signing Of their names
to the petition, and that as taxpayers
they will be damaged because the cleo
tion cost the county $500.
THE SUPERVISORS PART.
The next atfidavit is that signed by
G. .. May, beer dispenser, and j. G..
Howell, dispenser, who allege that
they, with w. Boyd Evans, visited Su-
peIvlsor Il. J. Betenbaugh on the
nigh Of August 11th, and that Beten.
baugh said in their presence that
when the petitions were first present.
ed to him there were about 900. sig
natures to said petitions, and that he
took them and carefully examined
tnem for several days, and Of the L..
600 signatures to said petitions he
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 60 additional
qualified voters, but that he did not
Investigate to see whether or not this
was correct; that later the same petit
tionS were presented to him again,
with less than 200 additional sigma.
lures, that ne 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 he ordered the special cleo
tion he did not know whether the pc
titions contained the ono fourth Of
the qualified voters or not, and did
not know them; but tnat he ordered
the said election because those who
presented the petitions said that they
had the one-fourth OF the qualified
voters; that IL he had known what he
knew then, tf st 1t was not his bust
ness to find out whether the petitions
contained the one fourth or not; chat
the supervisor Of registration did not
make an atfidavit 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 1T, that he has been
over the books of the supervisor OF
registration for Union county, and
that he knows that there are at least
800 qualified voters In the county OF
| nion; that he could not make an af.
tidavit at time he ordered the election
or then that the petitions asking for
an election contained one fourth OF
the qualified voters OF Union county
that he would make an af1ldavit to
this effect next morning, August 18th,
| 1905, when ne came to his oillce; that
instead OF making said aflidavit next
morning, as above stated, he refused
stating that he preferred to go to his
oiflce and write out history of the
whole matter, In the form OF an affi.
davit. Instead Of going to his owr
Office, he went to the ofllce OF j. A.
Sawyer, whore he spent the whole
morning, and about O'Clock that
afternoon, August 18th, he sent 6
letter to w. Boyd Evans stating ar
entirely different thing than that stat
ed the night before In the presence o.
them; that the said letter Is affixed tt
the atfidavlt.
The letter referred to has alread,
been published. In closing 10 no says
AT the time / ordered the election
was satisfied that the petition con
tained one. fourth Of the qualified
voters of the county, and l am now 81
satisfied.
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Charged to CArelessnose.
The findings and opinion of tn,
court OF inquiry which investigated
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