The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-01-17
RECENT ELECTION
TO BE CONTESTED.
Dispensary Forces Lead In
the Fight.
MOVE WAS EXPECTED.
Petitioners Ask that the Ianrens, Clinton
and Princeton Boxes be Thrown Out.
Hearing Postponed.

The dispensary election is to be con-
tested. The proceedings to such action
commenced yesterday before the county
board of election commissioners, com
posed of w. t. Crews, chairman, A. C.
Owings and ]. e. Boyd, and will be
continued Friday at an adjourned meet
ing of the board.
of South Carolina the board met in the
court house yesterday for the purpose
of canvassing the returns and declaring
the result of the election held on Jan.
9 on the dispensary issue in this county.
Immediately upon being organized,
MIR. John M. Cannon young attorney
of the city representing certain petition
ers for the dispensary, appeared before
the board and submitted the petition
given in full below, with the announce
ment that he was ready to proceed with
producing the proof of the several allie
cations set out in the petition.
This was resisted by Col. j. w. Fer
guson and w. r. Richey, representing
the other side, the former moving for
an adjournment of the meeting on the
ground that they were not prepared to
combat the allegations in the petition.
After some further discussion by coun-
sci on both sides as to the authority of
the board adjourning or taking recess
for stated period Of time, in which it
was shown that the board had such
right, the commissioners unanimously
agreed to postpone the meeting until
Friday at 10 a. M, and the chairman
announced the meeting adjourned.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF LAURENs,
County Board of Canvassers.
Ex-Parte- Henry Wright and John A.
Martin, In Re of Dispensary election
held for Laurens County on the 9th
day of January, 1906. 6.-Petitioners.
To the Honorable County Board of Can
vassers for Laurens County:
Your Petitioners respectfully show to
your Honor:
l. That they are citizens of the County
of Laurens, State of South Carolina,
and are taxpayers of said County and
State.
2. That the election held in Laurens
County, State of South Carolina, on
the eth day of January. 1906. was. lille
gally conducted at certain precincts in
said County, to wit: the Laurens box,
Clinton box and the Princeton box.
3. That the managers of the Laurens
box allowed voters who resided in other
townships than Laurens township to
vote at the Laurens precinct and that
at both Laurens and Clinton the mana
gers of said boxes allowed votes to be
cast at the said precincts without re-
quiring the voters to present his regis
tration tickets or to furnish proof of
payment of taxes for the previous year,
all of which is against the law in such
cases made and provided in direct con-
tradiction to the Constitution of South
Carolina.
a. That the election at the Princeton
precinct is null and void, because the
precinct is not provided with registra-
tion book in which its qualified voters
should be enrolled, which is one of the
requirements Of law in regard to cleo
tions, and that the failure to have said
book would cause the votes at said box
to be thrown out on the ground of ire
gularity and illegality.
Wherefore your petitioners demand
that the votes at the said boxes above
named be thrown out, and the results
of said election be declared according
to the votes of the other precincts in
said County.
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