The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-01-07
TESTIMONY OF THE DEFENCE.

TESTIMONY OF THE DEFENCE.
i The contestants having rested af-
ter examining the last witness, Mr..
Welch put up the following witness
es for the new county advocates:
More About Tickets.
J. Scottowe Wannamaker being
duly sworn testifies as forrows:
@. Where do you live, Mr.. Wan
namaker? At St. Matthews.
@. Is that in the proposed area of
Calhoun County? A. Yes sir.
/! @. Are you a qualified elector of
this State and of the United States?
A. Yes sir.
/ @. You have paid your last years
taxes? A. Yes sir.
! @. Did you have anything to do
with mapping out the lines of the
proposed new county? A. Yes sir in
the entire section.
Q.>I hand you map of the New
County, explain it? A. We adopted
the plan of seeing the parties along
the lines of the proposed new Coun-
ty and asking them if they wanted
to come into the new county, we
took in as far as possible only the
people who wanted to come in, OF
course there were times when we had
to deviate from this rule, but we
tried to leave out the people who
were opposed to the fArmation of
the new County. The line below
Cameron that are in dispute l have
a drawing Of and that will show that
they are extremely crooked, that is
on account Of cutting man and his
place out because he was opposed to
| the new County. In running these
lines we did not consider the voting
places but only the voters, in no case
would we have cut out a mans vot-
ing place to keep him from voting, I
was of the opinion that every man
included with the lines Of the new
County could vote, under no circum-
stances would we have Intentionally
prevented a man from voting.
MIR. Wolfe: I think that is an eX-
preston of opinion.
Mr.. Herbert: We are willing to
admit that the pormoters of the new
County did not know that these peo-
ple did not have the right to vote, we
do not charge that these voting
places was Intentionally lef out, we
do not charge that the people had
the lines of the new County so run
as to keep anyone from voting, we
do not charge that it was intentional.
@. You had the tickets printed
upon which the answers appeared?
A. Yes sir, the Calhoun County AS
sociation did; I directly had it done
fer them.
@. What is this? A. That is bill
from the State Company for printing
three thousand tickets, charged to
]. S. Wannamaker.
@. What tickets were those? A.
18th, the tickets that our friends
printedt O use at the election of the
18th, the tickets that our friends
are raising such a rumpus about.
! (Bill from the State Company intro
,duced.) I want to say that the let
ter that Mr.. Dantzler "eferred to |
had and I cant lay my hands on It
lust now, the letter to him that he
must he non-partisan and that the
tickets must be printed in blank. Mr..
Dantzler had nothing to do with the
YES tickets, I brought them down
from Columbia myself, Mr.. Dantzler
had nothing to do with them. / want
to state about those negro votes that
mention was made Of yesterday, we
made no effort to secure the colored
vote, we rather tried to dis
suade them from voting, there was
not a dozen in that whole area that
voted, regardless of the fact that up
in Lexington there were representa-
tiyes who tried to get the fifteen
registered there to vote against the
formation of the new County.
Scme More Affidavits.
The State of South Carolina.
The undersigned being duly sworn
saws that he resides in the proposed
territory taking to form Calhoun
County and in the portion Of Orange
burg County, that he is qualified
elector. that he is one Of those quail
flied electors who was unable to vote
80, ,oooupt IF M voting D1ace being
opened at which he could vote, if he
could have voted he would have vot-
ed yes on the question of the torma-
ton of the new county commonly
spoken of as Calhoun County
S. G.. Kennerlin.
Similar afidavits were introduced
signed by R. L. Jackson. f. f. Hang
Ter, r !. Browning. p. l.. Polin. D.
L. Haieler, ]. B. Kemmerlin and B.
E. Cuttino.
S. J. Holiday testified as fol
lows:
@. Did you have copy Of the
poll lists made for the attorneys in
this case? A. We had it done by q
Stenographer.
@. Do you know whether Willie
Felkel is on that poll list Or not, as
having voted at Cameron, look on
: your list and see whether w. d
Felkel voted at Cameron? A. Yes
sir, w. D. Felkel did.
@. Get the Advance poll list and