The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1908-03-31
REPUBLICANS TIRED .
OF FAKE CONTEsTs9
Disposition to Refuse the 50 ooo - +ho
nnu Contestants for Demo
cratic Seats.

Ihe contests for seats in conyress
ny a. +. Prioleau, A. D. Dantzl.y
ana Isaac Myers will continue inst
90 long as congress allows to these en-
eerprlshfg citizens the sum of So. OO0
or the expenses of their contests, But
from present Indications this is not
gong TO be much longer. AS Repres-
entatlve Mann of Illinois. chairman
OF the election committee which has
sat patiently through the absurd tar
Somerts" FOR three times, said to-
oa' TO the negro lawyer, Jacob
Nloorer, who appeared for Dantzler
amt Myers, it is Il fraud on the GOV
ernment' and as already stated in NV
telegraphic dispatch of yesterday, the
chairman indicated that he was in
favor OF not approving the expense
account. The law allows thn
expense account. The law allows the
actual expenses incurred by the con-
testants, "not exceeding So, O00.D
The account must be itcmiZcd, AMI
these negro statesmen are at least
sllarp enough to jitemize it up 10 the
w thousand. What Myers and
Dantzler do with the money 1 have
V heard, except, of course, that
their attorney, Jacob Moorer, r~cceiv-
es a Fee. Moorcr, it is safe to saw,
Is worth all he gets out Of it, not to
the government, but to the contest
ants who employ him. Priolcau pays
Gen. Dudley, his Washington attor-
ncy, Il small fee, and the rest of til,
$1,000 he is said to use for the pur-
pose, first. Of dcfraying the expenses
OF his W personal existence and the
expenses Of Il sufficient number Of
negroes 10 go to Il convention ono
where III his district to nominate him
Tor congress. The votes he gets in
the election al not take any great
amount OF money unless votes have
gone up pretty considerably in South
Carolina, for in the last election he
did not get but % in the whole dis
trict.
Chairman Mann today questioned
Jacob Moorer, the attorney, very
closely about the expense account and
gave the whole crowd of them a lit
tic impromptu lecture OIL the subject
OF coming here year after year with
these bogus contests.
"You had some sort of a case six
years a@o,' said Mr.. Mann, in sub
stance, to Moorcr. "Two Years ago
you came with a weaker case and
now You come with practically none
at all. 1t is difficult to understand
here what your kick is about. Accord
ing to your own statements there are
l,400 registered Republican voters in
the one county of Beaufort and 600
Democratic voters, and yet you poll
only 226 votes in the whole district.
In the face Of that showing, with l.
400 voters who are registered, you
come here and claim that YOU are de-
prived Of your right to register"
Talking up the expense matter then
and the fact that The eases are 50
flagrantly absurd, Mr.. Mann asked
Moorer if he thought it right and
just TO come here every two years and
ask congress to give them $1,000. The
Jnb.t,n.n ,r SJ,,ro,;. r,,l,. v.,. tb,t
he thought it WAS right. entering in
general Tie plea that they needed the
money.
One new member on the committee,
Mr.. Mausnr, a Republican who SEEM
ed anxious to DO the square thing
and oct al the true facts in the ease.
closely questioned Moorer about the
allegations that the negroes in South
Carolina were denied thc right to reg
lister. 1t is really Il pity that these
contestants and their lawyers could
not go before all the members OF con-
ercsS so that other Northern members
who have false impressions about The
methods Of Acknowledgement Of The
negro in the South could learn 0mc
thing as Mr.. Mauscr and the few 9TH
cr members Of the committee did.
N1oorer was wholly unable to cite any
convincing facts rs to negroes beng
denied registration, though he assert
ed that il was done. Mr.. Moss, rep
~rescnting Mr.. Lever. stated that he
had made an investigation in nearly
every county in South Carolina
where there had been allegations OF