The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-11-13
ELECTION DECLARED


THE USUAL "DooYMENr" FILED
FOR CONTEST,
But the canvassers Declared the
Election for Lever According 70
the Votes Cast.
Congressman A. F. Lever VIII
have a. contest on hand. To contest
seat in congress is a cinch, The
object of the game is not to "oust
the incumbent, but to have the fun
Of contesting. And in addition ~
this lively sport, the contestee gets
$4,000 of. Uncle Sans rarest coin
age.
Now that's enough to make any
body wish to contest. And in TINS
district it requires no trouble TO nno
a Republican candidate for congress.
ANY cornfeld darkey will do. Bu!
this wear there is new Richmond
in the held,ya negro by the name OF
r. H. Richardson.
He is new candidate, but there
is no change of lawyer. Jacob MOOR
er of Orangeburg is on the 1oo
Jacob is small and black and unct
ious but he is one of the shrewdest
politico-lawyers in the State.
No. there seems to be no trouble
about getting some negro to run ror
congress in this district. Just let
some friend or friends raise the
funds with which to conduct the
campaign, and that's all-except
Jacob.
OF course, the straw man candl-
date 1gets howled over at the polls.
And here is where Jacob comes in:
No matter how great the discrepancy
in the vote, Jacob cries mo fair
and makes protest. Congress, or
course, always seats Mr.. Lever, but
Jacobs client gets the $4,000 foi
contesting.
Richardson, the contesting person,
is a Sumter negro and is said 10
have some education, but he hasn't
got a chance in the world. Why,
he never carried a box in the county,
and did not expect to do so when
he entered the race against Mr..
Lever. He was running for cos
test fee, not a seat in congress
Commissioners of Federal Elec-
ton met Tuesday to canvass the
vote cast in this county. After go
ing over the returns from the diff
ferent precincts in the county the
Commissioners decided the follow
ing to have been the vote cast for
President: Bryan, 2,6S7; Taft 4O5;
Hisgen, l; for Congress, Lever,
2,71O; Richardson, 3SS. Here is
where jacob got in his first start
for5ithat $4,000, that he has been
bunooing Uncle Sam out of for the
last,$slx years. Nothing about the
election pleased this ebony disciple
of Blackstone.
Every one knew this would be
the case before the election was
held. Nothing pleases Jacob but d
division OF that contest fee. This il
not to be wondered at, when it is
known that Jacobs half of the fee
constitutes his chief income and on
which he depends for meat and meal
for two long years. The only
trouble about these contests, so far
as Jacob is concerned, they are two
far apart. He would like to have
one every six months or oftener
provided, of course, he got the con-
test fee in every contest. Jacob be-
lieves in contests. He would not
have his client seated without on.
for the world, as that would intel
fere seriously with his income.
When the Board Of Canvassers
had concluded their labors and was
about to adjourn, after declaring the
result of the election, Jacob sprung
the following "docyment" on them,
which he had no doubt written out
for the past six months or longer:
State of South Carolina, County OF
Orangeburg.
To the Board of Canvassers for the
Election of Federal Officers:
Please take notice that the under
signed. R. H. Richardson, Republi-
can candideEe for the Sixty-frst
congress from the Seventh district
Of South Carolina, protest against
the counting. tabulating and return
ing of any and all votes cast for A.
F. Lever, Democratic candidate, at
the election held November 3, 1908,
upon the following grounds:
!. Because the managers of said
election unlawfully rejected a suf-
ficient number of votes to have
changed the result of the election.
2. Because the managers of said
election required qualifications oil
the voters not provided for either
in the constitution of 1868 or in the
constitution of 1895 in this State.
R. H. RICHARDSON,
JACOR MOORER Protestant