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

you stood on this question? A.
was opposed to the new County, sir
O.. Will you state how the people
generally down in Goodbys stood
A. They were opposed to it, there
was forty-nine out of fifty opposed to
it.
@. What do you mean by that,
state if nearly all of them were .op-
posed to it? A. Yes sir they were
@. What county and state do you
reside in? County of Orangeburg,
State of South Carolina.
@. Tell the Court whether or not
you are a citizen Of the United
States? A. Yes sir, am.
@. Are you tax payer OF this
county? A. Yes sir, am.
@. State whether you are citizen
Of Orangeburg County and of South
Carolina. A. Yes sir I am.
@. State whether the voting place
at which you registered to vote was
in the proposed new county? a. No
sir it was not.
@. Do you live in the proposed new
County? A. Yes sir. I do live with
in the proposed new county.
Over One Hundred Disfranchised.
w. D. Houck being duly sworn
testifies as follows:
O. Where do you live Mr.. Hcuck?
A. In Orangeburg County.
@. What township do you live IN?
A. Goodbys.
@. State whether you are a quail
fed elector or not? A. Yes sir l
am.
G. You live inside the lines of
the proposed new county? A. Yes sir.
@. Where were you registered to
vote? A. At Dantzler's Mill.
@. Were you able to vote at the re-
cent election? A. No sir.
@. Do you mind telling how you
would have voted? A. Yes sir, I
would have voted against the new
county.
@. You know the voters who live
in Goodbys? A. les sir, most OF
them.
@. Were there any considerable
number of, them who were deprived
of voting in the recent election? A.
They did not any Of them vote.
@. What would that number
amount to? A. 1t would be some
thing over a hundred 1 think.
Cross examination by Mr.. Welch.
@. What township are you in? A.
In Goodbys.
@. How many voters were there
in your township that could not
vote? A. There was good large
number somewhere about a hundred.
@. That could not vote? A. Yes
sir.
@. Have you got list Of those
names? A. No sir.
Q.-There are hundred In that
one township? A. Yes sir I think SO.
@. What township is that? A.
That is Goodbys.
@. Do you know of your own
knowledge that there are a hundred
voters on those books? A. l don't
think there are but eighty odd, that
is what have heard, did not count
them.
O.. You did not count them? A..
No sir.
@. There are not more than eighty
on the books that could vote? A. I
don't know that positively sir.
@. When you say that there were
80 on the books that could vote that
is merely heresay? A. Yes sir.
@. When you said that there were
over a hundred voters there you
meant to include those who had not
registered A. Yes sir all of them.
@. How about in Poplar township?
A. I don't know so much about that.
Not Allowed to Vote.
A. R. Parler being duly sworn tes-
titles as follows:
@. State whether you are citizen
of the United States, Of South Caro-
lima, and of Orangeburg County Mr..
Parler? A. Yes sir I am.
@. What township do you live in?
A. Goodbys.
@. Are you within the lines of the
proposed new County? A. Yes sir.
@. Did you register to vote? A.
Yes sir.
@. You paid your taxes? A. Yes
sir.
@. Where do you regularly vote?
A. At Dantzler's Mill.
@. Is that in the new County or
outside? A. That is outside.
@. Were you able to vote at the
election on the new County? A. No
sir.
@. You know the voters Of Good
bys, were there any others in your
position that could not vote? A
Yes sir.
Cross Examination by Mr.. Nelch.
@. You were on the inside Of the
new County? A. Yes sir.
@. And on account of your box be-
ing on the outside you could not
vote? A. That is right sir.
@. If you had voted you would
have voted against the new County?
A. Yes.
O. How many registered voters
were there in your condition" A
ouacc tharu wpre about seventy. if