The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1909-12-02
THE final CHAPTER
IN new COUNTY CONTEST.
HNDlNG OF STATE BOARD OF Can
VASSERS TO Be REVIEWED BY SU-
PREME COURT.

supreme coart will consider the en-
tire records in the contests and
protests in the matter of the cleo
tion held on August II upon the
fduestion of the formation Of new
county ont of parts of Williams
burg and Clarendon counties. A
tentative date for the hearing before
the court has been set for December g.
The new county proposition was
.Ssssassd. A writ Of cerliorarl IL
both the Clarendon and Williams
burg cases was issued today, osder-
ing the State board of canvassers to
transmit to the court all Of the rec
ords in the contests and protests
heard by it upon appeals from the
county boards of cansasserS IN
reference to the recen. election on
the new county proposition. There
are two complaints, one by W u Nc
Fadlen, of Clarendon county, and
JH Blackwell. of Williamsburg. Il
II Welsh of Columbia appears for
the relators.
In the petition from Clarendon
county, it is stated that the relator,
W D McFadden, is taxpayer, a
qualified elector and is resident
of the township of Sandy Grove, in
Clarendon county. The part pro,
posed to be cut off from Clarendon
county to form the new county
was the entire township of Sandy
Grove. An election was held IN the
i township on the new county propo-
ition. There was but one voting
lace IN the township, and the
ection was held at this.
The complaints state that there
were two kinds of ballots cast by
the voters at the election, one was in
favor of the new county and the
other was against it; the former was
of plain white paper and contained
:, the word eyes," in answer to the
question whether or not the new
county should be formed, and the
fxAer was different shade of color
and contained the word No." in
answer to the said question.
/. "That there was cast" continues
the complaint, "45 in favor of the
formation of the new county, and
of the latter, 25 against the same. y
1t is stated in the petition that the
election vas held out in the open,
the ballot box and the place OF
voting not being enclosed or ralled
off; that during the holding of the
election the voters were standing
around or near the ballot box and
it is charged that they could and
did see Others vote, and on account
of the difference in color of the bal
lots, they could and did know how
each other was voting upon the
question of formation of the new
county.
It continues: "That by reason OF
the said difference in the said color
of said ballots for and against the
formation of said new county the
secrecy of the ballot at said cleo
ton in said township was wholly
and entirely violated and destroyed,
and on account thereof the said
election was rendered null, voic
and of no effect; that the relatol
contested and protested said elec
ton on said ground before the conn
ty board of canvassers for Claren
don county, that SAID board ove-'
ruled this said protest and con-
test, and declared the result of sale
, election to be against the for
nation of the new county,"
The petition then says that th'
relator next appealed from the de
cision of the county board of can
.vassers to the board of State can
vassers, and that body, after hear
ing the appeal, dismissed 1t and
aff;rmod the decision of the cOun