The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-10-11
PAID FOR SEAT
Stephenson Admits Usipg 0zet Ore
Hundred Thousand Dollars
IN PRIMARY ELECTION

GAE 4 &ASAko A4AhA 0sA - = - ~ y
In Which BE Was Nominated TO the
United States Senate as Senator
from Wisconsin. Vet He SwearS He
Does Not Know Flow tfe None!
Was Spent,
On the witness stand at Milwaukee
Wis, before the senatorial inves
satips comnit1e tor three hours
answer charges that bribery and &C
rupt use OF money had contribute
to his election. United States Senao
Isaac Stephenson Monday swore that
although he spent $101.1eS in his
campaign. he had little knowledgs
as to just how it was expended. eN'
cept that it was not used in violation
Of the law.
The details, he said. he had LETT tc
his campaign managers. AS an IN
stance OF his ignorance Of just where
the money went he cited an item OF
$4,000 for postage.
Now" declared Senator Stepneu,
son, '.I am president OF more tnau
dozen active industries in TINS o'ate'
and I have IN my emploEe more .naD @
5000 men, some Of whom na'e Oeei,
With me for so years. IN 1hem J
have every confidence.
az do not pay any attention to the
so.,;,. of these industries. Just So.
when my campaign for nomination
~ +ha primaries in 1908 came up. ]
oonld not lay awake nights, trying tc
eeure how the postage was used. J
gave sums of money to my managers
and told them to carry on vigorol
campaign and do everything to ele
me, except that they must keep wit
in the law. cautioned them not
violate the law in any particular.
far as know, they obeyed me-
Citing proportionately large expen.
ditures for advertising, buttons, hth
graphs, advertising in newspapers and
travelling expenses. the witness tes
titled, he frequently asked where sc
much money was going. but On beins
told it was close fight, and the State
had to be Systematically canvassed tc
elect him, he questioned the matter
no further.
Two points, as being the position
Of the defense" in the inquiry which
is being conducted by a sub-commit-
tee of the senate committee on privi-
leges and elections, were made known
by Charles E. Littlefield, counsel fol
. Mr.. Stephenson-one was that the
committee had no authority to inves-
tigate the primary campaign of 1905
at which Mr.. Stephenson was nomi,
mated but must confne itself to ques.
ticning whether the senator actuall,
expended money for his election BY
the State legislature in 1908.
He asserted that all the money was
SpSuS III IAO AOA4&NCIISA c@A4o NV
dollar went to the election. Anothe'
declaration was that Mr.. Stephens
was elected by the legislature whit
both houses voted separately Jauna
26, 1909, and that the subseQue
election by the legislation Jointly -
March 4, 1909, when three Demo
cratic mem bers absented themselve:
and so gave Mr.. Stephenson a ma
jority was not necessary.
The committee announced that a
present it would not confine itself tt
any Of the limitations Mr.. Stephen
sca declared he had given money
for campaign purposes to men who
afterward became candidates for the
legislature and some of them were
elected, but he was not aware of theil
candidacy when he gave them money
t'The record shows that you pait
to your managers one day $4,000
and short time afterward gave then
$4,000 more" said Senator W. B
Hepburn, chairman. Didn't you eve'
ask them what they were doing Will
all that money!.
..No, only in general way"
In October, 1908, more than
month after the election, you gave
one Of your managers several thous
and dollars. Did you inquire as t.
what he wanted it for?''
.ENo. ! supposed it was for some
bill. They did not always presen
bills promptly. In the same way.
gave J. Earl Morgan, my soo-in-law
$4,000 for compaign expenses"
Didn't you pay three Democrats
members or any one for absentins
themselves from the legislature OF
March 4, 1909, so that you could have
majority"
"No. I never knew of any mem
Der having absented himself eScep
as I read it in the newspapers.
e. A. Edmunds, another election
manager, testified he knew of NJ
money having been illegally used il
Mr.. Stephenson's election. The bill
for advertising, he said, amounted tt
$4,000. A check Of 2, 500 had beer
paid to ]. W. Stone, State game war
den, on Mr.. Stephenson's instTuc
tions, he declared, but he did no
know to what use the money was put
II previous legislative Investigation
it was brought out that Stone distt
buted money to deputy wardens.
The committee will resume II
hearings tomorrow when some I
Senator Stephenson's campaign work
ers will be examined
Give a Helping Hand.
When you pull down the town II
which is your home, you are pulling