The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-09-06

and who were not registered within
due and proper time, and who deter
mined upon examination of the club
list whether the party was entitled to
vote or not. The count and tabula-
ton of the vote cast at each precinct
in the State except in a few instances
mentioned above, was made by and
under the control of the managers at
each precinct who were supporters
and sympathizers of the contestant.
The several county executive commit
tees who were to canvass the vote and
declare the result of the election and
to determine the contests, so far as
their authority extended, were sup
porters and sympathizers of the con-
testant. And finally, the county exc
cutive committee who certified and de-
termined the result OF the election
which was sent to you, the State exc
cutive committee, we're, with few ex-
ceptions mentioned above, supporters
and sympathizers of the contestant.
And particularly is this true as to the
counties of Aiken, Anderson, Chester,
Cherokee, Spartanburg, Union and
York, where this respondent received
large majorities, except in the county
of Chester, where neither received a
majority of the votes cast and these
are the counties where the large bulk
of the Democratic vote of South Caro-
lima is cast. In the county of Green
vile also, where the contestant receiv-
ed samll majority, is this true.
If any irregularities were commit
ted in the conduct of the election, if
any frauds were perpetrated in the
election, it was with the knowledge,
consent, acquiescence or negligence OF
the supporters 'and sympathizers of
the contestant 1t is respectfully sub
mitted to this committee that it does
not with propriety lie in the mouth of
the contestant to charge, with these
facts in view, that there was general
fraud and irregularities in the pri-
mary election of the Democratic par
ty held in the 9th of last month. This
respondent ayers that whatever may
have been the Irregularities charged,
but which are not disclosed, by any
definite statement of the contestant, OR
any fraud committed which this re-
spondent will not permit himself to
believe, can not affect the result of
the election, for alleges that, of all the
legal votes that were cast, he received
a majority over both his opponents
This respondent submits that if there
were frauds comnlitted at the election
in South Carolina, they were matters
and subjects of which the contestants
had information which was not pos
sessed by him; but he has expressed
himself, and now desires to place upon
record, in reply to this notice of con-
test that the primary election held
resulted in his receiving a majority
of the duly qualified voters of the
State of South Carolina for the office
which he was seeking, and that not
single vote cast for him can be proven
to have been fraudulent or illegal, nor
has any attempt been made to make
the charge in any direct way, so far as
he knows, and if this charge is made
definite and to the point, this respond
ent is prepared to disprove the same.
Wherefore he submits to the exc
cutive committee that the voters of
the State of South Carolina having
exercised their right to vote in ac-
cordance with the statutes of the
State and the constitution and rules
of the Democratic party, have voted
and have given this respondent ma
jority of such votes for the office of
governor, that he has been elected as
such and should be so declared by
this State executive committee.
John NJ. Cannon,
Fred H. Dominick.
Attorneys for Cole. L. Blease."
Notice to Attorneys.
'To R. W. Shand, Frank G. Tompkins
and w. H. Townsend, Esqs., Attor-
neys for Ira B. Jones:
please take notice that the re-
spondent will demand that you make
more specific and definite the grounds
of your contest in the particulars
mentioned and set forth in the reply
of this respondent, so that this re-