The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-10-01
CLOSES
UP-COUNTRY SESSION
To Make Report to Executive Commit
tee in Columbia on Tuesday
Very Little Done.

mittee of the executive committee OF
the Democratic party of South Caro-
lima finished its labors as a committee
of the whole today until the members
assemble in Columbia Monday to con-
slider all testimony in hand and pre-
pare a report for the State executive
committee The day spent in Ander-
son did not prove exciting. Late in
the afternoon the committee went
into executive session and decided
that the committee will meet in the
State library Of the State house at
Columbia Monday at 2 o'clock to re-
view the work done and prepare its
report.
The work done by the subcommit
te from the Anderson committee has
been painstaking and thorough, and
when the committee arrived here it
found matter for its consideration in
excellent shape for action. After a
day in which considerable time was
lost in one way and another plans for
the continuance and conclusion of the
work of the committee were adopted
late in the afternoon.
To Continue Work.
J. D. Bivens and R. NJ Jeffries
will proceed to Orangeburg to con-
duct an investigation there of the dis
appearance of the rolls and any other
irregularities noted. T. B. Butler is
authorized by the committee to col
lect all affidavits at Spartanburg and
other evidence at hand and convey it
to the committee for the meeting
Monday.
J. T. Duncan was notified that the
will be expected to file with the COM
mittee not later than Monday affi-
dayits in support of the charges men
toned in his affidavit filed with this
committee yesterday This is expected
to include an affidavit from W. A. Lee
Of Pelzer, a witness mentioned in the
affidavit from Duncan yesterday, who
was advised by telegraph to present
himself here today. Efforts were made
by telephoning to Pelzer to secure
Lees presence. Duncan arrived in the
late afternoon and read his affidavit
already submitted. His presence had
been requested by the committee in
an effort to have the charges offered
by the deponent made more explicit
Duncan this afternoon inserted in the
AFFIDAVIT the statement that Lees as
sertIon as to being paid 81 day by
Jones supporters and statement
that two corporation physicians had
stated that Jones supporters had de-
posted $10S,COO in banks for work in
the last ten days of the campaign were
made to him by Lee
inquiry in Anderson.
The investigation here disclosed
that the work of the subcommittee
has shown that in an alphabetical list
of names On poll lists, carried through
"a, b, C, d, e, f." there are IS names
that appear more than once Some
of the names are On the lists as many
IS eight times and in each of the IS
cases the names appear as often as
twice. The total number of names in
question is about 200. The subcom-
mite, represented this afternoon
principally through Leon L. Rice and
W. H. Garfield, has been able to make
an alphabetical copy of the names
only through the first six letters of
the alphabet.
1t was decided this afternoon that
the duplicate names should be called
by the chairman and those in the
crowd in attendance at The court
house should De given al opportunity
status of the names. The committee
wishes to establish as far as possible
whether the names represented sepa-
rate individuals or one person voting
more than once
AS Mr. Stevenson called the dupli-
cate names persons in the crowd spoke
up and offered, at the suggestion of i
the committee, to make afidavits of !
the existence of such persons at the
polling places mentioned. A number
OF persons volunteered to give af1da-
Wits. Among the most prominent were
Josh Ashley, Joe H. NJ Ashley, re-
Gently elected sheriff, and D. L. Gray,
elected TO the legislature at the re-
cent primary
As the names were called the chair
NAN of the committee, ". F. Steven
CON anrara6 tho Oan1nr of +boco ~