The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-09-27


hand, either produced by contestants,
the public or appearing from the rec
ords collected by the subcommittee
appointed heretofore, and it will be
the endeavor of the committee to take
up the counties and complete them,
one at time, beginning at Spartan
burg, this course to be varied as JUS
tice may require, Of course.
T IS. The character of evidence and
the method of production will have to
be determined by the committee from
time to time as the questions arise"
At the second session of the day
much discussion was had by the attor-
neys for the governor as to the pro-
cedure of the committee and the meth
'od of inquiry adopted. Appearing for
Judge Jones at the hearing are R. w.
Shand and w. H. Townsend. The gov
Eernor is in the city. but did not attend
the hearings. He is represented by F..
H. Dominick, E. S. Blease, J. NJ. Can
non and S. J. Nichols.
A roll call of the counties in the
district apportioned to Mr.. Parks was
made and reports from the counties
entered in the record when available.
Spartanburg was first considered.
H. A. Phifer, for the subcommittee of
the county Democratic executive COM
mittee, presented the report. Mr..
Phifer presented specifications of al
legged frauds. The subcommittee has
not completed the work of making the
probe of the county, but presented
numerous alleged irregularities In
stances are given of persons voting
twice, negroes voting who are not
eligible to cast ballot and of per-
sons voting who did not have their
names on the club rolls. The partial
report admitted today gives large
number of names arranged as to pre-
cincts as voting where their names
did not appear on the club rolls. A
further investigation must be made
by the county subcommittee to ascer-
tain whether or not certain votes cast
more than once under the same name
are repeaters Or persons of the same
name.
Abbeville county was called. A con-
test there was recognized by the coun-
ty committee and two boxes-Cold
Spring and Rntreville-were thrown
out because the managers and voters
were not sworn
Charges in Aiken.
In Aiken the subcommittee has not
reported but specifications as to al
legged fraud are made.
The report of the subcommittee of
the county committee in Anderson
was put in evidence. After reading
only a portion, further reading was
dispensed with and the document was
entered in the record.
The subcommittee of the Bamberg
county executive committee has not
filed it's report. No report has been
received from Barnwell. In Beaufort
there is no evidence of fraud.
A report from Cherokee stated the
existence of irregularities but no
proof of intent to commit fraud. The
primary was conducted in slipshod
manner, according to the report.
In Edgefeld no irregularities were
noticed.
A report from the subcommittee OF
the county executive committee in
Greenville says: There were numer
Gus irregularities appearing of one
kind and another but in the main we
can not find evidence that these ir-
regularities were with fraudulent in
tent or accomplished fraudulent pQr-
pose.o The committee is inclined to
believe many negroes enrolled are
fictitious. Central box at Greenville
was freely considered. MANY names
on the club roll there can not be iden-
tilted. At each of the clubs examined
10 per cent. to Is per cent. of those
who voted can not be identified. Num-
erous incidents were discovered where
persons who are dead or removed
from the county are recorded as hav-
ing voted
Greenwood's report was not ready
when that county was called.
In Hampton the subcommittee re-
ports the primary conducted loosely,
but no more so than in previous years.
lMr. Jeffries announced that in Jas
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