The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-09-04
VOTED Two TICKETS
SOME BLEAsE VOTERS DID THIS
IN sPARTANBURG,
9aere Seems to Fave Been Great r.
Irregularities at Several Boxes In
That County.

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That County.
The County Of Spartanburg seem,
to have been honey-combed witt
fra1d on the day OF the primary. 4
dispatch from that city says reports
Of fraudulent voting are pouring II
from all sides and In a number 0.
cases are supported by, amdayits
There is little doubt that hundreds
Of illegal ballots we're cast ell over
the county. Men were allowed tc
vote whose names did not appear on
the club rolls, and their names were
! added afterwards; minors were al
lowed to vote, some men voting at g
number Of precincts, and others slip
ped more ballots into the boxes than
they were entitled to, 1t Is alleged.
There was a disposition Thursday
on the part Of the executive commit
tee to recount every ballot in the
each candidate with the result as CIV
Le1 on the returns Of the precinct
managers. The managers will also
be requested to deliver to the eXecu-
tive committee the club rolls, in or
der that the number Of votes cast
may be compared with the number
enrolled. The committee Is deter
mined to have fair and truthful re-
turns, regardless Of who is benefited
or hurt by & recount.
-:Mr. Archer stated that the COM
m1ttee would have to. pass on pro-
tssts from Cherokee, Arkwright,
Trough, and Inman. These protests
have been formally laid before the
committee. At Walnut Grove, 1t is
reported, several minors voted. In
Ward in that city several cases
we're discovered when a voter had
folded two ballots together and cast
them into the box. These votes,
which we're for Blease, were thrown
cut. 1t Is considered, however, that
in other boxes such repeaters were
successful in having their votes
counted.
The executive committee net In
the court house at noon Friday with
e. Z. Archer presiding as chairman
and 8. T. Lanham at his post as Sec
retary. The roll call showed only
twenty-five members present, less
than a mapority. The point Of no
quorum was raised and sustained by
the chairman and upon motion the
committee receeded from business
until three o'clock in the afternoon.
When the committee met q second
time there was only 20 members
present. Adjournment was taken un-
I'll noon Friday.
Determined to proceed regularly
regardless Of delay. a number. of the
members Of the committee will not
permit the important business before
the committee to be attended to until
there is a majority Of the committee
present as required by parliamentary
practice. Even If there had been a
quorum paesent Friday, however, the
committee could not have reported
on the vote as the boxes Of four pre-
cincts are still missing.
There being no quorum of the
committee on Friday, the committee
met again at noon Monday. Mr..
Archer said he would insist on a
quorum being present. II there
should be further delay, ne added,
the consequences might be serious.
The tabulation of the vote and the
deviding OF contests will not be ct
tended to unless majority Of the
members Of committee are on hand.
I: takes forty-tour members to make
a quorum. At no time Thursday
were there more than forty members
present.
Mr.. Archer repeated his order that
the managers Of all the boxes brDlg
their club rolls to the executive COM
mittee, IN order that the number OF
votes csat may be compared with the
number OF voters on the rolls. He
said that II the managers failed to
appreciate the Importance Of send
ing in the rolls the presidents Of the
clubs should attend to it and send in
the rolls to the executive committee.