The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-09-04
VOTED Two TICKETS
SOME BLEASE VOTERS DID THIS
IN sPARTANBURG,
There Seems to Have Been Great E-
reguiaSiies at Several Boxes In
That County.

reguisSities at Several Boxes In
That County.
The County OF spartsnburg seems
to have been honey-combed with
fraud on the day OF the primary. a
dispatch from that city says reports
of fraudulent voting are pouring in
from all sides and In a number of
cases are supported by, afldavits.
There is little doubt that hundreds
of illegal ballots were cast all over
the county. Men were allowed to
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 q
number Of precincts, and others slip
ped more ballots into the boxes than
they were entitled to, 1t Is alleged.
There was disposition Thursday
on the part Of the executive commit
tee to recount every ballot in the
county and to compare the total Of
each candidate with the result as Civ
,en 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
OF hurt by a recount.
1:Mr. Archer stated that the COM
mittee would have to- pass on pro-
tests 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
out. 1t Is considered, however, that
in other boxes such repeaters we're
successful in having their votes
counted.
The executive committee met In
the court house at noon Friday with
E. L. 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 a second
time there was only 20 members
present. Adjournment was taken un-
Ill noon Friday.
Determined to proceed regularly
regardless Of delay, number. Of the
members Of the committee will not
permit the important business before
the committee to be attended to until
there is majority Of the committee
present as required by parliamentary
practice. Even If there had been a
quorum piesent 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, he added,
the consequences might be serious.
The tabulation OF the vote and the
deviding OF contests will not be at
tended to unless majority Of the
members OF committee are on hand.
I: takes forty-teur 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 5rDlg
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.