The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-09-17

your committee, and put where we can
lay our hands upon them if necessary,
and we call upon you as chairman to
secure these poll lists and club rolls
and advise at once what you have
done. If any party in possession of a
club roll refuses to turn it in we want
to be advised about it so that we can
proceed at once to bring suit, if nee
essary, for the same.
Please advise your subcommittee OF
the plan Of action as herein o,.-'inei,
and see that j. Is carried out, keep
ing me advise as TO it's progress.
Yours truly,
J. B. Park
County Chairman DOminick's Reply.
Newberry, S. c., Sept. 16, 1912.
Mr.. J. B. Park, Chairman of Sub
Committee of State Democratic Exc
cutive Committee, Greenwood, S. C..
Dear Sir: Upon my return home l
am in receipt of your letter of Sep
tember II, asking for certain informa-
ton in regard to the first primary
election in Newberry county.
In reply to same, 1 will say that I
am now serving my fourth term as
county chairman of Newberry county
and in my experience as such, and
during my connection with politics,
can not recall any fairer or squarer
election ever held in the county, and
resent, for the county, the imputa-
tions of any fraud or illegal practices
cast upon the election in this county.
AS you and great many other peo-
pie throughout the State who are con-
versant with political affairs know, I
had especial reasons to see that ev-
erything in this county was conducted
strictly in accordance with the consti-
tuition and rules of the Democratic
party. On account of my absence
from the county for some time, the
of the county campaign
was placed in the hands of the secre-
tary of the county executive commit
tee, Mr.. Frank R. Hunter, than whom
there is no fairer man in the county
cf Newberry. The managers of elec-
ton in this county, Notwithstanding
the fact that the rules provide they
shall be elected or appointed by the
executive committee, were left to each
executive committeeman. The exccu-
tive committee in this county has a
small majority in favor of Governor
Blease, but, Notwithstanding this fact,
all managers of election were appoint
ed upon the recommendation of the
executive committeeman from the re-,
spective clubs, whether they were
Jones or Blease men. l might say, by
way of parenthesis, that at one of the
largest clubs in the county, which
was one of the strongest anti-Blease
clubs in the county, Mr.. Eugene S.
Blease was the executive committee
man from that club, and the managers
at that club consisted of one Blease
man, one Jones man and one man
whose political preference 1 do not
know, not knowing now how he voted,
these managers being appointed upon
Mr.. Rlease's recommendation.
After the votes were cast and the
executive committee was called upor
to tabulate the returns and announce
the result, every one of the boxes in
the county was before the committee
intact, none of them having been open
Su Ny luS. SCCl CIdl y VI ny hlySOll n
tabulating committee was appointed,
consisting CT Mr.. Joseph L. Keitt, re-
puted campaign MANAGER of Judge
Jones in this county; Mr.. T. o. Stew
art, who openly announced at t
time that he had been a candidate and
was not partisan for either side, and
Mr.. B. B. Leitzsey, supporter of Gov.
Blease. The committee made the tabu-
alton Two petitions were filed ask
ing for a recount CT all the votes of
the county, which were refused on
account of the absence of any speci-
fc charges of any fraud or even ir-
regularity Appeal was taken from
the action of the committee to the
State committee, and the action of the
county committee and my ruling in
tho matter were sustained without OBJ