The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-10-04

Washington, Oct. 1.-The house
committee on elections resumed it's
inquiry here today to determine
whether there shall be a regular in
vestigation of the charges filed last
week by Mayor John p. Grace of
Charleston against Representative
Richard S. Whaley. in which the lat
ter was charged with having used
something like 100000 to secure his
seat in congress and with having made
number OF false affidavits in con-
nection with such expenditures.
When Mr. Grace reached Washing
ton today he had with him Frank
Hogan. William Wingate, Scully Sui
livan, Mike Barry, Steve Sergeant and
Leon III. Larrissey, by whom he ex-
poets to prove his case against Mr..
Whaley. Those who testified at to-
days session were: Hogan, Barry,
Sergeant and Larrissey.
Hogan, q policeman. designated by
Mr.. Whaley as a political follower of
the mayor. told the house committee
that Whaley had said: II am going
to congress or l am going broke"
According to Hogan. whose dialect
made him picturesque witness. he
was working for E. w. Hughes, OPP
posing Whaley, and handled a cam
paign fund Of about 200 in the first
primary and about $1,000 in the sec
ond. Mr.. Whaley, Hogan said, tried to
get him to switch his support. "IIe
asked me to handle some money for
him." testified Hogan. II told
Whaley that was Hughes man
straight out. Whaley suggested that
take $50 then. but didn't. Harry
Friend told me he got $500 to use for
Whaley in Ward 8. and l saw the
money!
Members Of the committee asked If
Friend was the sort Of q man to be
carrying around $500 of his own
money. Hogan thought not, saying he
believed Friend was out Of a job at
the time. The witness also said he
had heard that Bob Wickott got 5000
from Whaley and that Louie Marilla
and Barney Carey got about $4,000.
Testifying that money seemed to be
plentiful in the primary campaign.
Hogan said the night before the cleo
ton men were going about Charleston
streets saying: There was lots oe
money down at Whaley headquarters
and asking one another if they got
any,"
Mike Barry testified that j. j.
O'Shannessy had "a big pile Of
Whaley money" in the second primary
and that IL was we'll known that it
was Whaley money. He quoted
O'Shannessy as saying that "he had
the mazuma to carry the day." ma
yuma meaning money. Barry also tes-
titled that John Cameron had handed
out Whaley money.
Sergeant, who said he was an en-
ploye of the Coast Line railroad, told
the committee that ]. NJ. Reeves was
paid for his vote. and that the Whaley
people spent money freely, buying
whole families. He said the head of
one family got $50 for his vote.
The witness said he believed
Whaley spent $4,000 in the second pri-
mary In the ninth ward, and that the
Hughes workers spent between $4,000
and $1,000.
Barry testified that at one time he
ran blind tiger and the city OF
Charleston fined him every three
months. The efforts Of the commit
tee today were directed towards an
investigation OF the character of the
witnesses produced as we'll as to what
they knew direct concerning the buy
ing of votes I'm the First district. a
great deal was told. but much OF it
was hearsay. and this made little it
any impression upon the members of
| the committee. While at intervals
\
| dicate that Mr.. Whaley's friends had
spent large amounts of money for him.
I summing ii all up, there was almost
as much testimony against the
Hughes supporters as there was
against those Of Mr.. Whaley.
While the witnesses testified to GER
which had the Whaley tag on II, and
while much was said about Whaley' =
tremendous "swag" and how il might
be gotten, testimony was of an iudi-
rect Kind aud few instances of direct
vote buying were brought out which