The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-10-08
ACTION POSTPONED
|BY HOUSE ELECTIONS Committee
WHICH HEARS
TESTIMONY OF grace

Charleston Mayor Returns to Wash
ing With Friends, Several of Whom
Take the Stand Against Congress
man Whaley, and Tell of Money Al
legged to Have Been Spent.
The house committee on elections
resumed it's inquiry at Washington
Wednesday to determine whethe
there shall be regular investigation
of the charges filed last week by May
or John P. Grace OF Charleston
against Representative Richard S
Whaley, in which the latter wa:
charged with having used something
like 100000 to secure his seat il
congress and with having made
number of false affidavits in connec
ton with such expenditures.
When Mr. Grace reached Washing
ton he had with him Frank Hogan
William Wingate, Scully Sullivan
Mike Barry, Steve Sergeant and Leor
H. Larrissey, by whom he expects tt
prove his case against Mr.. Whaley
Those who testified at Wednesdays
session were: Hogan, Barry, Ser
geant and Larissey.
Hogan, a policeman, designated b!
Mr.. Whaley as political follower ol
the mayor, told the house committee
that Whaley had said: 81 am going
to congress or I am going broke
; According to Hogan, whose dialect
made him a picturesque witness, he
was working for E. ". Hughes, op'
posing Whaley, and hordled a cam
paign fund of about $1,000 in the
| first primary and about $1,000 in the
second. N1r. WhaIey, Hogan said
tried to get him to switch his sup
port He asked me to handle some
money for him." testified Hogan. 81
told Whaley that I was Hughes
man straight out. Whaley suggested
that I take $50 then, but I didn't
Harry Friend told me he got $500 tc
use for Whaley in Ward 9, and I saw
the money"
Members of the committee asked il
Friend was the sort of man to be
carrying around $500 of his OWL
money. Hogan thought not, saying
he believed Friend was out OF a 5ot
at the time. The witness also said
he had heard that Bob Wicket got
5000 from Whaley and that Louie
Marilla and Barney Carey got about
$4,000. Testifying that money
seemed to be plentiful n the primary
campaign, Hogan said the night be-
fore the election men were going
,about Charleston streets saying:
l"There was lots Of money down al
Whaley headquarters" and asking
one another if they "got any,.
Mike Barry testified that J. ]
O'Shannessy had "a big pile Of Whal'
ey money" in the second primary
and that it was we'll known that il
was Whaley money. He quoted
! O'Shannessy as saying that "he hao
the mazuma to carry the day." ma
muza meaning money. Barry also
testified that John Cameron hac
handed out Whaiey money.
Sergeant, who said he was an en-
ployee Of the Coast Line railroad
told the committee that J. N. 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
primary in the ninth ward, and tha,
the Hughes workers spent between
$4,000 and $4,000.
Barry testified that at one time he
ran a blind tiger and the city OF
Charleston fined him every three
months. The efforts of the commit
| tee we're directed towards an inves'
tigation of the character Of the wit
nesses produced as we'll as to what
thev knew direct concerning the buy
| ing of votes in the First district. A
great deal was told, but much OF Il
was hearsay, and this made little Il
any impression upon the members q
the committee. While at interval:
something was said which would in
dicate that Mr.. Whaley's friends hac
spent large amounts of money fol
him, summing it all up, there was al
most as much testimony against the
Hughes supporters as there wa:
against those of Mr.. Whaley.
While the witnesses testified to Ger
tain money having been passed abou'
which had the Whaley tag on it, anc
while much was said about Whaley':
tremendous "swag" and how it nigh
be gotten, testimony was OF an indl
rect kind and few instances of direc
vote buying were brought out which
seemed to impress the committee
| Summing the whole days proceed
ings up. it is narrowed down to the
fact that S13, 900 is the amount sait
to have been expended in the nintl
Charleston city ward for Whaley ant
Hughes-about $4,000 by Whale,
and the remainder by Hughes.
Mr.. Whaley was guest Of Cpeake1
Clark at an elegant luncheon served
in the capitol.