Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-28
MAYOR CHARGES
CONGRESSMAN
BOUGHT HISSEAT
CharIeston's Executive Declares
Representative WhaIey Spent
100000 in Campaign.
APPEAL MADE TO SPEAKER
Members of South Carolina Dele
cation Refuse to Take Up the
Charges of Grace.
APPEAL MADE TO SPEAKER

CHARLESTON, g. c., Sept. H.
There is intense interest here in the
charges brought by Mayor John P.
Grace against Congressman Richard
8 Whaley. The Mayors petition to
speaker Clark for an Investigation of
the election of CONGRESSMAN wbalev
AYERS that Whaley spent more than
$4,000 IN the Democratic primaries
OF last April. whaley ran against e.
W. Hughes in the final primary, after
several candidates had been elimi-
mated. and the Grace forces actively
supported Hughes.
Grace and whaley are political enc
mics Of long standing.
False Returns Charged.
Mayor Grace has declared that Mr..
Whaley made a false return Of his
election expenses in the affidavit filed
with the Clerk Of the House, an re-
Quired by law. Whaley's return de-
clares that he spent less than $4,000,
the maximum allowed by law. Mayor
Grace alleges that Mr.. Whaley ex-
pended many times that sum.
Mayor Grace has admitted That sIl
parties to the contest expended large
sums, and he has insisted that a full
inquiry should be made and a general
cleaning up undertaken. He has had
the matter UP at Washington from
time to time, especially with Senator
Tillman, before whom he laid g full
statement and to whom he appealed
to bring about an investigation.
In correspondence between Mayor
Grace and Senator Tillman, recently
published, the Mayor charged that
the Senator had been diverted by
political friends Of the Senator and
Representative Whaley from a
course of action he had promised to
take toward forcing an investigation.
1t has been understood that none
of the South Carolina delegation In
Congress would undertake. to move
for an investigation of the charges
made by Mayor Grace against Mr..
Whaley, and Mr.. Grace has insisted
that he would find some way to bring
the matter before the House of Rep
resentatives. The appeal to the
Speaker is the method he has adopt
ed.
Congressman Whaley characterizes
the charges, according to published
reports, as a tissue of lies from be-
ginning to end. He is quoted further
as follows:
Grace His Enemy.
THE people of South Carolina and
the city Of Charleston know this to be
a fact II for no other reason than that
the allegations are fathered by Mayor
Grace, whose reputation as a 'charac-
ter thief, and whose vile opposition to
me, politically and personally, is we'll
known to the people Of the State and
district
1.-THE man whom defeated for the
nomination, Mr.. Hughes, has made no
protest, although he could have made
such a protest to the State Board Of
Canvassers and the House of Repre-
sentatives in the proper way.
IT confess no surprise at the action
of Mayor Grace; he is my political
and personal enemy, the personal and
politicaI enemy of my family for
years, anu IL 10 ahOtH0t oFluSuSo u
the vindictive and unrelenting char
acter Of the man who happens. By
accident, to be the Mayor Of Charles
ton. Mayor Grace has an morgan
lied and insane mind, thinks like a
house af1re and is about as destruc-
tive and illogical.
HE has ambition and loves power
as much as any man l have ever seen.
He is a chronic officeseeker, having
run for the State Senate and being
overwhelmingly defeated. He then
ran for Sheriff, and was overwhelm-
ingly defeated by the people Of his
own county, who knew him best"