Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-28
MAYOR CHARGES
CONGRESSMAN
BOUGHT HIS SEAT.
Cha4eston's Executive Declares
Representative WhaIey Spent
$4,000 in Campaign.
APPEAL MADE TO SPEAKER
Members Of South Carolina Dele
cation Refuse to Take Up the
Charges Of Grace.

CHARLESTON. 8. c., Sept 81
There IA intense interest here in the
charges brought by Mayor John p
Grace against Congressman Richard
s. Whsley. The Mayors petition 10
Speaker Clark for an investigation Of
the election Of Congressman WhaIey
AYERS that Whalev spent more than
$4,000 in tho Democratic primaries
OF last April Whaley ran against f.
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
niles Of long standing.
False Returns Charged.
Mayor Grace has declared that Mr..
Whaley made a false return OF hs
election expenses In the affidavit filed
with the Clerk OF the House, as re-
quired by law. Whaley's return de-
clares that he spent less than 81, 900,
the maximum allowed by law. Mayor
Grace alleges that Mr.. Whaley ex-
pended many times that sum.
Mayor Grace has admitted that ell
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 hai
the matter up at Washington from
time TO time, especially with Senator
TiIman, before whom he laid a full
statement and to whom he appealed
10 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
course OF action he had promised to
take toward forcing an Investigation.
II 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, IL for no other reason than that
the allegations are fRthered by Mayor
Grace, whose reputation as a charac-
ter thief. and whose vile opposition to
me politically and personally, is well
known to the people of the State and
district
"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.
Il confess no surprise at the action
OF Mayor Grace: he is my political
and personal enemy, the personal and
political enemy of my family for
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
tied and insane mind, thinks like a
house afire and Is about as destruc-
tive and illogical.
He has ambition and loves power
IS much as any man ! have ever seen.
He is a chronic ofticeseeker having
run for the State Senate and being
overwhelmingly defeated He then
ran for Sheriff, and was overwhelm-
ingly defeated by the people OF mis-
own county, who knew him best"