The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-10-03
CHARGES HEARD.
Chairman Post Quoted as Being In
clined to Think Committee will Make
Investigation in Decembel


ley case before Elections committee
No. l, Representative Post, of Ohio,
chairman of the committee, said that
it had been decided to defer further
consideration of the case in the COM
mittee until December l. Mr.. Post
seemed inclined to think that the COM
mittee would then proceed to an inves-
tigation
Besides filing with the committee a
number of afidavits which the COM
mittee has not yet examined, Mayor
Grace brought with him today the fol-
lowing witnesses, VINO appeared before
the committee in person and testified
in support of the Grace petition: H.
Leon Larisey, Frank Hogan, Michael
Barry, Steve Sergeant and William
Wingate. The Times, an afternoon
paper here, gives this account Of the
hearing:
Mayor John P. Grace, of Charles
ton, who says Congressman Richard
Whaley, of the first South Carolina dis
trict, spent 100000 to be nominated and
elected to the house as the successor
of the late Congressman Geo. S. Le-
care, sought to substantiate mis-
charges before the house elections
committee at noon today by bringing
Charleston witnesses who participat-
ed in the spirited campaign Frank
Hogan, policeman and designated by
Mr.. Whaley as political follower of
the mayor, told the house committee
that Whaley had said, I am going to
congress or I am going broke.
According to Hogan, whose dialect
made him a picturesque witness, he
was working for Candidate Hughes,
opposing Whaley, and handled cam
paign fund of about $1,000 in the first
primary, and about $1,000 in the Sec
ond. Mr.. Whaley, Hogan said, tried to
get him to switch his support. He
asked me to handle some money for
l. him. testified Hogan. I told Whaley
l was a Hughes man straight out.
:Whaley suggested that I take $50 then,
but I didn't. Harry Friend told me
he got $500 to use for Wnaley in Ward
9, and l saw the money
Members of the committee asked if
Friend was the sort of man to be car
rying around $500 of his own money,
Hogan thought not, saying he believed
Friend was out of job at the time.
The witness also said he had heard
that Bob Wicket got 5000 from Whaley
and that Louie Marilia and Barney
Carey got about $4,000. Testifying
that money seemed to be plentiful in
the primary campaign, Hogan said
that the night before the election men
were going about Charleston streets
saying, "There was lots of money
down at Whaley headquarters and
asking one another if they "got any.
Mike Barry, of Charleston, testified
that J. J. O'Shaugnnessy had a big
pile of Whaley money in the second
primary and that it was we'll known
that it was Whaley money. He quoted
O'Shaughnessy as saving that 'Hhe had
the mazuma to carry the day" Barry
also testified that John Cameron had
handed out Whaley money.
Steve Sergeant, who said he was an
employee of the Coast Line Railroad
told the house committee that J. M.
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 9th ward, and that the Hugnes
workers spent between $4,000 and So
900.
Much of the testimony today was
of the hearsay character, and Repre-
sentative Stevens entered a protest
against the consideration of so much
second hand testimony. Before taking
any action on the Grace charges
against Congressman Whaley the COM
mittee probably will want to hear a
number of additional witnesses.
Congressman Whaley took dinner to-
day with Speaker Champ Clark, at the
Speakers invitation. There were about
a dozen in the party, which included
Mrs. Clark and Miss Genevieve Clark.
Victory, Says Grace.
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