The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-10-19


hat Mr.. Barnwell take the stand un-
Ter oath. Mr.. r.ABarnweil said he ex-
'ected to be called in due course to
.estify under oath as to what he
knew of the bloodshed Friday, mean
me 1t was not for Mr.. Grace to die
ate to him his course Of action. The
mayor asked that q motion be made
providing that witnesses called
should be examined under oath. Mr..
Barnwell said he had never had any
other expectation than that all wit4
nesses would be sworn. He called on
the mayor to be sworn IL he wished
to testify under the rules of evil
tence. but said that would be un-
necessary IL the mayor merely intep-
led making all argument. A motion
w Mr.. Dunn that each witness he
sworn was carried unanimously.
Mayor Grace thereupon took the
stand as a witness. He said he was
IN ward 10 before the polls opened
and except for several tours of the
'ity he spent the greater part of the
ray there. He found partisans of
ooth sides present. He instructed the
"oilce, at the request of the manap-
erS' TO keep the crowd back from tbe
polls and in line. Officers present IN
Guided number of deputies from the
Sherlns office besides policemen in
uniforms. The voting was at first very
SLOW so much so that he suspected II
was being retarded. Men went nm IN
tours to the booth. He would oc-
caslonally walk up and look IN
through the lattice. He saw there r
o. cole, a manager who had made an
sn1davit supporting the HYDE contain
non that the box ought to be thrown
out. Cole spoke to him pleasantly
although they had not been on sneak
ing terms since Cole lost his iob on
the police force. The voting had pro-
oeeded for about two hours and some
OF the men who had been waitinp
from the first were still there. most
OF them being Grace men whom q
discussion arose in the booth. Cole
said to him. That's hell of n note
they haven't been keeping a poll list
Cole said the clerk didn't know how
10 40 MS work. The managers and the
clerk agreed it would be best to sus-
pend the voting until the poll list
could be written up. AS the mayor
was leaving the clerk was told some
tody had best keep the list.
NOT SURPRISED.
Cole asked me what thought
about that. / said that it would be
all right. L was not surprised to find
the clerk incompetent. In another
ward a man had been designated as
'lerk who was not only incompetent
but dishonest; we had denounced
him in open court for irving to bribe
1 jury. We had tried to get represen-
alton among the clerks but were vot
I'd down in this committee, IA to 10.
urged the people in line to say there.
The stubs running serially from one
Up we're on file. Voters as they came
y were checked from the club rolls.
When the confusion arose they wrote
mp the poll list from these stubs.
The checkmarks on the club roll We're
a sufficient prccaut.on against re
Ycatng. No voters were challenged.
1t was our box. If anybody lost by
= aSoT OF the delay the loss was ours.
Nfter this occurance John T. Rod
dcy came to me and inquired whether
'vthing had gone wrong at the Club
, Ward 10, box. He said he had
en- informed Mr.. Cole was telephon
ed for before the election and impor-
tuned to act as a manager at that
,oll. Mr.. Cole demurred but was
;old the whole election might depend
IT what would happen in that pre-
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