The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-10-20

aJSOlOSiS WILL Sos
To Prevent Clash.
The main object of the militia Off
GERS and Sheriff Martin was to pre-.
vent clash with the special police
The orders from the sheriff were for
she militiamen to remain at their ar
mories until called to quell any Sc
1icus disturbance. No attention was
paid to fights, of which there were
few during the early hours of the
day.
The 200 militiamen slept in their
armories Monday and Tuesday night.
4 regular sentinel was maintained.
Sen. Moore went to his hotel at 4:32
O'Clock in the morning and pro-
eeeded to the. armory of the Wash
ington Light Infantry, where he es-
tabljshed headquarters. Maj. A. H.
Silcox, of the Second battalion. Sec
snd Infantry, also maintained his
headquarters at this point.
The two officers kept ir constant
touch with Sheriff Martin and the
other companies, courier service be-
IN maintained. Automobiles were
provided to rush the troops to any
.."ctien Of the city at m ylrent's n,-
tice.
Political Charleston was awake and
stirring Tuesday morning 1T 4 o'clock
Some of the more jealous workers
for the mayoralty candidates did
not 60 to bed. Several hundred SUP.
porters of one factor remained
awake all night at local hotel. At i
o'clock the crowd had increased to
began to assemble at the various poll
ing places throughout the city BY 5
o'clock hte crowd had increased, to
more than 100 at several of the boxes
At 6 o'clock large numbers of voters
had gathered at the boxes, when the
voting began.
Order Very Good.
Excellent order was maintained at
every box during the early part IF
the day. For instance in ward 8,
clubs 1 and 2, more than 100 persons
had voted before 8 o'clock. There
was no attempt at intimidation. Ten
policemen and special "club men"
were stationed at this box by order
of the chief of police. At 8 o'clock
one man tried to hit a voter who had
been challenged. He was Immediately
pulled out of the crowd by one of
the city policemen and cautioned
against creating disturbance. The
man wore a Grace badge.
In Ward 8 not one drunk man hao
appeared up to 9 o'clock. The crowd
was very sober. This is accounted
for by the fact that all the dispensa-
ries had been closed by order of Gov.
Manning. 1t was stated that Gov.
Manning had "slipped one over on
the tigers" by issuing the order for
closing the dispensaries last Saturday
The illicit whiskey dealers expected
to make their heavy purchases Mon
Gay for use on election day. They
were caught with low stock and the
consequence was very 'sober Char
leston." One of the officials of the
Charleston dispensary board said that
about $4,000 in profits had been lost
by the closing of the dispensaries.
Hundreds of automobiles were
pressed into service by the Hyde ami
Grace managers. These machines
were dashing about town all during
the day at high speed carrying the
voters to the polling places. 1t was
hard to secure public automobile.
Practically every man in the city was
wearing ribbon, the battle flag Of
one Of the other factions.
One of the Grace managers said
last night that 500 Grace banners had
been disturbed for the election.
Business at Standstill.
Business was practically at stand
still in Charleston for election day.
Those who were not working for one
Ade or the other were talking politics.
Mayor Grace, according to his ex-