The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-10-27
HYDE IS NOMINEE
SOLDIERS GUARDED CHARLES
TONS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
GRACE CAME With GUN

UAaAUL UAlaaE WllM VOls
Contested Box Thrown Out-Hyde's
Majority 12s-Graco Members
Leave Meetins-Soldiers Searched
Every Person Entering Hall and
Removed Weapons.
Major Tristan T. Hyde is the
nominee Of the Democrats Of Char
lesion for mayor. He was so declar-
ed by the city Democratic executive
committee about seven o'clock Satur-
| day afternoon after session which
! had lasted continuously from eleven
] forty-fve o'clock in the forenoon.
! The box for Club 2, Of Ward 10, was
| thrown out. A request for e! re-
4 count of the votes was voted down,
the majority faction having already
quit the room when this action was
| taken, leaving in body when the
Ward 10, Club 2, box was thrown
out. Had the Ward 10, Club 2, box
not been thrown out, Major Hyde's
majority would have stood at thirty
eight votes on the basis Of the action
taken by the committee on the chal-
lenged votes. On the basis OF the re-
turns as declared by the committee,
the vote stood: Grace, 1881; Hyde,
1900.
The general election, in which city
Registration certificates are required,N
/ will be held Tuesday, December IA.
Strict military guard was maintain
ed around all sides Of the German
Artillery Hall, where the meeting was
held. No persons were permitted to
enter Wentworth street without cre-
dentials by the yigilant militiamen
on guard, and every person entering
the hall was carefully searched be-
fore being allowed to enter the com
mittee room. Col e. N. Blythe, COM
/ manding the Second Regiment Of
South Carolina National Guard, was
in command Of the local military and
naval militia organizations, which
were entrusted with the duty Of pre-
venting disorder around the building.
Mayor Grace was relieved Of a re-.
volver before he was permitted to
enter the committee room, although
he at first objected to the action OF
the military authorities. He was
searched, after he placed his weapon
on table. Chief Of Police James R.
Cantwell was also searched and dis
armed before he was permitted to
enter the committee room. Late in
the afternoon, when Sheriff J. FL
more Martin had occasion to visit the
hall, he also was searched and re-
lieved Of his weapons. The weapons
were returned to the officers when
they LETT the building.
When the executive COMMITTEES Dc.
sired that the protest against count
ing the votes in the box OF Club 2,
Ward 10, Should be sustained, the
ten men who voted against sustain
ling the contest, led by Mr.. John I.
Cosgrove, left the committee room in
"a body, after Mr.. Cosgrove had made
a statement to the effect that it aD-
lpeared to him thst the committee
was determined to settle every ques-
ton by a partisan vote, and conse-
quently there was nothing for the
members. of the minority faction to
gain By remaining at the meeting.
This occurred at three-forty O'Clock
, in the afternoon, the committee then
Having been in active session for
about three hours.
Mayor Grace appeared in person to
contest the elimination Of the ballots
in the protested box Of Ward 10 from
the count for the primary, and Ar.
W. Turner Logan was present as at
torney fer the mayor. Mr.. A. Rut-
ledge Rivers presented the protest
against the counting of the votes,
filed by Major Hyde, and a second
protest, on practically the same
grounds as the Hyde protest, was pre-
sented by Mr.. J. P. Kennedy Bryan
ss attorney for Mr. W. w. Clement,
candidate for aldermapic nomination
! in the primary. These protests, it was
stated, were filed with the executive
committee Thursday.
The protest against allowing the
box from Club 2, Ward 10, to be
counted, was read by Mr. Rivers, and
was based on two alleged irregulari-
ties in the conduct Of the primary. in
Club z, Ward 10, the failure Of tie
clerk and managers to keep poll
list until eighty-nine citizens had
voted, and the closing the polls for
an hour to an hour and a half, dur
ing which the managers, by eonsens,
made out a poll list from certain
slips Of paper, and book, both fur
nished by watcher or challenger
for Mr. Grace. Mr.. Rivers declared
that neither one faction or the other
was held entirely responsible, but
that all. the managers, the Hyde and
Grace representatives, equally, had
failed to conduct the primary accord
ing to the statutes Of the state and
the rules of the party, in not keeping
the poll list, the closing Of the polls,
and the manner in which the list had
later been prepared. Mr.. Rivers said
that he was there to ask that the
laws of the state and the rules OF the
party be carried out. According to
the protest, as read by Mr.. Rivers,
the action of the managers in closing
the polls, prevented a full and free
expression of the voters Of Ward 10,
because they weren't given the entire
twelve hours provided by law. He
spoke OF the sacredness Of the bal
lot, and said that the history Of cleo
tions had led the wise men Of preced-
ing generations and the present gen.
erations to throw what safeguards
they could, by law, around the purity
Of the ballot, and that to decline to
throw out the box from Ward 10
would set precedent that would null
lily, in a large measure, the action
of the lawmakers. He explained how