The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-11-09
Grace Will Accept
Charleston Result
viii Make no Further for Mayorahy Nomination, Al
though Believes He Was Unfairly Beaten in Recent
Primary Thinks Will of Majority Defeated.

two vots counted for Mr.. Hyde in Ward
4. cast by a MT. Scharnoff and Mr.
Bennett, who had written their names
across the ballot. AS the object of the
Australian ballot is to preserve secrecy
n thee cases the votes became void.
In how many other boxes were there
.mi.ar errors?
Under the urgency, therefore, Of my
friends, and under my own misgivings,
| reluctantly decided on Thursday %
ask for a recount. When the petition
was handed to Chairman Black he
stated to the gentlemen who served ii
that he thought we were "entitled" to
a recount, and that We would get it,
but tnat he was going to ask for po-
ice protection at the meeting Of the
executive committee to be held the
lext day. Accordingly on Thursday
night | got letter from him asking
| LOT pIOleCllOL, duu l az OhSO HNP4ASu
that it would give me pleasure to
grant it. NE took special pains to
send very large squad Of experienced
policemen to that fatal Friday meet
ing. My hopes indeed ran very high.
Far from wishing any disturbance at
that meeting, | had everything to gain
and nothing to lose by an orderly,
judicial, impartial hearing of the case.
Every one of my friends understood
that we were going there only in the
spirit Of peace and justice, carefully
] prepared to put up meritorius case.
Brown, VINO began the firing that day,
and Mcdonald, who instantly rein
forced him, on the other hand, Went
there in a completely different spirit.
Brown had been one of the main par
ticipants and was a disputant as to
Club 2, Ward 10. He had been man
ager of that box. Although the slight
fact of not keeping the poll list was
entirely due to the plot, and although
Brown and Cole, the other Hyde man
ager. had acquiesced in its correction.
when one of our watchers discovered
it, and Notwithstanding people kept on
voting lawfully all day; that night
Brown and Cole recalcitrantly refused
s:en the returns.
If the executive committee had met
on that Friday, had counted the box
from Ward 10, had adjusted the chal-
lenged votes honestly, but had point
blank refused to grant me a recount,
would instantly have accepted the
decree, although I should always have
felt the injustice.
without a recount, and under
proper adjustments l would have been
beaten by three votes in the whole
city. The Scharnoff and Bennett votes,
which on a recount would have had to
be thrown out, would have brought the
net difference down to one vote. II
upon a recount I had lost the election
! by that one vote, 1 would, of course,
have acquiesced But wnen, upon the
| committees commencement on that fatal
Friday, Brown and Mcdonald. bitter
partisans and active participants in,
and deeply personally interested in
the affair of the Ward 10 box, began
| the meeting with bloodshed, l was
shocked and grieved beyond express
sion, indeed outraged, and my feeling
OF sportsmanship to accept even SO
narrow a fedeat, gave way to the ut
most resentment and Indignation.
! Since then, | have hardly cared to say
anything at all on the whole bloody
subject; feeling at times as if 1 would
just let the matter go without another
word, and then again feeling as if i
should go into court; in fact, not
knowing what to do or say.
81 have at no time, however, had any
intention of boiling the primary. do
not mean that 1 would not be justified
in doing so; for fraud vitiates every
thing that it touches, and l am con-
i vinced that from the beginning to the
end of the campaign there was fraud
on Mr.. Hyde's side, without scruple
! Moreover. force and duress vitiate ev-
erything. Not only did we have.
fraudulent election, but we did not
have free election. Every influence
and violence were brought to bear to
prevent the people from expressing
their true will at the polls. For a
full year, or during Mr.. Hyde's whole
campaign, the real thieves were going
around shouting "Catcn thief" There