The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-09-08

discussion, but in both Instances ;he
action of the county committee was
upheld. The committee, after a .ong
discussion, numerous wrang,es and q
few other things. dismissed the pro
test Of Dr.. p. G. hiilingsWcrth Of
Mccormick and sustained the action
of the Mccormick county executive
committee in declaring Thomas NJ.
Ross the nominee Of Inc party for the
house of representatives in that coun-
ty. Illegal voting at Wellington was
alleged by DR.. k!llingsworth.
The second contest was from Rich
land county, I. ". Motley appealing
from the action of the county conf
mittee in declaring ". D. Sanders cAc
nominee for magistrate a Pontiac.
Illegal voting was alleged to nave
been allowed and this caused The de-
feat cf MIR. Motley ty a few votes,
it was charged. Some warm words
were exchanged by ". D. Barnett.
attorney for Mr. Sanders, and Mr.
Motley. The committee sustained
the action Of the R;chland committee
and declared Mr.. Sanders tie romi-
nee. The vote was a tie. u 70 sus-
tain the lower body and II 20 order
new election, when Chairman
Brown voted to sustain the lower
committee, making the vote IS 10
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The committee sustained Chair
man Brown IN his ruling that where
the voting is irregular for one Office
and regular for the other Offices, only
the irregular part Of the vote IS NIL.
For example, if q person votes 70"
two men for governor, but the re-
.mainder Of the vote IS all righ- onl!
the ballot for governor is nail and
void This was brought to the atten-
ton of the committee by Gen. NJ. I.
Bonham Of Anderson.
Eugene S. Blease presented rcSo-
luton passed by the New5err.; COM
nittee asking Cor changes to b. MADE
to stop so much irregular voting by
the placing CT the tickets il the
wrong boxes. Several change were
suggested, Neutrality-suspicious. esiar-
ed tickets and boxes. A committee
consisting of Eugene S. Bleaze, II. H.
Gross of Dorchester and George, Bel
Zimmerman of Lexington wsss. ap-
pointed to look into the matter. :. !. ..r, .'r
A letter was, received from. A 3.
Jordan, chairman CT Dillon eouatS,
in which Mr. Jordan said no second
race was necessary for any q tie
county Offices and he asked the stat g
committee to >defr7y the expe1sss OF
the second primary in his county.
The fequesfFWas deRied, s5ha state
committee not wishing to essa 5l.rh
such a precedent.
It was discovered that no commit
tee to handle municipal election ap-
peals had been chosen at the meeting
in May and this committee was elect
ed as follows: John /. Cosnrove,
First congressional district; T. Ha-
good Gooding, Second; Gen. y. /.
Bonham, Third; Rion M:k;ssick.
Fourth; Robert Caldwell, Fifth: joan
B. Cooper, Sixth; George Bell Tim
norman, Seventh. This committee
met in the afternoon and selected
Mr.. Cosgrove as chairman ana. Mr.
Gooding as secretary.
In bringing the meeting to close
Chairman Edgar \. Brown of Barn
well called to the attention Of the
different committees the loose voting
allowed all over the state and askel
them to go back home and tyy to ge,
| managers and voters alike to Deserve
the laws. M. Brown said a strict
observance of f. Australian ballot
law should be hR or the law should
be modified if the people d. not want
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