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VOL. XI. MANNING, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1896. NO. 37. REGISTRATION LAW. THE RULES, REGULATIONS AND IN STRUCTIONS FOR REGISTERING. Board of Registra:ion Judges of Qualifica tion of Appicantts--Wbo May and' May Not Register---Right of a ppeal--Books Made Public Records. The pamphlet of "Instructions to Boards of Registration" has beu re ceived by the county supervisors of registration and they accordingly opened the books for the registration of voters last Monday. There are many radical change-s front the old law in the act passed at the last ses sion of. the kgislature and voters will do well to read car efully the qualifica tions entitling them to registration. Paragraph 1 recites the manner o the board's first organization. Below is given unabridged instructions for voters. 2. The books of registration shall be opened by the boards on the first Mon day in April, 1896, at the court house in each county, and kept open for at least six consecutive weeks. They shall be opened again at the court house on the first Mondays in June, July, August and September, A. D., 1896, and kept open continuously for at least one week in each of said months. They shall be closed thirty days before the general election in 1896. After the general election in 1896, the books of registration shall be opened on the first Monday of each month at the court house and kept open for three successive days in each month until thirty days before the election of 1898, when they shall be closed until the said general election shall have taken place. The offices and books must be kept open from 9 o'clock in the forenoon until 3 o'clock in the afternoon. 3. The board of registration is the judge of the qualifications of all ap plicants for registration up to January 1st, 1898. Up to January 1st, 1898, every m la citizen of this State and of the United States, twenty-one years of age, who is not an idiot, is not insane, is not a pauper supported at the pub lic expense, and is not confined in any public prison, and who has not been convicted of burglary, arson, obtain ing goods or money under false pre enes, pjury, forgery, robbery, brib ery, adultery, wife beating, house breaking, receiving stolen goods, breach of trust with fraudulent intent, fornication, sodomy, incest, assault with intent to ravish, miscegenation, larceny or crimes against the election laws, and who shall have been aresi dent in this State two years. (except ministers in charge of organized churches and teachers of public schools, and they after six months residence in the State,) a resident in the county for bix months and in the polling precinct four months, , and who can read any section in the con atitution of 1895, or can understand and'expla any section of said consti tution when read to him by the regis tration officer or officers, shall be en titled to registration and become an elector upon application for such reg istration. If a person has been con victed of any of the crimes above men tioned, a pardon of the governor re moves the disqualification. The boards of registration in judg ing of the qualifications of applicants -for registration are authorized to re quire of every such applicant satisfac tory proof of his age, residence, etc. In determining the intelligence quali fication of the applicant, the boards select the section of the constitution to beread or explained and understood by the applicant. Applicants denied registration should be promptly noti fied, so as to allow them the right of a~h books of registration must be kept open at least six weeks, when opened on the first Monday of April, 1896, and at least one week when opened on first Monday s in June, July, August and September, 1896, but the boards of registration can keep them open longer if it is deemed necessary. After the books are closed thirty days before the election, they cannot be opened to register any elector be fore the election. Minors and others entitled to register, must be registered before the books are closed. 4. Any person denied registration, shall have the right of appeal to the circuit and supremne court. The appellant must file within ten days after the decision of the board of registration a written notice with the board, of his intention to appeal. Af ter the expiration of the ten days, in case a notice of a ppeal has been filed, the board must file with the clerk of the court of the county the written n~6iceotintention to appeal, and any papers in their possession relating to the case, and a report of the case if they' deem it proper. If the appellant desires the appeal to be hear by a judge at chambers, he must give every member of the board four days writ ten notice of the time and place of hearing, and the board must appear at the hearipg. If the appellant appeals to the supreme .court, he must serve upon every member of the _board of registration a copy of a notice of in tention to to appeal. within ten days after the decision of a judge of the court of common pleas, and the said board may appear at the hearing. 5. In case any nor who will be -come t wenty-one years of age after the closing of the books of registration and before the election and is other wise qualified to register, makes appli cation under oath showing he is qual ified to register, the boards shall reg ister such applicant before the closing of the books. Any person whose qualifications as an elector will be completed after the closing of the registration books, but before the next election, shall have the right to apply for and secure a regis tration certificate at any time within sixty days immediately preceding the closing of the registration books, upon an application under oath to the facts entitling him to such registration. The. same right of appeal is allowed appel lants who are minors or whose qualifi cations shall be completed before the election as in other cases, and the same kind of notices must be served upon the members of the board. 6. All persons registered by the board are enlitled to registration certifi cates of the form prescribed in Section 1-3 of the Act. The certificate must be signed by at least two members of the board, and by all of theni if practica ble 7. In case of the removal of an elec - tor from one county to another, Sec .ion 14nprovides the manner in which the ertificates can b - ch ,.d. It c:oe of Ihe los, or destruction of a cr tificate or registration, or the mutila tion of the sane. Section 15 prescribes the manner in which other certificates can be obtained. S. The board of re;istration shall review the lists of registered electors at least ten days precet-d irn tacih elec tion, a!.d shall erase therefrom the names of all reistered electors who may have become disqualified, who upon satisfactory evidence may appear to have died or removed from their re spective counties, or who may have been illegally or fraudlently regis tered. Persons .hose names are thus erased have the right to appeal to the court of common pleas, or a judge thereof, as in case of persons denied registration. Records of conviction of persons furnished by clerks of courts and magistrates shall be prima facie proof of disqualification, etc., to au thorize the board to erase names. Par ties whose names have been thus erased shall hove the right to preduce a pardcn from the governor, or other proof, to show that their names were improperly erased, and the board shall restore the names. 9. Each township as now laid out, and in those counties where there are no such townships, the parish as form erly known and defined, is a polling precinct. In cities and towns contain ing five thousand inhabitants or more, where the same is divided into wards, each ward is a polling precinct, and in cities and towns or less that five thou sand inhabitants, the city or town is a rolling precinct. In the city of Charleston the polling precincts are the same as the voting precincts as', now established by law. The territory in the township in which Columbia is situated, in the county of Richland, outside of the city of Columbia, is de clared a polling precinct. The registration of voters must be by polling precints. There most: be a book of registration for each polling precinct, that is for each township, or parish, or city, or town of less than five thousand inhabitants, or ward of cities of more than five thousand inhabitants Each elector must vote is the polling precinct in which he resides. If there is more than one voting place in the polling precinct, the elector may vote at any voting place designated on the registration certificate. The boards must designate in the registration cer tificate the voting place in the polling precinct at which the elector is to vote. If there is more than one voting place in the polling precinct, the boards shall designate on the certificate the voting place selected by the elector. Section 20 prescribes the manner in which an elector can have his voting place, designated in his certificate, changed. 10. The books and other records of registration must be deposited by the boards of registration in the office of the clerk of court of common pleas. They shall be kept in said office, ex cept when used by the board of regis tration in the several polling precincts as required by law. They shall be public records, open to the inspection of any citizent at all times. 1L Immediately preceding any gen eral or special election, the boards of registration shall furnish the com missioners of election with two regis tration books for each voting place in each polling precinct, containing in each the names of all electors entitled to vote at such voting place. The com missioners shall turn over said books to the managers of election at each voting place in the polling pr'ecinct, who shall be responsible for the care and custody of said books and the re turn thereof to the commissioners with in three days after such election. The commissioners shall return such books to the board of registration within twenty days after such election. 12. The board of regj'stration, on or before the first day of 1 ebruary, A. D., 1898, shall enter in two books fur nished by the secretary of State, the names of all electors registered up to the first day of January, 1898, and sub scribe on oath in said books that the sai:1 books contain all such names, one of which shall be filed by the board in the office of the secretary of the State, and one in the office of the clerk of the court for each count]. 13. The meetings of the board for hearing applications for registration, or for all other business, may be either private or public, as the mem bers may deem best for the proper dis patch of business, etc. The boards of registration must keep their offices open on the days required by law for reistration of electors from 9 o'clock in te fornoon until 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Members of the boards of registration are entitled to two hundred and fif ty dollars each for the year 1896, and one hundred and t wenty-five each for the year 1897, and until their successors qualify; and they go out of office on the 1st of February 1898, but can not register electors after 1st of January, 1898. Salaries of members of the boards of registration are payable quarterly by the State treasurer, upon the warrant of the comptroller general. 14. The ~boards ~of registration are required to furnish an elector, who has been registered up to January 1st, 1898, a certificate that he.is duly reg istered, upon application of said elec tor, in order to entitle him to vote when his name does not appear upon the registration book furnished the managers of election. A Human Fiend. ROCK IsL&YD, Ill., April 2.-Hun dreds of persons today visited the Bas tian farm, which is under the posses sion of Sheriff Hemnen way and a corps of deputies. The finding of the de composed body of John Louderbach under a pile of rubbish on the farvn yesterday strngthens the general be lief that Henry F. Bastian was a bu man fiend,aad. that he committed sui cide March 13 last because he feared his crimiinal record was about to be laid bare. Following is a list of men who worked upon Bastian's farm and mysteriously disappeared shortly after they were paid off and discharged, as all of them are believed to have been slain by Bastain: Fred Kuschmann, whose body.was found a month ago by the road a mile from the Bastian farm; Jfohn Louderbach, whose re mains were uncovered yesterday, more than a year since he vanished from sight; Fritz Kiernzen, who has not been seen or heard from since the spring of 1894: Marshall Lewis, who also <nsappeared in 1894.- Bastian tes tified at the Kuschmann inquest thiat he had paid Kuschmann $79 the night of his death. From the nature of the wounds on Kuschmann and Louder bach and the circumstances surround ing their deathsr, Bastian's method ap ears to have been designed to avoid T H E LIVING ISSUE, THE MONETARY QUESTION ABLY DE BATED BY CRISP AND SMITH. Crisp Points Out the Real Reason for the Demonetization of Silver and How Its Restoration Would Improve Rusiness. SmIth Upholds the Goldbug Standard. AUGUSTA. Ga, March 31.-No polit ical event has so stirred the city of Augusta and its surrounding territory as the financial debate between Secre tary Hoke Smith for "sound money" and ex-Speaker Charles F. Crisp, rep resenting free coinage, which occurred here to-night. The day was a gala one, Smith and Crisp holding infor rmal receptions at the Arlington Hotel all the forenoon. Excursions were run to the city on all roads from points within a radius of seventy five miles. The city assumed a holiday appearance. The debate took place in the Grand Opera House, which seats 2,200. As early as 6:30 o'clock people began to gather waiting to get in many bringing large palmetto fans, the thermometer registering 80 de grees. At 8 o'clock the building was unable to accommodate the mass that desired admission, many having to re turn home. On the stage were the Governor of the State. many promi hent State officials and 800 representa tive men of the city and State. The opera house was profusely decorated. After a short introduction by Chair man Daughty, of the county execu tive committee, who stated the terms of the debate, he introduced Judge Crisp, who spoke as follows: "Mr. Smith and myself are both Democrats, we both expect to earnest ly and loyally stand by the Democrat ic nominee, but just now the policy of the Democratic party is to be formed and Mr. Smith and I differ on one im portant question. We differ about money. "There are certain principles relat ing to money which at the outset you should clearly understand . If you will bear in mind that the value of money is regulated by the demand and sup ply of its exchange for commodity, you will have the first step in deter mining this great financial question. "There are two contentions respect ino existing conditions, but first let me ca. your attention to the monetary condition of the world up to 1873. Throughout Europe there were two metals coined at different ratios in dif ferent countries, but the consensus of the ratios was about fifteen to one. There is no such thing as interna national money, no money will circu late in all countries. That's a mere platitude. In 1792 the governments of Europe had the ratio of 15 to 1 and the United States formed that ratio as their basis of coining the two metals. That was right in 1792. You observe my friend Mr. Smith when he comes to address you and see if he does not make the error of confounding the standard with the currency. "Bimetallism is described by every writer as being a condition when both metals can be coined legally at a mint by a ratio fixed by law with an equal purchasing and debt-paying power. Up to the year 1873 this law was in force, silver and gold were thus linked together. and were the measure of com modities. Any other condition but this is injurious to the people and only benefits those who have money to lend. When France coined the two metals at the ratio of 15i to 1 and the United States at a ratio of 16 to 1, all the gold came to America. Gold goes where it can get the most for itself. "Up to 1873 there was no great di vergence in the ratio of the t wo met als, sometimes one would be worth a little more than another. In 1783 the United States demonetized silver. Why it was done, no single gold standard advocate is old enough or truthful enough to recollect. There are none of them who will boldly tell you why. The real reason was to de crease the amount of money and in crease the value of the money which was left. (Applause.) No man can in the face of all these things, go before the country and say that he advocates the single standard of gold and hope to gain the support of a majority of the people of the United States. "There are some people who go through the country saying that the trouble is that the financial question is being agitated by silver cranks and I have never seen a wrong inflicted on the masses of the people but those who inflict it are opposed to having it agi tated. (Applause.) Immediately af - ter the demonetization of silver in 1873, p rices decreased. How could they help it when the money was decreased and the commodities increased? '"In 1878 the Grant-Allison law was passed and gave us a little help ina ar resting the falling prices. In '90 the sherman law was passed and it ad vanced prices a little. In '93 that was repealed and I say that money is de creasing and commodities increasing. In the last twenty years every indus try has slowly but markedly decreased in regard to the prices obtained for its output. "In the bond sale before the last, tbe President sold sixty-two millions dol lars worth of coin bonds at a private sale and sent word to the representa tives of the people that if they would give him authority to make them gold bonds, it would be worth sixten mil lions of dollars more. The r epreseni a tives refused to do it and now thae gold standard gentlemen tell us that we should pay them in gold, If the rep resentatives felt that way, why didn't they take the sixteen millions of dol lars? (Loud applause.) The govern ment has the option of paying its ob ligations in either coin; it was so stated on the greenbacks and the Sherman notes. Tbey can pay them all in silver, Then who wants the gold? We don't need it. But I'll tell you who does want it. Wail street wants it, and Lombard street wants it. (Loud dpplause.) "If you want to favor a safe govern ment; if you want to have equal rights to all and discrimination to none, then you want to go along with those of us who wish to restore bimetallism to this country.- The reason why they say a silver dollar is only worth tifty cents is on account of this very demonetiza tion of silver, and the silver dollar will be worth one hundred cents when the demonetization is wiped out. If four nations cou-ld make a ratio and keep it, one country, which is equal in com merce to the four, could do it. The four cuts no figure." Mr. Crisp closed by reading statis tics regarding the number of manufac turing and other industries in the United States and how much larger they wvere than European countries. His speech was applauded for fully ,thre m inutes. 3MR. SMITH IN REPLY. When Mr.Smith was introduced the reception was equally as enthusiastic as that rendered to Mr. Crisp. A fter thanking the people for their invitation to him, he said' "It is not my intention to say any thing that will hurt any one who dis agrees with me. 'Tis but right that we should counsel together and find out what is right. In opposing the free coinage of silver, I want you to dis tinctly understand that I make no fight on silver as a final payment and as legal tender. When we oppose this' plan of free coinage at 16 to 1, we be lieve its advocates will understand its effects. We op, >se it be-cauie we do not believe that it will give you what you want. In the first place let us see how much money we have now and how much we had in '73. In 73 we had in gold and silver one hundred and fifty milllion of dellars and now we have one billion, one hunared and seventy-seven million, eight times as much money as we had when silver was demonetized. The ad vocates of free coinage mislead you when they say that we wish to contract tha cur reicy and that we do not wish silver dollars to be legal tender. "The gentleman reports Mr. Cleve land (applause) as saying that there is a diference between currency and standard, but the gentleman miscon ceives it. A currency can be ch ecks, due bills, silver or ; ':S, Wi' standard is a measure. 6 iep>>- that there was such a law as to allosv you to coin thirty grains of silv-r into dol tars or twenty grains of gold into dol lars, dc you think that you would car r y your twenty grains to be made into a dollar when you could exchange it at the jewelers shop for sixty grains of silver, enough to coin into two dollars? No the gold would not be coined. I am here to-night, not to fight bimetal lism but silver monometallism. (Ap plause.) It is the actual value of the dollar, or the credit of the country which puts the value on it, which makes the dollar. "I am well aware that it is easier to captivate an audience by reference to 1 Wall street and Lombard street than I it is to present solid facts, My friend played to the prejudices of the Popu lists in this district and I have no doubt but that it was only they who applauded him. He ought to do bet ter than to play on the low prejudices of some people. (Loud applause and a voice 'Hurrah for Tom Watson! ') people have absolutely coined in the past three years seven million silver dollars. We have coined more sub sidiary silver in the past three years than in any three years since the gov ernment began. (Applause.) "The effort to sustain the ratio of silver and gold at 15 to 1 has been tried by five nations combined, the Latin Union, and failed. The price of t silver became cheaper and they were about to become silver monometallic. Why not have a ratio of 62 to 1, then we would enjoy all the comforts of bimetallism, according, to my distin guished friend. The gold in a gold dol lar will buy two Mexican dollars and the silver in two silver dollars will buy only two Mexican dollars It is undemocratic, it is unlike Jefferson's teaching, it is unlike Jackson's teach ing and it is unlike the teachings of Grover Cleveland. (Prolonged ap plause.)It is more like the doctrine of Mr. Jones of Nevada, Mr. Bryan of 1 Nebraska and Tom Watson of Georgia. "What caused silver to fall? Not the Act of 1873. We had coined but 8, 000,000 silver dollars. What caused silver to fall? In '73 the world's out puts of silver was 70,000,000. In 1894 the world's output was 200,000.000, three times as much, "when the price only fallen one-half. It .Iidn't cost as much to mine silver in '93 as it did in '73. In '73 it cost 90 cents to die a dollar's worth of silver and in 1894 itt cost only about 45 cents to dig a dol lar's worth of silver. Have you got any- silver mines in Richmond ' 'ounty that you want to unload on the gov ernent? That's why Mr. Jones and Mr. Stewart want free silver.] "Since 1873, or shortly before that, fourteen countries on the Eastern hemisphere have banished the free coinage of silver. The supply of sil ver is three times as large and four teen counties not carry ing it. The gentleman now wishes us to carry a load that fifteen countries staggered under. He wants us try it. I have no interest in this issue, other than a citizen of Georgia. I wish you to study the qcestion before you take the fatal plunge. It is not for the good of the bondholders, but for the consitutents of both of us. and they have not a bond in the world. The working men of Fulton County are my friends and God knows that I would rat her put my arm in the flame and burn it than~ to advocate a la w that would injure them. (Applause.) I had hoped to dis cuss the remedy to-night but on ac count of my time being out I will be compelled to retrain, but will do so in Atlanta on Tfiursday night. "A True Wife." There was never given to the world a more life like pen picture of a "true wife" than by Oliver Wendell Holmes when he writes: Of tentime I have seen a tall ship glide by against the tide as if drawn by some invisible bowline, with a hundred strong' arms pulling it. Her sails unfilled, her streamers drooping, she had neither side wheel n-or sturn wheel; still she1 ~moved on steadily, in serene triumph, as with her own life. But I knew that on the other side of the ship, hid-] den beneath the great bulk that swama so majestically, there was a little toil some steam tug, with a heart of fire and arms of iron, that was tugging it. bravely on, and I knew that if the lit-] tle steam tug untwined her arm and left the ship that it would wallow and roll about and drift hither, and thither and go off with refluent tide, no mant knows whither. And so I have found< more than one genius, high decked, I fall freighted, idle sailed, gay pen noned, that but for the bare toilingt arms and brave, warm-beating heart of the faithful little wife that nestled close to him so that no wind or wave could part them, would have gonet down with the-stream, and have been: heard of no more. Electrocuted.I ALTOONA, Pa , April 1.-While at work in the lathe shop of the Pennsyl-< vania Railroad company this morn-e ing, William Jones, 40 years of age, - was accidentally electrocuted. At the time Jones was standing on an iron girder which supports the shafting, I t engaged in oiling the machinery.; [ Tne spout of his oil can came in con- t tact with a bai-e electric arc wire and I ' a current of 3,000 volts passed tnrough - f his boy krilling him instantly. A' SUPREME PARTY LAW. FULL TEXT OF THE STATE DEMO CRATIC CONSTITUTION. Republished for the Beneft of Democrat Ic Voters-Cut it Out and Pa.ste it Up for Future Reference--No Primary Has Yet Been Held Under It. Below will be found the constitution of the South Carolina ~Democracy. Etch Democratic voters should cut it out and keep it for future reference. This constitution was adopted in State convention at Columbia on. September 19, 1S94 and no primary has yet been held under it. The constitution is as follows: Artici: 1. There shall be one or more D mocratic clubs organized in each tow nship or ward. each of which clubs shall have a distinct title, "Tee --De:.>cratic Club," and shall elect . president, one or more vice presi :lents, a cording and a correspond ing secretary and a treasurer, and shall have the following working commit tees, of rot less than three members sach, viz: A committee on registra ion, a: executive committee, and such ot!ar committees as to each club nay sec:: expedient. Article II. The meetings of the club huiid be freq.ent after the openiag )f the canvass, and some member of he club or invited speaker deliver an iddress at each meeting, if practica yle. The clubs shall meet on the first Aonday in May and the third Wed 2etday in May respectively. Each :ounty shall be eutitled t> doable the -epresentatives as it has in the Gener ti Assembly in the State nominations. Article III. The president or five nembers shall have power to call an xtra meeting of the club and one 'ourth of the members shall constitute quorum for the transaction of busi iess. Article IV. The clubs in each county hall be held together and operate inder the control of a county execu .ive committee, which shall consist of :ne member from each club, to be lected by the respective clubs. The xecutive committee, when elected, hall appoint its own officers, who hall not necessarily be members of paid committee, and fill all vacancies which may arise when the convention s not in session; provided that any >fficer so elected who is not a member )f the committee shall not be entitled ,o a vote on any question, except the hairman, and then only in case of a ie vote. The tenure of office of the xecutive committee shall be until the irst Mond.ty in May of each election ear, at which time the county con rentions shall: be called together to re )rganize the party. Every Presiden ,ial election year county conventions hall be called by the county executive ommittee on the first Monday in May, nd shall elect delegates to a State onvention called for the purpose of 'lecting delegates to the national )emocratic convention, and to elect he member of the national Demo ;ratic -'executive committee from this State. The State convention shall be alled by the State executive commit ce to meet every Presidential election ear on the third Wednesday in May, Ld every State election year county md State conventions shall meet on he first Monday in May and the econd Monday in May respectively. Article V. County Democratic con rentions shall be composed of dele fates electe~d by the several local clubs, >ne delegate for every twenty five roters, as shown by the club list made tt the preceding first primary election, wd one delegate for a majority frac ion thereof, with the right to each ~ounty convention to enlarge or di ninish the renresentation according o circumstances The county conven ions shall be cal'.ed together by the rhairman of the respective executive rommittees under such rule, not in onsistent with the coastitution nor rith the rules adopted by the State )emocratic executive committee, as ach county may ad:.pt and w-hen as ~embled shall b e called to order by the ~hairman of the executive committee, aud tne convention shall proceed to 2ouinate and elect from among its ntembers a president, one or more rice presidents, a secretary and .a reasurer. Any county may p-rtmtt he f ,rmation of a new club or clubs by Smajority of its members. In all :ities with a population of 5,000 and >ver there may be t so clubs in each card; they shall be organized in obe iience to this constitution, as are the :lubs elsewhere in this State. and in ,rganizing said clubs they shall have -presentation in the couuty conuvea .ions respectively as said conventions hlalI declare in accordance with tae ,rovision-s of this constitution. Article VI For the purpose of nom nating oaididates for Goverbor, ieutenant Governor and all other tate otlicers, inciuding solicitors in .heir respective circuits, anid Congress nen ia their respective districts, and P~residential electors,aad United States Senators by the popular vote, and all ~ounty officers, except Trial J ustices md masters and supervisors of regis; ~ration, a direct primary election shall se held on the last Tuesday in August f each election year, and a second md third primary each two weeks auccessively thereafter. A t this elec ion only Democratic white voters ~yho have been residents of t he State welve months and the county sixty ~ays preceding the next general elec ion, and such negroes as voted the )emaocratic ticket in 1S76, and as have oted the Democratic ticket continu >usly since, to be shown by the cer ificate of ten white Democratic voter s, >rovided, that no person shall be al owed to vote except his name be en olled on the particular club list at vhich he otfers to vote at least five lays before the day of the first elec ion. The club rolls, of the party shall onstitute the registry list and shall >e ooen to inspection by any member >f the party, and the election under his clause shall be held and regulated mder the Act of the General Assem >ly of this State, approved December 2. 1888, and any subsequent Acts of ne Legislature of this State. The tate executive committee shall meet in the Friday after each primary, or uch othe'r time as may be designated > the chairman, to canvass the vote nd declare the result as to all State ifficers, Congressmen, Presidential leaLors and United States Senator. tl contests shall be heard first by the ounty executive committee of the ounty in which such irregularities ay hlave occurred, and may be re ie wed by the State executive commit ee, whose action shall be final; pro ided, that no vote shall be counted or any candidate who does not file vth the chairman of the State Aeen tive committee, or with the respective chairman of the county executive committees, a pledge in writing that he will abide the result of such prima ry and support the party nominees, and that he is not, nor witl he become the candidate of any faction, either privately or publicly suggested, other than the regular Democratic nomina tion; providtd further that no candi date shall be declared nominated un less he receives a majority of the votes cast. Article VII. The officers of the State convention shall be a president, one vice president from each Congression al district, two secretaries and a treas urer Article VIII. The State executive committee shall be composed of one member from each county. to be elect ed by the county conventions on the first Monday in May of each election year. When elected said executive committee shall choose its own officers, not necessarily members thereof prior to said election: Provided, that any officer so elected who is not a member of the committee shall not be entitled to a vote on any queslion, except the chairman, and then only in case of a tie vote. The State executive commit tee shall meet at the call-of the chair man or any five members. and at such time and place as he or they may ap point. The member of the national Democratic executive committee from South Carolina shall be elected by the May State convention in 1S96, and every four years thereafter, and when elected shall be ex officio a member of the State executive conmittee. Vacan cies on said executive committee, by death, resignation or other wise, shall be filled by the respective county exe cutive committees. The State execu tive committee is charged- with the execution and direction of the policy of the party in this State, subject to this constitution, the principles de clared in the platform of principles, and such instruction, by resolution or othewise, as a State convention may from time to time adopt, not inconsist ent with this constitution, and shall continue in office for two years from the time of election or until their suc cessors have been elected. If any va cancy occur in the State ticket or of electors, by death, resignation or other cause, the committee shall have the power to fill the vacancy by a ma jority vote of the whole committee. Article IX. The vote in the respect ive counties for all of the State officers Congressmen, Presidential electors and United States Senator shall be transmitted by the chairman of the respective county executive commit tees to the chairman of the State exe cutive committee as early as practica ble after each primary, who shall pro ceed to canvass the vote and declare the results. Article X. When the State conven tion assembles it shall be called to or der by the chairman of the State exe cutive committee. A temoorary chair man shall be nominates and elected by the convention, -and after its or ganization the convention shall pro ceed immediately to the election of permanent officers and to the transac tion of business. When the business has concluded it shall adjourn sine die. Article XI. Before -the election in 1896, and each election thereafter, the State Democratic executive committee shall issue a call to all candidates for State offices to address the people of the different counties of the State, fix ing the dates of the meetings. and also inviting the candidates for Congress, United States Senate, delegrates to the State convention and for Solicitors, in their respective districts and circuits, to be present and address the people. At such meetings only the candidates above set forth should be allowed to speak. Article XII. It shall be the duty of each county executive commnitt-e to appoint me'tings in tuecir respective counties t be be addressed oy tze can didate-s for the General Assetubily and for the difirent c.>unty offices, all of whom, except Trial Justices and Mas tetrs, shall oe elected by primaries on the last Tuesday in August of each election year under the same rules and regulatious hereia before provided. Article XIII. Each county delega tion to a State convention shatll bave power to til aiiy vacaucy tiit-.. Article XIV. This ,oustitu'ion1 may be amended or altered at the regular MIay convention of tri- S'at-e or at any convention called sp'ecially for that purpose, which shall specify the cnauges to be made. Article XV. Any cou ty failing or refusiug to organiz-- uud-e.- the provis. ions of this consritatin shajll not have representation in the State Democrat ic convention. J. L. M tRBY, Chairman State D-:moerauec Executive, Comnmit tee D. H. TOMPKINS Secretary. Robbed, by Thre~e f1::n. LEBcioN, MA.. April 1. --The East bound cannou oml trai. N.>. 6 on tne St. Louis and 'Fri-co railroa~d, was held up three miles East of this city at 1:50 this morning by three uaske~d men and the safe blown openf and rob bed. Tne robbers boarded the train at this place at 12:50) a. m., and after reaching the scene of the robbery, held up the engineer anid fireman, stopped the train and wit~h the enit neer in front of them, marched to tne express car The messenger refused to open up and the door was blown open with dynamite, the safe cracked. and its contents removed. Several packages of valuable papers were found this morning beside the track and somne money wnich had been over looked in the hurry of departure. Tne passengers were not molested. Tae engine was detached and run by the robbers to Sleeper. where it was aban doned.. A brakeman hurried back to the city and star:l'ed Shieri:f Jones anid a oosse on the track of the robbers. Crime-RLemorse-Suicide. LINCoLN, Neb., April :3.-Two boys hunting ducks on Salt creek, near the State peniteniiary building, three miles from the city, early tuis even ing, found the dead body of Maxey Cobb, treasurer of this (Lancaster) ccunty. He had committed suicide, presumably by poison, as there are no marks of violence. This is the tragic issue to the treasury shortage of nearly $40,000, which developed last week, and for which Cobbb was held resonsi ble. No criminal action had been begun against him, but he brooded over the mjatter and a week ago traus ferred his .life insurance to protect his bondsmen. He disappeared Monday. but no alarm was felt as it was though he was indulging in a protracted spree. obb is a son of ex-Unief Judge Amos Cobb of the supreme cour-t. He was one of the most popular young mna in the city and his integrnty have never heen questioned. He leaves n-aurife THE STATE BOARD OF CONTROL. Met and Organized by the Election of Officers. CoLUBIA, S. C., April 3.-The State board of control met in the dispensary building Wednesday night and organ ized, doing nothing of any importance or interest to the public. The board met again yesterday morning at 10 o'clock in the same place and remained in session until after 2 o'clock, when they adjourned for dinner. The session was lively and intersting and the election of officers absorbed a good portion of the morning. The board elected Col. Wilie Jones of this city chairman, then the business be fore them was taken up for considera tion. Mr. S. W. Scruggs, who has been chief bookkeeper at the dispensary for some months, was elected clerk of the tate board yesterday and Mr. R. E Blakelev was selected to fill his old place. Mr. Charles Lynch was elected as sistant bookkeeper to Commissioner Mixson. Mr. W. H. Harris, who was former ly clerk of the board, was elected to take charge of the correspondence re ferring to the work of the constables. Mr. W. H. Gaston was re-elected superintendent of the State dispensary and Mr. D A. G. Outz shipping clerk. Commissioner Mixson's term of office does not expire for a year or more and he will serve the remainder of his time as required by law. The Slate board has the power to elect the commis sioner, however, and will do so at t'e expiration of Mr. Mixon's time. At the morning session the board did nothing else of any interest and at 2 o'clock adjourned for the dinner hour, to reassemble in the afternoon. There are a number of whiskey drummers in Columbia and they have adopted the dispensary as headquarters and are looking after the interasts of their respective house-i before the board. The board is corposed of five mem bers and each is required to draw for the time in which he is to remain in office. Yesterday Mr. Nicholson drew one year; Mr. T. M. Allen, two years; Mr. J. B. Douthit, three years; Mr. Wilie Jones, four years, and Mr. L. J. Williams, five years. At the afternoon session, the board adopted rales for the regulation of the dispensaries throughout the State, the purchase of goods. etc., which will be given out for publication later. At the night session, they received and considered bids for the furnishing of whiskeys and other beverages from various companies in all parts of the country. However, no definite ac tion was taken on these lines, but it is very probable that the matter will be attended to at the meeting at 10 o'clock this morning. In a room nearby, there were about 20 representatives of whiskey com panies, who were somewhat disap pointed that their bids not been acted upon. It has been mentioned as a probabili ty that several whiskey concerns that have heretofore failed to receive a share of the sales to the dispensary would cut the price a fewcents in order to secure contracts a for six months and then, by some scheme that would insure their sales in the future, raise the price to the standard and make what they had lost by the cut. The board, it is understood, wil' ar range so that three members can con stitute a quorum and serve at future meetings in case of the absence of the othe rs It will be remembered that thnere was a seemingly well founded rumor afloat a few days ago to the effect that W. A. Nicbolson had refused to serve on the board until Governor Evans per suaded him to do so. Yesterday some thought it que-er that he had drawn the snlortest term to serve as a member and it was intimated that tbe matter had been "fixed" for his convenience. -State. Be True to the Old Party. CoLUMBIa, S C., April 3 -The fol lowing wvas published in the Register of vesterdaits: Editor Coumi Register. I uave niever w~rat an article for publication. [ feel that it would b (riabitial to be' silent no . when the ver'. exigence of tY' D.,mocratic par ty in South C:.roliuna is threatened. I am a Demoerat and I initeod to be one to the end of the chapter. 1 allied myself to the Reform party because it was Democratic. W h'en occasion seemnsd to demand it, I nit some hard licks for Reform.. I shall feel it my duty to strike with all my might all enemmies of the party whoever they mray be. L-.t all tos who do not b.e us-e in majority rul-- leave tne party Ad formsuca anaces as they choose. But let all D-mn->urars s:aud firm. I ahall stiek to the oarte of m y~ fathers. and if she goes -fowu~[I will go with her. Let us all light for our rights in the party. Senator Tiliman has made a great mistake in adviaing our p-ople to leave the parry. Wet o"'e her much and we must stand by her to the end Must we leave the only party that has helped a:s in the past if we cannot con trrl it in every particular todayi It is of of the utmost importance that our a-hire people stand tirmly together. Uf Senator Tillman'fs ad vi-: is followed there will be a permnaneuit division of' our white people and ultimately an appeal to the negro. It is a crime to tang aibout sucn a condition. Senator Tillmnan says "our one over poweriue and overmasterimg issue in State affairs has been white suprema cv, and ihis under the conditions ex isting before the new Constitution was. adopted made revolt against the white majority nothing less than a crime. Anrd, I say, it is no less a crime today. He may call us "coa-ards and syco uhants and treacherous leaders now nasquerading as Democrats,'' but we will fight for the ,good old party ag'ainst all her enemies-the only par - tin which our rights are assured. The Piedmont Headlight says truly "the word Demiocrat" in the So'uth means more than any politicil move ment. It means the rule of the white majority. In conclusion let me say again to every true De mocrat in South Caroli na, stand firm. Be true to the party o? your fathers. Fight all her ene miies. R. B. WaTsoN. 1 Ridge Spring, S. C., March 31. Act of an Insane Womnan. NoRFoLK, Va., April 1.-An insane woman on her way to Norfolk from tColumabus, Ohio, by the siame of Bene diet, attempted to jump, with two children in her arms from a Norfolk and Western train, near Petersburg to-night. Heroic action on the part of Lhe hrakeman prevsnted a tragedy. . ELECTION THIS YEAR. PRESIDENTIAL, STATE, LEGISLATIVE AND CONGRESSIONAL. Twenty-Four United States Senators Will be Affected-Abrupt Changes in the Gov ernmental Policy Which May Result. In the dull off years in politics the idle politician, wondering how he can shake off the troublesome ennui that is a constant companion, prays for the swif t coming of the Presidential year. When it comes he fairly revels in pol itics. He arouses an enthusiasm with in himself that is impossible at any , ottier time and puts all his energies into the fight. The average citizen is affected in a similar manner. He may have dis dained to talk politics in the off years and showed a marked preference for conversation about Wall street, the comparative advantages of life across the North River, or in Harlem, the difficulty of getting servants in the country, the merits of the different classes of bicycles, or any other topic of equally, absorbing interest. But in the Presidential year he loses his ap 'omb and excitedly discusses politics, attends political conventions and meet ings, and cheers lustily for his candi date, never ceasing until the election is over. A Presidential year coming only once in four years is indeed an event in politics, and 1896 will be no excep tion to the. rule. After the exciting contests before the political conven tions over poliiss and candidates will come the align.nent of the national parties against each other in every State in the Union, and a long, in tensely interesting campaign. In other years States are not all greatly inter ested, but in the Presidential year they all are. The general election will be held this year on November 3. On that day every State in the Union will choose as many presidential electors as it has members in both houses of Congress. These presidential electors in turn are to choose the next Presi dent of the United States, who will hold for a term of four years. Their choice may involve a change in the politics of the entire national admin istration, with the Cabinet, and the hundreds of thousands of employees of the Federal government in every part of the nation. It may also involve as abrupt change in the economical policy of the government and take the tariff from a revenue basis to a nrohibitive and rob ber basis. It mayalso involve immense unnecessary and fraudulent expendi tures of money for dishonest pensions. Furthermore, it may involve a change in the financial conditions of the gov ernment. All these things are very important. Every member of the present na tional House of Representatives must again go before his constituents this fall. It is possible that the overwhelm ing majority of Republicans in th. House may be changed to a minoritye There will be conventions and elec tions in every Congressional district. Twenty-four United States Senators will be affected by the results in the various States in the legislative elec tions this year. The class of Senators whose terms expire March 4, 1897, comprise twenty nine members, but five re elections or elections of success ors to members have already been consummated. The elections for all these Legisla tures will be held on the date of the Presidential election, November 3, ex cept Arkansas and Vermont. The Legislature to select a successor to Senator James K. Jones (Dem.} will be elected September 8, and the one that selects the successor to Justin H. Morrill, (Rep.) September 1. The other Senators that will be affected are: James L Pugh, (Dem.,) Alabama; Henry M. Teller, (Ri.,) Colorado; Orville H. Platt. (Rep..) Connecticut, Wilkinson Call, (Dem.,) Florida;Jothn B Gordon, (Dem ,) Georgia; John M. Palmer, (Demi,) Illinois; Danmel W. V.'orli--es, (Dem.,) Iudiana; William A. Peffer, (Pop ,) Ktnsas; Gesorige G. Vest. (Dem ,) Missourii; John P. Jones, (Pop..) Nevada; Jacoo &l Gilliager, (Rep .) Maine; David B. Hill, (Dem.,) Ne a Y. rk ; Peter U. Pr-itenard. (Rep.,) N~rth Carolina; H. C. Hautsborough, (Rep ,) North Dakota; John El. Mitch ell, (Rep.,) Oregon; James Don Came ron, (Rep ,) Pennsylvania; James H. Kyle, (Pup ,) South Dakota; Arthur Bro Rn, (Rep ,) Utah; Watson C. Squire, (Reu .) Watshington, and Wil ham F Vilas. (Demi.,) Wisconsin; George C. Perkins, (R -p ,) California; Fred T. Du Bois, (R.-p.,) Idaho, and J L M. Ir by, (Demi.,) South Caro lina. The vacancy in 'Kentucky caused by the inabulity of the Legislature to e-ct a Senator to succeed Joseph c; S. Blackburn will not be affected by the election of this fall. Apne-4rances indicate that two of the most offensive of the Populists who came into power ca the tidal wave of 1890, Senators Peffer and Kyle, will be forced into private life. In Alaba ma Senator Pugh is making his fight on free-silver lines. Ex-Speaker Crisp is following his example in Georgia, and Senator Vest has made the same issue in Missouri. Senator Brown, in Utah. will be compelled to face his record in declining to act with his col league, Senator Cannon, in voting against protection until free silver should be given by the Republican party. In New York, Illiaois, Indiana, and Wisconsin tne Republicans claim that they will be able to change the politi :al complexion of the Senators so far as this year's elections are concerned, and numerous candidates are already :onducting campaigns designed to se :mre the support of the Legislatures. [t is believed that the Danuocrats in North Carolina will be able to regain :ontrol of the Legislature and select a Democratic successor to Senator Pritchard. The same result is proba >ie as regards Senator Brown in Utah. General State elections will be held n twenty-nine of the States, while omie otners will select Governors or Ldministrative or judicial officers. In rery fewv, only Congressmen are ~lected. Municipal and county elec ions are also to be held in many of he States. Those which will hold ~eneral State elections are: Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Con ieeticut, Delaware, Florida, Geo ~ .llinois, Indiana, Iowa. Kansas, achusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mis ouri, Nebraska, New York, North Jarolina, North Dakota,Rhode Island, south Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Hashington, West Virginia, Idaho, south Carolina, Vermnont and Wis :onsin. Maine will elect a G-overnor.