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WE GUARANTEE The Reliability of Every Adver tiser Who Uses the Col umns of This Paper. ESTABLISHED FEB. 1G, 1894. TO GUIDE THE DEMOCATS. RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE PARTY. If You tre Interested You Should Read and Study and then You Will be Able to Know What to Do. The following is the constitution of the democratic party of South Carolina, us adopted in state conven tion at Columbia, S. C., May 20, 1896: Akticlk I. There shall be one or more Democratic clubs organized in each township or ward, each of which clubs shall have a distinct title, "The Democratic Club,” and shall elect a president and one or more vice presidents, a recording and a corresponding secretary and a treas. urer, and shall have the following I A Newspaper in all that the Word Implies and Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Cherokee County. GAFFNEY CITY. S. C.. THURSDAY. APRIL 14. 1898. working committees, of not less than three members each, viz: A com mittee on registration, an executive committee and such other commit tees as to each club may seem expe dient. Article II. The meetings of the club shall be frequent after the open ing of the canvass, and some member of the club or invited speaker deliver an address at each meeting, if prac ticable. The clubs shall meet on the fourth Saturday in April and the county convention on the first Mon day in May, respectively, of each election year: Provided, that the county executive committee may name any other day within the same week for such club meeting by giv ing at least two week's notice by ad vertisement in county papers. Each county shall be entitled to double the number of delegates in the State Convention as it has members in the General Assembly. Article III. The president or five members sliall have power to call an extra meeting of the club, and at such extra meeting one-fourth of the members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Article IV. The clubs in each \county shall he held togother and foperato under the control of a county executive committee, which shall consist of one member from each club, to be elected by the respective clubs. The executive committee, when elected, shall appoint its own officers, (except the chairman, who shall he elected by the county con vention,) who shall not necessarily be members of said committee, out a vacancy in the membership of the committee shall be filled by the club, through the loss of whose member by death, resignation or otherwise the vacancy occurs: Provided, that any officer so elected who is not a mem ber of the committee shall not he en titled to a vote on any question except the chairman, and then only in case of a tie vote. The tenure of office of the executive committee shall he until the first Monday in May of each elec tion year, at which time the county conventions shall be culled together to reorganize the party. Every Presi dential election year county conven tions shall he called by the county executive committee to meet on the first Monday in May, which shall elect delegates to a State Convention called for the purpose of electing delegates to the National Democratic Convention and to elect the member of the national Democratic executive committee from' this State. The State Convention shall he called by the State executive committee to meet every Presidential election year on the third Wednesday in May, and every State election year, county and State conventions shall meet on the first Monday in May and the third Wednesday in May respectively. Article V. County Democratic Conventions shall he composed of delegates elected by the several local clubs, one delegate for every twenty- five voters, as shown by the poll list made at the preceediog first primary election in an election year, and one delegate for majority fraction thereof, with the right to each county conven tion to enlarge or diminish the repre sentation according to circumstances. The county conventions shall be called togther by the chairman of the respective executive committees un der such rule, not inconsistent with the constitution nor with the rules adopted by the State Democratic ex ecutive committee, us each crunty may adopt, and when assembled sliall he called to order by the chairman of the executive committee, and the convention sliall proceed to nominate and elect from among its members a president, one or more vice presi dents, a secretary end a treasurer. Any county coAventi in may permit or recognize the formsUion of a new club or clubs by a majority of its members. In all cities with a popu lation of 5,000 and over there may be two clubs in each ward; they shall be organized in obedience to this con stitution, ns are the clubs elsewhere in this State, and in organizing said . 4 clubs they shall have representation in the county conventions respect ively as said conventions shall declare in accordance with the provisions of this constitution. Article VI. For the purpose of nominating candidates for Governor, Lieutenant Governor and all other State officers, including solicitors in the respective circuits, and Congress men in their respective districts, and United States Senators and all county officers, except magistrates and mas ters and supervisors of registration, a direct primary election shall be held on the last Tuesday in August of each election year, and a second and third primary each two weeks suc cessively thereafter if necessary. At this election only Democratic white voters who have been residents of the State twelve months and the county sixty days proceeding the next general election, and such ne groes as voted the Democratic ticket in 1876, and as have voted the Demo cratic ticket continuously sine**, to be shown by the certificate of ten white Democratic voters, who will pledge themselves to support the nominees of such elections, may vote, provided that no person shall be al lowed to vote except his name be en rolled on the particular club list at which he offers to vote at least five days before the day of the first elec tion. Each club shall have a sepa rate polling place for primary elec tions. The club rolls of the party shall constitute the registry list and shall be open to inspection by any member of the party, and the election under this clause shall he held and regu lated under ^he Act of the General Assembly of this State, approved December 22, 1888, and any subse quent Acts of the Legislature of this State. The State executive com mittee shall meet on the Friday after each primary, or such other time as may be designated by the chair man, to canvass the vote and declare the result as to all state officers. Congressmen and United States Sen ators. All contests for all nomina tions at primary elections shall be heard first by the county executive committee of the county in which such irregularities may have occur red, and may be reviewed by the State executive committee, whose action shall be final; provided, that no vote shall be counted for any can didate who does not file with the chairman of the State executive com mittee. or with the respective chair man of the county executive com mittees, a pledge in writing that he will abide the result of such primary and support the nominees thereof, and that he is not, nor will he be come the candidate of any faction, either privately or publicly suggested, other than the regular democratic nomination ; provided further that no candidate shall be declared nominated unless he receives a majority of the votes cast for the office for which he is a candidate : Provided that the pledge of such candidate sliall he filed on or before the day of the first campaign meeting of the county or State re spectively. Article VII. The officers of the State convention shall boa president, one vice-president from each Con gressional district, two secretaries and a treasurer. Article VIII. The State execu tive committee shall be composed of one member from each county, to be elected by the county conventions on the first Monday in May of each elec tion year. When elected said execu tive committee shall choose its own officers, not necessarily members thereof prior to said election : Pro vided. that any officer so elected who is not a member of the committee shall not be entitled to a vote on any question, except the chairman, and then only in a case of a tie vote. The State executive committee shall meet at the call of tho chairman or any five members, and at such time and place as ho or they may appoint. The member of the national Demo cratic executive committee from South Carolina shall be elected by the May State Convention In 1896, and every four years thereafter, and when elected shall be ex-officio a member of the State executive com mittee. Vacancies on said executive committee by death, resignation or otherwise, shall he filled by the re spective county executive commit tees. The State executive committee is charged with the execution and di rection of the policy of the party in this State, subject to this constitu tion, the principles declared in the platform of principles and such in struction, by resolution or otherwise, as a State Convention may from time to time adopt, not inconsistent with tiiis constitution, and shall continue in office for two years from the time of election, or until their successors have been elected. The committee shall nominate Presidential electors, and if any vacancy occur in the State ticket or of electors, or of member of the national executive committee, by death, resignation or other cause, the committee shall have the power to fill the vacancy; all by a majority of the whole committee. Article IX. Tho vote in the re spective counties for all of the State officers, Congressmen and United States Senator shall be transmitted by the chairman of the respective county executive committees to the chairman of the State executive com mittee as early as practicable after each primary, who shall proceed to canvass the vote and declare the results. Article X. ’ When the State Con vention assembles it shall be called to order by the chairman of the State executive committee. A tem porary chairman shall be nominated and elected by the Convention and after its organization the Convention shall proceed immediately to the election of permanent officers and to the transaction of business. When the business has concluded it shall ad journ sine die. Article XL Before the election in 1896, and each election thereafter, the State Densocratic executive com mittee shall issue a call to all candi dates for State offices to address the people of the different counties of the State, fixing the dates of the meetings, and also inviting the can didates for Congress, United States Senate and for solicitors, in their re spective districts and circuits, to be present and address the people. At such meetings only the candidates should be allowed to« above set forth speak. Article XII. of each county It shall be the duty executive committee to appoint meetings in their respect ive counties to be addressed by the candidates for the Genera! Assembly and for the different county officers, all of whom except magistrates, mas ters and supervisors of registration shall be elected by primaries on the last Tuesday in August of each elec tion year under the same rules and regulations hereinbefore provided. Article XIII. Each county dele gation to a State Convention shall have power to fill any vacancy therein. Article XIV. This constitution may he amended or altered at the regular May Convention of the State or at any convention call specifically for that purpose, the call for which shall specify the changes to he made. Article XV. Any county failing or refusing to organize under the provisions of this constitution shall not have representation in the State Democratic Convention. D. H. Tompkins, Chr’m. State Democratic Ex. Cofti. U. X. Gunter, Secretary. WHAT ONE OUR YANKEE COUSINS THINKS. •Kernal” Tells National Much About Probably Didn’t Know News Notes. Ivy Cliff Items. (Correspomlenco of The Ledger.) Ivy Cliff, April 11.—Rev. Mr. Hicason preached to a large and at tentive audience at Providence the first Sunday in the month. Henry Ross visited his mother yesterday. Aunt Lizzie Gaffney, of Gaffney Ferry, is still sick. The fruit is not damaged to a great extent. Winter stills hold on with his icy fingers and may yet get his share of the fruit. Our farmers are making hay while the sun shines, or at least they are preparing to make it. But little planting has been done yet. Mrs. M. L. Ross is visiting her sis ter, Mrs. L. R. Ross. "Xeily” Driscal and wife visited the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds, near Cherokee church, Saturday and Sunday. War and small pox is all we can hear. Would to God that this war cloud that hangs so heavily over our land, might blow away without the thundering of cannon and the shed ding of blood. The prayer of every Christian in this land should he, "O, God, lead those who lead” during these turbulent days. Bee robbing time is about here. A1 Driscal wants The Ledger readers to know that he has built him a new kitchen. He didn’t say whether he had much to cook or not. It was our pleasure to attend the meetings conducted by Rev. Mr. Pruitt, of Charlotte, at the Second Baptist church in your city. About the first sermon Mr. Pruitt ever preached was at Providence about thirteen years ago. He was then a school boy. Beaty. Cures to Stay Cured. Thousands of voluntary certificates received during the past fifteen years, certify with no uncertain sound, that Botanic Blood Balm, (B. B. B.) will cure to stay cured. Rheumatism, Ca tarrh, Ulcers, Sores, Blotches, and the most malignant blood and skin diseases. Botanic Blood Balm is the result of forty years experience of an eminent, scientific and conscientious physician. Send stamp for book of wonderful cures, and learn which is the best remedy. Beware of substi tutes said to be "just as good” and buy the long-teated old reliable Bo tanic Blood Balm (3. B. B.) Price only |1.(X) per large bottle. EFFECTED an entire DURE. i For over two years 1 have been a great sufferer from Rheumatism, af fecting both shoulders to such an ex tent that I could not put my coat on without help. The use of six bot tles of Botanic Blood Balm, B. B. B., effected an entire cure. I refer to Rev. W. W. Wadsworth, proprietor Coweta Advertiser, and to all mer chants of Newnan. Jacoii F. Spoxcler, Newnan, Ga, For sale by Druggists. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane, April 11.—In the event of war with Spain, I can think of no ex-soldiers, north or south, whose services will be more acceptable than those of Generals Fitz Hugh Lee, John B. Gordon and M. C. Butler. But I trust and pray that neither of these "old war horses” (or any others, young or old), will ever be called upon—we have no need of war. Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Inman have returned from Gaffney where they attended the wedding of Mr* Elmore Lemaster and Miss Nettie Kendrick, Mrs. Inman’s sister. Should the small pox talk continue until that time, it will materially in terfere with the confederate reunion in Charleston on the 27th inst. Many who are making preparations to at tend may back out. Jim Moss says he is ready to go and fight for Cuba any time, and will go with the first company he can get into. Bully for Jim. He come of fighting stock. Neal Smith, col ored, of Gaffney, has sent me word to put his name down. Sam McDowell, colored, of Hickory Grove, will take a hand. too. Sam says t^at nobody but the "old devil” himself is back ing up the King of Spain to get up a war, Sam is about right, too, we think. The communion meeting came of! at Salem yesterday. Rev. W. R. Owings, pastor, officiated. This was his last service and he took farewell leave of his congregation. Many eyes were filled with tears at the parting. He goes to the Georgia Presbytery where a large field awaits him. Tho Ladies Memorial Association will hold its meeting at Elbethel on Saturday, April 30th, at 2 o’clock p. m., instead of May 7th, as formerly announced. Col. H. P. Griffith will deliver an oration on the occasion. All camps of confederate veterans, and all ex-confederate soldiers, to gether with the Sunday school scholars and the public generally, are invited to attend. Those who have them will bring flowers to decorate the graves of the soldiers. The cold snap has been a general backset to vegetation ihut it has not entirely killed. The fruit crop has suffered considerably. Many of the garden vegetables are killed outright. I had the pleasure of visiting Hickory Grove last week. That go- ahead little town still continues to improve. Mr. W. J. Morehead has undertaken to have him a well bored after the artesian style. Mr. Martin, of Rock Hill, is boring it. Last Thursday he had reached the depth of 113 feet and was working in a rock. He is confident that he can give an abundant supply of water through a two inch pipe. To us it is a revolution in well digging. W. S. Wilkinson has completed his line of telephone from his home to "the grove.” Wo now hope, in thtf near future, to be in telephonic com munication with the outside world. Will I. Howell, the courteous ferryman at Howell’s ferry, requests all persons crossing the river going to preaching to have an appointed hour to meet at the ferry and cross toget her. As it is, they have no regular hour, and the result is he is compelled to run the flat ail day on the Sabbath to accommodate the public and de prive .himself of rest when there is really no need for it. We appreciate his position, and think people should consider it and work more to his convenience. There is no law that has the moral right to force a ferry man or other public servant, to en slave himself to accommodate the public without paying him for it. Good Friday the ground was too wet and cold for gardeners to do much planting. Waddy Osmenc says that five or six old horse shoes fastened to the bed slats are a sure preventative, us well us a cure, for cramp—provided the patient has faith in the remedy. Waddy, by the way. is a very oroud man since the arrival at his homo of a girl baby. Giles M. Hill has had the gully bridge at Howell’s ferry fixed and it is now safe for crossing. Mrs. Mary Estes is quite unwell and has been so for several days. A gentleman of Boston, Mass., writes: "I have seen a good deal in the papers lately about tho Cowpens battle ground, and also that there is a bill before congress to convert it into a national park. The people of New England, generally, knew very little about your country and its connection with revolutionary his tory, and we would like to know more. We are glad to see that the Daughters of the Revolution are tak ing such an interest in these places and hope they will get all the help they need from the government to have these fields properly cared for. I see no reasons why Cowpens, King’s Mountain and other famous battle fields of the revolution should not receive the same attention as Bunker’s Hill, Saratoga, Trenton, etc. Hundreds of our people will visit these places while taking busi ness and pleasure trips south. "I was never farther south than I’etersburg, Va. Was at Appomattox the morning that General Lee bid his troops adieu. I shall never for get the scene. Our line was drawn up on the side of the road while he passed along, and I believe that every man in Sedgwick’s old brigade took off his hat as a token of respect for him. While he was apparently crestfallen, yet he was conscious that we recognized him as the great est man of the age—which he was. We shared our rations with his men who were hungry and barefooted, and many of them nearly naked. Some of them cried like children.” Yes, my friend, it was the descen- dents of the men who bathed Cowpens and King’s Mountain with their blood that you met at Williamsburg, bring this about is for the church people to do their full duty.” The C. E. Society met at T. J. Estes’ last night. The subject before it was, "conquering death.” Several good talks were made by different brethren and all enjoyed the meeting. From a little knot of Christian En deavors formed but little more than three years ago has grown a society which includes nearly every young man and Woman in this section who makes any pretentions whatever to Christian work or sympathy. The next meeting will be held at Mr F.A.Goforth’s next Sabbath even ing at 4 p. no. Oor colored friends of Pleasant Grove church bad an Easter service yesterday. Among the exercises was the reading of essays on the life, suffjrtng and death of Christ. We haven’t heard whose essays was pro nounced the best but hope to be able to tell next week. j. l. s. Seven Pines, Gaine’s Mill.NjMalvern Hill, 2nd .Manassas, Sharpe$burg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsviile, Gettysburg, The Wilderness, Spott- sylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg and Appomattox. The old spirit of fight and freedom has descended from sire to son. Your confidence and respect for General Lee is not mistaken. Cowpens is our heritage and we intend to see its sacred pre cincts marked for tho benefit of com ing generations. Your people can well afford to accede to Cowpens the honor which properly belongs to it. It will be an interesting visit for you to take. From the maiden city of Gaffney which has just now reached the full bloom of womanhood, and which we have the honor to claim as our county seat, you will find excel- l«nt facilities for visiting the battle ground or any other point in the county. Our liverymen are provided with the very best style of vehicles, the best grade of horses and safe, intelligent, sober, discreet and gen tlemanly drivers who can be relied upon to take tourists .to any point safely, While our boarding houses are managed by princely women whose tables are supplied with the best productions of the southern cli mate and market and who give their personal supervision of the same. In the country the farming class are industrious, hospitable, honorable and obliging. They are the sturdy sons of toil and when they take you to their homes you may expect an exhibition of southern hospitality. There are no finer specimens of phy sical manhood and womanhood to be lound on the planet than those of the Piedmont belt, of which Cherokee county, S. C., forms a part. As a general rule they are a frugal, tem perate, law-abiding and liberty-loving people. To our good friends, T. H. Little- johrt and Col. W. 1). Camp, of Gaff ney City, and T. P. McDill, of Hickory Grove, we are greatly indebted for the latest telegraphic war news ar riving at these towns before the out going mails. Please accept our thanks, gentlemen. Mr. John J. Kendrick, of Skull Shoals, has sent me a curiosity in the shape of reeds (or small canes) with heads somewhat like that of a wheat head, or more like wild rye. They are just in bloom now. Mr. Kendrick is 70 years old and he says he has never seen anything of the kind before, and wants to know if anybody else did. Many of our Ledgerites will read with intense gratification the follow ing utterances of some of our great divines at a memorial meeting to Neal Dow and Miss Francis Willard held in parlors of the First Congre- gatioaal church in Washington last week. Dr. Starkely, pastor of the First Baptist Church said: -"I stand be fore you on the ground of Christian fraternity. I believe the church people are closer together at this time than they have been at any time since the days of the apostles. I bring you the greetings and the con gregations of the oldest church in the District of Columbia. I hope God will bless you, and bless you heartily in your good work, and that you will increase until you will be recognized as the centre of an influ ence for good which shall be mani fest, not oniy in this vicinity, but throughout the National Capital.” Dr. Wilson, presiding elder of the Washington district of the M. E. Church, who was introduced by Dr. Newman as "not a bishop in the full sense of the term, but of material out of which bishops are made,” said: "I am here to voice the congratula tions which I am sure the Methodist Episcopal Church would send you this afternoon. It is of the highest importance that the National Capi tal shall he Christian, not only in name, but in fact, and the way to Henry Buice on the Road. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Guthrie, Ky., April 8.—I left Gaff ney on April 4th on the 11:45 p. m. train. On the 5th I was in Greenville and attended the United States court, where I witnessed the trial of a num ber of cases. Leaving Greenville that night I reached Atlanta the next morning and after breakfasting pro ceeded to Chattanooga, arriving there in time for dinner. The early morning air was rather cool and as we ap proached the mountains it became cooler. I thought it had snowed, the mountains looked so white, but on investigation 1 learned that it was a white flint rock that showed to much advantage from the train. The mountains through which we pi.ssed were the largest and grandest I ever saw. The level land, however, is very fine and fertile. We arrived at Nash ville at 6 o’clock, leaving thirty-five minutes later for Guthrie, where we arrived at 9:30. After partaking of supper and a few glasses of nice beer I retired for a good nights rest. Next morning I took a private conveyance for Clarksville, where I went to put up a $75 job of work, returning to Guthrie^that night. This is the finest farming section I ever saw. Wheat is from six to ten inches high. They have no stock law here and they raise stock, corn and wheat. I have not seen a bale of cotton in three days, but at every house you see from three to fifty head of hogs fat enough to kill, and sheep and goats a plenty. A good deal of tobacco is raised. There are very few negroes here. It is very cold—there was a good deal of ice this morning. I shall expect The Ledger regularly and besides that I hope to hear often from my South Carolina friends. J. H.’B. —- ■»—- Wedding in Lower Cherokee. [Jonosvllle Cor. in New Era.] There was a quiet home wedding over in the. "hills of Cherokee” this morning. The high contracting par ties are, Col. Joseph Sanders, of this place, and Miss Hattie Kendrick, of < lower Cherokee. The ceremony was performed by Rev. D. C. Freeman, of Kelton, S. C. Col. Sanders is the genial, jovial general agent of the Farmers’ Mutual Fire Insurance Company and one of our most highly valued and honora ble citizens. Miss Kendrick is one of the most charming and popular young ladies of lower Cherokee and we congratu late the good people of Jonesville on gaining such a valuable addition to our community. We are glad to state that Col. San ders and bride will settle in our town. Plesant Grove Paragraphs. (Correspondence of Tho Ledger.) Pleasant Grove, April 12.—Corn planting seems to be all the go now with the farmers. James McCraw of Grassy Pond died at his home last Friday evening. He was a young man just in the bloom of life being bat twenty two years old. His health had been very bad for some time and on last Sunday week he was taken very ill with bronchitis and only lived a few days. Jim was a boy who hud many friends and loved ones. His parents have the sympathy of the surrounding community. Prof. R. C. Sarrutt’s school at this place was closed last Thursday. C. B. Turner gave a birthday dinner today in honor of Lee Turner. Miss Maybell Blacksburg, is visiting friends relatives near this place. k. o his cousin, Boyce Westbrooks, of How to Look Good. Good looks uro really more than skin deep, depending entirely on a healthy condition of all the vital or gans. If the liver is inactive, you have a bilious look ; if your stomach is disordered, you have a dyspeptic look; if your kidneys ore affected, you have a pinched look. Secure good health, and you will surely have good looks. "Electric Hitters” is a good Alterative and Tonic. Acts di rectly on the stomach, liver and kid neys. purifies the blood, cures pim ples. blotches and boils, and gives a good complexion. Every bottle guar anteed. Sold by DuPre Drug Co. 50 ceuts per bottle. ' m I ; ' 4