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Our Political Chart
i The State Constitution as Adopted
in State Convention at Columbia
S. C., September 10, 1890,
and Amended in State
Convention at Colum?
bia, September 21,
1892.
Article 1. 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 presi?
dent, one or more vice-presidents, a
recording and a corresponding secretary,
and a treasurer, and shall have the
following working committees, of not
less than three members each, viz. : A
Committee on Registration, an Execu?
tive committee, and such other com?
mittees as to each club may seem
expedient.
Art. 2. The meetings of the clubs
should be frequent after the opening of
the canvass, and some member, of the
j club or invited speaker deliver an ad?
dress at each meeting, if practicable.
Article 3 The president shall have
power to call an extra meeting of the
I club, and one-fourth of the members
shall constitute a quorum for the trans
! action of bas i nee 8.
Art. 4. The clubs in each county
shall be held together and operate un?
der the control of a County Executive
Committee, which shall consist of one
member from each club, to be elected
by the respective dabs, but these
powers to the said Executive Co min it
tees do not carry with them the power
to pass upon the election of members of
the county convention, or their qual?
ification to sit as members, for this
power belongs to the members of the
convention through the appointment
and action of a committee on creden?
tials, whose report shall be acted upon
as the members of the convention may
deem proper. The Executive Com?
mittee, when elected, shall appoint its
own officers, who shall not necessarily
I be members of said Committee, and
fill all vacancies which may arise when
the convention is not in session ; pro?
vided that any officer so elected, who is
not a member of the committee, shall
! not be entitled to a vote on any ques?
tion, except the chairman, and then
only in ease of a tie vote. The tenure
of office of the Executive Committee
?ball be antil the first Monday in
August of each election year, at which
time the County Conventions shall be
called together to reorganize the party.
Every Presidential year County Con?
ventions shall be called by the County
Executive Committee in May and shall
elect delegates to a State Convention
called for the purpose of electing dele?
gates to the National Democratic Con
I veotion, and to elect the member of the
National Democratic Executive Commit?
tee for this State, and such State Conven?
tion shall exercise no other power. This
State Convention shall be called by the
State Executive Committee to meet
every Presidential election year on the
third Wednesday in May, and the State
Democratic Nominating Convention
shall be called by the State Democratic
Executive Committee to meet on the
third Wednesday in September of each
election year.
Art. 5. County Democratic Conven?
tions shall be 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
preceding first primary election, and
one delegate for a majority fraction
thereof, with the right to each County
Convention to enlarge or diminish the
representation according to circum?
stances. The County Conventions shall
be called together by the chairman of
the- respective Executive Committees
under such rule, not inconsistent with
the Constitution nor with the rules
adopted by the State Democratic Exe?
cutive Committee, as each County may
adopt, and when assembled shall be
called to order by the Chairman of the
Executive Committee and the Conven?
tion shall proceed to nominate
and elect from among its mem?
bers a president, one or more
vice-presidents, a secretary and a
treasurer. The clubs recognized bj the
respective County Conventions which
sent delegates to the State Convention
which met on August 13, 1890, shall
be recognized as the only legal clubs :
Provided, however, That any County
Convention may permit the formation
of a new club or clubs by a majority
vote of its members : Provided, further,
That in all cities with a population of
5,000 and over there may be two clubs
in each Ward ; they shall be organized
in obedience to this Constitution, as are
the clubs elsewhere in this State, and
in organizing said clubs they shall have
representation in the County Conven?
tions, respectively, as said Conventions
shall declare in accordance with the
provisions of this Constitution.
Art. 6. The Nominating Convention
for the nomination of Governor, Lieu?
tenant Governor and other State offi?
cers, in 1892 and thereafter, and for
electors for President and vice-Presi?
dent in the same year and every Presi- ?
deolial year thereafter, shall be coin
posed of delegates from each county,
double the number to which such county
is entitled in both branches of the
General assembly. Said delegates are
to be chosen by primary elections to be i
held oo the last Tuesday io August o?
each election year, the delegates elected
to receive a majority of the votes cast.
At this election only white Democrats
shall be allowed to vote, except that
negroes who voted for General Hamp?
ton in 1876 and who have voted the
Democratic ticket continuously since
may be allowed to vote. >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 elec?
tion under this clause shall be held and
regulated under the Act of the General
Assembly of this State, approved
December 22, 1888, and any subse?
quent Acts of the Legislature of this
State. Second primaries when neces?
sary shall be held two weeks later.
Art. 7. The officers of the State
Convention shall be a president, a vice
president from each Congressional Dis?
trict, two Secretaries and Treasurer.
Art. 8. The State Executive Com?
mittee shall be composed of one member
from each county, to be selected by the
respective delegations and elected by the
Convention. When elected said Execu?
tive Committee shall choose its own
officers, not necessarily members thereof
prior to said election ; Provided, That
any officer so elected who is not a mem?
ber of the commitine shall not be
entitled to a vote on any question, ex?
cept the chairman, and then only in
case of a tie vote. The Executive Com?
mittee shall meet at the call of the
chairman or any five members, and at
such time and places as be or they may
appoint. The member of the National
Demcratic Executive Committee from
Sooth Oarolica shall be elected by the
May State Convention in 1892, and
every four years thereafter, and when
elected shall be ex officio a member of
the State Executive Committee. Va?
cancies on said Executive Committee
by death, resignation or otherwise shall
be filled by the respective County Execu?
tive Committees. The State Execotive
Committee is charged with the execution
and direction of the policy of the party
in the State, subject to this Constitu?
tion the principles declared in the plat?
form of principles, and such instructions
by resolution or otherwise as a State
Convention may from time to time
adopt, and shall continue in office for
two years from the time of election or
until the assembling of the State
Nominating Convention which meets in
September of each election year. If
any vacancy oecur on the State ticket
or for electors, by death, removal or
other cause, the committee shall have
the power to fill the vacancy by a
majority vote of the whole committee.
Art. 9. When the State Convention
assembles it shall be called to order by
the Chairman of the State Executive
Committee. A temporary president
shall be nominated and, elected by ?the
convention ; and after its organization
the convention shall proceed immedi?
ately to the election of permanent offi?
cers and to the transaction of nosiness.
When the business bas concluded it
shall adjourn sine die.
Art 10. There shall be a primary
election io each Congressional District
in this State on the last Tuesday in
August, 1892, and every two years
thereafter, to nominate candidates for
Congress, to be conducted and managed
as is hereinbefore provided io the elec?
tion of delegates to the State Con ven tioo.
The vote to be received, tabulated and
announced by the State Execotive
Committee, to the chairman of which
the result is to be transmitted by the
respective County Chairmen by the
first Tuesday in September, 1892, and
every two years thereafter. The elec?
tion for Solicitors of the different Cir?
cuits shall be by primary, subject to
the same rules and regulations, and to
be announced in the same way as be?
fore set forth for Congresmen.
Art. ll. Before the election in 1892,
and each election year thereafter, the
State Democratic Executive Commit?
tee shall issue a call to all candidates
for State offices to address the people
of the different counties of the State,
fixing the dates of the meetings, and
also inviting the candidates for Con?
gress, United States Senate, delegates
to the State Convention, and for So?
licitor, io their repective Districts and
Circuits, to be present and address the
people. At such meetings only the
candidates above set forth shall be al?
lowed to speak.
Art. 12. It shall the duty of each
County Executive Committee to ap?
point meetings in their respective
counties to be addressed by the candi?
dates for the General Assembly and
for the different County offices, all of
whom excepting Trial Justices and Mas?
ters, shall be elected by primary on the
last Tuesday in August of each elec?
tion year under the same rules and re?
gulations hereinbefore provided.
Art 13. Each county delegation to
a State Convention shall have power to
fill any vacancy therein.
Art. 14. This Constitution may be
amended and altered only by the State
Nominating Convention which meets in
September of each election year.
Art. 15. Any county failing or
refusing to organize under thc provi?
sions of this Constitution shall uot have
representation in the State Democratic
Convention. J. L. M. IRBY,
Chairman State Dem. Ex. Com.
D. H. TOMPKINS, Secretary. I
Help Needed at Once.
A Deplorable Condition on the
Coast.
A Pitiful Appeal from White People
to Governor Tillman-They are Dis?
criminated Against by the Red Gross
Society.
Colombia Register, Maj 18.
Many complaints of destitution in the
coast regioo of the State, which suffered
so mach from the storm of last August,
are still being made. Strange as it may
seem the majority of those complaints
are from white people. The colored
people appear to have been well provided
for. At any rate white people are
suffering in that section from the lack,
of the necessities of life and the situa?
tion is made more terrible by the state?
ment that there is no way for them to
help themselves.
Grave charges have been made that
the Ked Cross Society has discriminated
in favor of colored people in its distribu?
tion of charity. These charges have
been whisped for some time but have
been given little publicity because there
was appreciation of what Miss Barton
and ber society were doiog, even if
there was partiality to colored people.
Governor Tillman has received numer?
?os letters makiog bitter complaint
against Miss Barton's management,
but he has not said anytbiog about it.
He has just received an appeal from the
coast section for aid which he feels
should meet an early response. The
writer of the letter is said to be a man of
standing and veracity and his picture of
affairs can be depended on as correct.
The Governor will be glad to receive
subscriptions from charitably disposed
and will do anything be can to aid in
the relief appealed for. The following
is the letter and does not need to be
read a second time to see that help is
wanted and oeeded quickly :
"Bluffton, S. C., May 12.
"Governor B. R. Tillman, Columbia,
S. C.
"Dear Sir: On or about April 20th
tbs citizens (wbite) of our township,
that is Blufftoo, held a meeting and
resolutions expressing their destitution
and need were passed. Although not
personally present at the meeting I
understand from the committee that
copies of these resolutions were sent to
you ; also to the New York World,
Charleston News and Courier, The
State, to the Savannah Board of Trade
and Cotton Exchange. As a resident
of this township for years I am, I think,
folly acquainted with the condition of
its people. The response made to the
cry of our people for aid bas been so
lukewarm that I take the liberty of writ?
ing you. The situation as it exists now
in this community is worse, if possible,
than it was just after the August
cyclone. Your appeal then to people of
our country brought its reward. That
the white people of this community did
not receive the help and assistance from
the thousands of dollars and provisions
sent to our coast is not their fault, but
the fault of those who were charged
with its proper distribution. It is oct
my purpose here to array the officers of
the Red Cross Society. That has been
done by those who wield a better pen
than I do. Still the fact is known to
every one here and has been known for
months that the Red Cross authorities
had disgracefully misused their author?
ity and that they were more than partial
in the distribution of the charity. I
am well within the limits when I state
that the white citizens of this community
have not up to date received $300 in
supplies, while thousands have been
issued out to negroes, many of them in
nowise needy, for they hold pensions
from the United States government.
And now, sir, the situation as it exists
here to-day is simply this as near as I
can get at it: There are 150 white
families in the township, carrying over
600 souls and that to-day they are
without means-means to feed the
women and children or the farm ani?
mals. The farmers of this community
have struggled as few people have ever
been called upon to struggle.
The cyclone destroyed their cotton and
left them with little corn and that
damaged ; met with rebuffs by the Red
Cross they have bore their sufferings as
best they could, using every means
they had : trading what little they had
until now it is all gone and starvation
and no farm animals faces them. Un?
less they can get food for themselves
and for their animals the result will be
fearful. Crushed as the farmers were by
the cyclone they set to work in good
heart to prepare for the crop of this
year and the larger portion of it is now
planted. How they are to work the
crop without feed for animals is what
faces them now ; as much as feed for
themselves. I am well aware that with
your many ties you are doubtless nar?
rated beyond measure, but, sir, we
must ask your aid. How the help is to
come must be left to your judgment,
but come it must and quickly. I could
cite to you, if necessary, dozens of
families who have not a week's provi?
sions and no earthly means of getting
them.. As I have said above, the
response to the call made in the resolu?
tions has been very like warm. Still
there were two answers, one from a
gentleman on our coast here who suffer?
ed like all the rest and more than many,
who Bent us out of his little. The other
response came from the "relief commit?
tee of the New York Evening Post,"
who are stationed io Beaufort. This
committee, consisting of Drs. White,
Gibbes and Prioleau, and Mr. Thomas
Talbird, answered once and their aid
was charity indeed, for they fed the
hungry. Is there not some way of
calling the attention of the farmers of
our State to the condition here ? It is
probable that the farmers in the upper
part of the State, now that the season is
well advanced, may be able to spare
some corn, especially if their oat crop is
safe. Thc oat crop here is a failure, for
we bad only half an inch of a rain in
April, at the time the oats were shoot
.iog If donations could be sent to
Charleston, consigned to the care of the
agent of the steamer Pilot Boy, they
will carried to BlofFton, or rather
Beaufort, free of charge, and the rail?
roads from the upper portions of the
State would no doubt bring them down
here free. In behalf of the suffering
people of our townships I ask your
earnest and immediate aid. If 1 can
aid you by giving you positive evidence
of the suffering here I will be glad to
furnish it.
"With the hope that you will be able
through your influence to obtain speedy
relief for these people, I am yours truly.
"THOMAS R. HEYWARD."
Still Another Appeal.
Alarming State of Affairs on the
Coast.
Register, May 19.
Still another appeal for relief has
been receiv 1 by Governor Tillman
from the coast region of the State.
The situation is becoming alarming and
a generous public should respond
quickly and liberally.
Governor Tillman, is powerless to do
anything except to make an appeal
to a humane people and ask them to
give what they can. He bas no power
over the Red Cross Society, which is
distributing charity as it sees fit.
The appeal printed in yesterday's pa?
pers resulted in some money being con?
tributed. None was received by Gover?
nor Tillman, however, but it is probable
that contributions will begin to come in
in a few days
The following is the latest appeal
received by the Governor :
"HENDERSONVILLE, S. C., May 15.
To His Excellency, the Governor.
Dear Sir : By urgent request, and
in the interest of suffering humanity, I
respectfully address you. There are many
families in this community in destitute
circumstances, with no means to secure
needed supplies. Of course some of
them have a little property, but it is
mostly under mortgage for advances
made to them last year not having been
able to pay out.
Some of them have applied to the
Red Cross ^Society, but were told that
the Charleston and Savannah Railway
was the line above which aid could not
be extended without orders from you.
I am satisfied from my own knowl?
edge (having seen most of this section)
that for ten miles above the said rail?
way, from the Edieto to the Salkahat
ebie Rivers, the people suffered as much
damage from the storm of 1893, as
they did below said line except on the
immediate coast.
The poor we always have with ne.
These heretofore have been helped by
the communities in which they lived.
Now the great majority of the people
have want and destitution scaring them
in the face, which no local assistance
can relieve. There are; I suppose,
fifty or more families in this section
that will have ^to abandon their crops,
without aid from some source. These
are facts as I see and know them to be.
Hoping that your Excellency may de?
vise some means of relief and give direc?
tions to obtain the same, I am,
Your obedient servant,
R. R DEWITT."
The Gait he Traveled.
The following interesting colloquy
is said to have occurred between an
ex-spy and his wife juBt after the late
unpleasantness at Darlington, in
which the couple addressed each
other by their pet names :
Wife-"Sweet, how far did you
walk after leaving Darlington ?''
Spy-"About three miles, Baby."
Wife-"About three miles? Well,
how did you get here, then ?"
Spy--"Well, you see, I ran the
balance of the way, and those three
were the last coming into Columbia.
-Columbia Journal.
Highest of all in Leavening Pow
ABSOLU)
Court of Inquiry.
Will Meet at Charleston on the
22nd of This Month.
Governor Tillman bas at last taken
some action in reference to the "mutin?
ous" companies who refused to obey his
orders during tthe Darlington "insur?
rection." The following order has
been issued :
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
Office of the Adjutant and Inspector
General.
COLUMBIA, S. C., May 15, 1894.
General Order No. 9.
A court of inquiry consisting of
Brigadier General R. N. Richbourg,
Brigadier General E. J. Dennis, Col.
Wilie Jones, and Capt. J. T. Barron,
Judge Advocate, is hereby ordered.
Said court will convene in Charleston,
S. C , on Tuesday, the 22nd day of
May, 1894, to make inquiry and re?
port to these headquarters on the fol?
lowing points :
First. As to Brig. Gen. T. A. Hu
gnenin, commanding the Fourth Bri?
gade in failing to report with his com?
mand at Darl;*>gton on March 30th,
under orders from these headquarters.
Second. As to whether any of the
brigade, regimental, or commanding
officers or men of said Fourth Brigade
are responsible for said disobedience of
orders ; if so, who and in what degree,.
Third. To examine into the beha?
vior of the officers and men belonging
to the Naval Battalion in Charleston
and at Mount Pleasant during that
occasion and since.
Fourth. As soon as the inquiry
herein ordered shall be completed the
said court will convene in Columbia
and investigate the conduct of the
officers and men of the Second Brigade
of infantry and the Gordon Volunteers,
Capt. L. T. Izlar, commanding, who
failed to respond to orders from these
headquarters on March 29th, 3Otb, and
31st, 1894. Such inquiry will be
searching and opinion of the court as
to the degree of guilt in each case will
be reported io these findings.
By order Commander-in-Chief,
B. R. TILLMAN,
Official, Governor.
J GABY WATTS,
Asst. A. and I. General.
He Planted His Own Coffin.
Fifty years ago Almeron Higby, of
Watsoo, N. Y., when he was nine years
old, planted in his father's dooryard
the stone of a cherrry that fae bad
eaten. A tree sprang up, and in a
few years began to bear fruit. Higby
eold the fruit from year to year, saving
the money, even after be was married
and had children.
Last summer his health became poor,
and as the tree began to show signs of
decay he cot it down and had the trunk
sawed into boards, with which he mada
a coffin for himself. His eccentric:
actions caused much comment at th*
time, but Higby only laughed when,
questioned about the matter, and said
he could see no harm in a mao making
his own coffin.
He seemed to have a presentment
that be was soon to die. and a short
time ago be was taken seriously ill.
A few days later he died and by bis
request was buried in the coffin made
with his own hands, and the expenses
of the funeral were paid from the
money saved from the t>ale of the
cherries borne by the tree from whicb
bis coffin was made.
Hard on Charleston.
If you will make a critical exami?
nation of the American Declaration
of Independence you will ?ot find
South Carolina represented by any of
the Chiceos, Nolles and Cantinis now
so much esteemed in Charleston.
Later on you will not find any
General Chicco in the War between
the States. Neither will you find any
Judge Cantini presiding over our
courts. You will find such names ia
whiskey riots, whiskey parades, in
the running of blind tigers and in the
newspapers which glorify them for
resisting the law. It is not the
TrenSiolms, Ravenels, DeSaus*utes,
Middletons, Rutledges, Rhetts and
Haynes that give tone to Charleston
now. The Chiceos, Noltes and
Cantinis fill the public eye and com?
mand the admiration of that degen?
erate city.-Abbeville Medium.
For Over Fifty Years.
MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP has been
used for children teething. It soothes the
child, softens the gums, allajsall pain, cures
wind colic, and is the best remedy for Diar?
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'er.--Latest U. S. Gov't Report
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HELY PURE