Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-09-02
From, th, Charleston News.

Mill AIRY rule M this State is at an end.
The soluier has given place to the govern
nent of time servers, fortune hunters and
,reucgadrs. which now reigns in Columbia. A
mandate from General Candy now has no
more authority than an order from John
Smith, aid all persons heretofore holding
office by virtue Of Especial or general orders
from the late headquarters at the citadel:
aust at once vacale their official chairs, or
tacitIy declare that they pay no respect 10
Canty, Congress or the reconstruction constl.
tuition.
BIZ, besides the military nppaintees, who
arc i,cw in trouble and doubt there are the
recently elected county officers, whose cleo
ton was wholly illegal, whether it was sup
passed to be held under the authority of the
Reconstruction acts or the ordinances OF the
Club House Convention.
The Reconstruction act of February 2S,
1858, authorized the constitutional conven-
tions to provide that ut the time of voting
upon the ratification Of the constitution, the
registered voters might vote for members of
Congress and for all elective cfficers provided
for by the said constitution. But the conven
ton in .bis State did no such thing. 1t did
ordain that at the time Of voting upon the
constitution the executive officers of the State
and members of the General Assembly should
be elected but in regard to all other officers
elected by the people, including county off.
GERS, il only ordained thatan election might
be held ,uahin thirty days after the ratJfca-
tian of hec0astitut!oH: under regulations to
be prescribed by the Commissioners of Elec-
tions. 1t is clear, then, that county commits
sioners, sherils, clerks of court, ,sand all other
Ficoupty officers, could only be elected within
these thirty days, and Under the rules laid
down by the Election Commissioners-E. W.
NJ. Mackay; white. F. l.. Cardoza, colored, A.
j. Ranser, culored, and 9. G. Bowen, white.
The constitution was submitted to.the reg
.istered voters on April l4th,. 18th and 10th
last, at which time the Governor, State Off
GERS, members of the Legislature aud Com
eressmen were elected. Nothing was said
about county or municipal officers. Oh the
2Sth April, however, General Candy. issued
an order that elections should take place on
June Sd for all county aud municipal officers,
and on May 23d he revoked so much of the
order as referred to municipal elections, leav.
ing the county elections TO 60 on.
These are the facts, and thcy prove con-
clusively:
/. That the sLoriffs, -clcrl;s of court, and
other COUNTY officers elected ON June ID were
not elected under the authority Of the Recon.
struction acts, because not elesed at the time
of ratifying The constitution.
2. That these so-called county officers were
not electedunder the Club House constitution,
because they were not elected within thirty
DAYS after the ratification of the constitution
and under the supervision of :he Commission
ers of Elections.
3. That they were elected by authority oI
military order, and that while they might
have qualified as provisional officers while
military rule lasted, they cannot qualify now
because they wele elected illegally and in di.