The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-10-04
THOROUGH REPRESENTATION OF
CHARLEsTON COUNTY.
PROMPT AND HARMONIOUS ACTION
NOMINATION OF THE wINNIN
COUNTY TICKET.

that something of more than usual interes
and Importance was about to transpire. Yes
there was something to take place whic
vitally affected every honest man in Charles
ton County and the State-it was the meetin
Of the delegates of the Union Reform party t
put forth county ticket to defeat the ticke
of the "Rule or Ruin party, which, If elected
will give the State another two years OF COZ
ruption and rascality, such as have made ou
present rulers by-word, and their govern
ment disgrace to civilization.
CALLED TO ORDER.
At IL NJ the delegates assembled IN ths
lower room of the Hibernian Hall, and few
minutes afterward were called to order by
Colonel C. Il. Simonton, county chairman.
He then read the call for the County Con
vention, also the list of delegates, as follows: :
LIST OF DELEGATES.
Ward IA. H. Harper, H. E. Young, James
Riley, Marlew Cochran, H. H. Fehrenbach,
Joseph McFall.
Ward 2-Henry Hall, E. L. Henry, Charles
Mchaels, Walter Webb, Jr., John Nelson, F..
F. Chapeau.
Ward 3-W. A. Zimmerman, William Cor
bert, William G. Wood, John Brown, Thorn as
Ferguson, A. o. Stone.
Ward 4-Stephney Riley, R. E. Dereef, Cap.
tain A. Melchers, E. R. White. E. L. Roche
and Major E. Willis.
Ward 5-Paul wilkinson, Michael Kelly, ".
G.. Rout, 7. D. Dotterer, c. B. Nell ana o.
Tiedemann.
Ward CIV. Fisher, ]. W. Guy, James Mel.
vim, ". Fl. Francis, ]. B. Thomas and W. A.
Sneed.
Ward Thomas B. Hacker, T. ". Thomp.
son, J. W. Stevens, T. R. Keegau, J, Francis
and T. H. Hunter.
Ward 81. F. Vanderlippe, Jr., h. ]. Bor-
denave, W. Brewer, T. O'Brien, Richard Wash.
ington and VIM. A. Gibson.
st. Thomas Parlsh-Daniel Fairchild, A. F.
Meyer, Solomon Baker.
Christ Church Parish-George F. Kinloch,
Giles Simmons, L. P. Smith and Mortimer
yenning.
st. James Goose Creek-Thomas S. Brown
ing, H. H. Murray, John Lambright, ReV.
Thomas Leadbetter, H. L. Thomas, A. Ran
doph, L. Siles and Captain Hutto.
Upper and Middle St. John's-Charles j.
Macbeth, Frederick Jefferson, John c. Bradley,
Jr., andrew Ferguson, Thomas ". Easterling,
Robert H. Harleston, NJ. Graves, G. W. Avinger
and Moses NJ. Gamble.
James Island-Cain Slmons, Francis Gads-
den, Joe Williams.
St. Johns Colleton-Major Carl Berlin, VIM.
Gregg, Charles Boykin and Elias Brown.
St. Stephens-Mr. Harmon, Robt. Taylor and
Abraham Hood.
St. James Santee-R. 7. Morrison, Sr., John
Bunyan and Paul B. Drayton.
Colonel slmonton said that he would not oc-
cupy the time in speech. as all understood
the Convention had been called to work, to put
out a county ticket to defeat the ticket OF the
adherents of the. party which had done SO
much already to injure the State. He advised
the Convention to select good, true men, who
represented every interest.
PERMANENT ORGANIZATION.
Mr.. R. E. Dereet was requested to act as
temporary chairman, and took his seat amid
applause.
Mr.. Dereef stated that the first business was
to elect permanent chairman.
Mr.. William Fisher moved that committee
of i've be appointed to nominate officers fol
o permanent organization.
Mr.. Harper moved that committee of seven
be appointed.
Dir. E. R. White moved to elect the officers
| Immediately, so as to save time.
Mr. Whites motion was put and carried.
SIr. Riley nominated Major Edward Willis
for chairman.
Major Willis was unanimously elected, and
took his seat amidst enthusiastic applause.
On taking the chair Major Willis thanked the
audience for the honor conferred, aud advised
that all differences shonld be settled so that
the action of the convention should be har-
monious.
Messrs. Browning, Rout, Henry and zim-
norman were put denomination for secreta-
ries. Mr.. Zimmerman declined to run. Messrs.
Henry and Browning were elected.
Mr." Fisher moved that q number OF vice.
presidents be nominated. The motion was
carried, and Messrs Leadbetter, Dereef, Kin
locu, Francis, Dotterer, Mlcheals, Corbert, and
Wilkinson were nominated. Messrs. Corbert,
Dotterer and Francis withdrew their names.
Messrs Kinloch, Dereef, Leadbetter, Wllkin-
son and Michaels were then elected by accla-
nation.
Mr.. W. A. Gibson moved that committee
be appointed to draft rules and regulations for
the government of the Convention.
A motion to sit with closed doors was
carried, and the doors were closed.
An election for two messengers and three
sergeants-at-arms was next in order, and G..
Fenwick aud r. E. Devices were elected mes
sengers, and W. E. Fraser, Henry Hall and j.
Fordham, sergeants-at-arms.
Mr.. Harper moved that committee CT seven
be appointed on nominations.
Captain Stone moved that one member OF
each delegation be appointed on the commit
tee, which was carried.
Mr. Harper objected TO this, and, on his mo-
ton, the vote was reconsidered, and the chair.
man was delegated to appoint the committee.
Mr.. Roche thought that it would save time
If the nominations came from the Convention
as body. and not from committee, and
moved o reconsideration of the vote for com
mittee. His motion was carried.
A motion was made that the rules govern
ing the South Carolina Legislature should