Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-07-18
For the Yorkyille Enquirer.
DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

oCRATIC CLUBS.
In accordance with the resolution adopted
by the County Convention, June %, 1878.
the Executive Committee of York county, at
a meeting held in Yorkville on the 10th day
of July, 1878, drafted the following Constitu-
ton, to be submitted for adoption or rejection
by the various Democratic Clubs of the said
county:
ART. /. There shall be Democratic Club
at each of the election precincts in York
county at which the general election in No
vember, 1878, was conducted and each of
said Clubs shall meet, during the campaign,
at least once in every two weeks, after the lst
of August, 1878.
ART. 2. The officers of each Club shall
consist of President, one or more Vice
Presidents, a Secretary and Treasurer, and
shall also have an Executive Committee, a
Committee on Registration, and such other
committees as it may deem proper.
ART. g. The Presidents of Clubs are au-
thorized to call extra meetings Of the Clubs
whenever it may be deemed necessary the
quorum atall meetings to be determined by
the various Clubs.
ART4. The various Clubs in the county
shall be held together and shall operate un-
der the control of the County Executive
Committee, which shall consist of the County
Chairman and one member from each of the
local Clubs to be elected by the County Con.
vention. The Executive Committee, when
elected, shall appoint its own officers, except
the Chairman, and shall 6ll all vacancies
which may occur when the Convention is not
in session. The tenure of Office of the Exec.
utive Committee shall be until their success.
ors are elected for the succeeding general
campaign, unless sooner removed or suspend
ed by the County Convention. Presidents of
the various Clubs are to be recognized as er
oficio members of the County Executive
Committee. A majority Of the Executive
Committee proper, with or without the Presi'
dents of local Clubs. shall constitute quo.
rum for the transaction Of business. The
County Chairman shall be er ofScio Chair:
man Of the Executive Committee, and, du-
ring his term of office, President of all Dem.
ocratic Conventions held in York county.
ART. s. The Chairman Of the Executive
Committee shall have power to call said Com
nittee together. and shall also have power to
call County Convention, whenever, in his
Judgment it may be advisable, and shall
make such call whenever said Committee may
request the same.
ART 6. Upon the assembling of the Coun'
ty Convention, it shall be called to order hy
the County Chairman, and the Convention
shall elect from its members Secretary, and
if deemed necessary, an assistant Secretary.
Should the County Chairman be absent. the
Convention shall elect one of its members as
President pro tenn. The Convention shall
proceed to consider the business for which it
was called, and when the same has been trans
acted, shall adjourn sine die.
ART. Z. No delegate shall be entitled to
seat in any County Convention until he shall
have submitted credentials signed by the pre-.
siding officer and secretary of the Club that
he proposes to represent, unless majority of
the members of the Convention, duly organ
lied, under special circumstances, may other
wise determine. Twothirds of the entire
number Of members authorized to constitute
a Convention, shall constitutute quorum for
the transaction of business. Each Club shall
be entitled to the representation prescribed by
the Executive Committee for the County
Convention, held June 25th, 1878, to.wit:
Bethel, 8 Bullock Creek, 4 Coates Tavern,
2; Fort Mill, 4; Hickory Grove, 8; Rock
Hill, 6; Bethany, 4; Blacks Station, 4;
Clay Hill, 2 McConnellsville, 8; McElwee's
Mill, Con Fishing Creek 2; Yorkville, 5.
ART 8. No nomination for any Office in
the Convention shall be considered by the
Convention, unless the nominee, or at least
two of his friends present, shall pledge that
the nominee will abide by and support the
nominations of said Convention.
ART 9. Before any person shall de declared
the nominee of the Convention for any Office,
or be elected by said Convention as dele
gate to any other Convention, it shall be ne
cessary for said person to receive wo.thirds of
the votes, by ballot of all the members pres.
ent constituting said Convention.
ART. 10. Delegates to the County Conven-
ton from the various Clubs shall be elected
by ballot with or without nomination, from
the members of the said Club, and it shall be
necessary for each delegate to receive ma
iority of the votes cast at the Club meeting
before he shall be entitled to credentials as
delegate. An alternate for each principal
delegate shall, in like manner, be elected by
each Club, and the credential shall show who
was elected principal and who was elected the
alternate of each principal delegate.
ART. II. The Executive Committee shall
give public notice of the day and hour at
which delegates are to be elected to the Coun-
ty Convention; the election by the various
Clubs to be held on the same day.
ART. II. To facilitate business, the pro-
ceedings of the County Convention shall be
with closed doors but it shall be the duty of
the Secretary of said Convention to record, for
publication, the entire proceedings; nor shall
the provisions of this article be construed to
the exclusion of representatives of the press
who may desire to be present for the purpose of
rep ,rting the proceedings of the Convention
for publication As early as practicable, after
the adjournment of said Convention, public
proclamation Of the names Of the nominees
and the Offices for which they are nominated
shall be made from the portico Of the Court
House.
ART. 13. This Constitution shall be bind
ing upon the Democracy of York county, up
on its adoption by three-fourths of the various
Clubs, and may be amended by the County
Convention: Provided, that no such amend
ment shall be of force unless ratified by two
thirds of all the local Clubs
The following resolution was also adopted
by the Executive Committee
Resolved, That the respective Clubs be re-
quested to vote upon the adoption or re jection
of the Constitution, and inform the respect
i've members of the County Executive Com
mittee representing said Clubs, Of their action
in the premises, by the first Monday in
August, 1878.
Tha Conm;ttea then adiourned To meet