The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1878-04-25
The State Executive Committee.

Among the business transacted by
the State Democratic Executive
Committee, at is Meeting. in this city
yesterday, says the Columbia Regis
ter, the following general plan for
conducting the primary elections
was agreed upon, and ordered to be
sent to the various County Chair
men. The members are impressed
with the importance Of the system as
the best and tairest method for se-
lecting candidates to be voted for in
each county, thereby tending to uni
fy and harmonize the party thropgh~
ont the State. The suggestions made
in the annexed series are general
in their character, as is entirely
proper, for it would be difficult to
-prepair details which would ol crate
with equal force and smoothness in
every locality. The recommends
tions of the Executive Committee
are embraced in the following points:
1. Aspirants for the position of
candidates should be announced in
dividually in any mode deemed prop
er by themselves or their irieuds, but
should be placed distinctly before
the Democratic party on their own
merits, and not as the candidate of
any organized body of Democrats.
2. Each aspirant for the positions
of candidate, when he accepts tie
nomination So made, shall immedi
a'ely rotify the County Chairman in
writing Of the fact, and in tie same
communication state that he is
melNb per Of some l. Cal club, and sab-
scribe to lhe following pledge: IL
agree to abide by and support the
nomiaiinnns Of the Democratic arty,
and not to accept either nomination
or an office from any other source
than the Regularly constituted Demo-
cratic organization"
3. AT least five days before the
primary election, the County Chair
man shall notify the Democratic
Clubs OF The aspirants who have
thus qualified themselves tor the po-
silion OF candidate, and votes cast for
any other person or persons shall not
be counted.
4. On the day fixed for this pri-
mary election, each local club shall
hold an election tor candidates of the
Democratic party, and report the
result in writing over the SIGNATURES
OF the managers to tue County Chair
man. At this election none but
members ofthe local clubs shall vote.
and each member before being al
lowed to vote shall take the follow
ing pledge: Il solemnly affirm that
l am duly enrolled member Of this
Democratic Club; that I have not
voted at this election, and that I will
abide by and sustaip all nomina-
tions made by tie Dem cratic party,
whether for Federal, State or county
officers"
5. Upon the following day, the
County Chairman and at least two
members of the County Executive
Committee shall assemble at the
county seal, and aggregate the votes
reported, and before sundown declare
the candidates selected.
6. No one shall be declared the
nominee Of the party unless be shall
have received a majority of all the
votes cast in the primary election.
z Should no candidate for any
particular ofice receive a majority
Of the votes cast, the County Chair
man shall 80 declare, and order a
second election to complete the nomi
nations in sufficient time before the
general election.
l once defended a man charged
with the awful crime Of murder. At