The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-03-25
THE STATE DEMOCRACY.
Constitution of tho Democratic Party of
South Carolina.

adopted by the State Convention, anC
went into force in the campaign of 1878
is as follows:
ARTICLE I. There shall be one or more
Democratic Clubs organized in each elec.
ton precinct, each of which Clubs shall
have q distinct title, "The - Demo.
cratic Club" and shall elect President
one or more ce-Presidents, Record.
ing and Corresponding Secretary, and
Treasurer, and shall have the following
working committees, of not less than
three members each, viz: A Committee
on Registration, an Executive Committee
and such other Committees as 10 each
Club may seem expedient.
ART. II. The meetings Of the Clubs
shall be frequent after the opening of the
canvass, and some member of the Club
or invited speaker deliver an address at
each meeting if practicable.
ART. III. The President shall have
power to call an extra meeting of the
Club, and - members of the Club
shall constitute quorum for the transac-
ton of business.
ART. w. The Clubs in each county
shall be held together and operate under
the control of County Executive Com
mittec, which shall consist of one men,
Der from each Club, to be nominated by
the respective Clubs and elected by the
County Convention, and such other MEM
bers as the Convention may add.
The Executive Committee, when elec-
ted, shall appoi nt its own officers and fill
all vacancies which may arise when the
Convention is not in session. The tenure
of Office of the Executive Committee
shall be until the next general campaign,
unless sooner removed or suspended by
the County Convention.
The present County Executive Com
mittees shall continue in Office until the
first meeting of the County Conventions
under this organization.
ART. V. County Democratic Conven-
tions shall be composed of delegates elec-
ted by the several Local Clubs-one del
egate for every Club, and an additional
delegate for every twenty-five (25) en-
rolled members-with the right to each
County Convention to enlarge or dimin-
ish the representation according to cir
cumstances. This Convention shall be
called together by the Chairman of the
Executive Committee, under such rules
as each county may adopt, and when
assembled shall be called to order by the
Chairman of the Executive Committee,
and shall proceed to elect from among its
members President, one or more Vice
Presidents, Secretary and Treasurer.
The Convention shall proceed to busi-
ness, and when the same is transacted it
shall adjourn sine die.
ART. vi. The mode and manner of
nominating candidates for county offices
or for delegates to the State, Judicial and
Congressional Conventions shall be reg
ulated in each county by the respective
County Conventions.
ART. VII. The State Convention shall
be composed of delegates from each
county in the numerical proportion to
which that county is entitled in both
branches of the General Assembly.
ART. VIII. The officers shall be q
President, one Vice President from each
Congressional District, two Secretaries
and Treasurer.
ART. TX. The State Executive COM
mittee shall be composed of three from
each Congressional District. The dele
gates from the counties comprising the
Congressional District to nominate the
candidates from that district, and the
Convention shall then proceed to an elec.
ton.
ART. X. The Executive Committee
shall elect its own Chairman and other
officers, and shall meet at the call of the
Chairman or any FIVE members, at such
times and places as he or they may ap-
point.
ART. XI. The Executive Committee
shall have power, by the vote of ma
iority of the whole Committee, to call q
Convention of the Democratic party of
the State at such time and place as it
may designate; and is charged with the
execution and direction of the policy of
the party in the Stale, subject only to
this Constitution, the principles declared
in the platform, and such instructions,
by resolution or otherwise, as the 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 next State Convention
for the nomination of State ticket, un-
less superseded by the action of the State
Convention. And if any vacancy be
occasioned by death, removal, or other
cause, the Committee shall have power
to fill the vacancy.
ART. XII. When the State Democratic
Convention assemblies, it shall be called
to order by the Chairman of the State
Executiee Committee, shall elect tenn.
porary President, and shall proceed i'm
mediately to the election of permanent
officers and the transaction of business.
The Convention, when it has concluded
its business, shall adjourn sine die. And
when Convention is called by the Ex;
ecutive Committee, such Convention
shall be composed of newly elected dele
gates. ,
ART. XIII. Representation in Judicial
and Congressional Conventions shall be
on the same basis rs in State Conven-
tions. A majority of delegates shall be
present at o Convention to constitute q
quorum for nominating candidate
either for Congress or Solicitor. The
delegation of each county in Congress
ionaI or Judicial Convention shall have
power to ill any vacancy in the delega-
ton.
In every Convention to nominate a
candidate for Congress or for the office Of
Solicitor q majority of the votes shall be
necessary to choice, and the vote shall
be taken uiuG roce and recorded, unless
there is but one candidate, in which
event the vote may be taken by acclama-
ton. AS soon as Congressional or Ju-
dicial Convention has nominated the
party candidate for Congress or Solicitor,
it shall adjourn sine die, and whenever d