Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-03-18
The Murkrille Guquirer.
YORKVILLE, S. G.. {:
THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH l8. 1880
STATE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.

The State Democratic committee, at meet
ing held in Columbia on Wednesday evening
of last week, determined to call State Con-
vention of the Democratic party, to be held
in the city of Columbia on Tuesday, the LIST
day of June next. The objects of the con-
vention, as defined in the call of the chair
man, are frst-to nominate fourteen dele
gates to represent the State of South Carolina
in the National Democratic Convention !;
second-to nominate seven electors for Presi-
dent and Vice-President of the United States !;
and third, to nominate the Democratic can
didates for Governor and other State offices.
The Convention will also dispose of any other
business that may be brought before it, and
will be invited, at the suggestion of the Ma
tiopal Democratic Executive Committee, to
express the sense of the party in South Caro-
lima upon the question whether the two thirds
rule now in force in National Conventions of
the Democratic party, in nominating candi-
dates for President and Vice President, shall
be abrogated or maintained.
The action of the Executive Committee
in calling the State Convention for the pur-
pose of nominating candidates for State otti-
ces, does not affect the nominations to be
made for members of Congress and Solicitors
of the judicial circuits. According to the
provisions of the constitution of the Demo
cratic party of South Carolina, adopted in
187S the nominations for members of Con.
gress are made by the Congressional Conven'
tions, in which the basis ofrepresentation is the
same as in the State Convention, viz. "a num-
Der of delegates from each county equal to
the representation to which that county is
entitled in both branches of the General
Assembly. The Executive Committee of
each Congressional District is composed of the
chairmeu of the counties composing the dis
trict. This Executive Committee, by ma
iority vote, calls the nominating convention,
which must meet within the Congressional
District, and a majority of the votes is nec-
essary to a choice of candidates. The pro-
visions in regard to Circuit Solicitors is SINH
lar-the same rules applying to the counties
composing the respective judicial circuits.
The nominations for members of Congress
and Solicitors will accordingly be made at
such time and place within the several dis
tricts as the respective committees shall de-
termine. The executive committees of the
several counties are entrusted with the regu-
lation of the mode and manner of nominating
candidates for county Offices, and the County
Conventions regulate the mode and manner
of electing delegates to the State, Judicial
and Congressional Conventions.
The following is the call of the State Ex'
ecutive Committee:
| Rooms OF THE
STATE DEN. ExEcUTIvE COMMITTEE,
| COLUMBIA, 8. g., March 10, 1880.
Convention of the Democratic party of South
Carolina will assemble at Columbia on Tues
day, the lst day of June proximo, at IL o'clock
M, in the Hall of the House Of Representatives,
| to nominate candidates for State officers, to nom-
nate Electors for President and Vice President,
to elect delegates to represent the party in the
National Democratic Convention which convenes
at Cincinnati on the 22d of June, and to transact
such other business as the Convention may deem
proper. The National Committee has requested
State Conventions to instruct their delegates as
to the question of the repeal of the two-thirds
rule now in force in National Conventions Each
County is entitled by the constitution OF the party
to as many delegates as it has representatives IN
both branches of the General Assembly. The ex.
ecutive committees of the counties are charged
with the the duty of calling their county conven-
| tions to elect delegates.
| BY order of the Committee
ID. KENNEDY, Chairman.
JOHN E. BACON, Secretary.