Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-09-07
The State Detl1ufratp.
STATE DEMOCRATIC PLATPORM.
FULL TEXT OF THE CONSTITUTION AS AMEN1
rn AIYcrsr 1890 -

FULL TEXT OF THE CONSTITUTION AS AMEND
ED, AUGUST 2, 1882.
The Constitution of the Democratic party
of South Carolina as amended by the late
Convention is as follows: ...
ARTICLE 1. There shall be one or more
Democratic Clubs organized in each election
precinct, each of which Clubs shall have
distinct title, "The Democratic Club"
and shall elect President, one or more Vice
Presidents, Recording and a 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 Committees as
to each Club may seem eXpedient.
ART. II. The meetings of the Clubs should
be frequent after the opening of the canvass,
and some member of the Club or invited speak
er deliver an address at each meeting if prac-
! ticable.
ART III. The President shall have power
to call an extra meeting of the Club, and
members of the Club shall constitute a quo
rum for the transaction of business.
ART w. The Clubs in each county shall
be held together and operate under the con-
troll of County Executive Committee, which
shall consist of one member from each Club.
rto he nominated by the respective Clubs and
elected by the County Convention and such
other members as the Convention may add.
The Executive Committee, when. elected,
shall appoint its own officers and fill all va
cancies 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 County Convention.
The present County Executive Committees
shall continue in office until the first meeting
of the County Conventions under this organi-
zatiOn.
ART. V. County Democratic Conventions
shall be composed of delegates elected by the
several Local Clubs-one delegate for every
Club, and an additional delegate for every
| twenty-five (25) enrolled members-with the
right to eacll County Convention to enlarge or
diminish 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 proceed to elect from among
| it's members President, one or more Vice
| Presidents, Secretary and Treasurer. The
Convention shall proceed to business, and
when the same is transacted it shall adjourn
sine die.
ART vi. The mode and manner of nomi-
mating candidates for county offices or for
the State, Judicial and Congressional Conven-
tions shall be regulated in each county by the
respective County Conventions.
ART VII. The State Convention shall be
composed of delegates from each county III
the numerical proportion to which that coun-
ty is entitled in both branches of the General
Assembly
ART. VIII. The officers shall be Presi-
dent, one Vice-President from each Congress
sional District, two Secretaries and a Treas
urer.
ART. TX. The State Executive Committee
shall be composed of three from each Congress
sional District. The delegates from the coun-
ties comprising the Congressional District to
nominate the candidates from that district,
and the Convention shall then proceed to an
election. The member representing South
Carolina on the National Democratic Com
mite shall he er oticio member of the State
Democratic Committee.
ART. X. The Executive Committee shall
elect it's 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
may appoint.
| ART. XII. The Executive Committee shall
have power, by the vote of majority of the
whole Committee, to call 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 State, subject only to this
Constitution, the principles declared in the
platform, and such instructions, byresolutions
or otherwise, as the State Convention may
from time to time adopt; and shall continue
in office for two years from the time OF cleo
ton, or until the assembling of the next State
Convention for the nomination of State
ticket, unless superseded by the action of the
State Convention. And if any vacancy on
the State ticket be occasioned by death, re-
mOval, or other cause the Committee shall
have power to fill the vacancy: Provided
this shall not apply to the office of Governor
when there shall be sufficient time to call a
State Convention.
ART. XII. When the State Democratic
Convention assemblies, it shall be called to Or
der by the Chairman of the State Executive
Committee, shall elect temporary President,
and shall proceed Immediately 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 Executive Com
mittee, such Convention shall be composed of
newly elected delegates.
ART XIII. Representation in Judicial and
Congressional Conventions shall be on the
same basis as in State Conventions ma
iority of delegates shall be present at Con-
vention to constitute a quorum for nomna-
ting candidate either for Congress or SOlici
tor The delegation of each county in Con-
gressional or Judicial Convention shall have
power to fill any vacancy in the delegation.
And whenever any county is or shall be subd-
vided among two or more Congressional Dis
trictS the delegates to the Conventions of the
several Congressional Districts shall be elect
ed by the County Democratic Convention, and
apportioned among the respective Congress
sional subdivisions of the countyin proportion
to population
In every Convention to nominate a candi-
date for Congress or for the office of Solicitor
a majority of the votes shall he necessary to a
choice, and the votes shall be taken rira roce
and recorded, unless there be but one candi-
date, in which event the vote may be taken by
acclamation As soon as a Congressional or
Judicial Convention has nominated the party
candidate for Congress or Solicitor, it shall ad-
journ sine die, and whenever a candidate to fill
an unexpired term of either office has to be
nominated, it shall be done by a new Conven-
tion of delegates fresh from the people. The
Executive Committee of each Congressional
District or Judicial Circuit shall consist of the
several County Chairmen of the respective
counties and parts of counties composing such
District or Circuit, which Committee shall
elect it's own Chairman, Secretary and Treasu-
rer, who shall continue in Office for two years
in a District and for four years in Circuit,
respectively, or until their successors shall
have been elected. 1t shall require the COIL
sent of a majority of the whole executive Com
mttee in any District or Circuit to call NOm-
mating Convention.
Tie Executive Committee of each District
or Circuit shall be specially charged in its dis
cretiOn. except as herein provided, and subject