The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-05-09
THE LAW OF THE PARTY.
DEMOCRATIC REGULATIONS INsOUTH
CAROLINA.

DEMOCRATIC REGULATIONS IN soUTE
CAROLINA.
The Cons; tuition as Amended by the Stats
Convention, August 6, 1885.
ARTICLE I. There shall be one or more
Democratic clubs organized in eact
election precinc4, each of which clubs
shall have distinct title, "The--
Democratic club" and shall elect 6
President, one or more Vice-Presidents,
Recording and Corresponding Secreta'
ry, and Treasurer; and shall have the
following working committees, Of moi
less than three members each, viz: A
Committee on Registration, an E1ecu'
tive Committee, and such other commit
tees as to each club may seem expedient
Art. II. The meeting of the clubs
should be frequent after the opening oi
the canvass, and some member of the
club or invited speaker deliver an ad.
dress at each meeting, if practicable.
ART. III. The president shall have
power to call an extra meeting of the
club, members of the club shall
constitute q quorum for tho transaction
of business.
ART. ". The clubs in each county
shall be held together and operate under
the contr d Of County Executive Com
mittee, which shall consist of one mem
Der from each club, to be nominated by
the respective clubs, and elected by the
county convention, and such other
members as the convention may add.
The Executive Committee, when elect
ed, shall appoint its own officers and ELL
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 soener removed or suspended by
the county convention.
AIT. Y. County Democratic con7en-
tions shall be composed of delegates
elected by the several local clubs-one
delegate for every club, and an addition
al 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
circumstances. 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 COM
mittee, and proceed to elect from among
it's members President, one or more
Vice-Presidents, Secretary and Treas
urer. The convention shall proceed to
business, and when the same is trans
acted it shall adjourn sine die.
AIT. VI. The mode and manner Of
nominating candidates for county Offices
or for the State, Judicial and Congress
sional conventions shall be regulated 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.
AIT. VIII. The officers shall be q
President, one Vice President from each
Congressional District, two Secretaries
and Treasurer.
AIT. *. The State Executive Com
mittee shall be composed of three from
each Congressional District. The dele
gates from the counties comprising the
G Congressional District to nominate the
candidate from that district, and the
convention shall then proceed to an
election. The member representing
South Carolina on the National Demo
cratic Committee shall be e1-ofncio a
member of the State Democratic Com
mittee.
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 8
majority OF the whole committee, to call
a convention of the Democratic party of
the State, at such times and places 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 constition, 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 a
State ticket, unless superseded by the
action of the State convention. And if
any vacancy on the State ticket be
occasioned by death, removal, 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 State convention.
ART. XII. When the State Demo
cratic convention assemblies it shall be
called to order by the chairman of the
State Executive Committee; shall elect q
temporary President, and shall proceed
Immediately to the election Of permanent
officers and the transaction Of business.
The convention, when it has con-
cluded its business, shall adjourn sine
die. And when convention is called
by the Executive Committee, such con-
vention shall be composed of newly
elected delegates.
ART. XIII. Representation in Ju-
dcjal and Congressional conventions
shall be on the same basis as in State
conventions. A majority of the del
egates shall be present at convention
to constitute quorum for nominating a
canidate either for Congress or Solicitor.
The delegation of each county in Con-
gressional or Judicial convention shall
have power to fill any vacancy IN the
dalenatinn And xheneyer anY county