The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-06-11

.lnbs were organized.
The chairman read the call which dis
inctlv stated: The county chairman OF
he several counties in this State will pro
;eed to have the Democratic clubs il, their
counties reorganized, and take such steps
as are necessary to carry out the call and
for the election Of delegates to the State con-
vention."
County Chairman Davis said that accord
ing to his construction of the above lnstruc-
/, rs he felt it his duty to order 4 reorgani-
zation of the clubs at once, and he asked
the executive committee to decide whether
he should do so or not, and unless they pos
itively said he should not do so that he
would at once proceed to reorganize the
clubs He had been on the executive COM
mittee since 1873, and the clubs had always
heretofore been organized in June, and he
insisted that it WAS best to organize at once.
Mr.. Wilson said he was Anti-Tillman to
the backbone, but Mr. Tillman himself de-
sired long campaign, and he saw no harm
in postponing the matter till late in the
summer That after hearing all the speak
ers and reading what the papers had to say
the people would then be better prepared
to reorganize the clubs and to elect dele
gates. He believed it was for the best to
postpone this reorganization, and saw moth
ing in the call of the State executive COM
mittee demanding immediate reoreanlza-
ton. SO it was done in time to meet the
necessities of the party it was sufficient,
and he wanted the matter postponed till al
ter the campaign meeting in July.
I'VE will here state that all present agreed
it was best to postpone the election Of dele
gates till very late. bat the question was
simply as to reorganization Of clubs, the few
Tillmanites present tavoring early organl-
zation, while the Anti-Tillmanites wanted
to wait as long as possible.l
Mr.. Tirdal wanted no unfairness, was
perfectly willing to have all matters thor
oughly discussed, and wanted the people to
have all the education on the subject they
could get, therefore he insisted on an early
for then they could hold pub
lie meetings and invite speakers to address
them OF the issues of the day, whereas
without organization they would be ham,
pered.
Mr. Davis stated that the discussion was
drifting into Tlllman and Anti-Tillman,
while in fact it was organization against
and he thought We should be
thoroughly organized.
Several other speeches were made, and
hen the question was put on adopting the
to have the clubs recognized
Aug. I'd. Messrs. Brock, Hodge, Land,
Mills, and Wilson voted in the
and Messrs DesChamps, Du-
Bose, and Tindal in the negative: so the
was adopted by n vote of 6 to 3.
Mr.. Tindal rose to enter his protest
against six Of the nineteen members OF this
committee thus depriving the clubs Of reor
,anization. He was Democrat, had al
ways been a Democrat, and he felt it wonld
create trouble in the county. He spoke at
ength and with considerable emphasis.
Mr.. Wilson claimed he was Democrat,
too, as was every member Of this committee,
but he saw no harm that could result from
this Ssossaonsssss sss7-sheeggthss the COM
nittee had acted properly and for the lest
interests of the county Democracy.
Mr.. Mcknight moved that delegates to
the county convention be elected Saturday,
Aug 9th. Carried.
Mr.. Mcknight moved that the county con-
vention be held Friday Aug. 18th. Carried.
Mr.. Rhame moved that the call Of the
be for electing an executive
committee and county chairman; to elect
delegates to the State and Congressional
to determine the plan for max
ing county nominations, and if by conven-
ton to make them that day; and for such
other business as may be brought before the
Carried.
Mr.. Hodge moved that July Goth, the day
appointed by the State executive committee.
be the time for holding the State campaign
meeting in this county. Carried.
Mr.. Wilson moved that J. E. Davis, E. G.
DuBose, J. F. Rhhme, c. S. Land, W. D.
and J. f. Tndal be 4 committee Of
for the campaign meeting.
Carried.
The secretary WAS on motion instructed to
with the former secretary, Mr..
F. P. Cooper, and obtain from him snch
books, funds, etc, as he may have on hand.
Carried.
Capt. J. A. Mills was on motion elected
secretary of the county executive committee.
In reply to g question from Chairman Da-
Wis as to whether the vote Of the committee
meant to take from him the power of issuing
Instructions to the clubs to reorsanize, Mr..
Rhame said that in his opinion that power
is vested in the committee and not in the
chairman, and the committee SO decided.
Mr.. Tindal claimed that grave injustice
was done the Democracy OF this county by
postponing the reorganization. Mr..
Davis had stated that two men,
tets of the executive committee had
died; another member had left the State;
md two other members had by the forma-
ion of Florence county been taken from
he county. This left five Democratic
clubs without any representation till the
met, Aug. 18th.
The committee then adjourned, after 4
session Of two hours.
Tillman Strong at Davis.
Last SATURDAY. Naming suo-alliance held