The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-08-20
THE NEW CONSTITUTION
OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF
SOUTH CAROLINA


Text OF the Docuuent-Primaric Pro-
vided for all Elections.
Article l. There shall be one or more
Democratic clubs organized in each
election precinct, each Of which clubs
shall have 4 distinct title. "The -
- Democratic Club, and shall elect
a president, one or more vice presi-
dents, a recording and corresponding
secretary, and 4 treasurer: and shall
have the following working commit.
tees, of not less than three members
each, viz: y committee on regiStra.
ton. an executive committee and such
other committees aS to each club may
seem eNpedient.
Article 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 adj
dress at each meeting, if practicable.
Article III. The president shall have
power to call an extra meeting Of the
club. and - members of the club
shall constitutea quorum for the trans
action of business.
Article ". The clubs in each county
shall be held together and operate un-
der the control Of q county executive
committee, which shall consist Of one
member from each club to be nomi-
mated by the respective clubs and
elected by the County Convention and
such other members as the Convention
may add, but these powers to the said
executive committee do not carry with
them the power to pass upon the cleo
tioI of members to the County Con-
vention or their qualification to sit as
members, for this power belongs to the
members of the Convention through
the appointment and action Of Il COM
mittee on credentials, whose report
shall be acted upon as the members OF
the Convention may deem proper.
The executive committee, when elected.
shall appoint its own officers and fill all
vacancies which may arise when the
Convention is not in session. The term
of office of the executive committee
shall be until the first Monday Of May
of each election year, at which time the
county committee shall be called to-
gether to reorganiZe the party, or un-
less sooner removed or suspended by
the County Convention.
Article Y. County Democratic con-
ventions shall be composed OF delegates
elected by the several local clubs, one
delegate for every twenty-five men,
bers. and one delegate for majority or
fraction thereof, with the right to each
county convention to enlarge or dim
iuish the representation according to
circumstances: The county conyen-
tiols shall be called together by the
chairman Of the respective executive
committees under such rules as each
county may adopt, and when assembled
shall BE- called to order by the chairman
of the executive committee, and the
Convention shall proceed to nominate
and elect from among its members a
president, one or more vice presidents,
a secretary and treasurer. The clubs
recognized by the respective county
conventions at their last meeting shall
continue to be recognized as the clubs
from whom delegations to the next
county convention shall be sent and no
others, unless by a two-thlrdS vote uf
any convention to whom application is
made for the formation Of an additional
club or new club is formed, except that
in all cities with population of 5000
and more there may be two clubs in
each polling precinct. and they shall be
organized in obedience to this consti-
tuition, as are the clubs elsewhere in
this State, and in organizing said clubs
they may have representation IN the
county conventions respectively, as
said conventions shall declare in ac-
cordance with the provisions of this
constitution.
Article VI. The State Nominating
Convention for the nomination of Gov
ernor. Lieutenant Governor and other
State officers in 1892, and thereafter.
shall be composed Of delegates from
each county in the numerical proper
ton to which such county is entitled in
both branches of the General Assembly.
Said delegates to be chosen by primary
elections to be held on the last Tuesday
in August Of each election year, the
delegates to be elected to receive a
majority of the votes cast; at which
election only white Democrats shall be
allowed to vote, except that negroes
who voted for Gen. Hampton in 1876,
and who have voted the Democratic
ticket continuously since may be allowed
to vote
The club rolls Of the party shall con-
stitute the registry list and shall be
open to inspection by any member of
the party, and the election under this
clause shall be held and regulated un-
der the Act of the General Assembly
of the State approved December %,
1888, and any subsequent Acts OF the
Legislature of the State.
Article VII. The officers Of the State
Convention shall be a president and
vice president from each Congressional
district, two secretaries and treas
urer.
Article VIII. The State executive
committee shall be composed Of two
members from each Congressional dis
trict, and eight members at large, one
OF whom shall be from each judicial
district. said members to be nominated
by the delegates from the CongreSsion-
al and judicial districts respectively, to
be elected by the Convention. When
elected said executive committee shall
elect its own officers, shall meet at the
call of the chairman OF any five mem
bers. at such times and places as he or
they may appoint. The member of the
National Democratic Executive Com
mittee from South Carolina is to be
elected by the State Convention in 1892
and every four years thereafter, and
when elected shall be eX-otficio member
of the State executive committee. The
executive committee shall have power,
by the vote OF a majority of the whole
committee, to call Il convention of the
Democratic party of this State, at such
time and place as it MAJ designate, but
after calling a convention shall not
have power to revoke said call. The
State executive committee is charged
with the execution and direction of
the policy OF the party in the State,
subject to this constitution, the prirc..
Piles declared in theplatfcccnl OF princi-
piles and such instructions by resolu-
tions or Otherwise as the State Conven-
tiOn NAV from time to time adopt. and