The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1892-04-06
PARTY CONSTITUTION
And Rules Governing the Primary
Elections.
Basis of Representation-Instruc
tons for Re-organization-Rules
to Govern the Formation and Mem
bership of Democratic Clubs.

ARTICLE +: There shall be one Or
more Democr attic clubs organized in
each township or ward, each of which
clubs shall have a distinct title,
"The-Democratic Club" and
shall elect a President, one or more
Vice Presidents, a Recording and a
Corresponding Secretary, and a
Treasurer, and shall have the follow
ing working committees, Of not less
than three members each, viz: A
committee on registration, an execu-
tive committee, and such other com
mittees as to each club may seem
expedient.
ARTICLE II. The meetings Of the
clubs should be frequent after the
opening of the canvass, and, some
member of the club or invited
speaker deliver an address at each
meeting, if practicable.
ARTICLE III. The President shall
have power to call an extra meeting
of the club, and one-fourth Of the
members shall constitute a quorum
for the transaction Of business.
ARTICLE ". The clubs in each
County shall be held together and
operate under the control of a
County executive committee, which
shall consist of one member from
each club, to be nominated by the
respective clubs and elected by the
County Convention, but these powers
to the said executive committees do
not carry with them the power to
pass upon the election of members
to the County Convention, or their
qualification to sit as members, for
this power belongs to the members
of the Convention through the ap-
pointment and action of q committee on
credential, whose report shall be
acted upon as to the members Of the
Convention may seem proper. The
n7e.eetea,
shall appoint its own officers, and
fill all vacancies which may arise
when the convention is not in session.
The tenure Of Office Of the executive
committee shall be until the first
Monday in May of each election year
at which time the County Conventions
shall be called together to reorganize
the party. Every Presidential cleo
ton year these County Conventions
in May shall elect delegates ia
State Convention called for the pur-
pose Of ~electing delegates to the
National Democratic Convention.
and to elect members of the Ma
tional Democratic Executive Com
mittee from this State, and such
State Convention shall exercise no
other power. This State Convention
shall be called by the State Execu-
tive Committee to meet every Presi-
Dental election year on the third
Wednesday in May, and the State
Democratic Nominating Convention
shall be called by the State
Democratic Executive Committee to
meet''on the third Wednes lay in Sep,
TENDER of each election year.
ARTICLE. V. County Democratic
Conventions shall be composed of
delegates elected by the several
local clubs one delegate for every
twenty-five members, and one dele
gate for a majority fraction thereof,
with the right to each County Con-
vention tie enlarge or diminish the
representation according to. circum-
stances. The County Conventions
shall be called together by the Chair
man of the respective Executive
Committees under such rules, not in
consistent with this constitution, 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 it's members a President, one
or more Vice Presidents, a Secretary
and a Treasurer. The clubs recog-
nized by the respective County Con,
ventions which sent delegates to the
State Convention which met on
August Is, 1890, shall be recognized
as the only legal clubs, provided,
however, that any County Conven-
ton may permit the formation of a
new club or clubs by a two-thirds
vote of it's members; provided, further
that in all cities with a population of
five thousand and over there may be
two clubs in each ward; they shall be
| organized in obedience to this Con-
| stitution as are the clubs elsewhere
in this State, and in organizing said
clubs they shall have representation
in the County Conventions, respec-
lively, as said Conventions shall
declare in accordance with the pro
visions of this Constitution.
ARTICLE VI. The State Nominal
Convention for the nomination of
Governor, Lieutenant Governor and
other State officers in 1892 and there
sitter, and for electnrs. faf President