Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-03-24
Constitution of the Democratic Party
of South Carolina.

Article |. There shall be n or
more Democratic clubs organized in
each township or ward, each OF which
clubs shall have a distinct title, "The
- Democratic Club" and shall
elect a President, n or more Vice
Presidents, a Recording and a Cor
responding Secretary and a Treasu-
rer. and shall have the following
working committees of not less than
three members each, viz: A Com
mittee on Registration, an Executive
Committee and such other commit
tees as to each club may seem expe-
dent.
Article II. The meeting of the
Ss should be frequent after the
or aing OF the canvass and some
member of the club or invited speaker
deliver an address at each meeting
# practicable.
Art pdent shall
club,
members shall celnstitute a quorum
S2ae transaction of business.
Article ". The clubs in each
county shall be held together and
operate under the control of County
Executive Committee, which shall
consist of one member from each
club, to be nominated by the respect
i've clubs and elected by the County
Convention; but these powers to the
said Executive Committee do not
carry with them the power to pass
upon the election of members to the
County Convention or their quaif-
cation to sit as members, for this
power belongs to the members of the
convention through the appointment
and action of a Committee OF Gre
dentials, whose report shall be acted
upon as to the members of the con-
yention may seem proper.
The Executive Committee, when
elected, shall appoint its own officers
and fill all vacancies which may arise
when the convention is not in ses-
sion. 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 election year
these County Conventions in May
shall elect delegates to the State
Convention, called for the purpose
Of electing delegates to the National
Democratic Convention and to elect
the member of the National Demo-
cratic Executive Committee from
this State, and such State Conven-
ton shall exercise nc other power.
This State Convention shall be called
by the State Executive Committee
to meet every Presidential election
year on the third Monday in May.
Another State Democratic Nominal
ing Convention shall be called by the
State Democratic Executive Com
mittee to meet on the third We'd
nesday in September of each election
year.
Article Y. County Democratic Con-
v%entions shall be composed of dele
gates elected by the several local
clubs, one delegate for every twenty
FIVE members and one delegate for a
majority fraction thereof, with the
right to each County Convention to
enlarge or diminish the representa-
ton according to circumstances.
The County Conventions shall be
called together by the Chairmen Of
the respective Executive Commit
tees under such rules not inconsist-
ent with this Constitution, as each
county may adopt, and when assem-
bled shall be called to order by the
Chairman of the Executive Commit
tee, and the convention shall pro-
coed to nominate and elect from
among its members a President, one
OF more Vice Presidents, a Secretary
and a Treasurer
The clubs recognized by the respect
i've County Conventions which sent
to the State Convention
which met on the 18th day Of August,
1890, shall be recognized as the only
legal clubs; provided, however, that
any County Convention may permit
the formation Of a new club or clubs
by a two-thirds vote of its members
provided further, that in all cities
with a population of 5000 and over
there may be two clubs in each ward.
They shall be organized In obedi
ence to this Constitution, as are She
clubs elsewhere in this State !; and In
said clubs they shall have