Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-03-17
Constitution Of the Democratic Party
of South Carolina.

each township or ward, each OF which
clubs shall have a distinct title, "The
- Democratic Club" and shall
elect a President, one OF 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
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 LII. 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 aCounty
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 qualif-
cation to sit as members, for this
power belongs to the members of the
convention through the appointment
and action of a Committee on Gre.
d%entials, whose report shall be acted
upon as to the members of the con-
vention 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 reorgarize 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 NationaI
Democratic Convention and to elect
the member of the National Demo-
cratic Executive Committee from
this State, and such State Conyen-
tion shall exercise no 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
mo 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 V. County Democratic Con-
yentions shall be composed Of dele
gates elected by the several local
clubs, n 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 it's members a President, one
or more Vice Presidents, a Secretary
and a Treasurer.
The clubs recognized by the respect
i've County Conventions which sent
delegates 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 the
clubs elsewhere in this State; and in
organizing said cubs they shall have
representation in the County Con-
ventions, respectively, as said con-
yentions shall declare in accordance
with this Constitution.
Article VI. The State Nominal
ing Convention for the nomination
of Governor, Lieutenant Governor
and other State officers in 1892, and
thereafter, and for electors for Pre-
sident and Vice-President in the
same year, and every Presidential
year thereafter, shall be composed OF
delegates from each county, in the
numerical proportion to which such
county is entitled in both branches
of the General Assembly; said dele
gates are to be chosen by primary
elections to be held on the last Tues
day in August of each election year,
the delegates to be elected to receive
a majority of the votes cast. AT
this election only white Democrats
shall be allowed to vote, except that
negroes who voted for General Hamp-
ton in 1876, and who have voted the
Democratic ticket continuously since.
may be allowed to vote. The club
rolls of the party shall constitute the
registry list, and be open to inspec-
ton by any member of the party.
and the election under this clause
shall be held and regulated under
the Act of the General Assembly Of
this State, approved December 22d.
1888, and any subsequent Acts o.
the Legislature of this State. Second
primaries, when necessary, shall be
held two weeks later.