The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1892-08-03

majority of the entire poll list, soDe OF
| the voters having omitted to vote fol
| the office in question. We respectfully
ask your committee to state whether
candidate having majority of all the
| votes cast for the position for which he
: offers, is thereby nominated: or wheth
er it is necessary for him to have
majority Of the entire POLL lists though
some voters cast no vote for him or his
opponents for the position?
Upon these questions, we do not
desire to consume the time of you,
committee with argument, unless it Is
your wish to hear us further upon
them. In the latter event the under
signed will be at the Hotel Jerome this
evening during the session Of youl
committee, where any communication
will reach them.
awe respectfully request reply
upon the matters suggested,and infor'
nation on any other points decided al
your meeting, relating to the primary
election, to be addressed to Samuel
Dihble. Chairman, Orangeburg, S. c..
Respectfully yours,
SAMUEL DIBBLE, Chairman,
&C. P. P.QuATTLEBAUM,
AARON CANNON"
The StateDemocratic executive COM
mittee held an important meeting in
the hall of the house Of representative,
from which the newspaper men Were
unceremoniously requested to depart,
large crowd of Democrats remaining
as spectators.
All the counties were represented ex-
cept Williamsburg. .... .-.
On motion ofMr. Jordan, the report
ers were excluded, and then "all Demo
Gratis" were invited to remain, if they
80 desired.
The communication from Chairman
Dibble was read by the secretary.
DR.. Low.nan, of Orangeburg, moved
that it be received as information.
Mr.. Bellinger suggested that it be
referred to a committee of the whole
for consideration and answer. Carried.
Upon motion the questions asked in
the letter were taken up seriatiin. The
various questions involved were hotly
discussed, and consumed much time.
In reply to the first question asked,
it was decided to refer the conservative
committee to Rule l of the "rules gov
erning the primary election as here
amended, to read as follows: ''The
managers at the primary election shall
require every voter in primary. elec-
ton to pledge himself to abide the re-
suit of the primary, and to support the
nominee of the party, and require
every voter in Democratic primary
election 70 take the following oath: II
do solemnly swear that am qualified
to vote at this election according to the
rules of the Democratic party, and that
T have not voted at this election"
The following words in the rule Were
stricken out: "Application for member
ship or offering to vote in the primary
election shall be deemed equivalent to
such declaration and PLEDGE This
makes it an active instead ofan implied
pledge.
DR.. Pope made motion to amend
the rule so as to make it read instead
of the party "the Democratic party
He did this to STRIFE at and prevent
any possibility of men voting in the
primary for Democrats and then voting
subsequently for third party candi-
dates. This was carried by vote OF
10 to II, but was afterwards laid on the
table by vote of IA too.
In answer to the second question the
writers of the letter were referred to
the latter portion of Article VI of the
constitution of the party, which re-
quires that the club rolls of the party
shall constitute the registry list, and
also to the amended rules, adopted last
night, and reading as follows: ''No
person shall vote unless he has been
enrolled on the club list five days be-
fore the first primary election" The
club list shall be inspected by and GER
titled to by the secretary and president
of the club. and turned over to the
managers to be used as registry list.
This amendment, upon motion of Mr..
Bellinger, was adopted.
The committee answered "No" to
the third question, referring to the
place of enrolment and ability of voters
to vote elsewhere.
AS to the fourth question the COM
mittee decided that registration under
the laws of the State is not required as
qualification for voting in the prim-
ary.
AS to the fifth question the commit
tee referred the enquirers to the latter
part ofrule 10, already of force and read
ing as follows: "The question of a ma
jorisy vote shall be determined by the
number of votes cast for any particu-
lar Office and not by the whole number
of votes cast in any primary
This completed the answer to the
Dibble letter, and it was decided that
the campaign meetings for the benefit
of candidate meetings for the benefit of
candidates for congress and the Office
of solicitor be left to an agreement
among the candidates as to time and
place.
The following Was adopted:
"Resolved, That under the rules of
the party only three managers Of elec-
ton can be appointed for the primary"
This was done in consequence of