The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1892-06-15
THE PRELIMINARY PRIMARY.
The Vote eTabutated-The Lenders not Salts
fed with the Result, and Order Another
Did the Wrong Men Lead, or was
the Vote too Small?

ne caucus, we presume tuat 10 tu'
right name, or the reforiners,as as they cal
themselves, which is another name fol
Tillmanites, was held last Saturday il
Klettner's Hall. The object was to re-
ceive and tabulate the vote in the pre-
liminary primary for Senator and Rep
resentatives in the Legislature. The
issuing OF an address, which may be
found elsewhere, was also part Of the
work done. - -
The Tilln1anites claim twenty-eight
clubs in the county, but only fourteen
had voted and the vote was small-very
small. Every township, however, with
the exception Of No. 6, was represented.
The meeting was secret and only
those who are supposed to be in sym.
pathy with the plan were Admitted, and
4 resolution was adopted that nothing
should be given out for publication ex.
cept the address which the secretary
furnishes. That was what The Herald
and News was told when members
were applied to for information of the
proceedings. We were told, however,
that perfect harmony prevailed, and
everything was getting in good work
ing condition. The secretary, we pre-
suine, supposes that the address was
long enough to supply the deficiency as
to the other proceedings and only sends
that. He, however, sent along several
blank sheets of paper which may be in
tended to cover the other work done.
The vote was small and not alto
gether satisfactory. Possibly those
Who received the highest vote were not
altogether satisfactory and possibly 1t
is desired to get a fuller expression, and
hence, another caucus will be helC.
This one we suppose will be with open
doors, as it is also to nominate delegates
to the State Convention, and that sug'
pested convention we understood was
to be open to reporters.
No nominations were made; that IS to
be done in July at the next caucus.
The Herald and News did not attend
the caucus. We were not expected and
made no application. But the people
like to have the news, and we presume
some of those who were present Will be
interested in seeing in print what was
done. and it is our mission to furnish
our readers with the news.
And as we will be devulging no secret
we Will give below, at least, an approx
imately correct report Of the proceed
ines. We would like to give a synop-
sis of the speeches made but our space
this week forbids that.
D.. Sampson Pope was elected Presl-
dent, and Geo. A. Mills, Secretary.
The vote was tabulated with the fol-
lowing result. There may have been
some other scattering votes cast and
some others may have been voted for,
bnt we DO not recall their names OF
their vote. The total number Of votes
cast for the Senate was .253, and the
House 262. For the Senate Rev. }. A.
Sigh received 224; Geo. S. Mower, IL;
S. Pope, 8; ]. L. Keitt, 8.
For the House, .Jno. T. Duncan re-
ceived IA; w. D. Hardy, 14l; Cole. l..
BIease, 1873; T. Connor, "a; w. E. Lake,
81: II. H. Folk, 4S; Job L. Hughey, As;
PHI. Koon, 3S; IT. n. Kibler, 81; vi w.
Scott, p; J. NJ. Johnstone, IA; J.T.Setz-
Ter, i; J. c.. Wilson, 8; T. M. Neel, 2.
As we have said there may have been
others, but we do not recall them. we
suppose that Messrs. Mower, tombstone,
Wilson, Neel and Pope received their
votes by accident, as it were, as they
were not before the clubs at this time
and their friends did not turn out. And
then, too, the vote may not be accurate
as the reader must know that The Her
aid and New was not present. Those
who were there can best testify as to its
correctness and it will not be found
bad wrong, is our judgment.
Rev. J. A. Sigh introduced the ad-
dress which is published elsewhere and
which was adopted. Speeches were
made by Mr.. Sigh, DIR. Pope, and
Mr.. Theo. N. Kibler, Mr.. Job Hughey
aud possibly one or two others. Mr..
J. w. Bowden, editor iof the Cotton
Plant, came up from Columbia and
made short address to the caucus,
also.
1t would seem that the people are
getting somewhat tired of this plan OF
getting men to run for office, but then
the farmers may have been too bnsy to
turn out and the next caucus may tell
a different tale. We shall see-provided
we are admitted.