The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1892-04-06

ton year under the same rules aid
regulations hereinbefore provided.
ARTICLE XIII. Each County dele
CATION to a State Convention shall
have power to fill any vacancy there
III.
ARTICLE XIV. This Constitution
may be amended and altered only by
the State Nominating Convention
which meets in September Of each
election year.
ARTICLE XIV. Any County failing
or refusing to organize under the
provisions of this Constitution,
shall not have representation in the
State Democratic Convention.
The following rules shall govern
the membership of the different
subordinate Democratic clubs OF
this State, the qualification Of voters
at the primary elections held
by the party, the conduct OF the pr
mary elections to be held on the last
Tuesday 1.-THE Goth day] of August,
A. D. 1892, and the second primary
held two weeks later; if one be neces-
sary:
RULE /. The qualification for mem-
bership in any subordinate club Of
the democratic party Of this State,
or for voting at ats democratic prl-
mary, shall be as follows, viz: The
applicant for membership, or voter,
shall be twenty-one years OF
age, or shall become so before the
succeeding general election, and
be a white democrat, or a negro who
voted for General Hampton 1875, and
who has voted the democratic ticket
continuously since. Every membero OF
| a subordinate club, or voter in a dem
ocratic primary election, shall pledge
himself to abide the result of the
primary, and to support the nominees
of the party. Application for member
ship, or Offering to vote in a primary
election, shall be deemed equivalent
to such declaration and pledge.
Every voter in a democratic primary
election shall take the following oath,
viz: II do solemnly swear that l
am duly qualified to vote at this
election according to the rules OF
the democratic party, and that L
have not voted before at this cleo
! ton"
RULE q. Every negro applying
for membership IN a democratic club,
or offering to vote in a democratic
primary election, must produce a
written statement of ten reputable
white men who shall swear that they
know of their own knowledge that
the applicant, or voter, voted for
General Hampton in 1876 and has
voted the democratic ticket continu-
ously since. The said statement
shall be placed in the ballot box by
the managers and returned with the
poll list to the county chairman. The
managers Of election shall keep a
a separate list Of the names OF all
negro voters and return it, with the
poll list, to the county chairman.
RULE 8. Each county executive
committee of the democratic party
in this!State shall meet on the second
Monday in July Of each election year
and shall appoint three managers for
each primary election precinct in
their respective counties, who shall
hold the primary election provided
for under the democratic constitu-
ton, in accordance with the act of
the general assembly Of this State
regulating primary elections ap-
proved December 22d, 1888, the
constitution of the the democratic
party of this State and the rules
herein set forth. The names of such
managers shall be published by the
chairman of each county executive
committee in one or more county
papers at least two weeks before the
election.
RULE 4. Each voter in said phi
mary shall vote but one ballot, on
which shall be printed or written, or
partly printed and partly written,
the name, or names, of the person,
or persons, voted for by him for each
Of the Offices to be filed, together with
the name of the Office. The tickets
to be voted shall be in blank in the
following form, with spaces to suit
the different Counties:
800. Delegates to the State Conven-
tion....; ....For Congress,....
District. 49,; For Solicitor,....
Judicial District. 80; State Senator
....; House of Representatives.. 49,;
Sheriff.. Judge of Pro
bate....; ....Clerk Of Court....;
County Commissioners. 49,;
..Coroner....; School Commits
sioner. 49,; Treasurer....; Auditor
....; Trial Justices. 80;
RULE 5. The managers of election
shall open the polls at S o'clock a. ~.