The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1894-10-03
THE NEXT LEGISLATURE.
INDICATIONS POINT TO MUCH NEW
MATERIAL"
the House-Senatorial Changes-Effort
of the General Election on Cheir Elec-

Inc NOM tnee5 OF Cne fSeCeRt Fr)mSry IOr
the House-senatorIsl Changes-Efort
of the General Election on Cheir Elec-
,ion.
COLUMBIA, S. C., Sept. 28.-The peo-
pie OF the State are now speculattng a
great deal as to what Senator Butler Is
going to do about his race for the Uni
ted States Senate, going on the as
sumption that he had great hopes of
benefit to his chances, resulting from
the nomination Of a State ticket by
the true Democrats. Such nomina-
tions as all know were not made.
Whether Senator Butler had any such
hopes or not is not known.
So now the Senator's race is left in
the condition 1t was three weeks ago
whatever that may be. No one can at
tempt to say what strength Senator
Butler will develop In the Legislature.
He may have assurances of support
from many of the Tillman men, who so
far as any one knows now, will be
elected in the general election, having
been nominated In the primary election
recently held. Such support will, how
ever, not be confined to party llnes-to
Tlllmsnites and .Tillmaaitea.
There Is no certainty that all the Con-
servatiYes in the next General Assem-.
bly, will support Senator Butler, and
likewise there Is no certainty that all
Tillmanites who will be in the body
will support Governor Tillman, though
the Indications are all that way.
Looking at the composition of the
next General Assembly, which will be
elected In November. the only Conserv-
tive delegations that are certain of
being in there will be those from Rich
land, Charleston and Sumter. Beaufort
had split primary, the Conservatives
out voting the Tillmanites, aud will
likely win the fight finally. George
town may have Conservative Repre-
sentatives, but will have a Tillmanite
Senator. Chesterfield will have Con-
servative Senator.
Now In the counties of Horny, Fair
field, Darlington and Florence the
Straightout Democrats are going to
put up and run in the general election
of November 8, tickets in opposition to
the tickets nominated in the primaries.
From these counties, therefore, it will
be impossible to say what the delega.
tions In the General Assembly will be-.
There is talk also of similar fights be-
ing made in the counties of Oconee,
Edge6eld, Williamsburg, Lexington and
Chester.
Not taking into consideration the
| fights that are to be made in the gen.
eral election referred to above, the
Conservative strength in the coming
General Assembly which may be re-
garded as certain" will be as fol-
lsWs:
In the Standardization, 2; Rich
land, /: Sumter, /; New0erry, 1; Ches-
terfeld, 1; Beaufort, l. Total Z.
In the House-B 3aufort, 4; Charles
ton, 7; GEORGETOWN. 2; Richland, d;
Sumter, 5. Total %.
This gives the Tlllman!tes MAORI.
ty OF 20 in the Senate, the Conserva.
t1Ves having lost Senators in two coun-
ties in the past two years, but gaining
two other counties. In the House, &C.
cording to the above speculations,
there will be Tillmanite majority OF
1O2.
The Irby State executive committee
has received the declared results Of the
recent primaries from % counties, CIV
ing tbs party nominees for the Senate
and House, and old county offices. In
these counties the chances OF election
of these nominees in the general elec-
ton, are subject to the conditions re.
ferred to above. 1t will be interesting
to the general public. however, mas.
much as the chances Of election of
nearly all the nominees in these %
counties are almost certainties 10
glance eyel he personnel of the next
General Assembly and see how many
men have "been there before"
THE SENATE.
It is impossible as yet to get at the
composition of the Senate entire. For
instance DR.. Zimmerman Is still the
Senator from Edgefeld and Stanyarne
w ilson is still the Senator from Spar
tanburg. Each will likely 60 to high
er Office. They were elected in 1892,
and their respective terms run for two
years longer. Neither Of them have
yet resigned. They will doubtless do
so after the November election and the
new president of the Senate, who will
be the present incumbent, most likely.
will doubtless order special elections In
each CT the counties named to fill the
vacancies. There Is now a question as
&c whether DR.. Zimmerman having be-
come Lieutenant Governor, from the
fact that he rose to the position of
president pro tenn of the Senate by
Dsing Senator from E1geGeld, could
accept his own resignation as Senator
from Edgefeld and order an election
for Senator from Edgefeld. But II
he Is elected Lieutenant Governor, then
he ceases to be Senator from Edgefsld,
az he could not hold both offices at the
same time and can order the election
1t looks as If Col. r. B. Watson will
represent E1gefeld in the Senate at
the next session.
| The roll Of the coming Senate, sub
ject to tile conditions already referred
TO, will likely be as given below. The
terms of eighteen Senators-from Sum
ter, Darlington. Florence, Charleston,
Clarendon, Marlboro. Anderson, Abbe-
vile, Berkeley, Kershaw, Chester,
Hampton, Pickens, Union, Chesterfield
Rlchland, Lancaster ana Williamsburg
-expired this year, and elections were
held to fill the vacancies. All the Sen.
ators from other counties should have
held over-in other words their terms
don't expire for two years. Messrs
Smythe of Charleston, and Hazard OF
GeOrgeto wn resigned, however, and the
two Senators-Wilson and Zimmerman
mentioned above will 60 out by the
resignation route. The roll Will likely
be rs follows:
Aiken-O. G. Jordan; succeeding
John Gary Evans.
Abberville-I. H. McCalla; succeed
ing Hemphill.
Anderson-D. X. Norris; succeeding
J. =. Glenn.
Barnwell-S. e. Mayield; hold over.
Beaufort-W. J. Verdier; hold over.
BerkeIey-(No report.)
Charleston-G. l.. BUST, reelected,
and Joseph w. Barn we'll, to fill unex
pired term of A. T. Snythe, resigned.
Chester-J. II. Mcdaniel; renoml
mated.
Chesterfeld-J Ohm H. Turner, nom