The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-10-03
THE NEXT LEGISLATURE.
INDICATIONS POlNT. TO MUCH NEW
MATERIAL"
The Nominees Of the Recent Primary for
the uouse-SenatoS,sl Cnanges-Efort
O; the General Election on Their Ell, c.
fton.

the House-Senatoz,sl Characterization
= OF the General Election on Their Ell. c
lion.
!, COLUMBIA, S. C., Sept. 28.-The peo
!. pie OF the State are now speculatlng
great deal as to what Senator Butler Il
going to do about his race for the Uni
ted States Senate, going on the as
sumption that he had great hopes O.
benefit to his chances, resulting from
the nomination of State ticket b,
the true Democrats. Such nom1na
2 tions as all know were not made
! Whether Senator Butler had any sucf
hopes or not is not known.
. SO now the Senator's race Is left il
the condition it 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 sc
: 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 ltnes-to
, Tlllmanites and anti-Tillmaaitea.
There Is no certainty that all the Con-
servstives in the next General Assem-
/ bly, will support Senator Butler, and
. likewise there Is 10 certainty that all
Tillmanites who will be In the body
will support Governor Tillman, though
the indications are all that way.
he
: 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, and Will
!, likely win the fight finally. George.
town may have Conservative Repre-
sentatives, but will have 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,
Eagefeld, Williamsburg, Lexington and
Chester.
i 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 "certair," will be as fol-
lsws:
! In the Standardization, 2; Rich
land, /: Sumter, l; Newberry, l; Ches-
terlield, 1; Bsanfort, 1. Total Z.
In the House-B5aufort, 4; Charles
tor, Z; Georgetown, 2; Ricaland, 4;
Sumter, 5. Total %.
This gives the Tillmanites majori-
ty of 80 in the Senate, the Conserva.
ttYes having lost Senator'S in two coun-
ties in the past two years, but gaining
two other counties. In the House, &C.
cording to the above speculattons,
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 the 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-
tion, are subject to the conditions re.
ferred to above. It 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 to
glance over the personnel OF the next
General Assembly and see how many
men have "beeH there before"
| THE SENATE.
1t is impossible az yet to get at the
composition of the Senate entire For
instance Dr.. Zimmerman is still the
Senator from Edge6eld and Stanyarne
Wilson is still the Senator from Spar
tanburg. Each will likely go to q high
er Office. They were elected In 1882,
and their respective terms run for two
years longer. Neither of them have
yet resigned. They will doubtless do
50 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 OF the counties named to fill the
vacancies. There is now q question as
to 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
icing Senator from E1geield, could
accept his own resignation as Senator
from Edgefeld and order an election
for Senator from EdgeGeld. But II
he is elected Lieutenant Governor, then
he ceases to be Senator from Edgetield,
as he could not hold both offices at the
same time and can order the election.
1t looks as If Col. r. 3. Watson will
represent Eigeield 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, Plckens, Union, Chesterfield,
Rlchland, Lancaster ana Williamsburg
I1i0 Col, h1o SASSetN-S " Wv
held to fill the vacancies. All the Sen
ators from other counties should have
held oyer-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-Wilsou and Zimmerman
mentioned above Will 60 out by the
resignation route. The roll Will likely
| be Is follows:
Aiken-O. G. Jordan; succeeding
John Gary Evans.
Abberville-I. II. McCalla; succeed
ing Hemphill.
Anderson-D. X. Norris; Succeeding
J. z. Glenn.
Barnwell-S. &. MayGeId; hold over.
BeaufortW. Verdier; hold over.
Berkeley-(No report
Charleston-G. L. BUST, reelected,
and Joseph w. Barnwell, to ill unex-
pired term of A. 7. Smythe, resigned.
Chester. H. Mcdaniel; renomi-