The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-10-03
AN ALL NIGHT CAUCUS,
But IT REFUSED TO NOMINATE
STATE TICKET.

But IT REFUSED TO NOMINATE
STATE TICKET.
The Proc. edirgS OF The Ant:-TolnSEite
Stats Ccrves ton Which Wss Held in
Columbia Last We ek-1h. Hcth-scs
Diss protrtsd.
COLUMBIA, S. G., Sept. 26.-Ehs con-
vention vailed to consider the proprlety
Of nominating ticket to be run in the
general election against the regular De-
mocrsttc ticket assembled IN this city
yesterday anu remained il session un-
til after four O'Clock this morLiu g,
when it adjourned without working d
nomination. The delegates to the coz
VeDtlOl had begun to arrive the even
ing before. The mcrnirg trains brought
sn a good crowd, and the midday and
afternoon trains did the rest. Nearly
every man n DO was here last Monday d
week ago was here agaiC, and a Sood
many Others from various ccuuUes
were here also. The delegates freely
discussed during the day tue aCV!Saou-
ity of nominating a full State ticket,
and heard ali the arguments on poth
sides. A canvass Of the delegates
ShoEed th5r, while there. was strong op-
position to the making OF Nominations,
there was in the afternoon al uEcOGot-
ed majorlty in favor Of making them.
But there seemed to be 20 certainty
as To what the convention was gong
to do. The executive committee met
at 11:3O o'clock at the Hotel jerome.
The plan o. holding 3 caucus OF the
chalrmen of the various delegations
and the memb be!S Of the State commit
tee only, Was sbaaconed, 1t bang
thought best that the entire matter
should be fully discussed first N gen
eral caucus. The following resolutions
! were therefore adopted by the commit
tee:
Resolved, That the call for caucus of
the chairmen Of each delegation ano
the Executive Committee at 8 O'Clock
.. m., Is hereby rescinded and instead
thereof that 1t is hereby resolved that
caucus Of the entire delegations, duly
elected or appointed from each Of the
counties CT the State be present a.
caucus to be called to order at 8 p. m.,
and not until the aojournmeDt OF the
said caucus will the convention con-
yene.
Resolved, that there be absolutely no
exceptions made, as to the admission
into the hall of the House Of Repres-
entatiVeS, and that only tue delegates
duly elected or appointed be admitted
to said caucus.
Resolved, that delegates are request.
ed to present themselves II body from
each of their respective counties and
that list of each delegation De handed
to the secretary of the Democratic ES-
ecutiVs committee so that ne can 1ur-
nisn 1t il ample time to the doorkeepec.
Be it further resolved, that we earn
estly request citizens who are interest
ed II the result OF this caucus and con-
ventloa, that they be patient and await
the action OF the caucus, which IS
necessary to preciGe the opening CT the
convention.
The delegates all went to the hall OF
ths House Of Representatives at
O'Clock and the caucus began. The
above resolutions hao been posted on
the various bulletin boards in the city
and had been published, consequently
there was not such turmoil about the
doors as was witnessed at the previous
convention. The caucus Al once took
upthe question of making nominations
and arguments began Oh both sides.
Every possible phase OF the situation
and the possible future results was
fully and exhaustiyely presented, anc
there was full, free and untranmelled
exchange OF views from all parties. At
7c'clocg s recess was taken for supper.
At o'clock the caucus was resumed.
There was no indication of vote belng
reached until the midnight hour, II
then: All outsiders, consequently de-
cided to try the waiting policy. 1t was
of grave import, and the result CT the
deliberations Of the caucus was await.
ed with the deepest interest by many
OF both political factions and all other
parties. Ali knew that the 1rOY COM
mittee was here waiting to tase iulile-
diale action with regard to anything
the convention might do.
A SECRET SOCIETY.
The caucus WAS pracJlcai!y a secret
society. Walter Capers, Douglass Sym.
mers and Mr.. Noon Were stationed at
the main door ieadiDg to the hall OF the
House of Representatives as doocksep-
ers. They had the names Of the dele
gates from each county, and before
man was admitted the docrkeeperS had
to be satisfied that he was the right per
son. Two policemen we're stationed at
the outside of the door. Even the
newspaper reporters in sympathy Wlte
the objects Of the movement were ex-
cluded. When Chairman CarWlle called
the caucus to order about 5.3C O'Clock
there were numerous vacant chairs.
Chesterfield, Sumter and AershaW
counties had no representatives, and
the cards marking the seats for these
counties stood as the only representa-
tlves. Many Of Hampton's chairs were
vacant and the same was the case as to
other counties. 1t did not look like
there were more than 225 men IN the
hall.
The caucus remained in session for
an hour and half AMI adjourned until
$50 o'clock when it resumed its secret
work, some Of the members stating
that 1t would be hours before the eau
Gus would be reaey to go into conVen.
tiOn. ABOUT ) CLOCK IL was given ou1
that the caucus would discuss the ques.
ton of nominations for three hours
and then go into convention. The
early hours of the caucus were spent IN
listening to reports on the outlook IN
the various counties. AS a general
rule the reports we're rosy. These re-
ports came from members of The exc
cuti7e committee in favor of nomina-
tions and who were Butler men.
Shortly after 10 o'clock a Register re.
porter was Informed on what be knows
to be excellent authority that the out
look at that hour was against nomina
tions by a majority Of eight to ten.
The gentleman who Informed the re-
porter stated that all the preliminary
motions which hsd been offered and
which had anything OF the element of a
6ivis;on nf tha two f2ctlonS had been