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WILL HOLD NO coNveN TON.
This Is the Dec1tion OF the R. pu bl.c.p
State Committee.

SOLUMblA, W.. O.-lu6 TGopuUlICtu
State Executive Committee wrangled
for five or six hours yesterday after.
noon and decided not to call a State
convention, Many of the members
were in favor Of calling a convention
and putting out ticket, but they were
outvoted.
1t was the largest meeting of the
committee IN years: The committee is
composed Of twenty-five members
three from each Congressional District
two from the State-at-large and the
chairman and vice chairman.
Chaisman Webster presided and
among the most prominent of the
goats on hand were the following: E.
M. Brayton, Bob Smalls, E. Fl. Deas,
{. B. johnson, Fred Nix, Fordham, e..
w. Murrav, R. R. Tslbert of Abber.
vile, W. E. BoVkin of Camden, j. G.
Whitaker and z. E. Walker of Sumter,
w. F. Meyers OF Colleton, f. d. Little.
john and B. F. Means of Spartanburg.
A total of twenty-five men were pre-
sent, including several represented by
proxy.
The discussion on the calling OF a
State convention lasted a long time
and was warm. as Republican debates
always are. The decision reached Is
told of above.
The committee next turned its atten.
ton to the Congressional fights and re-
commended that nominees be put in
the field In every Congressional Dis
trict. The Fifth and Sixth Districts
are the only ones in which nothing has
been done about calling a convention
to nominate candidates. This will be
done and the Executive Com mittee
will see to 1t, The plan of the Repub-
licans in the Congressional fights is the
same as was sent out IN q circular by
Chairman Webster few weeks ago.
Nominees are to be put up in every
district and the name Of every Republt-
can who offers to vote and is not allow
ed to do 80 because he does not have
registration ticket will be taken down.
The expectation Is that there will be
Congress next year. The
Republican nominees will use the re-
gistration laws and failure of their men
to vote as a basis for contests In the
House.
The committee sat down on Brayton
in great shape, endorsing the candidacy
Of T.. B. johnson In the Seventh Dis.
trict, by the passage Of the following
resolution:
"Whne regretting the condition that
confronts US In the Seventh Congress
slonal District In the candidacy Of Col.
T. B. Johnson aud Hon. E. M. Bray
ton, 1t Is the sense Of this committee,
from the facts presented to them, that
Col. T. b. johnson Is entitled to the
support of the Republicans Of
said District as there gular
nominee of the party and as
snch we endorse and commend him to
the loyal Republicans of the district"
Brayton made fight against the re-
solution but he had only six men to
back him. In some manner Webster
and johnson have the State Executive
Committee packed against Brayton.
Brayton, 1t will be remembered, car
ried the contest before the Republican
National Congressional Committee and
they decided that Johnson was bolter
and that Brayton was entitled to Re-
publican support. Johnson says he
made no effort to meet the contest be-
fore that committee because Brayton is
a member OF it and the committee was
packed against him (JohnsoD). 1t will
thus be seen that both Brayton and
johnson will be In the race to the end
in the Seventh one having the endorse
ment of the National Com mittee and
the other that of the State Executive
Committee.
The row between Murray and Snalls,
in the new First District. was submit
ted to the national committed some
time ago and /; decided In favor of
Murray. Smalls thereupon withdrew
from the race and there Is only one
Republican candidate In that district.
One Of the last things done by the
committee was to decide to make a
strong fight at the ballot box in the
November election against the Con-
stitutional convention, and resolution
was adopted calling on the white peo-
pie of the State who are opposed to the
convention TO aid the Republicans In
the fight.
BRAYToN CONDEMNS 1T.
Brayton strongly condemns the &C.
tion of the Republican State Executive
Committee 10 refusing to Call a State
convention. The motive for this action
was desire, he says. to prevent the
election Of a new State Executive Com
mittee and of County Chairman as is
required by the rules of the party and
Its effect is to deprive the party of any
rightful and legal organic alton as the
tenue OF these party officials expires by
limitation. He also considered the State
committee dereljct In not outlining a
policy for the party In the approaching
campaign.
In regard to the endorse ment cf
T. b. Johnson's candidacy for Congress
in the Seventh District Brayton speaks
with contempt of the conrse of
the committee and claims 1t was
brought about by the basest and
most corrupt methods and to destroy
the chance of Republican success. The
following protest was filed by thoss re-
pudiating the action Of the com mlttee:
"We the undersigned members of the
Republican State Executive Commit
tee of South Carolina protest eg ,inst
the right or authority of the committee
to consider or act on the question OF
the Republican nominee IN the Saw
enth Congressional District in this
State, for the reason that the matter
has already been determined by the
National Congressional Committee
which has duly considered the case and
declared r. M. Brayton the legal and
regular nominee of the party, and be-
cause the State Executive Committee
has no Jurisdiction in the primaries,an
In addition the matter was brought up
without previous notice or intimation
that it would bs taken up and acted on
without proof being considered by the
committee.
"We therefore protest against the
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