The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-10-03
THE NEXT LEGISLATURE.
INDICATIONS POINT TO MUCH NEW
"MATERIAL."

MA EhIHL.
The Nominees of the Recent Prima AIRY 10
tho uouse-senatorIal hanges-Enor
of the General Election on Their Elec
tion.
COLUMBIA, S. c., Sept. 28.-The peo
pie of the State are LOW speculatlDg {
great deal as to what Senator Butler |.
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 a State ticket by
the true Democrats. Such nomina
tions as all know were not made
Whether Senator Butler had any suct
hopes or not Is not known.
So now the Senator's race Is left ir
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 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 lInes-to
Tlllmsnites and .Tillmanitea.
There Is no certainty that all The Con
servatives 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 a 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 a 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, 1t 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,
Edgefeld, Williamsburg, Lexington and
Chester.
Not taking into consideration the
fghts.that ara 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, 1; Sumter, 1; Newberry, l.; Ches-
ter6eld, /; Beaufort, /. Total z.
In the House-Beaufort, 4; Charles
ton, z; Georgetown, 2; Richland, 4;
Sumter, 5. Total %.
This gives the Tillmanites a MAORI.
ty of 80 In the Senate, the Conserva.
tiYes 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 20 counties, CIV
ilg 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-
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 certatnties to
glance over the personnel Of the next
General Assembly and see how many
men have "been there before"
THE SENATE.
1t 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 a high
Or 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
30 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 a 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
being Senator from Edgedeld, could
accept his own resignation as Senator
from Edgefeld and order an election
for a Senator from Edgefeld. But If
be is elected Lieutenant Governor, then
be ceases to be Senator from Edge field,
as he could not hold both offices at the
same time and can order the election.
It looks as If Col. r. B. Watson will
Edgefeld in the Senate at
the next session.
The roll of the coming Senate, sub.
ject to the conditions already referred
to, will likely be as given below. The
terms of eighteen Senators-from Sum-
tor, Darlington. Florence, Charleston,
Marlboro. Anderson, Abbe-
vile, Berkeley, Kershaw, Chester,
Hampton, Pickens, Union, Chesterfield,
Richland, Lancaster and Williamsburg
expired this year, and elections were
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-Wilson and Zimmerman
mentioned above will 60 out by the
resignation route. The roll will likely
be US follows: