The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-10-02
FOR WHITE SUPREMACY
BEN TIELMAN'S PROPOSED NEW
CONSTITUTION SOUTH
CAROLINA.
AN EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION

Every FefS0n applying FOR hestStFd~
tion Must be Able to Read and Write
Amy Section of the Constitution, or
Mast Show That He Owas aud Pays
Taxes on $500 Worth of Property--
Voters Must Also Produce Receipt
for all faxes for the Previous Year.
COLUMBIA, s. c., Oct. /, The report
of the suffrage committee, Of which Sen
ator Ben Tiliman is chairman, was made
tonight and is as follows;
Section /. All elections by the people
shall be by ballot
Section 3 Every qualified elec.0r shall
be eligible TO any office to bs voted for,
son shall hold two Offices of honor or
profit at the same time, except officers III
the militia and n0taries pubic.
Section 3 Every male citizen of the
United States, 81 years of age and up
wards, not laboring under che disabili-
ties named in this constitution, and pos
sessing the q lal cations required by it,
shall be legal eector.
Section The qualifications for suf
frage shall be as follows:
(a) Residence in the State for two
years, in the county one year, Ia the
election district in which he offers to vote
four months, and the payment of poll
tax six months bafore any election; pro
vided. however, that ministers of the
gospel in charge of an organized church
shall be emitted to vote after six months
residence in the State, if otherwise
qualified.
(h., Registration, which shall provide
in ten years.
(o) The person applying for registra-
tion must be able to read aud write any
section in this constitution or must show
that he owns and pays taxes on 800 dol
lars worth of property IN this State; pre-
vided that al the first registration under
this constitution and up to January /,
1898, all male persons of voting age,
wh0 can read clause in the constitution
or understand and explain it when read
to them by the registration officer shall
be eligible TO register and become cleo
tors. A separate record of every litter
ate person, thus registered, sworn to
by the registration officer, shall be
filed, one copy with the clerk of
court and one in the office of the Secre-
tary of State, on or before January 1,
1898, and such person shall remain dur
ing bis life time qualified elector, un-
less convicted of some one of the disoual-
flying crimes enumerated In Sec 6 TIE
certificate of the clerk of court or of Secre-
tary of State shall be sufficient evidence
to establish the right of said class of cit
so<. 70. o<n nd h. f,ox
(d) ANY person who shall apply for
registration after January 1, 1898, if
otherwise disqu lifted, may be registered;
provided he can both read and write any
section of this constitution or can show
that he owns and has paid taxes during
the previous year on property in this
State assessed at $500 or more.
(e). Managers Of election shall require
ct any elector offering to vote at any
election, before allowing him to vote,
proof OF the payment of all taxes, in
cluding pol tax, assessed against him
for previous year.
If Registration certificates when ost
shall be renewed if the applicant is quail
tuition, o. if he has been registered as
pr0FlueU III SUP sGcbl0u ".
Sc. tion ANY person denied registra-
ton shall. have the right to appeal 10 any
aad all courts of this State to determine
the question under the limitation i'm
posed in this article, and the General AS
ssmhly shall provide by law the correc-
tion OF illegal or fraudulent registration
and the punishment Of the sams.
Section 6 The following persons are
disqualified from being gistered or
veting:
First, persons convicted of burglary,
theft, arson, obtaining goods or money
snaer false preteDces, perjury, forgery,
robbery, bribery, adultery, embezzle-
nsns, bigamy, or crimes against the
election laws, provided that the pardon
e the Governor shall remove such dis
qualification.
Second, persons who are idiots, insane,
paupers supported at the public expense,
and persons confined in any public
srison.
Section 7 For the purpose of voting
10 person shall be deemed to have
gained or lost residence, by reason of
bi. presence or absence, while employed
in the service of the United States, nor
while engaged in the navigation of the
waters OF this state, or Of the United
States, or of the high seas,
Section g. The general assen bly, shall
provide 10y law for the regfstra ion of all
qualified electors and shall prescribe the
manner Of holding elections a ID of as
oertalnipg the results Of the same; pro-
yided that each Of the two parties cast
ing the highest number of votes at the
preceding election shall have representa-
tion on the Board of Managers at each
precinct, and on the Board of County
Canvassers IL each county.
Section o The several counties in the
State shall be divided into election dis
tricts with one precinct in each of the
same at which alone the voter registered
for that precinct can cast his ballot; pro
v.ded that "A voter may b3 transferred
from one election district to another.
Section 10 The General Assembly