The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-08-28
COMING TO THE CONVENTION.
MEN WHO WILL MAKE THE NEW STATE
CONSTITUTION.

The Conservatives Have 40 Members
and the Republicans 8-TwO CuriOs
| From the '8s Convention Will be
Delegates.
The State.
The interest Of the people, Of the State is
NOW centered upon the eighth constitutional
convention that the State has ever had which
| is to assemble in the hall Of the House OF Rep
| resentatives here exactly two weeks from to.
morrow at the hour OF high noon, TO be called
The convention is now practically at hand,
and any Information preliminary to the as
sembling Of the convention is read WITH inter-
est by the people. The election for delegates
| to the convention has been held and at pres
ent it looks as If there will be no contests In
any Of the counties. Secretary Tompkins
has not yet appointed the time for the assem-.
bling Of the State board Of canvassers to can.
vass the returns and declare the results In the
several counties. but the law requires that the
meeting shall be held With u fifteen days after
the election. This meeting will scarcely
make any changes in the result.
THE FAcrIoNAL STRENGTH.
Below, therefore, the roll Of delegates is
given. There are 16O delegates. or these only
40 are Conservatives and elected a. as such, Ia ana
are negroes and they are the only negroes IN
the convention. There are in the convention,
however, a great many very conservative Re-
tives, granting that the Conservatives vote
soldidly, on important questions, there Will
hardly be a sufficient number to defeat any
OF the pet schemes of the leaders OF dominant
element. For this reason 1t may be safely
predicted that the sessions OF the convention
will not be very long unless great deal oil
time Is consumed in talk.
SIX NEGROES ONLY.
p..ucou, ,onds n so,id RanphlIcon doIaoa. .
| ton of negroes, and Georgetown sends the
other Republican, who was elected on a COM
promise ticket.
WHENCE COME CONSERVATIVES.
Charleston was the only county In the State
to send a solid Conservative delegation. The
counties that send the Conservatives. elected
on divison-agreement tickets are as follows :
Abbevile, Chester, Chesterfield, Colleton,
Edgefeld, Georgetown, Greenville, Hampton,
Horny, Lexington, Marlboro, Lexington, Mari
boro Newberry, Oconee, Pickens, Richland,
Sumter, Williamsburg and York..
THESE WERE IN THE '6S CONVENTION.
It will be q matter Of general interest to
know that there will be only two members OF
this convention who sat In the last constitu.
Srnalls the "Gullah Staesmap," and w. j.
Whipper, both negroes. 1t may be interest
ing, too to know that the last tconv tion was
called to order by Timothy Hurley, OF Berk-
,
was made temporary chairman, and that Al
bert G. Mackey was president. There Is
great amount Of speculation as 10 who will be
Convention aT p and as % to who % will be president
The name of Congressman Talbert is men,
toned In connection with both positions, as
Is also that of Speaker Ira B. Jones.
THE WORK OF THE CONVENTION.
Much has been said as to what the con ven.
ton ought to and will do, but the following
summary of Senator Tillman the other day
pretty we'll covers the ground: "The main
subjects TO be discussed are suffrage, divorce,
schools and questions as TO how the courts
shall be formed whether the judges are to be
elected by the people or the Legislature"
NOTABLE MEMBERS.
Among the notable members of the con-
vention will be Senator Tillman, Governor
Evans Congressman Talbert, ex.Congress-
man Geo. D. Tillman. Geo. Johnstone, ex-
Governor Sheppard and others.
ROLL OF DELEGATES.
Here Is the roll Of delegates that will COM
p2se6 A6besiIieNWm Ses iiS {: MCGOWAN, H. Mccala,
J; G. Kl9gh, r. r. Hemphill' Frank B. Gary
AikenSJehn Gary Evans. f. P. Woodward
R. l.. Ganter, D. y. Henderson.
BreaseaIe, Aaastson' D. "a. RUSSELL G. E FRINGE, j. NJ
'Barnwcll-Robert Aldrich, g. D. D. Bellin-
ger, c. NJ. Hires. We Smith. A. II. Patter-
SON, g. II. Bates.
Beaufort-Robert Smalls, James Wigg, Tom
Miller Isaiah Reed. W. j. Whipper.
berkeley. B. Morrison, j. B. Virgins. f.
J. Dennis, VIM; Henderson, 4. Fl. DELAY, H.
H. Murray, w. Nj. Breelann, K. g. McMakin.
Charleston-Theo. g. Baker: :: X. p. Bryan,
]. N. Nathans, A. s. Farrow: Julian Mitchell,
ST., George F. Won Kolnitz. Jr., W. M. Fitch,
Joseph Oliver and W. ST. Julien Jervey.,.
Chester-T. j. Cunningham, j. Lyles Glenn,
Geo. w. Gage, R. o. Atkinson.
Chesterfield-W. P. Pollock, E. N. Redfearn,
F. P. Taylor, E. L. Kennedy.
| Clarendon James NJ. Sprott Jos. s. Cantey,
Coiieion"M. s p. Howell, c: ": Garrls, D. H.
Behre. M r. Cooper and L. E: Parler.
Darlington-H. c. Burn, j. N. Parrott, j. o.
Edgetield-B. R. Tilman, w. ]. Talbert,
George D. Tillman, w. H. Zimmerman, J. G.
Sheppard and r, B. Watson:
Fairtield,R; A. Mears, s, v: L. Rosoorough'
Florence-B. B. McWbite. r. M. MCGOWAN,
]. S. Hutch ison, J. o. Byrd.
Georgetown-J. H. Reid, E. F. Matthews,
and Robert S. Anderson. colored.
Hugh Barton. Hugh A. Buist H. j. Haynes
worth and Capt. 6. g. Wells.
Hampton-W. Gooding, A. j. Harrison,
,tis%;y6 ISTTy15 smith. f Durham J. A MeDsrm0tt'
Kershaw-C. l.. Winkler, j. w. Floyd and
J. T. Hay.
Lancaster-Ira B. Jones, ]. N. Estridge, j.
w. Hamel.
Laurens-J. L. M Irby, A. ]. Smith, j. h.
Wharton, r. l. Henry.
Levington-C. NJ. Efird, ]. L. Shuler and the
Rev. E. S. Lybrand.
Marion-W. J. Montgomery, E. B. Berry, j.
E. Elerbe, j. D. Montgomery.
Marlboro-W. d. Evans, T. E. Dudley, R. H..
Hodges, Il. I. Rodgers
George S. Mower, George Johnstone.
Oconee-J. G. Alexander, o. NJ. Doyle, Will
lam ]. StriblnR.
Orangebure-J. william Stokes, 1. w. Bow