Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-06-10
CAMPAIGN AND PRIMARY.
The State Executive Committee Makes
Rules For Their Government.

The State Democratic Executive
committee met in Columbia last Fri
day night for the purpose of arranging
details as to the party campaign and
the primary election. All but about
a half dozen of the committeeman
were present, and York was repre-
sented by J. S. Brice, Esq.
The schedule of campaign meetings
had been arranged beforehand and
was agreed upon with but few chan
ges. Meetings are to be held in every
county in the State, beginning with
Manning on Monday, June %, and
winding up with Abbeville on Wednes-
day, August 10. The York meeting
is to be held on Saturday, July 1S,
and the primary election is to take
place on Tuesday, August 25.
At the instance of Mr.. Brice, no
appointments were made for July 80
and 81, the days appointed for the
campmeeting at Tirzah.
After some discussion on the ques-
ton of assessing Federal officials and
candidates for Office, State and Fed
eral, the matter was referred to a
committee, whose report was adopted
as follows, with the understanding
that no county may assess candidates
for State offices, and that one-half of
the assessments be returned to defeat
ed candidates:
United States Senators, Governor
and Congressman 500 each b.; Secretary
of State, Comptroller General, Attor-
ney General, Superintendent of Edu.
cation, Superintendent of the Peniten-
tiary, Superintendent of Asylum,
State Treasurer, Railroad Commission
er, Liquor Commissioner, United
States District Attorney, United States
Marshal, and Collector of the Port of
Charleston, $75 each; Adjutant Cen
eral, Solicitors and State Chemist, $50
each Lieutenant Governor, Collector
of the Port of Beaufort and Assistant
District United States Attorney, $25
each counties, IS for each Represen.
tative and $40 for Senator. Money to
be paid on filing pledges, except as to
those who do not enter the primary
chose who hold Office now.
The old rules for the government of
primary elections were adopted with
but few changes. There is slight
change in the prescribed oath. The
oath used to require the voter to abide
the result. Now it requires him to
support the nominees. 1t reads as
follows:
~ do solemnly swear that I am
duly qualified to vote at this election,
according to the rules of the Democra-
tic party, and that have not voted
before at this election, and pledge my
self to support the nominees of the
party"
Candidates for United States senator
are to be voted for directly and not
through candidates for representatives.
Each candidate for the Legislature will,
of course, be pledged to support the
choice of the party for senator as ex-
pressed at the ballot box. At each
precinct there are to be two boxes.
In one the voter will cast his ballot
for United States senator and State
officers, and in the other he will cast
his ballot for congressman, solicitor
and county officers.
An effort was made to put congress
men and solicitors on the same footing
with State officers in the matter of as
sessments. The matter was dropped,
however, and Notwithstanding the fact
that candidates for congress and solic-
itor are assessed by the State executive
committee, they may also be assessed
by the county executive committees.
The committee expressed itself as
opposed to plumping in the primary,
and provided that no vote that does
not contain the names of the full num-
Der of candidates for the house to which
the county is entitled, shall be counted.
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