Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-05-22
THE THING Is DONE.
South Carolina Delegates to Chicago for 10
to or Bust.

South Carolina Delegates to Chicago for 1e
to or Bust.
The convention has convened, adopt.
ed a platform, elected delegates to
Chicago, endorsed Tillman for presi-
dent, squelched Irby and taken q
recess to September 1.
The convention met in Columbia
last Monday and was called to order
by Senator Irby. Mr.. 1. II. McCalla
of Abbeville, was elected temporary
chairman, and the permanent organi.
cation was presided over by Mr.. A. H.
Patterson, of Barnwell, with Messrs
Nj. S. Scruggs, Of Greenville and s. W.
Vance, of Laurens, as secretaries.
Upon motion of Senator Tillman, q
committee of one member from each
county, selected BY the various dele
cations, was appointed on platform.
Senator Tillman was elected rs chair.
man of the committee.
Another committee, consisting OF
one member from each county, was
appointed to examine and pass on
amendments to the constitution of the
party.
After the appointment of the COM
mittees, Senator Irby introduced the
following, which was referred:
By Senator Irby: Whereas, neither
white supremacy in South Carolina, nor
constitutional government in the United
States can be maintained without the
preservation of the supremacy Of the
Democratic party, and whereas the su-
premacy Of the Democratic party cannot
be maintained without holding the will OF
the majority as absolutely inviolable,
therefore, be it
Resolved by the Democratic party OF
South Carolina in convention assembled, |,
That it is the duty of each and every
member Of the party, national as well as
State and county, to acquiesce in the will
of the majority, when expressed by con-
stitutional methods, and to abide by and
support its action.
Quite number of other resolutions
were offered, but with the exception
of one introduced by John w. Lyles,
of Fairfield, and calling upon Senator
Tillman to become a candidate for the
presidency and ~ forth and battle for
The people, they were not especially
important.
The morning session was consumed
in various routine matters, and at 8
o'clock Senator Tillman read the re-
port of the committee on platform rs
follows:
l. The Democratic party of South Car
olina reaffirms it allegiance to the princi-
Piles enunciated by Jefferson, Monroe and
Jackson and followed by their successors
in office, and pledges itself to stand by
those principles as the creed of our politi-
cal faith.
2. We denounce the administration of
President Cleveland as undemocratic and
tyrannical and as departure from those
principles which are cherished by all lib
erty-loving Americans. The veto power
has been used to thwart the will of the
people as expressed by their representa-
tives in congress. The appointive power
has been used to subsidiZe the press, to
debauch congress and to overawe and con-
troll citizens in the free exercise OF their
constitutional rights as voters. n pluto
cratic despotism is thus sought to be estab-
lished on the ruins of the republic. We
repudiate the construction placed on the
financial plank of the last Democratic
national convention by President Cleve-
land and Secretary Carlisle as contrary to
the plain meaning of English words and