The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-04-08
SUPREME PARTY Law,
FULL TEXT OF THE STATE DEMO-
CRATIC CONSTITUTION.

CRATIC CONSTITUTION.
Hepublished for the Benefit Of Democrat
ic voters-Cut it Out and Paste it Up for
Future Reference-No Primary Bas Yet
Been Held Under It.
Below will be found the constitution
Of the South Carolina Democracy.
Each Democratic voters should cut it
out and keep it for future reference
This constitution was adopted in State
convention at Columbia on September
10, 1894 and no primary has yet been
held uud=r it. The constitution is as
| follows:
Artici:. 1. There shall be one or
more D mocratic clubs organized in
each township or ward. each of which
clubs shall have distinct title. Toe
--Democratic Club" and shall elect
a president, one or more vice presi
dents, a recording and correspond
ing secretary and treasurer, and shall
have the following working commit
tees, of rot less than three members
each, viz: A committee on registra
ton, Az executive committee, and
such otter committees as to each club
may SEEN expedient.
Articis II. The meetings of the club
should be frequent after the opening
Of the canvass, and some member of
the club or invited speaker deliver an
address at each meeting, if practica-
bic. The clubs shall meet on the FIRST
Monday in May and the third We'd
nesday in May respectively. Each
county shall be entitled to double the
representatives as it has in the Gener-
al Assembly 10 the State nominations.
Article III. The president or five
members shall have power to call an
sxtra meeting of the club and one
fourth of the members shall constitute
a quorum for the transaction of busi-
ness.
Article ". The clubs in each county
shall he held together anu operate
under the control of a county execu
Tive committee, which shall consist of
cne member from each club, to be
elected oy the respective clubs. The
executive committee, when elected,
shall appoint its own officers, who
shall not necessarily be members of
said committee, and fill all vacancies
which may arise when the convention
is not in session; provided that any
officer so elected who is not member
of the committee shall not be entitled
to vote on any question, except the
chairman, and then only in case of
tie vote. The tenure of Office of the
executive committee shall be until the
first Monday in May Of each election
year, at which time the county con-
ventions shall: be called together to re-
organize the party. Every Presiden-
tial election year county conventions
shall be called by the county executive
committee on the first Monday in May,
and shall elect delegates to State
convention called fer the purpose of
electing delegates to the national
Democratic convention, and to elect
the member OF the national Demo
cratic executive committee from this
State. The State convention shall be
called By the State executive commit
tee to meet every Presidential election
year on the third Wednesday in May,
and every State election year county
and State conventions shall meet on
the first Monday in Nav and the
second Monday in MAY respectively.
Article v County Democratic con-
ventions shall be composed of dele
gates elected by the several local clubs,
one delegate for every twenty FIVE
voters, as shown by the club list made
at the preceding first primary election,
aud Que delegate for majority frac,
ton thereof, with the right to each
county convention to enlarge or dl
minish the representation according
to circumstances The county conven
tious shall be called together by the
chairman of the respective executive
cOmmittees under such rule. not in
consistent with the constitution nor
with the rules adopted by the State
Democratic executive committee, as
each county may adnp. and when as
sembled shall be called to order by the
chairman Of the executive committee,
aud the convention shall proceed 10
nominate and elect from among its
mem bers a president, one or more
vice presidents, a secretary and
ire Asurer Any county may permit
the formation of a new club or clubs by
majority of its members. In all
cities with a population of 5000 aud
over there may be two clubs in each
ward: they shall be organized In obe.
dience to this constitution. as are the
clubs elsewhere in this State. and in
organizing said clubs they shall have
representation in the couuty ccnven-
tions respectively as said conventions
shall declare iu accordance with tae
provisions OF this constitution.
Article VI For the purpose of nom
inatiuy Candidates for Governor,
Lieutenant Governor and all other
State officers. including solicitors in
their respective circuits, and Congress
men III their respective districts. aud
Presidential electors, and United States
Senators by the popular vote, and all
county officers, except Trial Justices
and masters and supervisors Of regiss
tration, a direct primary election shall
be held on the last Tuesday in August
of each election year, and second
and third primary each two weeks
successfully thereafter. At this cleo.
ton only Democratic white voters
who have been residents of the State
twelve months and the county sixty
lays preceding the next general elec
ton, and such negroes as voted the
Democratic ticket in 1876, and as have
voted the Democratic ticket continu-
ously since, to be shown by the Ger
tifcate of ten white Democratic voters,
provided, that no person shall be al
lowed to vote except his name be en-
rolled on the particular club list at
rhich he offers TO vote at least FIVE