The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1900-05-24
ing vice presidents were elected:
First District-J Osiah Doar, George

Oconee. .
Fourth Dlstrict-J. 4. Austin
Greenville.
Fifth Dstrict-J. Il. Hay, kershaw
Sixth District-R. B. Scar borough
Horny.
Seventh Dlstrict-J. Etheridge
| Lexington.
made the permanent sergeant-at arms
Ex' Gov. Sheppard otlored the follow
ing resolution:
Resolved, That committee or
platform and resolutions be appointed
to consist Of one from each county, tt
be elected by the respective count,
delegations, to. which all resolution.
shall be referred before action on then
by the convention.
MIR. Austin, of Greenville, moved
that the rules OF the house OF repres
ent"tives be adopted for the conven
tiOn. MIR. 3ease wished to except tha,
which required the roll call on al
elections.
limit all speeches to 80 minutes.
Mr.. Blackwell was opposed to any
change in the rules OF the house.
Dr.. Wood then began vigorous
speech against the proposition OF Mr.
Blackwell to have roll calls. dc
warmed up to the subject, and talke ed
against no end Of lang inter- and in
terruptons from all over the house.
| EX-Gov. Sheppard closed the incident
by u point OF order that no resolution
could be acted on by the convention
without being referred to the commit
tee on resolutions provided for by the
resolution already adopted. The point
was sustained and DR.. Wood subsidized
The convention had its own fun GU,
OF DR. Woods effort tU be heard at
length on the Blackwell suggestion,
Senator d. S. Henderson offered a
resolution, which was adopted, that
the convention have u committee on
constitution and bylaws Of the party,
TO consist OF one man from each county,
to be named by each delegation.
When the committees had been
named by the respective delegations,
1t was announced that the convention
was ready to receive resolutions for
reference to the committee on plat.
form and resolutions and to the COM
mittec on constitution and bylaws,
and the following were offered
Mr.. John i. Thomas, Jr., Of Rich.
land, submitted an amendment to the
constitution, viz:
! That Article II Of the constitution of
the Democratic party OF South Caro-.
lima be so amended as to change the
time OF the meetings Of clubs for Or
gan;zatlOn from the fourth Saturday in
April OF each election year to the We'd
nesday preceding the first Monday in
May Of each election year.
MIR. |. Fl. McCalla, Of Abbeville. Of
fered The following
Resolved, Tha: the delegation from
this State to the Democratic national
| convention be and are hereby instt uct
ed to vote as unit on all matters per-
tanning to the Interests ot tho D5mo-
cratic party: All questions shall first
be voted upon ana decided by ma
jOrity OF the delegates, the chairman
Of the delegation casting the vote Of
the entire delegation.
Resolved further, That the delega-
tion from this State is hereby instruct
ed to vote for William jennings Bryan
as nominee Of the Democratic party
for president.
Under instructions from the Green
willie county convention, Col. j. A.
HOyI submitted an amendment TO the
rules OF the party, viz:
Resolved, That the second clause OF
rule |, respecting the qualifications Of
voters in the primary shall be 50
amended as to read as follows:
uo lhauhSCFS dG CaCu DOS at Jno
primary election. shall require every
| voter In the Democratic primary elec.
| tiOn to p edge himself to abide the re-
suit OF the primary and to support the
nominees OF the party, and to take the
following oath and pledge, viz: Il do
solemnly swoar that | am duly qualiti-
ed to vote at this election according to
| the rules OF the Democratic party, and
that ! have not voted before at this
election, and pledge myself to support
the nominees Of the Democratic party
for all Federal, State and county
Offices"
Under similar instructions Col. Hoyt
offered the following amendment TO
the constitution
| Resolved, THat article OF the con-
stitution Of the Democratic party OF
South Carolina be amended in its last
clause 80 as to read as follows Pro,
vidod that the pledge OF such candi-
dates shall be filed At least 10 days be-
fore the first primary election in Au.
gust for Federal, State and county
offices respectively" THIS clause now
I reads as follows: "Provided that the
pledge OF such candidate shall be filed
on or before the day Of the first cam.
paign meeting Of tho county or State
respectively"
Col. ll0yt also presented the draft OF
81 platform which contained twelve
sections, and which was subsequently
reported by tho committee on platform
and resolutions substantially ns it was
tOtlered, and was unanimously adopted.
A number Of other resolutions and
constitutional amendments were pre-.
septed and referred to the committees
DELEG ATES TO NATIONAL CONVENTION y
The convention elected the following
delegates from the S.ate-atlargo tt
the national convention, which meets
on the 4th Of July at Kansas City, Mo.
namely: b. Il. Tillman, Of Edgelield
Willie Jones, OF, Richland, Nj. b. Nc
Sweeney, of Hampton, and A. G. Lati
mer, of Anderson. The election wa.
unanimous and by acclamation.
The convention took recess until !
p. m, and when reassem Dcd the chair
man CO. led for the nomination OF delc
gates from the Congressional districts
land, the election OF these delegate,
Il 1resulted as follows