Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-03-22
QUIET CAMPAIGN THIS YEAR.
No Hot Issues, and the Fewer the Meetings the
Better-Democratc REORGANIZATION.

The Columbia correspondent of the
News and Courier says: Things arc 80
quiet in politics just now in South Caro-
lima that it seems to be aim ost forgotten
that tho county and State conventions
will soon have to be held and that the
political mill will soon begin tC grind.
The State Executive Committee has
been called to meet in Columbia on We'd
ncsday, the llth of April. The Exocu-
tive Committee will probably map out
tho work that it will suggest to tho
State Convention, which meets to elect
delegates to the National Democratic
Convention and such other business rs
may CONS up.
TO CURrAIL THE CAMPAIGN.
One thing the State Convention may
do, which will meet with general ap-
proval, will be to curtal the wearisomo
and inccssant campaign. Senator Till
man, who will 80 before the "dcar peo-
plc' this summer, may want to go from
county to county and want audiences,
but there is now no prospect of au cxcit-
ing campaign, and the voters can get
all the views Of tic candidates they want
by reading the newspaper accounts, and
if there be one meeting for each of tho
Congrcssona. Dist lets or something of
that sort, the newspapers might afford
TO give little more space to each of the
meetings, instead Of having forty or fifty
meetings in the State.
DEMOCRATIC REORGANIZATION
Secretary Guntcr, Of the State Execu-
tive Committee, has been receiving q
great many letters of inquiry about the
Democratic organization and so that
there may be general information upon
the matter tho following statement has
been prcpared
The townships or ward clubs, says
Secretary Guntcr, shall meet on the
fourth Saturday in April. These local
clubs elect Il president, Il recording and a
corresponding secretary and treasurer,
and shall have three working commit
tees Of not less :Iian three members
each, viz: A committee on registration,
an executive committee and such other
committees rs may be deemed expo
dicnt.
These clubs shall operate under tho
control of Il county executive commit
tee, which shall consist of one member
from each club, to be elected by the res
pcctivc clubs. The executive commit
tee shall appoint its own officers, except
the chairman, who shall be elected by
the County Convention. The local clubs
shall elect one delegate to the County
Convention for every twenty-five mem
berS and one 'clcgatc for each majority
fraction of twenty-five. The County
Convention shall be called by the county
executive committee to meet on the
first Monday i'll May and when assem-
blcd shall be called to order by tho
chairman of the executive committee,
and the Convention shall proceed to
nominate and elect from among its MEM
bcrS president, one or more vice prcsi-
dents, secretary and treasurer, n
member Of the executive committee
and delegates to the State Convention,
| each county being entitled to double the
number of delegates in the State Convcn-
tion as it has members in the General
Assembly. The State Convention Shall
be called by tho State executive com.
mittcc to meet on the third Wednesday
in May. The State Convention elects
delegates to the National Democratic
Convention and a member Of the National
Democratic Executive Committee.