The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-11-08
new TOWN CHARTER
SUGGESTED BY Mr.. BLEASE
Town Needs to Wake Up And Keep
in Live Progress
Committee Appointed to Make Sug.
gestiOns and Report to AdiOurnS
Meeting

chamber is amply large to accommo-'
date all who attend these meetings.
However, at the meeting of Monday
night the opera house had to be secur-
ed in order to accommodate the crowd.
Nothing of special Importance came
up, except the suggestions of Mr.. Eu-
gene S. Blease in regard to amend
ments to the charter, which sugges-
tions were afterwards puts in the
shape of a written resolution.
1t is probable that some of the citiz-
ems were under the impression that
an effort would be made to require
registration for the primary election
and this may account for the large
gathering.
DR.. O. B. Mayer was elected chair
man and E. H. Aull secretary of the
meeting
Report of the auditing committee,
composed of H. W. Dominick and w.
H. Hardeman, on the books of the sec
retary and treasurer, was read and
adopted, showing a balance on hand
of $5.3S.
1t was decided to nominate candi-
dates for mayor and aldermen, trus-
tees of the graded schools and COM
missioner of public works. by primary,
The dates for the primary were fixed
as follows:
First primary, Tuesday, November
26.
Second primary, Friday, November
29.
Third primary, if one should be nee
essary, Tuesday, December 3.
Club rolls are to be closed on
Thursday, November 21, and turned
over to the secretary Of the executive
committee on Friday, November 22
Pledges of candidates must be filed
with the executive committee on or
Friday, November %, at II o'clock
noon.
The following executive committee
was elected:
Town at large--o. 2. Mayer
Ward Floyd Bradley.
Ward p. H. Harms.
Ward 3-McK. Hutchinson.
Ward 4-E. H. Aull.
Ward 81. Y. Jones.
DR.. Cromer stated that he was sure
the meeting appreciated the kindness
of the lessee of the opera house Ill
permitting the meeting to be held
there. but he thought the city council
should preserve the right, in leasing
the opera house, to hold citizens meet
ings therein.
Mr. L. W. Floyd moved as an amend
ment to DR.. Cromer's motion, that the
town pay the expenses for the hght
for snch meetings. The motion with
the amendment, was adopted.
Mr., E. S. Blease stated that he was
willing to make the confession that
he was unprepared for the large size
Of the audience at the meeting, and
that he felt constrained to make
molten Ind some suggestions. he
stated that all cities and towns the
size of Newberry were improving con-
ditions and it must be admitted tnat
we were in a sense tagging behind;
that we had the same old ways OF con-
Quoting the affairs of the town that
were in vogue when he was boy; the
town is growing and getting larger
every year and he felt that the citizens
were not looking to the growth OF the
town as they should.
Mr.. Blease was of the opinion that
we ought not to have annual elections
! for mayor and aldermen, but that these
officers should be elected at least for
two years. The police force should
be removed as far as possible from
politics, and the election OF mayor ana
aldermen should not hinge, as 1t tre-
quently does, on who is to be pollce-
man or chief cf police. Mr.. Blease
favored a police commission, and felt
that there were good men who would
be willing to serve without salary;
that such commission should con-
sist of at least, five members, with
term of possibly five years.
He thought that our charter shoulo
~ ro,ou-od or rather a new charter