The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-10-03
BLEASE GETS THE OFFICE
LYON AND PEOPLES RUN OVER
ON OCTOBER FIFTEENTH.
The Contest by Dial and Talbert is
Dismissed and Tillman De.
clared Nominee.

clared Nominee.
Columbia, Oct. 1.-COle L. Blease
was declared the nominee for COVER
nor by the State Democratic execu-
tive committee this afternoon, in q
meeting characterized by harmony
and good feeling.
B. R. Tillman was declared the
nominee for United States senator.
The nomination for the other officers,
excepting attorney general, were an
nounced, and a second primary to de-
eide between J. Fraser Lyon and
Thomas H. Peoples, for attorney gen.
eral, was ordered to be held on the
18th of October. 1t was declared the
sense of the committee that all races
yet to be held in any counties ought
to take place at the same time the
primary for attorney general is held.
Much discussion was had over a
proposition to call a State conven-
tion next year to revise the regula-
tions and rules of the party, but af-
ter full discussion this matter was
not acted on further than leaving
it to the committee, to be appointed
by the chairman, to draft the sug-
gested changes and report back to
the full committee before January
l, 1914.
Jones's Protest Withdrawn.
After the report of the sub-com-
mittee investigating the election and
the committee on tabulation, Mr.. R.
w. Shand, representing Judge Ira
B. Jones, withdrew the latter's pro-
test and announced that they had no
exceptions to file and no further ar
gument to make.
Mr.. John T. Duncan was present
but made no statement, and Mr.. F..
H. Dominick, attorney for Governor
Blease, said he had nothing to say,
except they had gone into the con-
test and it had come out as they be-
lieved it would.
A report generating Secretary
Christie Benet of all charges made
against him by the governor, growing
out of the matter of tickets for Lee
and Pickens counties, was made by
a subcommittee through Mr.. Man
ming and adopted by the State COM
| mittee. Mr.. Benet was commended
for his faithfulness and devotion to
duty and the fair and impartial man
ner in which he carried on his du-
ties.
The contest by Messrs. Dial and
Talbert, in the matter of United
States senatorships, was dismissed on
motion of Mr.. Greer. Neither of
these gentlemen was present to-day.
See Need of Changes.
Stress was laid by member after
member on the necessity of throwing
! some adequate safeguards around
the primary and of the widespread
discomfort with the present lax meth
cd of conducting the elections. The
suggestion to call State convention
| next year to act on this matter was
favored by several, among them Mr..
| E. S. Blease, but was passed over and
| no action taken.
A motion to memorialize the legls-
lature to pass laws restricting the
right to participate in the primary
election to registered voters, offered
by Mr.. Park, was rejected.
A resolution that the solicitors OF
the various circuits be requested to
prosecute cases of violation of the
primary laws was adopted.
The report of the subcommittee,
unfolding the action of the George
town county committee in awarding
| the nomination for treasurer to Mr..
Mcconnell, was adopted. The con-
test from Beaufort was dismissed,
because no one appeared to press it.
Suitable resolutions on the death OF
Mr.. R. P. Hamer, offered by DR.. T.
H. Dreher, was adopted.
The committee, at late hour this
afternoon, adjourned.