The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-08-09


Comptroller general.
State treasurer.
Adjutant and inspector general.
State superintendent of education.
Attorney general.
Railroad commissioner.
The other with spaces to suit the
different counties.
For congress ........ district.
For solicitor ....... judicial circuit
State senator
House of representatives.
Sheriff.
Judge of probate.
Clerk of court.
County supervisor.
Coroner.
County superintendent of education.
Treasurer
Auditor.
Magistrate.
Master.
County commissioners.
No vote for house Representatives
shall be counted unless it contains as
many names as the county is entitled
to repres entatives.
Rule ). The managers of election
shall open the polls at 8 o'clock a. nl,
and shall close them at o'clock p. m,
Provided, That in the city of Charles
ton the polls shall open at 8 o'clock a.
m, and close at o'clock p. m. After
tabulating the result, the managers
shall certify the same and forward the
ballot box, poll list and all other pa
pers relating to such election, by one
Of their number to the chairman of the
respective Democratic county execu-
tive committees within forty-eight
hours after the close of the polls.
At any election when the right of a
person to vote is challenged, the man
ayers shall place the vote so challeng-
ed in an envelope and endorse thereon
the name of the voter and that of the
challengers, and the person so chal-
lenged shall be allowed to vote, and
the challenged votes shall be kept sep
arate and apart and not counted, but
turned over to the county executive
committee, who shall at its first meet
ing thereafter hear all objections
to such votes, and where no per-
son appears to sustain an OBJ
lection made at the polls the bal
lot shall be removed from the
envelope and mingled with the regu-
lar ballots and counted, but where the
challengers appear, or produce wit
nesses in support of the challenge, the
committee shall proceed to hear and
determine the question, and in all in
stances the voter shall have the right
of appealing to the State executive
committee. amendment 1922.
Rule 6. The county Democratic ex-
ecutive committee shall assemble at
their respective court houses on the
morning of the second day after the
election on or before II o'clock M, to
tabulate the returns and declare the
results of the primary, so far as the
same relates to members of the gen.
eral assembly and county officers, and
shall forward Immediately to the
chairman of the State executive COM
mittee at Columbia, S. c., the result of
the election in their respective coun-
ties, for United States senator, State
officers, congressman and solicitors.
Rule Z. The protests and contests
for county offices shall be filed within
two days after the election with the
chairman of the county executive COM
mittee, and said executive committee
shall hear and determine the same at
it's first meeting thereafter. The State
executive committee shall hear and de-
eide protests and contests as to United
States senators, State officers, con-
gressmen and solicitors, and three
days shall be allowed for filing the
same after the decision of county exc
cutive committee: Provided, That no
member of the county executive COM
mittee shall act in any contests where
! in his candidacy is acted on, and pro-
vided further that no member of the
State executive committee shall act in
any contest wherein his candidacy is
acted on.