The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-07-10
COMMITTEE RJLE>
on GLIB STANDING
Executive Body T.>>eS On Protests
From D0rches:er-COnSider
Other Matters.
News and Courier.


tions which nave been submitted to
him from the county clubs of the State.
Immediately following the roll call
which showed an absence Of about 80
per cent o. the committee members
the business in hand was proceeded
with. Chairman Evans stated that he
had called the meeting to handle GER
tain protests and appeals which he
considered proper committee matters,
Letters were them read from the
members of clubs in Dorchester coun-
ty. wherein the writer's stated abo.i-
ton of their clubs by the Dorchester
county Democratic committee as their
grievance and asked for reinstatement
bv the State committee.
Not to Be Abolished.
Chairman Evans stated that MS rul-
ing on the question involved was that
pre-existent clubs were not to be abol-
ished by county committee, unless
in accord with the constitution of the
State Democratic convention as ap-
proved by the May meeting OF that
body, and that acting upon very
clearly defined case, he had obtained
the reinstatement of the club at Bad
ham Station, Dorchester county, which
club had been abolished Simultaneous
ly with the appellants in the present
case. The two clubs which remained
non existent, according to the ruling
df the Dorchester county committee
were the Summerville club, of Sum
merville, and the Givans club. Fne
concrete argument on the question In
volved centered around the constitu-
tionality of the steam-rolling Of the
Givans club. Beach Hill has been the
home of two Democratic clubs, the
Beach Hill club and the Givans club,
to the late edict abolishing the latter.
Messrs j. A. Hyer, of st. George, and
%. B. Limehouse, of Summerville, ap-
,peared before the State committee to-
day to prove that for economic rea-
sons tae one club fulfilled the po!iti-
cal requirements of Givans, and that
logically the strongest club, which
they stated to be the Beach Hill club,
should be the survivor.
Mr.. Walkers View.
Mr.. Legare Walker, member Of the
State committee from Dorchester
county, then placed before the COM
mittee tie view that the county COM
mitee had no right to abolish a pre-
existent club, which club existed in ac-
cord with the rules approved by the
State convention at the May meeting.
After considerable discussion the
question assumed the query form OF
whether the county committee can
abolish clubs by the adjusting o. lines
in a town without wards. Since Givans
was incorporated in 1906, the clubs
lines can be laid out by tie county
committee in accordance with State
Democratic constitutional rulesapply-
ing to towns with population OF less
than ten thousand and having no
wards. Mr.. Evans then stated t1at the
words granting that the county club
may draw lines" referring to the
clubs limits, had developed a scope IN
favor of county club authority not con-
templated at the time of the passage.
Mr.. J. G. Brazeale, of Anderson, then
moved that the question be put to the
assembled committee as follows: 1t
is the sense of this committee that the
county committee of Dorchester coun-
ty had no right to abolish Givans club
and that it is now existing as hereto
fore" This expression OF the will OF
the committee was changed by Mr.
Legare Walker to the following form
and put to motion: 1T appearing that
the Givans club has more than twen-
ty-five members, a pre-existing club
in an incorporated town, without
wards, that the county executive COM
mittee had no authority under the
constitution to abolish it.
1t being at that time , o'clock the
committee took a recess until 8 p. m.
New Clubs Recognized.
At 3 o'clock the meeting was re-
sumed and the case Of the two new
clubs in Carver's Bay section, George
town, was given the floor. Mr.. Walter
Hazard argued that Carver's Bay NO. 2
and the Spring Gulley clubs be thrown
out, as they had never qualified with
the Georgetown county Democratic
convention Mr. A T. Kj00 REPRESENT