The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1917, 1914-05-15
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here add some comments by way
OF emphasis rather than explanation
OF SOME points involved above:
No 3 above contemplates a complete
new enrolment now. The club rolls
or books should be all Turned in to the
county executive committee and de-
stroyed-or rather deposited in the
State Historical Commission as docu-
ments Of note.
New enrolment would be issued by
each county executive committee to
! the clubs of the county, for entire
new enrolment, the applicants ap-
pearing in EeTsen, signing their names
on the books, or their marks, Witness
ed, and maSing oaths as to the re-
I'quiremcnts that is actual residence
in the prGcinct. no-enrolIment of any
other club. legal qualifications as a
registered elector, and being demo-
craft
No. above. requiring the registra-
lion cc:tA-ca'e and tax receipt to be
presented to the election managers,
is chc2k on the club enrolling Off
GERS, the tat. receipt receipt being n
continu:nS !1enti..catian OF the per-
son year after year-especially II the
managers OF the election be required
to stamp 1t Tor each primary as Is
very generally proposed.
Nos. and are of prime impor-
tance. TO localiZe the voters and to
minimize the opportunity for dupliGa-
ton O.. renctiiion.
The existence OF more than one club
"ithin tie same precinct presents a
difficulty in preventing the overlapping
OF voters ana or territory, which is
met by Suggestion from Kershaw that
the primary elections be confined to
The ge:Beral election voting places,
so that all the club rolls OF a precinct
will Lc a3"ca!bled at the same place.
where ali the enrolled democratic res
idents within that precinct can vote,
and mere frcm beyond that territory.
Doubt e IS alter thia year the gen.
eral H.. mUly could be induced 10 in
crease the number OF voting precincts
and rearrange polling places, IL there
Is any serious Inconvenience in the
present legal voting places
Nos. G.>7, s, and 10 contemplate
the closing of enrolllfalt In ample.
'time before the first Urinary to ad-
init The full publicity, investigation,
and correction of errors, whether OF
omission or commission Tho ,mhIish
reader committee OF one. to rcport
errors. The filing OF the roll Is n
permanent record ami offers opportu-
nifty for Investigation by any person.
! The obligation liponI tiroe successive
committees to :orreet errors with the
right to. npEe1l TO, the courts. gives.
every assurance OF remedying wrongs.
lii addition, 80 matter OF detail, quite
important, ] would add that no name
shonld he strirseS sffVffsAs tie roll exc:
cept upon notice inailCdSfo the address,
and further given by, advertisement
given IL the newspaper of the county. T,
No. 8 calls 10. the attention anomaly
which Is now quite common. as one
OF tho abuses that has grown up with
authority In the narty fules--the prac-
tic9sof letting white republicans vote
In the Democratic primary. and of let
ting young negroes vote in direct lVio-
lation OF the rule forbidding.
WAite Ipnuhiicans should not he al
lowed TO eat theirscake and have It;
Itoo. To enjoy the pr9titsr OF Repub-
licanism. which involved aillanee with
the oppression OF the Sapth and yer,
be accorded with fun prlvfiege of voice
IN our State party government in q
LUXURIOUS riding O. ftYo horses. We
should stop this. and lei the, Bull
Moose and all, understand that they
cannot serve two masters. 8,
Hence the party pledge to support
the. nominee of the Democratic pri-
mary saould he broadenea to, include
the nominees of The party NationaI.las
we'll as statewide.
No. l above is the fundamental--un-
less we are to. allow women s,so to
vote before they urc enfTahchised Ie-
Galiy. 1t was never deliberately in
| sanas;! that anybody SHOULD assist in
a caucug decision unless able later to
take part in the final contest to PUT
through that decision. A primary ell
ection Is but caucus of the legal
voters who agree to hold preliminary
or "primary" election 70 weed out
their candidates and enable them to
unite their strength at the general ell
ection. I;ow every kind OF q ioafer
and interloper should have gradually.
been allowed to come int5this "prelim-
mary election and even th!nk himself
entitled to hector It over the real
voters, Is a remarkable chapter of.
history.
JOHN j. MCMAHON.
Columbia. S. c., May IL, 1914.