The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-07-11
SUMTER s. c.. SATURDAY, JULY H. 1914
SAWYER FORCES WIN VICTORY
STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE,
RULES IN FAVOR OF BLEASE
FACTION.
TWO New Clubs Formed at George
tOWn-FactiOnalism Injected i'm
Ifcaring-DiScusSiOn on Full Name
Clause Of New Rules.

Columbia, July S.-The sharpness of
the factional cleavage in Georgetown
county was exhibited yesterday be-
fore the State Democratic committee
In the course Of arguments over the
question of the legality of the forma-
ton of Craver's Bay No. club and
I Spring Gulley club and the right of
committeeman, from these clubs to sit
on the Georgetown county Democratic
committee. The Georgetown county
committee had held that these two
clubs were regularly organized and
had right to representation on the
county committee. The faction head
ed by Walter Hazard appealed yester
day from this decision of the county
committee to the State committee.
After hearing arguments,in the course
of which q great dea! of feeling was
injected, the State Democratic COM
mittec by a vote of II to sustained
the action of the Georgetown county
committee, declaring Carvers Bay No.
club and Spring Gulley club regular
ly constituted parts Of the Democratic
organization.
Walter Hazard appeared before the
committee for the appealing faction,
while y. l.. King, who said he repre-
sented w. NJ. Gaillard, the county
chairman, made the argument in ia
vor of sustaining the action Of the
county Democratic committee.
Mr. Hazard told the State commit
tee that should the action Of the coun-
ty committee be sustained it would
mean that the whole election machin-
cry would be turned over to the So
cf He'd Sawyer faction in Georgetown
c lnty and that the faction he repre-
$, ted had reason to believe from
pa experience that they would not
Sc air treatment in the matter OF
pro its and enrolment.
are fighting for good govern
ment nj have great deal at stake"
said Mr.. Hazard.
The construction Of the "full
name" clause in the rules Of the party
came in for its share Of the discus
sion. ID. ID. McCOll of Marlboro
wanted the committee to pass a rcso-
luton further defining what a mans
full name is, but the committee de-
cldcd not to do SO at this time but to
adhere to the ruling of the chairman
on this point in order to avoid con-
fusion.
I Chairman Evans went very fully
into his ruling on the full namc"
clause He said that he had been ad-
vising all who asked his opinion on
the point that when mans name
was John Henry Smith he had better
sign it John Henry Smith on the club
roll and not John II. Smith or J.
Henry Smith or j. H. Smith. Chair
man Evans said that as a lawyer he
knew that the United States supreme
court had held in election cases that
John II. Smith was a "ful name"
but that it had not ruled on the qucs-
tiOn Of the validity Of J. Henry Smith
as q full name." While it had held
that j. II. Smith or any name in which
the first two names were indicated
only by initials was not full name"
Consequently, in the interests of
avoiding all confusion, Chairman
Evans said that he had been ruling
that John Henry Smith was the cor.
rect way in which to sign the club
rolls, though he had no doubt that as
matter of law any court would hold
that John II. Smith was "a full name"