The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1916-04-19
DEMOCRATIC CLUBS
TO MEET SATURDAY
To Reorganize end Elect
Delegates.
CAMPAIGN CIRCUS
HOLDS ATTENTION

Question of Abolishing the County.
to-COunty Campaign. Convention
will be Smaller than IN Previous
Years.
Political interest in the county is
now centered largely in the Democrat
ic club meetings which are to be held
Saturday According to the notice APP
pearing in the papers over the sigma
ture of Il. e. Babb, county chairman,
the clubs are to elect a president, one
or more vice presidents. a secretary
and treasurer, a committc on regis
tratiOn, an executive committee and
such other committees as each club
may think eXpcdicnt. Each club will
also elect its proportionatc number Of
delegates to tho County Convention
and one member Of the County IIxccu-
tive Committee. The County Conven-
ton will be held in the court house
Monday morning, May lst.
So far as can be learned, there is
only one issue likely to create any
ings outside of the election of dele
gates to the county convention. This
issue Is that Of abolishing the county
to-county campaign circus. Con-
en- place within the past few months
and doubtless the sentiment of the
mass Of voters will be gathered from
the reports from the club meetings 1t
AHs been urged that each club express
its sentiments on the question by in
structing the delegates for or against
this method of conducting the cam
paign. OF course the issue would then
come up again in the County Conven-
tion and the majority opinion Of the
county expressed in whatsoever way
the convention may decide best.
The County Convention this year
will be pcrceptibly smaller in mem
bcrship than conventions of recent
previous years, on account Of the
change in the rules for the election Of
delegates. Heretofore the delegates
have been elected according to the
number of names on the club lists AS
names have often been duplicated and
even allowed to remain on the rolls
long after the death of the club mem
bcrs, the number of delegates from
each club has been In many instances
more than what the actual number of
voters justified. For instance, there
were two clubs in the city of Laurcns
previous to last year and many names
appeared on both club lists and some
on the lists several times. This was
the club member, but was caused by
carclcssncss on the part OF the enroll
ing committees. However it may have
come about there were about fifty dele
gates from the I4aurcns city clubs,
whereas in the coming convention
there will be but twenty-five from tho
consolidated club. This year the del
egatcs will be elected according to the
number Of votes actually pollcd in the
first primary Of 1914, club being en-
titled to one delegates for each TWEEN
ty-hVc voters and one for majority
fraction thereof. The poll lists them
selves would naturally be the best au-
thority on which to decide the repre-
scntation Of each club in the convcn-
ton, but as these lists could not be
conveniently reahed, The Advertiser
has gono back to the election returns
OF 1914 for one office where there were
two candidates. VIZ, Judge Of Probate,
and compiled the total vote cast and
the number Of delegates which each
club would be entitled to, using tbat
vote as standard. It should be def
nitcly understood, however, that the
Advertiser does not submit this as the
official number Of votes cast in that
primary, though in all probability II is
correct The following Is the tabula-
ton:
Name OF Club Votes Delegates
Ora %
Pattersons Store 81
Waterloo G8
MT. Pleasant 67