The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1920-05-20
DELEGATES TO NATIONAL CONVENTION
ELECTED AT COLUMBIA YESTERDAY.
STATE CONVENTION ENDORSES WILSON'S POLICIES.
Cochran Heads State Committee--Bennet and Pollock
Engage in Warm Battle of Words Over Suffrage
Question: Otherwise Quiet Meeting

Columbia, May 20.-The following
were elected delegates at large to the
National Democratic Convention to be
held at San Francisco in June:
Governor Robert A. Cooper, United
States Senator E. D. Smith, Repre-
sentative James F. Byrnes and ex-
Governor Richard l. Manning. L. D.
Jennings, the only other candidate,
was elected first alternate.
District delegates were selected as
follows: First, Charlton Durant, j. G.
Padgett, B. C. Bradham, and Rich
ard S. Whaley. Second, ]. A. Harlee,
and N. G. Evans; the alternates, c.
F. Riser and J. F. Johnson. Third, F.
H. Dominick, F. C. Robinson, o. r.
Doyle and H. l.. Watson. Fourth, w.
D. Workman and w. W. Johnson; al
ternates, C. M. Douglass and S. D. T.
Lancaster. Fifth, A. F. CASTOR and
Leroy Springs; alternates, 7. B. But
Ter and R. E. Willie. Sixth, j. w.
Johnson, L. NJ. Lawson, j. H. David
and ]. G. Holiday. Seventh, r. H.
Jennings and William A. Coleman;
alternates, S. H. Booth and B. Frank
Kelley.
The districts of four delegates will
have one-half vote each and no alter
tates provided. Those with two dele
gates will have full vote. This pro-
cedure was adopted by the convention.
John Gary Evans of Spartanburg,
was reelected national executive COM
mitteeman without opposition.
Thomas B. Cothran was elected
chairman of the State Democratic Ex-
ecutive Committee without opposition,
and Harry n. Edwards was chosen
secretary.
The convention was called to order
at noon by Ex-Governor John Gary
Evans of Spartanburg, chairman OF
the State Democratic executive COM
mittee, and Immediately the names of
NJ. L. Bonham of Anderson, former
Adjutant General of the State, and
George X. Laney, senator from Ches-
terfeld county, were placed in nomi-
nation for temporary chairmen. Gen:
Bonhaam was unanimously elected.
The temporary chairman referred to
the prosperity of the country and the
united condition of the Democracy of
the State, and briefly told of the glor-
ious victory achieved by the American
troops in their fight for world free
dom. Gen. Bonham was optimistic
about the future of the party and ex-
pressed it as his opinion that the
Democrats have a splendid chance of
being returned to power in the gen.
eral election.
Ex-Gove. John c. Sheppard, State
senator from Edgefeld county, was
nominated and elected to the perma-
nent Craftsmanship of the convention.
He told of the trials and tribulatiohs
the Democracy of the State went
through during the days of the recon-
struction between 1868 and 1876 and
some of the amusing and tragic things
which occurred when the radical and
negro were in control of the State
government. From those days to
this" he exclaimed, 1--WE have had a
government comparable with that OF
any State in the Union"
A resolution by p. A. Spivey of
Conway, placing the name of VIM. G.
McAdoo, former secretary of the
treasury, before the convention for
instruction, and another by D. S.
Henderson of Aiken, for an unin-
structed delegation were placed be-
fore the body for debate before it re-
cessed at 2:20 o'clock.
In the platform adopted the follow
ing achievements of the Wilson ad-
ministration were extolled:
The abolition of the tariff law, the
progressive income tax that made the
rich bear a just proportion of taxes,
taking the burden from the backs of
the producers; the farmers loan act,
that enabled farmers to obtain cheap
money on long time, through non-tax-
able farm loan bonds, thus compelling
land mortgage banks to lower the rate
of interest, measure that the Re-
publicans are trying to repeal; the
Smith-Lever agricultural extension
act, putting the services of the great
agricultural department at the door
of every farmer; the good roads act;
the rural free delivery system; the