Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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lie State Campaign. Hk Opening Meeting this Week, at St. George? What the Eight Candidates Sar Governor Had to Say. St. George special in Columbia Vrrord: The state Democratic ran*} aign opened here oday be* f?*4 a gathering of about 400 por juiw, about one fourth ladies.? campaign party was organ- j < **>4 lllis morning with Col. John . If $t?an as provident and Lewis V H askell secretary. It wa-| A*i?lsd that the candidates for ri***?nor and Fnited States sen frshould speak twenty minutes n/'fe and all others five minutes flmaghout. the campaign. There im nothing sensational or even afoey in any of the speeches tol?f# all being plain statements ^eijfout personal argument or ^F#>4ion of any opponent's posi4ftar prayer by Kev. Mr. Stead jwav Chairman Dennis iutroducwh 54. F. Ansel as a candidate for $Meruor from the Piedmont sec^? if- 4 i j i- . j . i www.. nir. .nusei 8?iu ne aesireu tr> fee elected on high ground mtj. He stood for education, (Specially through improvement vflT the common schools. He ad**vuted good roads, lie sa;d the {T?jbtest tax the farmer pays is wear and tear on his wagons, stop this the roads should be ftteaadamized. Mr. Ansel said he is opposed ?? the state dippensary. The managed other things by pontiles and each county should 9*ve the right to decide the li sfc-Aor question for itself, without :&* jding for any other county. There should be county dis posers, appointed by county ie<*rds, drawing salary and not tfTOznissions. Otherwise there Aould be prohibition. lie appealvi for good pensions lor the old 4fb-atederate soldier. b'ole L. Blease, candidate for jftswernor from Newberry, spoke F?it. He stood upon his plal?>rin of 1890, and said he had nryer varied his course. He de "dared the dispensary was the only issue lie favored biennia Missions of the general assembly, "favored a law prohibiting child Shabor in cotton mills, favored a limiting labor in cotton mills sou hours daily, and for rail ? ad employes not more than shirteen hours. He favored liberal appropriations for Conleder ?!e soldiers; liberal, but not ex umY-iK&nt, appropriations for i&ate institutions of learning ami the Iree school system. He opposed higher education of the <*-9gro, opposed the extra court - jfstsm as practiced within the feist two years, and opposed extVr.vagant appropriations being A ide by legislators. He favored * marriage registration law and <? net enforcement of the vagrancy law. If be bad bis way be would wipe out the colored colSiege at Orangebarg. One of tilgreatest mistakes the white poo |p!e ever made was to educate the Utegro. (Applause.) Discussing the dispensary, he isolated county dispensaries groiild niu'tiply the alleged corivption. He asked where is this o-calledcorruption, lie declared many present now advocates of the state dispensary were not original dispensary men- W. G. Ohilds, preside the C-, N. <fe L. railway, ' old him that since the dispensaues along his road had been voted out, the jug and case goods trade had more than doubled the quantity of whiskey formerly shipped by the state dispensary. Joel E. Brunson. candidate for governor from Sumter, spoke next. He declared every one struggling to rid the state of liquor was his brother, lie said that out of every $4 spent for liquor the state of South Carolina takes $3.20 to buy more liquor, thirty-two cents for roads and bridges, thirty-two for street lights and sixteen cents for educational salve to apply to the wounds in the hearts of widows and orphans. The liquor business is carried on only by men I ? ?*? In ond iin man arrmncr Wl l uw ULi^l ci * o (I uvi II'/ inn" the candidates would allow his boy |to handle the stuff, liis eloquent description of the impossibility of purifying the li quor business was attentively listened to. Wounds and bruises and strife were thecutcome. Voice?"That's the truth; 1 drink it myself.'' W. A. Edwards, of Saluda, candidate for governor, was the next speaker. In reply to a ques tion, he said he was no kin to Ben Tillman, but hoped he could do hall the good he had done.? He had never held office. He had made important discoveries in matters of government. He is the man who brought the suit against the Southern railway for acquiring control of the South Carolina and Georgia railroad in violation of statutory law. He declared the Southern road controlled legislation, stopping his case and others pending, and had all restraining laws repealed.? The railroads were robber corporations and foul, festering sores in the political system ? They are not worthy halt the consideration you would give to an invading army. They are properly classed with the sneak hief. the coward who would slip up in darkness and rob you, fire your house or poison the water you drink. The great corporations j are taxing us heavily and it is nign nine to correct me evus ? tie expected the railroads to attack him. The whole pack,!mm the bull-dog to ratter will be upon him. ^Toe next speaker was A. Crane Jones, ol Newberry, candidate for governor. He stood as a rep resentative ot the home, of Democracy, and opposed to grafi.? The principal thing that brought him into the campaign was the liquor question. He believed the people had a right to decide it for themselves, whether they had the dispensary, high license or prohibition. As lor him, he was willing to kill it drop by drop ? As to Newberry, le-s liquor was drunk there than ever before.? The state bad no light to engage in business ?-f to put a county in it. He endorsed every single act of Lyon and Chnstensen, as tneinbers oi the investigating committee. He himself had neen threatened, but would stand firm. Richard 1. Manning, of Sum tor, was the next gubernatorial candidate to speuk He asked to g be judged by bis record a9 a pri- 5 rate citizen and by his fourteen mi years in the general assembly.? V He acknowledged he had made ^ mistakes, but he tried to do right. ^ The state could not spend money M in a better way than in educat- r ing its citizeus. The growth of y education in this state is a mat- f( ter of thanks to God. Manning's remarks on this tine were very Jk strong and impressive. He ap- W pealed to the people to preserve ^ the purity of elections. He urged = that the entire state and county r government be put on a strict V business basis. It was painful that the liquor question would be brought so promineutly into the campaign, but he did not * ti I snirK tlie issue, tie was no champion of whiskey, but was deeply interested in the morals ^ of the people. He is not an advocate of the dispensary as run in the past. The popular con- h : science in South Carolina will ^ not tolerate the suspicion of graft or corruption. The air is ' full of rumors and where there i9 so much smoke there must be some fire. The belief was inevitable that the dispensary has not run qq if ohAiih) li u rn Koan UUV u 1 u il no V OUV/uiu ' VJ wuu* That institution must be purged of the odium or it must go. Men will have whiskey and will not obey a prohibition law, because it is law. He had studied the question thoroughly and did no* believe it impossible to purge It this institution of the complaints made against it. He did not believe iu local option. It elected ^ governor, he would enforce the law, whether it was dispensary, local option or prohibition. a John J. McMahan, of Rich l)l land, candidate for governor, w spoke next. He declared no tc patriot could afford to sleep 11 while ills were creeping upon 11 the state. Corruption is not al- ^ together absent, from South Car- %t olina and men of proven integritv were needed in high places. ,e The dispensary corruption is not 11 the only corruption. He stood ior every educational relorm that 1 he had agitated when superintendent of education. lie advo. 111 iciutm h wiH'e system 01 uruinagt I of lowlands. He wanted an ex penmental station in every county. lie had no use for li quor, but as so many others M wanted it, there was no chance td tor prohibition. He believed in w ilie state dispensary purified, with any rascals in it put behind a' bar's. P1 The next speaker, Col. Jno. ri 1'. Sloan, of R clila d, candidate <!' 1 r governor, regretted that wins- of key was the chief issue, as to hits \\ mind other issues were far high- C( er. He spoke of his record in '76. . tus efforts in behalf of Clemson, ^ Winthrop and the Citadel, show- nj ing his deep interest in educa <k tional matters. He wanted to fa see a school house on every hill Vt He was proud of his record afe lieutenant governor, and it wa? the ambition of his life to be m governor. Plainly and without equivocation, the dispensary is ,.p 'lie best solution of the whi key qnQction. lie did not know : whether the reports of ste dinii j a were true, but if elected governor the institution would he w pureed ot everything dishonest, ga The dispensary could he thanke I C(J lor one thing and that is that w< the thousands of South Carol!-} nians who were hoys when it was 1 M started have never seen bar Hi j rooms. i lo ===== "The Old Reliable." ===== U THE BANK OF LANCASTER, Lancaster, S. C. \ CAPITAL $50,000.00. A SURPLUS $50,000.00. X Loans made on Real Estate, at reasonable rates. A Collections given prompt and careful attention. ^ Interest allowed on time deposits.. ^ Your business solicited. The oldest, the largest and |1 the strongest Bank in Lancaster county. arolina & North=Western Railway Company AND Caldwell Northern Railroad Co. TIMR TABLE. V? SOUTHBOUND. NORTH BOUND. a. No. No. No. No. No No No. No. No. 7 61 63 ' 9 7 Edgemont 8 10 62 60 50 ^7 12 00 Mortimer 11 06 1 00 Collettsville 11 05 00 2 40 3 05 5 16 Lenoir 9 05 2 12 8 00 2 30 20 3 45 3 33 5 29 Hudson 8 4 9 1 54 7 45 1 46 10 4 05 3 33 5 23 Granite Falls ' 8 39 1 82 7 00 1 00 30 5 40 8 57 6 00 Hickory 7 53 12 57 6 00 3 00 11 50 .. 5 40 3 23 6 25 Newton 7 28 12 28 1 00 .. 900 4 68 6 58 Lincolnton 6 56 11 40 10 45 . . 1 30 6 00 8 30 Gastonia 5 50 10 38 7 50 .. 3 05 6 50 9 10 Yorkville 5 10 9 48 5 57 . . 5 10 .... 7 40 9 60 Chester 3 30 8 50 4 30 CONNECTIONS Chester?Southern Railway, Seaboard Air Line, and L. it C. Yorkville?Southern Railway. Gastonia?Southern Railway Lincolnton?Seaboard Air Line. Newton?Southern Railway. Hickory?Southern Railway. 17* TN npin nla a a a ai rj. r. atiiu, ueu. ra?n. akciii, ^iieiier, J5.U. Era was Joking, Too. ;s "Banter Thrown Down || was an After-thought." I rom the Kershaw Era. The Lancaster News has really iken us too seriously at one MOj r>int of our comment in last W eek's Era on the fact of no court . ... ^ ir June in this county. It was X UI K.V111C ot the intention of the Era to lMomimPnt Wnrkci Lake .he impression that it was with modern maue to the absence of the dispen chinery and electric power. In try that there was not enough position to furnish anything in usiness ic warrant holding a pure Vermont Marble or Granite rm ol court. The truth of the Monuments from the cheapest . , , , _ slab tp the most elegant design, latter is that the Eradid for sever Writefor catalogue and infor. successive years urge the doing mation. way with the June term of court Vnrlrvillp Q C* together because of it being a X OrKVlllC, O. L,. sdoss expense. w ? w ? * We we:e really serious in conratula'ingour county on its good * J / [?havior hut the hanlor thrown V fl own was an a'ter thought, and f as directed in a spirit of j"st to J tat class of dispensary papors 1 hough doing a rattling good ho are so eagerly delisting ''very business, we are deter,. mined to do even better. Our lemselves in recording everv presenl stocks of Vehicles and tot lawlessness committed in Horses are being supplemented rohibitioncounties and are seek- by handsome new carriages and is: to create the impression iliat buggies and stylish ley are growing worse by reason Driving and Saddle Horses. I lie removal of tlie dispensary. Qur ,jvery establishment j8 ^ e are sure that our esieemeil goirttc to be second to none in >11 temporary can be 110 more the State, and don't you forget alous ot the welfare and good it! Come or send to us when line ot our county, nor more y?u want the best, up-to-date isinous of stating nothing but lvery s<-rvite,cls than the Era, and wo regret HEATH-ELLIOTT MULE CO. ry much that it should have " awn the inference that itscom ^ onts indicate. ?__ ___ While we feel that the good j_-j.rc.HN rc i > suiting from the removal of the n , ?pen?iry from our county I.as I UJ-a'c I)AAt Rnnr ready amply rewarded the B "" ^ *' """I DLkd I'-trts made in getting rid of it, I e are not prepared to aav, re- I y(>,-ir health. At all ^ irdless of all truth, lhat the I Krocery stores ! 5c 1,<,Ule- f nditions are altogether what g > would lik" to ?ee or what we I Lancaster Bottling Wks I dieve they will he when prohi- I / A )i? has been in operation for a W??*3???? wa?iJ uger time. 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