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Campaigners in Lancaster. (Continued irom Pa^e Seven) urged to run by those mixed up wi li the dispensary. He said he hud ?<e*n urged lo run by nobody, that be is a tree man and appeals to the iree manhood of Snth Carolina to make him governor. COL. JOHN T. SI.OAN, of Richland, present lieutenant governor, and candidate for promotion, was the next speaker. He referred to ihe dust raised by Tarleton and his cavalry in this section something over 100 years ago, but said the dust had disappeared and what then was 1 small hamlet is now a prosper ous community. Alter twitting Ansel with having a prohibition bee-sting and a dis pensary bee-sting, bo'h trying to get into tlie same hole at ne time, the Colonel proceed ed to toll why lie should be elected governor, lie said 4 years ago when a candidate for Lieutenant Governor, he received 48,000 votes, the largest vote of any Lieutenant Governor in South Oorolina. Two years ago was re elected withouLopposition.which was unprecedented. Promotion is now in order. Simpson, Sheppard and McSweeny had been thus promoted lle|complimented Sen a'or Hough's work in the Senate. He said that he (Sloan) had done more in peace and war than all the other candidates put together. Whiskey, lie said, is the issue. He is not in the whiskey business and never expects to be. Dispensary is best solution of liquor problem, when honestly managed and with proper safeguards. lie hasn't trimmed his sails to shifting clouds. Only 15,000 out of 40,000 voters had voted in the counties flint hu VA \ir\\aA nut ilivium^u imt and 1-5 of 'liese are for 1 lie (lis pensary. tie pointed out what lie regards as good features ol the dispensary. No use to have prohibition when it will not prohibit. The dispensary has done a great, deal to promote temperance. As to education, would like to see every child in the State educated. He closed with another joke on Ansel. HON. M. F. ANSEL, of Greenville, another candidate lor governor, said he was pleased to look into the faces of so many ot the yeomanry of Lan Caster county. He has an hon orahle ambition to he governor of ?sonth t'aronna and 111 running tor i li^ odice he is hut exercising a right which any man mav have, i'lie people are In pass upon the candidate'', just as a jury passes upon toe issues in a court of justice. He has no claims to tne ollice?it belongs to tin* people atul they are to say who shad he elected governor. Though not running on his goo l looks, lie wanted the pen. pie to look him in the face and to take his measure, lie spoke oi his long service in the legislature and in this connection referred pleasantly to those in the audience with whom he had served in the legislature. For 12 yeais he was solicitor of the 8th circuit and has always stood lor law and order. He made iiisi start in life with a .jack-plane and hand saw, while his older 4 fl.? V ... / "WMV I -> ri u \ ?l? I ?ll* Ilo lavnrw good road9, which r. o needed ? wp?M,i?lly in thi^ 1?ii]y country. Kaymg vrovernin ni -uppkmi lting oiive' lahor on r ads. Al-o favors inlaiid navigation < >x? liquor question, in < pp'.cd t" state dkpen *?ary. Favor* each coun'v voting on whether it want*) prohibition or comity dispensary. One conn tv should not ho allowed to come in and way what another county should have. In case county dis per a-y i' the '1'd ' pon, flu board ehould be appointed by the governor ami it should report to the court, and report turned over to grand jury by the Judge. All peace officers should be required to enforce the law. He said he stood lor something nobler, higher and grander than liquor?he stands for education, for the higher institutions ot learning; and is particularity interested in the common schools, where 00 per cent ol the people got all the education they ever receive, only 10 per cent going to colleges. lie favors liberal appropriations for needy (Confederate veterans. HON. COLK L. 111. K ASK, of Newberry, candidate for governor, was the next speaker. lie said every one lienors and respects the Confederate soldier. [I perchance there should be a man who does not, he will bo found to be either a Yankee or a person with negro blood in his veins ? The speaker said he favors biennial sessions, a law prohibiting children under 12 years to work in mills, law limiting labor in mills to 10 hours a day, and railroad employees to 13 hours a day lie not only favors liberal appro priafcions tor Confederate soldiers, but favors an annual appropriation of $5000 for their reunions. Opposes higher education of the negro. Opposes extravagant ap preprint ions now being made by the legislature. Favors the dis pensary system. Opposes Brico law. Alter repeating several ot the Commandment8, he said that nowhere in the Bible is it stated that you shall not take a drink if yon want it. Bible does not command prohibition. Every man is a free agent, but he should be temperate in all things. If you want to have prohibition, he said, let girls quit dancing with boys whose breath smells of liquor, and let preachers say to their officers and members that they cannot be received because they are drunk. lie said he saw in a church some time ago a man passing the collection plate who was so drunk that he had to steady himself with one haftd as lie walked along the aisle. lie said Lancaster had voted out the dis pensary but had not votod out liquor. When you vote out the dispensary you vote in blind ti gers. lie said liquor is now be ing sold in Lancaster, while the money is going to iNortn Carolina and Georgia. He said there was just as much liquor in the county as before dispensary was voted out (This statement wa(!eni< (1 by one or two persons in the audience. ) lie said the poor man had difficulty in getting liquor now, even lor sickness? Some had to gel it out ot a free nigger's hip pocket. He referred to increased express receipts in count .es where dispensary had been voted out. He gave his objeclions to<ounty dispensaries in lieu of state system, lie com menfed on failure of investigating committee to secure evidence I upon which conviction could be had, and asserted the solvency ol the state institution. He said Newherr.v had the honor ol pre sonling to Lancaster ln-r most distinguished son. Judge Ira II. Jones. joki, k. ititrxsox, of Sumter, the prohibition candidate lor governor was next in 1 ro need. lie started < 11 by pay ins: a iii >u:e to the Indies. Ah to education, hosed he believes in tie eounl education ot every j c 11 i I d in tli<' stale. Ile !> Iteves in the continued upholding and ! improvement ol the common schools. Kavrs immigra ioni would like loHie jio.ai white peo| p'e brought into the tato. He express ; tjrprt.-e ; t A .(/.Jones's | statement as i<? gambling dens j in Sumter?said he hud never been in one He was also stir \ ri v : at H'carrt <juotit g scrp ture, for Bloaso knows le*" about" scripture than anything else. He does not helieve that there are tigers in Lancaster. As one of the evidences of tlie dispensary's demoralizing elFect, he said that seven of the candidates for governor have liquor in some lorm in their platforms. No satisfactory reason in the dispensary that will commend itself to any intelligent mind. McMahan says it restricts drink, but the facts do not sustain him. He referred to the increased quan tity annually purchased. He believes the dispensary will have to rob money out of the people before it can pay its debt*. lie combat ted various arguments that had been advanced in support of the dispensary. Ho said good, christian men could not be got to take charge of liquor business. Prohibition, ho contended, is the only riuht. solution of the liquor problem. FOB SECRETARY OK STATE. Mr. I\. M. McCown, ot Flor ence, present, assistant, an nounced his candidacy for secretary ol Stale. lie relerred to his experiencetin the office, and read the Senate resolutions complimenting him in the highest terms, passed when lie resigned as clerk of the Senate. MR. J. R. MORRISON, of Charleston, candidate for some office, spoke next,. He referred to his record as a legisla tor, member ot the Constitutional convention and as sheriff of Charleston county. He said his fiiend Sheriff Hunter could tell the people ot Lancaster what manner of man lie is. FOR ATTORNKY GENERAL. lion. J. Frasier Lyon, ol Abbeville, was introduced as a candidate for attorney general. He said it afforded him pleasure to appear belore a people who had 1 by ?heir action put their seal of ' disapproval on the fraud and corruption in the dispensary. He congratulated Lancaster on its eniorcement of prohibition. He 1 voted for the Hrice bill. As to the work of the dispensary investigating committee, ol which he is a member, he said that, 1 while much has been accomplished there are many things the committee had not done?there 1 are many the state can not do 1 with the dispensary. But the 1 best thing the state can do is to out the dispensary's head off. 1 He admitted that evidence su Hi cient to convict in court had not been obtained, but contend ' ed that the revelations were such as to convince any reasonfilile man that fraud and corI rnntiim *?xisti?<l I(b r. beer and liquor being sold (o the dispensary at higher prices than charged parties in other states; also to former chairman o( board receiving a car load of furniture; I also to testimony ol a witness as 'I to chairman having hat full of money, etc. lie expressed his be I lief that the dispensary is peri mealed with fraud troin top to hot I torn. He said it was the not duty of committee to prosecute, but to report its findings to the legislature. As to the charge that he had received double pay?pay as a member or the legislature and pay as a member of the commi'tee?he said that his nc ; count had been passed upon and approved by the chairman ol the j committee, Mr. Hay, ol Camden. I a Ha!?- ana conservative lawyer, land tli a established precedent had been to!lowed?that other legislative committees had been so paid, that Senator (lough was id the same category as himself; ' nl?o the solicitors of the State. Hon. .1, \V. Ragsdale, of Florence. also candidate for Attorney General, followed Mr. Lyon 11 o ( declared that it was not for him to say, nor for Mr. Lyon to say a5 to whether Mr. L\r n had rei ceived double pay. If H?>ug^ or j Ilay or Lyon or others diew mmi f ey they were not legally entitled t to, they did wrong in doing .-o? I The Constitution of South Caro- t Una says that no man shall bold s two positions of trust and emolu a | ment at the same time. It there- t tore Mr. Lyon or Mr. Anybody u else received $8. a day, wheu the u per diem of a legislator is only C 4., be violated the constitution. C He proposed to submit the matter e to three lawyers, one to be select o ed by himself, one by Lyon and t the third by the two thus cho-en. s And it that committee decides n that Lyon is right, he will give n $40?the amount Lyon admits a mnfiivilll' fn nnmo nrrili:inoim in South Carolina, provided Lyon, in case the committer decides against him, will r-turn the $40. received by him to the slate ' treasury. He referred to the buzzard inc dent at Chesterfield.? Instead of killinir the di-pensnrv ' he tavored refi rminsr it. Remove the rascality and if system is pood, let it remain. After a H HAE Habit rules one's life. ] into bad habits. People who their lives can't quit, and if t thev are alwavs in a hurrv tc %/ V ~ / "" want to feel that life is a p don't forget to use the best? It's purity convinces the mosl it an easy and pleasant feelir in love cnilled with happiness life, why not eat good bread right at your door. If you v we can supply you. We haw the whitest in Lancaster, bu power can ge greater than came. When you take your your flour chalked or bleaclu do, this will do for fancy or one brag on how white your How about your health ? Do sweet, and when millionaires and pains from adulterated f< the time to come when you table and be satisfied to sit biscuits that your appetite ci Cleanliness, purity and qualit the assurance that it will be we sell you to be the very bes Groceries, Dry Goods, Noti farmer needs. Most res 1 J.C.EBV in Bennett's < Trade makes us happy. < ment. When you are in tow < 11 AS I>. .JOXKS, President. K M.CKOXT The First National I IjANCASTI ! A Few F'acts for Your Cons h'fliS'/'. That Hyptemalin sa a nionlli for livn \earx. with I dmi annually, will >!* )?! you hhiiip length <>i time w ill ) ield f>i would have <jf 1,171 7H. SEVOS l>. The safety of character and ability of our hoa guarantee of honest and capable i 'l'lll It If. That we take any T'fKJItTII. That your motif /*'/ E'TII. That we pay 4 p of Deposit. SIXTH. That we extend t< accommodation in our power, con SEVE.S Til. '''hat we are i We respectfully solicit ,youj bo.** ; wear's work the committee had lot Becured sufficient evidence o indict a i-ingle mat:. lie gare lis ideas of the duties of the atorney general, The office he aid is an adiuimstrat. ye one ,nd if elected lie will endeavor o see that all laws are cariied 'tit, so far hr the office of afctoriey general is concerned. The /olnmLia State and the News and /ourier ssv that the people most lect an attorney general purely n liquor queston. If you have o do as those papers say, the peaker asks that you vole for a a ui who has some views, for a aan who stands for something, nd not for a destructionist. KoK COMPTROLLER GENERAL. The meeting closed by address-s Irom Candidates Walker and Voiles lor comptroller general, for lark of space we are obliged o omit then* speeches. ^ Do you take The News? \ ^\ | HT! [ . (J Don't allow yourself to get ij have used good Flour all hey happen to get bad flour get rid of it. When you leasure and worth living, f? Hi 4 I t skeptical. When you eat ';j lg passes over you like one' 5. If bread is the staff of when it lies in quantities /ant the very whitest flour e flour that is whiter than {! t reason tells us that no !< the source from which it : wheat to mill do you want 2d by electricity ? If you for pride in hearing some biscuits were at dinner, n't overlook this. Life is jj > are groaning from aches ood you can be wishing for can square yourself at the i' and eat all the Magnolia dls for and fear no harm. ;y. Your trade invited with appreciated and the goods it in the lines we carry. !l w ons?in fact, everything a ; pectfully, VARDS Old Stand. Goods return the compiin don't fail to see us. J. C. E. |j[ I R. K WYLIK, Vice-President. ON, Cashier, /? tank of Lancaster, , K!{, S. C. ideration: 1 ?? f] viiijj pays. A deposit of fifi.OO r cent. interest computet. Hemi7 Ten dollar* a month for |ke 'Hit.GO, while in ten years foil your money The well know ft rd of director* is a sufficient ? Management. amount from $ 1 .01) upwards. ?y is payable on demand, er cent, interest on < ert i lioatet^ ? our patron* every courtesy and aistent wit it good (tanking: and uit'-r Sc. ri in< lit inspection. , f M. CF.OXTON, Cashter, % M.