The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, August 18, 1906, Page 6, Image 6
A Tillmanite to Tillman.
"One of the Old Blue Hen's
Chickens" Kicks Cear Out
of Harness?Doesn't Like it
Because Tillman is Defend- j
ing his "Child," the Dispensary.
The following open letter to
Sena'or Tillman has-been given
the press by Mr. 0. P. Hodges,
a 1 ;rge larmer ai d merchant of
Marlboro county: 1
Bennettsville. Aug, 11, 1900.
? Senator B. R. Tillman.
My Dear Sir: I will preface
my remarks to you by stating j
that 1 have been one of the most
ardent Tilltaaniles in the State (
I have followed you through
thick and thin. In tact I am j
one ot the "old blue hen's chick
pin " I nm a Tillmanita
whom there is no guile." I have
asked tor no office, and huvu't
cared for any. 1 have followed '
you because I thought you were (
largely right from a square out
honest motive and principal, and ,
not for any of the political emol '
uments that might accrue from (
such su|>port a9 I have rendered.
But, senator, I think 1 voice
the sentiment of thousands ol
your mostardentsupporters when
I say that we can follow you so
far and no farther. You have left
your moorings, and have uone
headlong in the persistent advocacy
of measures that if carried
out will undermine eventually
^ our moral, social, religious and
governmental structures. Your
absolute disregard for the moral
and religious opinions of others
should make your position abhorrent
to every God fearing
Baptist, Methodist, Presbv terian,
au l, in fact to every reltg;ous
denomination of the State. You
have flagrantly insulted every
minister of every denomination
of the S ate. When you uttered
the statement that the preachers
of South Carolina had allied
themselves with the blind tigers
and liquor men, you know, Sen
ator Tillman, you gave utterance
tA a tilhn<lAr utul talcolmA/1 #!? * I
?V m I'UVi Mini
wan as dark as midnight ill hell.
And you liHve never had manhood
or common decency to apologize
fur it. You kn w,sena'or,
thai our churches and our ministers
ol the gospel are all tlmt we
have that make life worth living
You cripple the ministry, as you
have tried to do, you hu-h their
voices and push aside their godly
influences m South Carolina lor
even GO days and we would have
riot, anarchy, rapine and murder
that would appall the world No,
senator, I, with thousands ol
other citizens of South Carolina,
place our morality, religion, sHlgoverninent
and common decency
above partisan politics and Till
maoism. 1 am a prohibitionist
I favor neither the dispensary
nor barrooms. I say nothing of
the rot'enne.-s of either. Oid is .
as ro;ten as the other, as to that!
mat ler.
Now, senator, 1 want to see. if
in the last 12 or 14 years you
have dealt fairly with your people
that have implicitly trusted!
you in this vital question that)
means so much to the well are of
South Carolina. You know you
nuv?- riiVi lO nt* a groit
people's man; a servant ol i lie I
poop e: tha? you aim to carry out
their ins ructions. Ha-eyou done |
il ? I lava y it tried to d'? il to any |
extent a' all on this <;re??t l.quor'
question? Let us see. In 18021
the question ol liquor or no liquor ;
was brought squarely and fairly
before tlie voters of the State,'
and they v??te'l for prohibition by I
over 10,000 majority. Senator
Tillman was then governor of the1
State and virtually was the legislature
of the Slate also. What
i
did he do ? He said, you people
by your vote have demanded prohibition
and it is in my power to
give it to you, but I will not do
it, but I will give you something
and throw such restrictions around
it, and will call it dispen
sarv. And with the restrictions
ai d safeguards that I will put
upon it, we will lead up to p'ohibi'ion.
The restrictions, Senator
Tillman says, first the people
must decide as to whether
they want a dispensary or not in
any community. Socond, he says
that liquor is to be sold in no
other way. Third, he says no
minor or habitual liquop drinker
can buy it at all. Fourth, that
every purchaser of liquor had to
sign his name, place ot residence
and so on with numerous other
restrictions, all of which were
jood.
Now, senator, I, along with
thousands of your supporters,
said we voted for prohibition,we ,
trust this man Tillman and wholly
believe he will be good to his
promise to the peopleot the Sta'e
Now. senator, to the contrary, it
you will show me one utterance
spoken, one line written, advo
eating or urging the curtailment
of the sale ol liquor in these 14
years of your liquor life, or the
advocacy of one single measure
that would lead upto prohibition.
1 will withdraw everything utter
ed in this letter. But to the con
trary, senator, you have advocated
every means possible to fasten
liquor upon the State indefinitely.
You saw after the first
year of the dispensary under
your rigid restrictions, that the
people were not taking to it
Numbers of communities in the
State that you thought ought to
have it wouldn't have it, the result
was you had the law made
very lax, so those communities
could get it by a mere petition,
and not by a vote of the
people. Aud the result was they
were crammed down tlie throa's
of the people in dozens of com
munities that didn't want them
And finally all of the restric'ions
were removed, and the boys were
told to so out and sell liquor, fill
the minors, drunkaids, "niggers"
and all with liquor, mean liquor,
cheap liquor,when they were promised
pure liquor. Thieving con
stables have been retained, defaulting
dispensers have been
white-w.oshed, and a high-handed
stealing has been carried on by the
management. And, senator, all
this to your knowledge ha3 been
been Koint: on for years. Why
did you wait until the institution
was reeking in filth and rolling
in mud before you came to its
rescue? And the halt of its filth
lias never been told.
And now, you are going all
over the State using your powerful
political influence to !urtlier
fasten this damnable vamp
re, liquor, upon your trusting
and unsuspecting followers. You
are eating the very vitals out of
the young men and boys ot our
S'a'e, and that is reaching far
into our homes, and is making a
damnable ti rust at 'lie chastity
and virtue ot our women.
MyG od,Senator Tillman, what
more do you want? We heaped
lmnor upon honor upon you.
Wo have done all tor you that a
worshipping people could do
Now, is it possible that we have
for these years nursed a viper
in our hosom that i< to turn up
on us and w'ing our nu-ral, ho
ci 1 I'ftlifMllilU i . II . t i ? irtf. o t .
death ?
Senator, 1 know y?u are *
hml. unrelen'in? master. Y?>u
don't mint! te linn other people
<>f their meanness, but you don't
like being told ot yours. Now,
Senator, you strip this internal
liquor-dispensary of ils political
garb and possibilities, trnd throw
it before the people, not in an
office ^etlin^ capacity, and they
will vote it out tomorrow. And
you know it. Is the reason whv
i '
I you have kept it from the peo 1
pie.
And today you are trying to
move heaven and earth to try
and get a law fasteued on the
people in the Raysor-Manning
bill, that, it it should become n
law, the ent-re Slate will be
placed under the old dispensary )
law, with all these communities b
that have voted out the dispen- a
saries, and the communities that c,
have dispensaries raslened upon w
them without the people (I
mean the whole people) having
any voice or vote whatever in ^
the matier. M
And to show you more clearly, j o
senator, ot the insincerity and j
rottenness of this lhpior affair, j[(.
you have men in about %every j ^
county of the State running for v"
the legislature and senate, hur- w
r thing for Tillman and the dis* cn
pensarv, that have always been N
ynir avowed opponents, and p.
enemies to the dispensary ; and I
fear hate both Tillman and the
dispensary now worse than the
devil hates holy water. But now fo
it is?Hurrah for Richard I. sh
Manning for governor, the Ray- f0
sor Manning bill and dispensary
Why ! oh! why is this the case?
Because, I fear, it opens up a
chance by which some fellow <
that has been wanting an office
for a long while, hopes to ride
in on Tillman liquor. Strip it, ^
senator, (this dispensary I mean)
of its political affiliations and a!
otlice getting possibilities and
many a fellow that is now hur- F'
railing for Tillman and the dis.
pensary wonld curse you to your
face, as they have formerly p
done.
Now, senator, it is patent to
| the most commonplace mind
that you and Richard 1. Manning
have gone into a compact. Mr.
Manning evidently says, senator
help me to be governor, and I
will do what you want me to do. F
You have put the yard stick on
lie legislators when you said
that the legislators that voted
against the Raysor Manning bill jr
must bo left at home.
So, senator, if the surmises and
conclusions are correct, it seems
that you are making a desperate
effort to be United Stales senator,
governor or the State, as well a*
the legislature. That is giving
one man too much power?that
is depriving us ot self-govern- F
ment. And 1 don't believe ihe
people are prepared to accept
such, and will by their ballots
repudiate tho whole scheme.
Now, senator, in conclusion, let
me say that this liquor question
is no longer a Tillman or anti
Tillman question. You should p
have all you want. We are wil
liiii tor you to go back to the
United States senate and ''cusx" ^
Roosevelt and those Yankees to
your heart's content; but for humanity's
an l God's sake, if you (J
can't throw your influence on the
right side ot this great moral
question, pull yourself aside, and .
j let the people decide as to wheth- 1
er they want the dispensary or
prohibition. That is tho question L
before us. and you have promised
| us to let us decide it. Will you |
be good to your word ! i
Very truly yours, >
j O. P. Hodges. J
Tragic Death of a Boy Near
W axhaw.
li
Waxhnw speHa 1 in Observer, !p
10th: Curl liaker, the 14-year- j J
old son (ft Mrs. Coon Hiker, met b
la tragic death about two b
miles ea-t of th.s place la'e this If
afternoon by jumping off a work
irain while it was running at g
a speed of 20 miles an hour. t
The hoy jumped from the it
rear end of thetra n squarely on y
the track, his skull was literally I 1
bursted and his neck broken.
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[*he Primary in Union County,
N. C.?Second Electior
Today.
Monroe Journal : From the ta
le published elsewhere it will
e seen that Messrs. JLong,jLnney
nd Gordon were nominated for
omnuspioners. All the coroners
ithdrew in favor of Mr. Sikes,
ho wag declared the nominee
Ir. Kedwine for the senate and
Ir. Stewart for register had nc
ppopition and were nominated,
lie same was true of Mr. Elliott
>r surveyor. The table includes
le name of Esq. C. N. Simpson,
ho though declining to be a
indidate, received some votes,
ext Saturday Messrs. Stevens,
rice, Bivens and McNeely will
injoverjfor representative, D. A.
ouston and Jesse A. Williams
rclerk, Horn [and Griffith for
eriff, and Williams and Laney
r treasurer.
andidates in Lancaster
County?Take Your Choice.
The candidates in Lancaster
iunty, according to announceents
appearing in The News,
e as follows, the names being
ven in alphabetical order:
or Senate.
J. Harry Foster,
T. Y. Williams,
or House of Representatives.
J. W. Hamel,
Harry Hines,
Geo. W. Jones,
W. Prei-sly Robinson,
or Judge of Probate.
J. E. Stewman.
or Supt. of Education.
W. Alonzo Hughes.
W. M. Moore,
J. Meek White,
or County Treasurer.
J. E. Blackmou,
R. Baxter Blackmou,
W. H. Millen.
For County Auditor,
llollis H. Horton,
Porter M. Jackson,
J. Wylie Porter,
or County Supervisor.
Wylie Q. Caskey,
W. B. Culp,
M. C. Gardner,
I). W. Hendrix,
L. J. Perry,
JamesO. Porter,
II. N. So well,
or Magistrate?Lancaster.
W. P. Caskey.
ulord Township.
Wm. Carnes,
H. W. Taylor,
edar Creek Township.
A. W. Hicklin,
W. F. Hudson,
adian Lind Township.
1). K. Ilall.
urn-aster Cotton Mills.
B. F. Phillips.
Jvery, Livery,
Livery!
Though doing a rattling gooc
very business, we are deter
lined to do even better. Oui
resent stocks of vehicles anc
[orses are being supplementec
y handsome new carriages anc
uggies and stylish
driving and Saddle Horses
Our livery establishment h
oing to be second to none it
he State, and don't you forge
t,! Come or send to us whet
OU want the liest. ur?-to-dat<
ivery service.
HEATH-ELLIOTT MULE CO.
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I hope you will ail discharge
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7-18-4w. County tSupervisor.
Notice to Teachers and Patrons.
On account of some irregularities in
the recent adoption of school books [
have been unable to obtain them. It
will probably be four or live weeks
before they will be sent out. I regret
this condition very much but it is absolutely
unavoidable on my part.
Aug. 14. '00. Signed, Nm
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Co tMipt. of Education.
Notice of Graded School
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The next session of the Lancaster Graded
School will begin Monday, Sept. loth. Hkifi,
Iat 0 a. ni.
The tuition rates for children eon:in g
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mo. according to grude.
An incidental fee of twenty-five cents
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Owing to delay in the recent Mate adoption
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