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THE LEDGER. Th irlow S. Cart/T, , EDITOR AV'D MANAGKR. C" . SATURDAY JUNE 23, 1000. , We often hour asked "What can a prohibition povernor do1 i n without a prohibition Legisla tire?" We answer, he can appoint prohibition magistrates and i see to it that they appoint prohi j t)ition constables. More than tins: Ho will put a new construction on the dispensary law which will greatly curtail the tale of whiskey as a beverage, and he ' will enforce it in a manner that will make many people think the law in itself is prohibition enough. The law i>as enacted avowedly to curtail the sale of intoxicants and it is claimed for it that when given a fair tiia it will do it. What opposition has there been to the enforcement of the law by the present administration ? What more favorable circumstances could bo imagined for its enforcement than the pr- sent administration has had ? Vet has a curtailment of the sal* of whisker bean Afl ' ^ noi'.liv vnar I lia uoU? v>. . * ?_ > W I ? ?-? T r VUI nit/ i^w IUCJ , by t lie dispensaries continue to increase until it really seems the administration of the low it> judged by the amount of revenue turned into the exchequor. If the law is ever properly construed and enforced in South Carolina ? and its most ardent supporters will never admit it has bad a fair trial until it has been ? it will bo under a prohibition governor. Its friends have elected four successive governors and the four successive administrations have interpreted the law so as to permit the institution to become a source of raising all the revenue possible, hoping in this way to make it and themselves more popular, rthile the majority of its supporters are anxiously hoping to see it curtail the sale of liquors and make it the "step towards prohibition" which it was promised them it shonld be. Respected citizens of Carolina, who are conscientious in believing the dispensary law the best aolu- . tion of the whiskey question, can you not see that the election of a prohibition governor at this time, ! is your only hope to resuscitate the law you profess to think a good one, but which now lies dying in the arms of its friends ? killed by their abuse of it in straining its interpretation at every point to make all the sales of intoxicants possible? Think upon this matter. A Level-Headed 4 Citizen" on tho Right Line. Saturday's Ledger contains a timely communication, signed : "Citizen," upon the subject of Lancaster's imperative need, "a lirst class, comfortable and com modious school building." "Cit izen" presents in a strong light the unanswerable reasons why the parents of Lancaster should no longer be content to hare their children subjected to the inconvenience and danger of !>eing crowded in the inadequate quarters of our present school building. Public sentiment is rapidly crystallizing in favor of the orection of a larger and better building?in fact, it has apparently reached that point where the people are ready to act. If such be the case?if our citizens are ready to take initiatory steps, we suggest that a public meeting be held to consider the matter. VVe are oonlident that the board of trus- 1 tees will issue a call for such a meeting if citizens interested will but signify their desire for same ( by petition. Let the board hear , from you, gentlemen.?Lancaster i Review. rho Candidates for Governor at Beaufort. Special to The State Beaufort, Juno 19.-?As there are few rural voters in Beaufort county, the meeting was held to* night after the stores closed. A large number of ladies were pres ent anil the crowd numbered over auu. loony was spent on the United States steamship "Forward" and Port Royal was visited Beaufort has not given up the tight to keep the naval station. After the candidates for the minor offices had spoken the gubernatorial revenue cutters then j trot under headway, chasing blind t'gers. McSwoenoy was well ro ceived. He had lived in the neighboring county, had married in Beaufort county and had always stuck by Beaufort in her trials. His speech was about the same as at Charleston. He made an appeal against Ivncb law. He would have hail the notorious scoundrel Thomas tried and hang ed long ago, and he decried delays in court in such heinous crimen. He advocated an im proved arsenal for the Beaufort artillery. (Cheers.) Ho defied any of his opponents to have one single word against his official record Col Iloyt told of his record since 1870, through 1890 and down to the present day as a servant of the Democratic party, without asking for office. He had been or.? of those to petition for the prohibition election in 1892 i.:?u 1^.1 I? >11in-u it'd up m mo dispensery law. Ho recited nn incident at St Georges which hud heen a prohibition town tint has a dispensary A hoy 13 ?years old had forged his father's name to a request, gotten a bottle of liquor, had take it to school and had gotten druuk on it. He is 17 years old now and a drunkard. This was an instance of the Stato debauching its youth. Take away profits and you take away supporters of the dispensary. He opposed high license as ho opposed the dispensary. (Cheers.) Thero ts new ten times as much liquor drunk in Greenville countv ? J outside of the city as under pro hihition. The blind timers buy liquor from the dispensary. The demoralization of upper Carolina is forty times as great as under saloons. Mr Patterson without much preliminaries began to discuss the issues in the campaign. He made the dispensary tho main topic and defended it as lie did at Orangeburg. Col lloyt had asked him did nine-tenths of the Baptists of tho State drink liquor, and Pat terson tonight in the course of his remarks said that a lot of them do and if all the Baptists who drink liquor be turned out tllAI'O OTSllll.l 1." I"'' vuv> V ut'UlM mil rxj llltuiy It'll. He wanted to know if it wore worse for him, vie? president of the Baptist convention, to advo cato dispensary than for Col Hoyt who had been president to advocate coalition between prohibition and high license as he did in an editorial last fall. lie charged MoSweency with evading tho dispensary issuo tonight and covering it up with local matters. When he said thero were only four constables in Charleston some fellow said that was too many (Cheers.) Patterson showed that 20 persons in Beaufort use revo nuo licenses. This is evidence of violation of the dispensary law. 4<(jro to the Charleston hotel and you will see a barroom in full hiast, glasses, fixtures and overything! Why did they not seize the fixtures*" His speech was very nearly the >riginal, hut the sensational parts vere left out aad it was better herefor. Mr Gary mile a speech along the visual lines. Yesterday Col Hoyt bad charged that he, Gary, had not voted for the Robinson local option bill. He did not recall the purport of that bill but had voted for tho Archer bill, which is almost identical with his platform Gary's applause was next that of McSweeney. AT MCSWEENEY's HOMK. I Hampton, S C, Juno 20.- -Several hundred voters greoted the campaigners this morning soon after their arrival from Beaufort and there was an orderly moeting in the courthouse, which lasted for tive hours. Chairman Theus called the meeting to order and prayer was ! offered by Bev E K Moore. After the meeting began a number of ladies entered the room bringing flowers with them for some of the speakers. Grecn? ville's candidate for governor receiving the lion's share. Gov McSweeney delivered an 1 address of welcome to the othor ( candidates, but did not engage in the regular speaking, as he was called to Columbia on urgent official business, and will rejoin , the campaign party at Barnwell. ! 1 A basket of flowers was sent him ; by an Augusta lady. 1 The speaking was in the cusj tomary order, except that the candidates for governor nro to speak last hereafter. | # ( I There was considerable skirmishinir hv tho rnndwbct#?t railroad commissioner, and the two Evanses wore dangerously near the violation of the rule against personalities. B B Evans read a letter from Col Orr to sus? tain his charges that the present commissioners arc controlled by the railroad. Hoyt spoke first of tho candidates for governc.", limiting his remarks to tho dispensary and prohibition, and was well received by the audience. He replied to Sloan, Blouse and Winkler on the dispensary and criticised Patterson's speeches. Gary and Patterson followed with their usual speeches. Patterson spoko one hour, although tho county chairman had announced thirty minutes as the limit. The crowd tired and many left while he was 8 peaking. There were no unusual incidents during the day except that Gary said he had never wrung money from other people hy; usury or imposed upon widows and orphans for gain. Many \ understood the reference to he to , McSweoney, and there has been much comment since the meeting closed, though Gary did not give such a point to his remarks, f To morrow is an off day on account of railroad schedules and the campaign party will spend four or live hours at Allendale on , their way to Barn .veil for Friday's ^ meeting. ; Senator Tillman at lea>t is en joying the campaign. Mr. Jones i seems to be opposing him in an academic sense only and the sena^ tor is receiving the plaudits and , the boquets. If Pet.igrew has as soft a thing in South Dakota as Tillman has in South Carolina, ho does not need the assistance of our senator, on which ho has licen counting. ?Charleston Post. The more one considers the campaign for governor in this state, the more fully convinced he is that the voting will not he on prohibition and dispensary lines. : The majority of the voters will > select the host man for the office | and vote for him.?Carolina Spartun. CASTOR IA For Infanta and Children. Tbi KM Yoi Hiii Always Bought \ Interesting Story About a Convict. Special to Greenville Neva. Columbia, S C, .Tune 10.? Quite an interesting story bus been developed by the return to the penitentiary of John StucUey, wlrte convict, from the Scarborough farm in Sumter county. Stuckey was convicted in Spartanburg about a year ago of kill-J ing J C Sevier, who was a clerk in bis store. Owinc to the prominence of the parties the case was in many respects a sen-1 Rational one. Stuckey was found guilty of manslaughter and was sentenced to twenty years imprisonment. According to the story related by the penitentiary authori ties, Mr. Scarborough is a man who contiacts for convicts as laborers on his farm. It appears that he was also a relative of Stuckey, and when he got his hist batch of convicts he asked that Stuckey lie included. Not knowing of any relationship ex isting between the two men, he was turned over to Scarborough. It was later reported to the authorities that Stuckey was not being uied as u convict, but was really having u pietty good tune. It is alleged that he was actually hoarding with Scarborough and paying for it, and was not in stripes. Acting upon these reports the superintendent and the humid of directors ordered Stuckey to be brought back to the penitentiary, lie is now 111 that institution again in stripes and at work, in the commissary department. ftlOO Or K. Detcltm ?'* Anti I Hurt-lie. May worth to you more than $'.00 if you havw u chi <1 who mil h bedding from incoiiteuence of water duiiutr ?leep. t'ures old and young alike. It arrests li?e troutde at once. $1 So d bv J K Macaey A "o, Druggist, I.an aater, K t' Announcement i FOR SOLH 1TOR I will aland for reiiominalion to the office of Solicitor of the Six'li judicial Circuit subject to ths results of? the Democratic Piimary. j Iv UENRV. w. I hereby announce myself a candidate for Solicitor of tlie Sixth Circuit, Hubject to the rules governing tlie Democratic Primary. W C. HOUGH. -vr. I lierebv announce myaelf a candi? d ?te for the office of Solicitor of tn? Hixth Judicial < ircuit, pledging my* ael' to abide tlie result of tlie demo* cratio primary election, and fultlifully to discharge the duties of mid otlhe in the event of my ejection. THOS F Vt cDOW. FOR tiOFSK OF REFRESA'Ns I AT1VE* I am a candidate for the Legislature, subject to rules of Democratic Primary J HARRY FOSTER. 'j/. The many friends of J N E-tridge respectfully announce hia name for re-election for tlie Houk? of Representative a of Lancaster county, and will abide i?y the result of the primary election. MANY VOTERS. <77? f am a catnlidale for ttie House of Representatives subject to .the Democratic primary. J W HAMEL "0* I am a candidate for reflection to the Legialaf ure. I will abide the re* suit of t lie democratic primary election. T Y WILLIAMS. FOR OLEKK OF COURT The many friends of Mr. Joeeph F Gregory hereby announce him an a candidate for the ottlce of Clerk of the Court, subject to 'he result of the Democratic 1'rimary, MANY FRIENDS. '/K With h high sense of.appreciation of pant considerations and tokens of k<ndne?i and with a deep feeling of gratitude for the same, I beg to an* nounce myself a candidal? for re* election to the office of Clerk of Court for Zancaeter County, at the approaching primary, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. W 8 L PORTER Ik i FOR SHERIFF I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the oftlee of Sheriff of Lancaster county, pledurmR myself to aldde the rules or the Democratic l>i unary. .! C HOWELL. r//3 I iierelrv announce myself a candidat fot Sheriff sut jeot t<? the rules of Democratic party J A.WES S WJL80N The many* friends oi C'apt John P Hunter hereby announce trim as a I ? . ,,t;,l..i.. * l. _ ..oi _ _ r _, u l/r ? i iii iuinu- mi urn win e wi ? ueriu, su ij i t t ? the result of the democratic piimary. Mr iiuniar's flue record an s?i- rift in the paat i* a anfllcie't guara< tee of what Ida future ndmiul?tra tion will he in cast? <?f Ida election. "ANY VOTERS. FORiOUNTY TREASURER I urn a candidate f?>r r? -election to | the ufllce of County Treasurer wo OAUri'EN FOR UOUNlY AUDI iOR. I hereby ain ouece myself as a can l didate fur the otlloe of < ounty Auditor ! and pledge mym-if to ahide tha re'Ult ' oi the Democru'io primary E O CROXfON. COT I respectfully announce my candid'?c\ for the ufllce of cc.untv Au<litor, siiiiy'-'ct to tlie ruiea of the Democratic primary. L J TERRY Cf. Mr Editor:?Kc*ii/.iiig the valuable services rendered during hi* term of oflh e, the neatness and correctueaa i I oi iim wdik, nun Knowing him lo I>< well (|unliHeii f.ir t e position, please announce the name of J no a t ook for , re-election lo the ofllce of County j ; Auditor, subj.* d lo the rules govern-.' iug the primary WANY FRIENDS., FOR KUTERINTENDEN V OF EDUCATION At tl e HolicitHtion of a few friends I announce in>self a candidate for the ollice of Su| erintendenf of Education. II BAX 1 K.K BLAt K < ON. The muuv friends of Mr Ernest B nckinon. hereby announce him as a candidate for the ofllce of County fSuperintendent tf relocation subject to result of Democratic Primary. r/TJ To the Voters of Lancaster Chanty: With many thanks fox past fuvors, and at the solicitation of friends. I hereby uunou.ee myself as a candidate for the office of County Huj>erln? feudent of Kdu -ation, aubject to the rules governing the Democratic pri*. mary; ami, if elected my time and energies are yours for the beat interest* of education. J E BLACKMON. W5 Mr Editor: ?Please announce the name of PROP A V ROWELL as a candidate -for the offioe of County Superintendent of Education, subject to the rules governing the Democra'ic primary. If elected, we pledge liira to discharge the duties of the office to the hest Interest of education. MANY FRIENDS FOtf -SUPERVISOR The many filends of Mr. It H Happ ; announce him him as a candidate for County Supervisor, subject to the rules of tlie Democratic Primary. MANY FRIENDS. C//S The friends of W Q, Caskey, an* noutiee liim un a candidate for County Supervisor. Mr Cankey will abide the renult of the -Democratic primary elec*ioiiH. A t the earnest solicitation of many friend-, I hereby announce myself an a candidate for re-election to tlie office of County !Supervis'if, subject to the result of the democratic primary. M 0 GARDNER FOR CORONER. The many frrendn of CC Horton, Sr., announce him for the office of Coroner, nubject to the rules of tiie Democratic Primary. r/jrj I announce mynelf an a candidate for tlie office of Coroner and pledge I inyhoii in aouie me renuii or the (leiiincratlc primary election. J E81KVSMAN r//Z The friends of D N M ACKEY an* nouoce him as a candidate for the of* dee of Coroner, and pledge him to ahido the result of the democratic prlmary. MANY FRIENDS. <Y7I hereby anuounoa myself a candi~ date for re-election to the office of Coroner, and pledge myself to abide the result of the primary. R. YOUNG Col. Hojt in Edgefield. With Manj People, The Colonel is Stronger Than His Cause. Special to The State. Edgefield, June 21 ? Mr. J II Davis still contends that it is not within the jurisdiction of the couuty executire committee to order an election for dispensor l?efore the people. He claims the lonriulut nrn w ill ^ ^ - tw.. iu ?v;t u.o subject firsi. Still a number of candidates are actively canvassing for the job. Tho entire outfit is mixed up with a good deal of doubt, for if we judge rightly Col. Hoyt will carry Edgefield in tho coming elections. Now if he carries tho county wherein this insitution, the dispensary original ted, what will the colonel do in other parts. Most people reason this way about Col lloyt's race: 4<1 don't believe in prohibition but bolieve in you mighty strong." Itch on human cured in 3(1 minute* by Woolford's 8*ntary Lotion. Thi never fniln. Hold by J F Mackey Co, DrusaLt, Lancai 8 C. Without a Candidate. Special to The State. Joneaville, .June 21.?Tho threshers have started out and they report the wheat turning out finely. Since Mr G Walt Whitman moved to Union and Mr G B Fowler seems to have retired from politics, Jonesville ban no candidate so far in the field, consequently politics is not much stirred in our town as yet. Col iloyt will get a handsome vote at this box. He is a clean man representing a clean cause and he will get a great many clean votes here. COH) 8TKKL OK DKATH 4 'There is hut one small chance to save your life and that is though an o|Hjration," was the awful prospect before Mrs. I B Hudt, of Lime Kidge, Wis., by her doctor after vainly trying to cute her of a frightful case <?f stoaiach tumble tuul yellow jaundice. Ho didn't count on the marvelous power of Electric Bitters to cure Stomach ami Liver troubles, but she heard of it, took seven bottles, was wholly cured, avoided surgeon's knife, now weighs more ami feels better than ever. It's jmsitively guaranteed to cure Stomach, Liver ami Kidney troubles and never disappoints. Price 50c at ('rawford Bros' drug store. HORSES! I HORSES! HORSES! We have Just rt ceived a carload of number one borne* from Atlanta,every animal having been carefully eeloc ed in pereon by our Mr. Elliott. In the lot are eonm of the fluent home* ever brought to thin market If you want a good Saddler- or * --- -- good combination horse, now is your time to get It. We now have just what you Want and need Call and pee for yourself. We take pleasure in ex^ hibiting our atock, an well as Vehlclea. 1AI will either nell or nwap, and Uf Q will sell either for the cash i WW w or good paper ELLIOTT & 1 CRAWFORD Lflf" Subscribe to Tub Ledjek HEADQUARTERS For Best Virginia Lime, Cement, Plaster Paris and Plastering Hair AT T. H. DAVIS' LANCASTER BAKERY