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-"J* r } i#h^Af?MiWMr: *br U* PtvmotiQ* mf the Px^itioal, SoM, Aft+mUmnU mmd ammmmvial h\im tiU. j -1.1)?* WmSZ7rZf^L~ ^LANCASTER, S. C , J U 1, V 28. 19o<) ' fr sT aBI.I- EC tnvt~~ - BIG THE Til Tha Everything mus H ROVUN UPON THE Mil All kinds of choice dress fabi Percales, Piques, Crashes, Fancy 1 Sold all tho seasons at 8, 10, 12J t marked down to Hvo cents. This i want to bo at the grabbing. PiCKEO UP AT A BIG BJ Two lots of men's line Negli?r< r Democratic Primary Election. Tiuiwlay, August ISHtli, ItKKt [CANDIDATES ANNOUNCED IN THE I.KDOEH ] For Solicitor?Sixth Circuit. Thou. K MoDow, W C H ugn J K Hemy For House of ltepr&a> n'atlvei Oac.nr W Potts, T Y Williams, J W Hanoi. J N EMtridge. J Harr? F?*?ter, U L H ickliti. For l.lcrk of Court. Jos F Gregory, W H For er. For Sheriff. J( hi) P Hunter, JatueH -a Wilson. For County Supt. Education. rt l IVIWHI1, J E Bltt'-kinon, Krne*t Bta-ikinon, R Baxter Biarkmon. For County Auditor. J A Cook, ' Ii J Perr.T, E C t'roxton. For County Treasurer. W C Cauthen. For Cou'tv Supervisor. M C Gardner, W U laskny, R H Mapp. For Coroner. R Young, I) N Mat-key, J a Htrwman, (' I ' UnMAn For Magistrate for llufonl To*vn*Mp. J B Fuiulerburk, For Magistrate for Gills Cretk and Cane Creek Township* W P ' 'iHkey. A PKOI?08Al/"TO AfAKRIKU LADIES. Editch of The Ledof.k. Please announce that we are sending, postpaid and free of charge, an elegant sterling silver - . plated sugar shell, such as we sell regularly at 40c each, to every i married lady in the United States ! who writes for it. There is nothing to pay. The gift is absolute. Each lady will send her own name only, as this is too valuable a gift to send to persons who don't ask for it themselves. We give choice ; of any of Dur 40c designs, and will seed illustrations from which j selections may be made. Our object is to advertise Quaker Valley silverware. We believe that the most effective way of doing this is to get samples into the homes of the people, l^adies, please write to day. State that it is your first request for one of our souvenir gifts. Quaker Valley Mfg. Co., Morgan and Harrison Sts., Chicago. 6t. CUT PR* ME' HAS it Means t go in its season is while DDLE COUNTERS. ' ics, such us Organdies, Dimities, Ducks and fine dross Ginghams, ind 15 cents. And the entire lot is u grab lot. Come quick it' you j \ mm, ae Shirts, with two collars and Yi rur r t\ L niL UM 'SENATOR TILLMAN KNEW IT TO BE FALSE." When He Made the Charge of Unholy Alliance. SERMON BY- REV. CHARLES -S. GARDNER. Tillman'H Language Cannot ho Interpreted as Anything But ft Mean and Contemptible Effort. Special to The State. Greenville, July 24?Dr. C S Gardner, pastor of the First Baptist church of this city, preached n strong sermon Sunday night on prohibition, in which he denounced as false Senator Tillman's charge that t:the preachers and liquor men are in unholy alliance led by Col Hoyt." He said: 4'Senator Tillman who made Ihe charge, knew it to be false when he uttered it. The charge cannot be in terpreted as anything else but a moan and contemptible effort to break the force of the almost unanimous advocacy of prohibibition by the preachers and served - i 1 ~ up outiiui mn n ^uuu uliiiwumi Kinu to throw contempt upon h class or men for which he has in many other ways expressed hit con~ tempt." I)r. Charles S Gardner in considered about the ablest preacher in the Baptist denomination in South Carolinuand he is immensely popular not only in Greenville brt throughout the State. He is well qualified to represent his denomination on this or any other subject. His name should not be confounded with that of Dr. Geo. W Gardner, editor of the South Carolina Bapt'st, whose home in at Greenwood. Dr. C S Gardner's sermon is as follows: TUV Q r UtlAU "Woe unto him that giveth hia neighbor drink, that pattest thy hettle to him, and niakeHt him drunken also."?Habakkuk, 2-15. The people of South Carolina are face to face with a great moral issue. There is no problem which more directly involves the very vitals of State life than that of the sale of intoxicating beverages. | It ia a question which involves the very fundamentals of personal an- , civic righteousness. The question before us is a specific alternad tive; the dispensary or prohibit tioo. The question is this: Shall CE SALE COME 1 Loss To m.T i i^o summer tliey are in dei >uir of cuffs. Gotal value at 75c, RUNNING OFF MILLINER' \\ huts left will sell very cheu| ibout prices. Misses Sailors five c mlf price. Trimmed huts from 2? ?vill l>e more thun pleased. SHOES AN!) SLIPPERS G Everybody buys from us becai ours for the biers iNSON tho Stuto sell intoxicating bever.. ages to its citizens, or shall it not? That is to say, Khali yon and I and all the rest of the people together sell to our fellow citizens as a (leverage intoxicating liquors for the pecuniarv protit there is in it ? Shall there he a State liquor selling establishment, set up for the purpose of gratifying the depraved appetitea for alcoholic beveratre, of whieh you und I shall be joint proptietore and jointly reap the profits? Yonder is a poor fellow who is cursed with an abominable appetite for drink. His family needs all the money he can earn and the poor man himself needs to eultiL-UI * tf 4t r* U?? U??.l b ? vniu omuiuiy HM inn IIUUJ ft ftttKC, and for hie soul's sake. Now, the question is, shall you and 1, joined together in thin great combine called the State, agree to sell that man the whiskey which he craves, which we know will injure his body and his soul and impoverish his family, and put the profits of it in our pockets? I don't know how you all feel about it, but, as far a? 1 am concerned, I answer that question with a negative in which is c n cent rated ull the emphasis of my soul. I don't want to do it, and 1 am not going m do u omens 1 am uragge<l into it, despite my protest, by a majority of my fellow citizens. I hate?I shudder at the very thought of being a joint proprietor of a State saloon. The dis|>cnHary advocates may try as much as they please to sugar-coat this proposition. They may say this is not a fair statement of the caRe. But it is an exact statement of the naked facts. They may say that the 'iquor drinker? will get the whi?key and drink it anyway. But I remember that there is One who says: "Be not ye a partaker of their evil deeds." Will tbey get it and drink it any way ? I am very sorry if that is so, but there ia one thing certain, if I can help it, they shall not get it from me; and they ahall not drink it with my approval, and 1 want none of the profits of the cursed business in my pocket. The morel principle of the dis-. pensary and the licensed saloon is the same. In the one case we sell to a man the privilege of selling the liquor to his fellow citizens. In the other we sell the beverage to him ourselves; and I cannot see that there is any great distinction between the moral quality of the two acts. There is but one way to solve the liquor problem. It never will be solved until it is solved that way, and that is by a law prohibiting its sale, and the of sum: ro SLMJ Us But g goods will be car maud, and that our price only 50. | t? 1 STOCK CHEAP, | >. VV e me no longer contrary i r ents and up. Ladies Sailors at > cents up. (iivo us a call, you o OING FAST. use wo save them from 25 cents t 4 L 2 -A ^ imrgitiiis OI I CASH ; enforcement of that law. Here is a traflic which is evil, J and only evil; for which not one good tiling can he said, or ever \ was said; which dishonors God, 1 which curses society, which de- j stroys men body and soul, which corrupts all who have anything to do with it in any shape or form whatever; the evils of which have been declared by the geat States | man,Gladstone,to be greater than; those of war, famine and pestilence 1 (combined. President Krugor said at tho beginning of the South African war, that for the acquisN tion of those republics Great j Britain would pay a price which' would stagger humanity, but the horror* of the South African war are utterly insignificant comparotf with the horrors wrought every your of our lives by the liquor trnftic. He is a very phenome- ( nallv hold man wt o will stand up and claim for it any present or ulterior lienefits to humanity and civilization. It has been denounced as no other bueines* in the world has been denounced; and there never has been a man yet who could put into language the utter detestation which every rightminded man feels for it. But de spite all this denunciation, there never has been a man that could tuimi up uii(i give even u lame ucfen??e of it. Now the question is this: What is the right attitude ?f law, it government, of civilization, to wards a business like that ? Manffestly there is but one right attitude; and that is, to prohibit and proscribe it. And yet here we are in the State of South Carolina, debating among ourselves the question whether we will continue in the business or not ? We ought to answer that question in the negative by a unanimous majority for several reasons. In the tirst place, as I have just intimated, the sale of liquor as a beverage is morally wrong, and the State cannot make a wrong act right by doing it. The moral sentiment of the people condemns it in an individual. How, then, in the name of sense, can it justify it in the State i Nothing can alter the is . i a I M 9 ii? a* Tftct milt in telling liquor as a beverage to its citizens for a protit, the State ia doing an immoral act; and no sort of logical quibbling, and no sort of demagogic appeal to the prejudice or the cupidity of the people can cover up that simple fact. The State of South Carolina cannot afford to defy moral laws and trample the clearest moral principles under its feet. Above the people, above a MER GOC GHTER ain To Y< Tied over. S'he is now. 0 $1.00 un every pair. We are th vorything elso. 1 WORD TO THE WISE IS Hear in mind these significant fac ndersell all competition. At all tim 11 r prices are lower than the lowest, hoes. This cut price sale means t ery greatly reduced. Wc trust our his slaughter sale. lie season. STORE government, above legal statute* | e is the verlaatim? moral law. It h cannot !>e set aside l>v Stat? legis- a lators; it cannot be nu'lified by o dispensary acts; it cannot be sneer- ti ed out of court by a United States v senator, even. The moral law p stands, whether we vote for it or tl not, and if the people vote against fi the moral law, the worse it is for a that people, that's all ! I ti In the next place the dispensary a corrupts the official life of the ; t State. Of course it does. It is i an immoral act, and whenever i anybody, man or State, does an immoral act, he is corrupted by t it. Why, in recent years we have o had demonsti ations of this fact t ad nauseum. The fact is that the t State cannot engage in the liquor c business without being corrupted * by it. t I he dispensary inevitably be- 1 comes a corrupt political machine, 11 a festering wore in tho heart of the 8 body politic. It ia impossible to ? prevent-it. It is the very nature 8 of the thing. It is as certain and e inevitable as gravitation. There kis positively no way to organize and conduct the business of selling 8 IT> liquor as a beverage that will save it from corruption. I can easily ^ understand why certain politicians 8 should be anxious to perpetuate * the thing; it is a political machine (' ready-made to their hand, and * ideally adapted to do the dirty work J for the people who control it. Let 11 h be done with it, for the bake H of purity and morality and decency in the oflicial life of iue State. In the next place; the dispensary makes ite appeal to the people ai a moral institution, as a 1 restraint upon the vice of drink- j ing, and the crimes resulting therefrom. Hut in the very teeth of these moral protensions it makes j its appeal also to the cupidity of the people. Its profit feature 1 makes it to the pecuniary interest ef the State and county and city to have the dispensary do just as large a business as possible. In one part it proposes to restrain vice, and in the other part it proposes to encourage it. It poses both as a moral and a finan- j cial enterprise, but in so far as one of these purposes is promoted the other is necessarily defeated. And it is perfectly patent that the financial end sought will inevitaI.It/ Krinnr In nonrrhf llu m/iral ?" T ??B? "w , aims. In other words, whatever good there may he in the institution is inevitably submerged by ' the evil there is in it. As certainly as a stone falls to the earth the dispensary accommodates itself 1 to the vicious tendencies of the >DS. PRICES. >u. time to unload o people for shoes as well as SUFFICIENT. : ts It is our chiefest aim to ics ami under all circumstances Now we are underselling our hat our usually low prices are friends will reap the henctit of vil elements of society. It n ) mger makes an aggressive fight gainst "blind tigers," and in rder to compete with the "blind igora" which spring up under its ery shadow it farms out "beer rivilegcs," and thus brings back lie old licensed saloon under a alsc pretense. And in order to nve the dispensary proper from teing swamped by the "tigers" nd "beerhouses," the restrictions hrown around the sale of liquor ? n the dispensary gradually pass nto "innocuous desuetude." The people only have to accept he dispensary aw a final solution ?f the liquor problem and turn neir attention away from it to see he whole thing sink into the most onlemptible sham, which it has 1 ready done to a very large cxnnt; and to see all the evil* of ho old saloon system brought n under the cloak of a moral intitution, a process which iR going n before our very ayes; and to ee a political whiskey machine ntrenched in the capital of the Itoto 11 oK to itu nncnaul; u . W* m ii vu umuo t\/ no uuo|?vmi*% ile corruption the unspeakable haue of hypocrisy. The only argument against prolihition which the dispensary ponsors can logically bring is hat it it impracticable, that it annot be and will not be enforced. shall say in reply that the dis>ensury, so far as its moral aims ,re concerned, is not now enforced .s time goes by. And again I say that if it could >e certified that with prohibition here would be just as much liquor Irunk to a pill as without it, 1 hould favor it, for the very reason hat it placea the business under he ban of law, and places the 5tate in the ripht moral attitude owards the traffic. And, again, consider this: that prohibition would have this de~ :ided advantape over the dispen^ ?ary in the matter of enforcement, n that it would have behind it the individed support of all those people whose consciences are op> posed to the traffic; and that I ;hink is a matter worthy of grave :onsideration. These forces aro lot behind the dispensary today, lot even so much as they were at )Df time. Wo can see very clearly that if wo do not advance to prohibition we shall have pained no point in moral principle, and that we shall find ourselves in a posi-, lion of moral disaster on this li quor queation, having on otir bands a vast political liquor-pell tng machine manipulated by unscrupulous politicians who aecure CONTINUED ON FOURTH PAOE. I