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THIS LEDGER. i Ih iHow S. Carter, FDTTOR AND MANAGFR. <? SATl HDAV .11 I.Y 28, 1000. We jjive murli of our spuce today to the senium of Hot C S Gardner, pastor of tho first Baptist e'nireh of Greenville. It is an nrurument for prohibition that cannot l?o assailed Kvery Christian nwn should occupy the position which Pr Gardner takes. The prohibitionist from christian principles run occupy no other. Yesterday's papers contained a letter from Senator Tillman re la tive to his utterance at the Ben net'-ville muotiug tl.at "an unholy al i.mee of preachers and har keepers led by Col Hon t" was made. We had hoped that the Senator, upon relleotion, would make some apologies to the ministers or an explanation at least that would modify his unwarranted utterance, hut he sticks to his statement with this explanation that by ''bar keepers" ho meant "the high license people and the blind tigers." For want of space we cannot publish his letter in this j I issue. Till: LANCASTER CAMPAIGN' The candidate* for State offices spoke at Lancaster last Wednes ' day. There wera about (500 J voters present, and several of the speakers took occasion to compli- 1 nient the audience for its excellent behavior and undivided attention, i They had seen no such order or had had no such respectful attention at! any meeting in the State. The meeting was presided over ! by Messrs. \Y (j A Porter and W ; P C'askey of the executive committee, in the absence of county chairman Nisbet. Mr. Hrooker, candidate for comptroller general, spoke first. m-; opponent, Mr. Derhum, was not present on account of sickness in his family. Gen Floyd for Adj. Gen., made a patriotic speech and was well ieceived. His opponent, Mr. House was also absent. Supt of Education McMahan made a pood speech. He is working for good teachers and good common schools. His opponent, Mr. Capers, was absent but spoke 1 iter in the day. Then came the K It commissioners. Etheredge was absent, and Wharton spoke first. lie was foU lowed Gv" B Ij Eruns. T M Berry came next, then T E Pettigrew, W D Mavfield and \V I) Evans. The candidates for Lieut Gov ernor came next. They were Col Sloan, Cole L lllease, .las 11 Tillman, Knox Livingston and Mr Winkler. #1 as II Moore for Atty General, spoke next. Gen Bellinger, his opponent, was absent. Capt Jennings for Statcf Treasurer, made a clever speech. M. ?sses McDovv and Hough, for solicitor made short speeches, The only spat to occur between any of the candidates was between 11 II Evans and VV I) Evans, two of the seven candidates for railroad commissioner. They disputed as to the North Carolina rate. W D, said it was all wrong as quoted, 11 11 says elect him art/1 It.? ?/i? ianrt L/*.. * ? ? 1 1 UUU unfa wiio uwi.tsi IIIIW1 on I no board. Said Mr \V I) Evans, "God save the mark." A I) asked to have his character and reputation compared if need be. ]{ 15 Evans?I'd never compare my character with you. VV D Evans?I have never tried topassofT anything bogus on the people. If you will look in the attorney genoral's report you will # find tie insured 41 dispensaries in begus companies and the companies were not worth a cent, B B Kvanssaid it would bo well to look at tho records in W D Kvan's county. \V I) Kvans went on to say when he ran for the constitutional convention there was intense opposition to him and a warrant was sworn out against him for fast lriving through the streets and drunkenness. He insisted on being t' ied and was acquitted. r> li Kvans ? Oh, that's not it. I mean where you cheated a man out of ? 1.5,000 anil a judgment is recorded against yo i Chairman ?Time's up. \Y 1) Kvans? Let me explain. It It Kvans?That is a personal matter and he attacked me. Make him sit down. The chairman then without ado presented Mr Capers and \V l> Kvans wont to his chair saying: "I paid that claim, every cent and am poor too.'' We had intended giving a fuller account of the speeches hut our space is too limited. The sermon of L)r Gardner is much hotter read in?? and far more elevating, and hence we have given you it instead. Then came the candidates for Governor. The State makes the fo lowuigreport of their speeches: G Walt Whitman insisted that from what others saw the various droartmentH in Imil ^hn..? ..r,.i he wanted to remedy tilings. I)is regard of law in Sottth Carolina was amazing and disgraceful, not only as to the dispensary law but everything else if these speakers are to he believed. The best men at times, he feared, took just a little too much liquor. A little drunks enness does not ufTect a man as much us telling a lie. God never made a mistit and there is use for | liquor. The Bible does, not con| demn any one for getting drunk. He went to Charleston to make investigation and found blind tigers on King street, and Meeting street, and the Battery, and Cooper river and Ashely river, and then to the Isle of Palms. He went JJin bathing on Sunday and found them selling beer on that day. He believed ^r?rv ili^r>?nw ? "Tvu ser was today violating the law. The timers sell more liquor than the dispensarieri. They were once Mind, but the tiger* hare cataracts or the constables are stone blind. He would enforce any law on the hooks. Col J A Hoyt said Mr. Whit man had stood on eeery platform that has ever been erected. The people of La neurit* r were already converted to prohibition. The dispensary is put forward as the best solution of the liquor problem. It is a system adapted to a mon archy, but it is not for America. The cornerstone of Democracy is that whatever comes to the people should come from them, and he explained how this was not the case. He explained how dispensaries have heen forced on the people. The dispensary has its pood features, if they were en forced, hut they are not enforced, and the good features are trampled in tho dust. In the request hooks you will lind the same signatures aid you will tind drunkards and minors on the lists. W hy should the law he continued when it ms admitted that it cannot he enforced in Charleston pud its good features aro trampled under feet t The dispensaries are tho supply depots of the tigers. The system is rot ten to the cor? and deserves to he taken out erf the hooks. Thin great dispensary will build up a great political machine and it is best to break it up now. II? then defended prohibition. He touched briefly on educational matters and ?aid there was no difference! ?x cept us to the liquor problem. Boquets were presented Col Hoyt by the "Women of Luncaster." Mr. Frank 11 Gary thought the flowers apt for Col lloyt's political funeral. He was not here to villify or abuse anyone. He ' argued that no better plan than .1 the dispensary was yet proposed. I He knew this to bo a prohibition 1 county hut ho would not change his i > views. All ate matching to tcm-j pcrance. Prohibition will bring tigers. Ho was no apologist for J the dispensary as now run. It is j not a system for revenue. 'He whs reliably informed there are 200 tigers in Colutnbia. A constable who said he had worked Columbia said there wore I not 100 tigers there. Ho asked ' why this constable was not at work; ! but he no doubt was here by in ; struction to root for ".Little i | Mack." If elected, Gary said he would | enforce the law in Charleston and i Columbia.. For three months before wo got hold of him the constables seized only J 1,000 worth of liquor, and vet last month alon* they seized that much. . The law needs no such lash or atimulus. Ho knew nothing about "tigers " Ho said several Sundays ago he was taken for Tillmua on the Isle of Palms and the visitors could not pet Sunday drinks. The Columbia coterie is "retting powerfull V scared to get him out of the race. lie was one of the best friends of the dispensary, but it has broken from its moorings. Prohibition will not bring about temperance because ot the experience of others. His position has been published everywhere and known. Patterson sees he is being distanced and has to do something. He said it could be proven by the same paper that said he shifted positions in Charleston, that Col Robt A Id rich wrote his speech, but he did not believe that. There was no unwritten law that a lieutenant governor should succeed himself. Ho spoke of Pension laws and how he would continuo to be fair to aH a* governor a.s he hud as speaker. Mr A Howard Patterson said the people, and not the papers, were the jury. If Gary stood no better chance than Bryan he was sorrv for Gary ; but he favored Bryan. lie stu.'k to Gary and his family all along and has gone down with the family. He announced himself before Gary and had a rigid to run. He then road from the report of Gary's Charleston speech and emphasized that Mr Gary would not answer his questions in Charleston. Ho demoted time to Mr Gary and said if you have h en I option it will bo ironHltvit Ifi iliuiifcrmnpi' /V..w? r. ~ j. v ' ? "Lot her rip.") I Ho then took tip the dispensary and defended it, and urged its advantage* over prohibition. , There era? not a blind tiger in i Barnwell, and he allowed how crime and drunkenness have'do* creased. He took up tho prohibition platform and defended the dispensary as a system. Is the minority never going to sub* 1 rait? Col Hoyt told you nothing about favoring a coalition, and his prohibition platform is full of politics. He was in favor of, prohibition t if it could be enforced, but it would be a farce. He favored tho dispensary all over the State. Gov McSweeney congratulated mo audience on the pood feeling i and prosperity of the State and , wanted to stop haranguing. When they charge that the incumbent had not l?een successful he hurled it back at them. The dinpenaary is l>?tter enforced today than erer before and he can prove it by letters from mayors. Charleston is u seaport and it it* difficult to enforce tho law there. | Ho had done his best to enforce I' tho law there, but lie had done as ? well there as anyone else. He ] saved the Stat* $10,000 in con- 1 stables' salaries. lie did this us a business matter. Sonie'of those candidates tell you what they would do with the dispensers. ( He asked all to view the attitude i of the people toward# the con stables. lie wanted to say rcf crcnco whb made that constables were howling for him. They were not here by his orders. lie I did not countenance their being) here. They have no business here, unless they have work here, lie was going to investigate the matter and if any constables have been attending meetings for political purposes they certainly would b? removed and they certainly would not ho paid for ho-| inn hero. lie knew the constables I wore not here in his inteiests. They were free men and any constable could vote for whoever he j pleased, hut they must attend to 1 their business. lie read a letter from the mayor of Now berry in which he said: "There is no violation of! the dispensary law here." Similar letters were read from the mayors of Spartanburg, Saluda, Cheater, etc. They agreed that I the sale of liquor has decreased. All constables had instructions to do their duty and if they do not ho would remove them. lie thought Bryan troubl he elected ami showed why. vioT MeSweeney then gave an account of his public services. Mr Patterson used to sing about his taking newspapers, but he wanted it understood that he ran his office as a business affair. lie did not straddle on the dispensary in his message. Then lie took up educational matters and wanted them educated at home. lie wanted to be judged t>y his administration and reelected. Announcements. L1/\ n ( / > f rv/n ouLH. i lt?U. I will stand for rennmination to the office of Solicitor of t he Six" li judicial , Circuit subject to thd results of the Democratic Piimary. J K IJENRY. <V7. I hereby announce myself a candidate for Moliritor of tlie Sixth Circuit, subject to the rules governing the Democrutlo Primary. W. C. HOUGH. w I hereby announce myself a candi* dite for the office of Solicitor of the Sixth Judicial < ircuit, pledging my* el' to abide the result of the democrntio primary election, and faithfully to diecharce the duties of aaid office iu the event of my election. THUS F V.cDOSV. j I FOR HOUSE OF KEl'KKSA'Ns 1AT1VE* I am a candidate for the Legislature and will abide the result of the |>ri niary. 0S1MU W ROT I'd ?A I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the House of lt-presentativea, subject to tlie rules governing the Democratic Primary. It L. illl KLIN I am a candidate for the Legislature, ' subject to rules of Democratic Primary J, HARRY FOSTER. The many friends of J N Kidridgc respect fully anu xiuce hia name for O -? *? rvcirvuuu iui 1110 rinun; or ut'pre ' nentHtlvt a of Lancaster county, nnd j will abide by the result of lite primary election. MANY voters. f/7. I am a candidate for the House of Representatives subject to .the Democratic primary. J W HAMEL. '/K I am a candidate for re election to the Legislature. I will abide the result of the democratic primary elec{lion. T Y WILLIAMS. FOK OLEKK OF COUBT |l With a high smise of appreciation of * i>Hst considerations Hint token* of 1 ki'Mlne*" am) with h deep feeling of rratitude for the same, I beg to an-> nounce myself a carnl dat* for reslecHon to t)ie office of ri?*rk of t'ourt [or &anonater ( ounty at the approach- ( lug primary, aujeo to the rule* of tlie Democratic primary W 8 L PORTER 1 The many friend* of Mr. Joseph F drpimrv l,..r?l,? o..........I.l~> ? ~ I candidate for the office of Clerk of the Court, aubfeet to 'he result of. the Democratic Primary, < MANY FRIENDS. Or. FOR SHERIFF I hereby announce myself a candi?lut ? foi Sherifl". ?-ul ject t?> the rules of Democratic party JA/MES S WJL80N c/r. The uiauy fi'ends ol ('apt John P Hunter hereby announce him an a c tndidute for the offi e of -herifl", su; j et to ttie re-ntr of ttie democratic primary. .Mr Hunter's fine record as Slo rifl in the past is a sufficient Kl'*r* antee of what his future administration will l>e in case ??f his election. many voters. FOR COUNTY 1REASURER I am a candidate for re-election to the oflice of County Treasurer. w o OAUritEN F()R COUN I Y AUDI IOR. i nereity anoonnce myaelf as a can didate f ?r t he office of < ounty Auditor and pledge myself to abide tha re?ult of the Democratic primary. E C CKOX ION. w I respectfully announce my candidacy for the office of wunlv Auditor, sub/Vet to (lie ruien of the Democratic primary. L J PERRY. Oi Mr Editor:?Realising tlie valuable f-ervicen rendereti during his term of office, the neatness and correctness of hi* work, and knowing him to he well qualified for toe position, please 'innounee the name of Jno A Cook for re*election to the office of County A uditor, Mtilijee' the rules govern-* ing the primary. MANY FRIENDS. FOR SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION. At the Molici tation of a few friends T announce myself a candidate for tha office of Superintendent of Education. It BAX l ER BLACK HON. e/n The tuaiiv friends of Mr. Ernest B ackraon. tierehy announce liim as a candidate for tlie office of County rujperiutenueni rr truncation, subject to result of Democratic Primary. tun To the Voter* of Lancaster Cbunty: With many thanks fm^past favors, and at the solicitation of friends, I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of Uounty Huperlnteudent of Kdu at ion, subject to the rules governing the Democratic pri> mar) ; and, if elected, my time and energies are yours for the best interests of education. . J E BLACKMON. cm Mr Kiitor: ?Please announce tire name of PROF A (' ROWELL as a candidate for. tlie office of County Superintendent of Education, subject to tiie rules governing the Democrailc primary. If elected, we pledge him to discharge the tintiea of the ofll ;e to I he beat interest of education. MANY FRIENDS. FOli AUPERVISOK The many friends of Mr. K H 8a pp announce bint hint as a candidate for County Supervisor. subject to tite rule? of the Democratic Primary. MANY FRIENDS. W9 The friends of \V ?| Caskey, announce him as a candidate for t ounty Supervisor. Mr Ctokey will abide the result of tho Democratic primary elections. '/A> I A t the earnest solicitation of many i friend-, I hereby announce myself an a candidate f >r re-election to the office of County tBupervlsor, subject to the result of the democratic primary. M 0 GARDNER FOR < ORONER. The many frrend* of C C Horton. rtr., announce him for the oftlce of ( Virnner unKLal I-? O... ?? * *' mgivn IW 1JO rules or (IIP Democratic Primary. C/TJ I announce myaelf as a candidate for the office of Coroner and pledge myaelf to abide tlie reeuit of the democratic primary election. J E81KWMAN The friend* of D N MACKKY an* nounce him aa a candidate for the oft Ice of <'oroner, and pledse him to kblde the reault of the democratic primary. MANY FRIENDS. ?/7*< I hereby announce tnyeelf a candllate for re-election to the ofllce of i 'oroner, and pledge rayfiel! 'o abide he result of the primary. It. YOUNG M)R MAHhTkAlK. BUFOVD TOWNSHIP i>lr Editor.*?Please anil' unce J B [MinderImrk for Magistrate of Buford roWDHhip. MANV FRIENDS. FOR giiji S < hkkk AND cank CHEUX TOWNSHIP. Tin* many friends of Mr \V I'Cankey respectfully am ounce lum as a candidate for re * lection to the office of Magi-tia'e for UillS ' reek and Cane Creek townships subject to tlu? result of (lie Democratic primary, r any VO Elts. State Campaign Schedule. The following are the dates on which campaign meetings will he held in the several counties. Yorkville, Saturday, July 23. GalTney, Monday, July 30. Spartanhurg, Tuesday, July 31. Union, Wednesday, August 1. Newberry, Friday, August 3. Laurens, Saturday, August 4. Greenville Monday, August 6. Pickens, Tuesday, August 7. Walbulla, Thursday, August 0. Anderson, Friday, August 10. 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