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YO.XLII. NO. 79 NEWBERRY. S. 0.. TUESDAY JUNE 2O, 1905. TWICE AWE.S.0YA DISPENSARY QUESTION AGITATION CONTINUES ANTI-DISPENSARY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETS. More Than A Thousand Names Al ready Signed to Petitions Re questing The Election. The executive committee of the county anti-dispensary convention met in the court house on Saturday morning at ii o'clock. The meeting was informal, as there was nothing special before the committee. It was learned in a general way that between i,ooo and i.20o signa tures have already been secured to the petitions requesting the county supervisor to order an election upon the question of dispensary or no dis pensary. The vote of the county be ing about 2.600. and the signatures of only one-fourth the qualified voters being necessary in order to secure the election, it will be seen that more than the requisite number of signa tures have already been obtained; but those in charge of the movement to vote out the dispensary desire to get as many more signatures as possible during the week. The petitions from Townships Nos. z, 6 and 9 alone ag gregate goo names. A resolution was adopted asking that all petitions be turned over to Chairman of the Executive Commit tee, G. F. Long, of Newberry, on or before Saturday, June 24, and all the committees appointed by the anti dispensary convention held in the court house on June 10 are asked to meet in the court house on June 24, at i i o'clock. Those who can't come are requested to send in their lists in time for that meeting. As to --segistration tickets, voters who haven't registration tickets can get them from the registration board on the first Monday in. July. The law requires the office to be open on that day. The purpose is to have all the pe titions in on next Saturday and to present them to the supervisor, and to try to get the election ordered at the earliest conveniernt day. THE DISPENSARY ELECTION. Another Card From State Senator Cole. L. Blease To The Voters .of Newberry County. To the Voters of Newberry County: In regard to the proposed election on the dispensary, I desire to call your attention to a. few more facts. The treasurer now has on hand $2. 4.10.r for county purposes, with six and one-half months of the year yet to run. If you will take off the $6, 000 received from the dispensary you will see that the county would now have a deficiency of $3,6oo, with two courts to be held within the next few weeks, which would make the defic :ency much larger. ' You also know tht.t all the funds are now going out,. and the only revenue coming into the ccunty is from the dispensary, and such few fines as are paid in. If the enantv is now in this condition, what would be the condition with the dis pensary money taken out, which is f*r the county S6.ooo and for the :mwrn S6.00o, and for the schools. S:3.504. i. which gives to our county :uthe dlispensary. S25,:04.r8. They tell us. though. that this is nr moner and should i. t be used. u.,ice, ihiwever, that onlyV a .hort e:: suic-.incsm of those who are tran 'l eaders 1f this anti-dis c:>sarv nmvem1em elcected the head .:uenusary ofncial of this sta:e as p:-esident 'f the FTarmers' Oil Alill, n brrow.\ed S2o.ooo. givinlg a miort oge th erefo r. fromi Mr. N. 31. Block, the head of the Richland distilling company, and also elected him one ci the directors of said mill. Now. we see that this liquor money was good enough to save the oil mill and to save them loss on individual invest nWnts, but at the same time they op pose other people receiving benefits from liquor money. Some of the pro hibition leaders profited by this loan, because another mortgage holder had his representative and his attorney here ready to foreclose against this same oil mill, when this blood (?) liquor money was resorted to to save the day. Another fact: Some one has said, "Oh, but somebody is stealing in the management of the dispensary." Well, haven't you had sheriffs who were de faulters? Haven't you had treasurers who were defaulters? Haven't you had other public officials who were defaulters? Did you abolish the of fice? No, but you put out those who were doing wrong and got other men. If the dispensary is badly managed, that should not damn the system. Turn out those who are doing the bad management and .put good men in the offices, who will properly enforce the law, and it is the best system ever devised by man for the management of the whiskey question. Another fact: We pay a 3-mills tax levy in every county of this state f jr educational purposes. The negro re ceives a large amount of this money. If you will make an examination you will find that the negro buys by far the largest proportion of the whiskey from the dispensary and pays the least part of the taxes, and in this way only we receive back in part the school money used by his children. We notice now that all killings are laid at the doors of the dispensary whether they be about land, money or woman; it is said that the dis pensary did it. What about the old bar-rooms? Did any of those ause killings? Do you all- remember any who were killed in the bar-rooms of Newberry and Prosperity? Do you remember the good men who were killed in the bar-rooms in those days? Why not call them up and lay them at the doors of the dispensary? Some say that they are voting against the dispensary to get rid of the clubs. If the dispensary is voted out the vote does not affect the clubs. Th-v remain just the same, 'because they are chartered institutions by the state. and are now in violation of the dispensary law. So if the dispensary goes there remain with you the clubs, the blind tiger and other ways of il licit liquor selling, with no revenue. and if there were, as under the bar room system, the town would receive the license and the county nothing, as under the old system the town here received $5oo irom each bar and thze county $roo, wvhile now each re ceives its one-half. "Local option fights have every where been attended by strife and wrangling; have done no good, but infinite harm, and the upshot of every prohibition fight anywhere in this country has been high license. The prohibitionist may not see it that way, and be unconscious of the harm he does, but the harm is there. Under high license it is inevitable that the towns will again -pass into the control of the liquor element and the experience of the past be revived. People who shout blind tigers now ap)parently forget that they Blourished under high license and always will. The whisker dealer is sure to have his fe ices t'' handling goods after hours and inl places of unquestioned bad repmei. thus hringing abo'ut the w' rst alliance ' n earth. that of dives with b)ar-rooms. As Jefferson Davis p n lted oun. iiigh licen se 15 In~ its e - sene udemcraic:it fosters a pre 1erre:1 class so powerful that when on1ce mn pow nx-i is practically impos sible ti do' anything but bow to its wi . Av reader knows enough of the fearful corruption of the great munity :bat entrusts its city govern ment to this e:ement. If the goot people of 'uth Carolina will turn it they can <nforcc the dispensary law and if properly enforced it is the nearest appioach to a solution of th< liquor que.tion yet devised by man. I hepe that this :.+1 be the ,a article that t 'h-ll be . Jled vno. t write. o It I sha r-.,erve mu -; c ar ;zem -.rid I hope ., t scmc of the },urbecu, people will give 'cues :c 'vite representatives or both si.ie9 to c iscuss this questi, : I now anc here i,vitc the anti-dispensary lead, ers to :m-' et me and ('scuss the ques tion and hope that all the people of th< county who can find it possible to dc so will attend. Personally, it is o no special interest to me whether the dispensary stays or goes, because I pay but a small amount of taxes and have no children to educate, but aE senator from this county it is my duty to warn you of the position in which you will place yourselves by voting the dispensary out, and then if you vote it out, the responsibility will resi where it belongs, and not upon me. Respectfully. Cole. L. Blease. AS TO THE TAX LEVY. Senator Cole. L. Blease Replies To Portion of Article Signed by Mr. A. C. Jones. To the Editor of The Herald and News: I did not -desire to enter into any newspaper controversy, and do noi intend to, but I notice that M r. A. C. Jones says in his article, published in your paper: "If the people of Newberry county will take the trou ble to inquire, they will find that the tax levies in Marlboro, Greenwood and Cherokee counties are no higher than they are now in Newberry." The following are tax levies pro. vided by the Act of igo4: "Cherokee: For the county of Cherokee, for ordinary county pur poses, 2 mills; for road tax, i mill: for permanent improvement on roads, i mill; for new bridge, 1-2 mill.' "Greenwood: The following levies shall be necessary: For ordinary county purposes, 3 mills; roads, i mill; for past indebtedness. i mill; to tal, 5 mills." "Marlboro: For ordinary county purposes, 6 mills." 'Newberry: For the county of Newberry, 3 mills." The Act of 19o5 to raise supplies reads as follows: "Cherokee: For the county oi Cherokee for ordinary county pur* poses. 3 mills: for road tax, I mill: for permanent road building. I mill: for new bridge, 1-2 mill.'' "'Greenwood: For the county 01 Greenwood, for ordinary county pur poses. 3 mills; for road tax, I mill: for past indebtedness, I mill. "Marlboro: For the cou: .y o1 Marlboro, for ordinary county pur poses, 6 1-2 mills." "Newberry: For the county o: Newberry, for ordinary county pur poses. 2 1-2 mills." These are the exact figures giving the exact levies for each of the coun ties mentioned by Mr. Jones, and il will be seen that Newberry's levy i: very much less than the levy of an~ of the other co,unties named: so tha Mr. Jones is very much mistaken. I the people of Newberry county wil take the trouible to inquire they wvil fmdc tha- the tax levies for Marlbor' Greenwvood and Cherokee countie: are much hrgher than the levy ii Newberry co untv. as shown above. Respectivefully. Cole. L. Blease. Smith Fuller. 11 y-ear :.ld son , Glenn Fuller of Laurens county. ac cidentally killed himself while hunt ing. It is said that he dropped hi gun. the hammer striking a log GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Items of More or Less Interest Con densed Throught the World. Rev. Dr. D. H. Bauslin, of Ohio, was elected president of the Lutheran General Synod. Mrs. William Rhinelander Stewart has bought a cottage at Sioux Falls, S. D. "Boss" Durham and others have been implicated in the Philadelphia grafting schemes. The new Allan Line turbine steam ship Virginia crossed the Atlantic in four days and seven hours. Bill Connell and Elbert Sellars en gaged in a shooting match at Mt. Vernon and both were killed. H. Clay Evans, late consul general to London, has returned to Chatta nooga. Tenn., where he will reside. Prince Gustavus Adolphus of Swe den and Princess Margaret of Con naught were married at Windsor Castle. Grand Duke Alexis, the Russian high admiral, and Admiral Avellan, head of the Russian admirality, have resigned. That Chicago team owners and drivers formed a close combine to raise prices was testified to before the Chicago grand jury. There have been 49,00o deaths from sleeping sickness in the king dom of Uganda, Central Africa, re cently. President Roosevelt remitted the sentence of Lieut. Earle W. Tanner, who was sentenced by courtmartial to dismissal from the army. A fraud 'order has been issued against the People's Home Purchas ing Co., of Paducah, Ky. The con cern had an office in Atlanta. The failure of the government' to proFecute trusts and railroads charged with violating the law has caused a great deal of gossip in Washington. Capt. Jos. Kirkman of the 25th In fantry has been ordered dismissed from army and confined in Leaven worth prison for three years for misconduct. Mrs. Paul Klas killed her four chil dren and then committed suicide at her home in Kieler, Wis., using a butcher knife. The woman had been in ill health for some time. The president conferred with Chairman Shonts, of the Panama Ca nal commission, regarding freight traffic on the Isthmus and the policy of the government's railroad. Otis Botts, 21 years old, was hanged at Peoria. Ill., for the mur der of his wife. He maintained an air of bravado to the last and died with a sneer on his lips. General Maximo Gomez, who com manded the Cuban forces during the insurrectionl which 'broke out in 1895 and finally ended with the complete independence of the island, is dead. IAt the hearing of Select Council man Frank H-. Caveni, of Philadel phia, it was testified that Israel WV. Durham, the republican organiza tio.n leader, is a member of the Mc N ich'l !rm,. which holds city con tracts. Russia has finally and dennitely ac ceptedl Washington as the meeting p)lace of the Russian and Japanese plenipotent iarieis. the foreign ane having waived its request ior recon sideration at the personal direction of the Enmper'r. Nothing is known as to Japan's terms. but it is said Rus sia may consent to pay an indemnity and grant international control of the Chinese Eastern railroad as a possible 'means of insuring- its payment WEARERS OF THE GRAY IN ANNUAL REUNION ALL OLD OFFICERS WERE RE ELECTED. 25,000 Visitors in Louisville Last Week-New Orleans Place of Next Reunion. For the second time in five years the United Confederate Veterans and auxiliary organizations gathered in Louisville last week for their annual reunion. Tt is estimated that the re union was attended by 25,000 visitors. The Veterans re-elected their old officers, as follows: Commander-in-chief, Lieut. Gen. Stephen. D. Lee, Mississippi. Commander Trans--M:ssissippi de partinent, Gen. L. V. Cal"eli, Texas. Commander Army of Tennessee de partment, Lieut. Gen. Clement A. Evans, Georgia. Cvni.mander Army o1 North Virgin ia department. C. Irvine Walker, .;o-vh Carolina. New Orleans h..( :.' difficulty in obtao.ng the convention for igo6. Nash- .e made a fight w'hich surpris-. ed the convention, but the sentiment wa.; strongly in favor of the Crescent City. Fraternal greetings were read from the State Encampment of G. A. R. of Indiana, in session at Madison. The greetings were only moderately cheered, and one delegate on the plat form, with the remark that there "is. getting to be too much of this fra ternizing," took 'his hat and departed. Other interesting reports submitted during the day were those of the his= tory committee and the Battle Abbey committee. The History Committee. The. report of the. history commit tee was submitted-.by Gen. Evans. of Georgia, chairman.-. The,, object of the committee is to secure an accurate history to be incorporated in the text books in Southern schools. The re port says in part:~ "During the first two decades after the surrender an effort was 'evidently made to cast the general record of the Southern states into an opprobrious shadow and to infect the minds of the youths of the country with the opinion that there was nothing noble, nothing true, noth ing good in the Confederate cause. The attempted perversions of history were resented, but the South was without facilities for reaching, by any kind of literature, the masses of their countrymen of the Northern states, to correct the errors into wvhich they were led. Therefore, unfair history and other pernicious publications gained an entrance into the schools and homes of nearly every section, North and South, and the disastrous inflammation of the section spirit was the result. The protest of t-he Nn federate associations caused investi gations which resulted in the discov ery that the South was permitting its sons and daughters to be taught that - gross charges against Soutl-ern peo pIe, of rebellion, treason and war atro cities and the like were historical tacts. "This discovery was followed by appeals to the boards of education and other civil authorities, to.South ern selirespect and to honorable pub lishers, with the result that the most offensive of false histories have been driven from Southern schools. Since co-operation among i.ose who desire an imparti history which wvill inspire all citizens5 of our co untry with a sim ilar p)atriotic spirit is the consumma tion most earnestly sought for by this~ association. especially is this desirable in all the histories of that strife which was the greatest American wvar. May not the story of that struggle be told with fairness to both sections? On the part of the South there is nothing to fear from a truthful his- m