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W == PASSES IXTO HISTORY. During Past Twenty-Five Years Dispensary Sjsiem Hail Many cnanges. The question oi tne auoution or the whiskey name 111 soulu Carolina negan to ue asxtaieu soon aiter ine redemption ot the oiute unuer uen| erai nampton in uut uns early agitation was tor iocai Option in a tew scauereu counties, openai acts ot the general assembly were introduced anu passed permitting "wet and "dr> ' elections tor .Anderson, ^ - Orangeburg, juaurens anu otner counties. The contest between tne prohibitionists and license men in some of these counties was heated, in none of them wnicn succeeded in voting y > vr / out the licensed saloons was pronibi" tton successiuiy eniorced in those ^ days and alter a tew years most ot them returned to the licensed saloon system. In the legislature of 1890 a hill tor State-wide prohibition, introduced oy the late n.. D. Cnnds, of xucmanu county, developed great strengtn anu narrowly tauea 01 passage. This x r\r m.pnsft ractionm ^ was iuc puivu vi ???w?. division between tne Tnimaniies , and tne "anti-Tilimanites ' ana Dotn factions inciuaed nunioers 01 men on both sides of the liquor question. Neither iaction, as sucn, was willing +V' - , . 'r -v- ' to taxe a stand on either siae 01 the question. In 1802 when tne contest for governor was between a. k. TnlUh man and John C. Sheppard, tne btate Democratic executive committee conHB ' sented that m eacn precinct a separI^H ate box should be placed in winch the people at the primary election might vote as between prohioition I and licensed saloons. The toiai vote I cast for governor at this election was a little less than 88,00o and the vote mk on the whiskey question totaled a litI tie more than 70,000. The prohibiW tionists won in the referendum by ^ about 10,000, the vote, lor license being about 30,000 and that for proW \ hibition about 40,000. When the reX suit became known it w*as taken for >- Y'* >i granted that the legislature wo.uld enact the Childs bill or one similar to it. Mr. Childs did not return to * ' J J ? atit nrnViiKi tne legislature cluu iuc iic vr tion bill was introduced by Mr. Rop j ' ' / . er, when the legislature met in November. The Tillmanites or "Re' formers" had overwhelming majorities in both houses. The leaders of their faction were afraid of prohibition. They apprehended that it niight, if enacted, cause an increase of taxation and in other ways divide the Tillman forces. The Roper bill was, however, promptly passed by ) the house. In the senate a number f of bills bearing on the whiskey traf' J. flc were introduced and at one time it seemed as though the subject k would be so confused in that body w . that no legislation would result. P Gov. Tillman already had taken the position that the profits of' the saloons, which hitherto had gone en^ tirely into the- town treasuries, should be divided with the counties, j so%that the rural section might share in them. Marlboro county at this W time was dry, as it) had been since f ; a day preceding the War Between the K- Sections, and there may have been One or two other dry counties. \ As the end of the session of the *" genera^ assembly approached the disL pensary bill was introduced by Senaly tor John Gary Evans, then of Aiken. | The dispensary system, modelled up* / on the Gothenburg system of Nor1 way, was already in operation in Athens, Ga. T. Larry Gantt, then editor of the Columbia Register, had lately come to South Carolina from Athens,, and it was said that he suggested the Athens plan to Gov. Tillman. ' At any rate Gov. Tillman became enamored of the scheme. When / V the bill was introduced in the senate F no one took it seriously except those of the inner councils of the "Reform ers," but it was said that the reform members of the general assembly, or some of them, held a caucus and de;; cided that it should be enacted. The *0 measure came up in the senate for % discussion at a time so close to the day fixed for adjournment that it V was impracticable to give it three readings in both houses. The prohibition bill already passed by the f bouse had come over to the senate and the senate dispensary bill was then moved as an amendment to it, only the title of the house bill being retained. After strenuous opposition and a filibuster by the seven anti-Tillmanite senators the bill was passed, three of those aligned with r the reform faction voting against it. One of these three was D. Finley, senator from York and now representative in congress. The new law included the essential principles of L the present dispensary system. It PL, was passed in December. 1S92, and took effect July 1, 1893. It provide ed for the establishment of a State wholesale dispensary and sub-dispensaries in all the counties except |p Marlboro, which the late Senator W. T D. Evans, of that county, by resolute IL efforts, succeeded in causing to be B exempted. Bmi "The constitutionality of the law j^H was attacked in the State courts. Opposition to the law was intense j throughout the State, but it was I generally and liriniy supported by | Senator Tillman's faction, who were a decided majority of toe people. In j the spring 01 1894 occurred the I "Darlington war," as it was popu- _ a lariy called, which resulted in the g killing and wounding of three or g four men of both tactions, resulting j ^ ir? tho nrnplnmatinn hv flip envernor I a that the counties of Darlington and c I Florence were in a state of insurrec- f tion. About a month later the supreme court of the State, then com- p posed of Justices Simpson, McGow- y an and Pope, declared the law -un- a constitutional. Mr. Pope dissented, p For some* weeks following whiskey \ 'was retailed freely without license \ as there was no license law in exist- a ence and the dispensary law had t been held null and void. In August the personnel of the supreme court c was changed, a new test case was r brought and the former decision was v reversed. The dispensary system c was again in force. At the session I of the legislature of 1893 and at sub- 1 sequent sessions the law underwent a various changes, the essential regu- t lative methods of selling intoxicants t being retained. In 1895 the consti- 3 tutional convention incorporated the f dispensary plan in the organic law of a the State in a clause which Senator Tillman has said that he wrote. In 1905 the Brice law, introduced by Senator J. Steele Brice, of York, - . - ... - n was enacted which permitted county option as between dispensaries and e prohibition, and very soon the dis- * pensaries were voted out of numbers of counties, especially m the Pied- g mont section. This was the begin- v ning of the downfall of the State dis- J pensary. 0 In 1905 and 1900 an investigation of the system was undertaken by a i v committee of the legislature and it resulted in unearthing far-reaching scandals and frauds in the State's liquor business, long suspected and ^ alleged, but not hitherto proved, j Endeavors were made to tighten the ^ law and eliminate possibilities of fraud, but the legislature did not sueceed. In 1906 M. F. Ansel, of Green- 0 cl ville, was elected governor on an anti-State dispensary platform and t a general assembly in sympathy with g this idea was elected with him. 'i'he q legislature in 1907 abolished the r Xj State dispensary and substituted the a county dispensary system by what is t known as the CareyrCothran l^w. In August, 1909, the 21 counties hav- t ing dispensaries, by order of the ^ legislature, held referendums as to n their abolition or retention and all a the counties except six voted "dry." v Since then about nine counties have e voted m county dispensaries. r The action of the legislature of t 1915 submitted a State-wide prohibition law to a State ' referendum t which resulted in an election in a September, 1915, in accepting the v law. The State-wide prohibition of A the liquor traffic which begins today t is in accordance with that act and f referendum.?Columbia State, of s January 1. il Didn't Get By. s Among the passengers on a train j. on a one-track road in the middle ^ West wra? a talkative jewelry drum- t mer. p Presently the train stopped to take on water, and the conductor neglect- t ed to send back a flagman. An ex- ^ press came along, and, before it could J be stopped, bumped the rear end of ^ the first train. . t< The drummer was lifted from his r seat and pitched head first into the . seat ahead. His silk hat.was jam. o med clear down over his ears. . He picked himself up and settled . back in his seat. No bones had been ^ broken. He drew a long breath, . is strightened up and said: . "Well, they didn't get by us, any- " way." c She Had a Right to Go. tl ~T Visiting' New York friends is an 11 Illinois girl, young and sweet and b pretty. One evening she was out with h a party of people older than herself, n and after the" theatre some one sug- tl gested that they go to a rather lively P restaurant and dance a while. The h others objected on the ground that it a might not be the proper place .for a v young and unsophisticated girl like v Miss Blank. "Oh," she said with quite an atir, h "you needn't bother about my youth a or my unsophistication. I am 21 tl years of age and I voted at the Xo- t? vember election." H Xo other* woman in the party had o a record like that, and the Illinois tl girl was taken along without further f< question. t< < -4 Duly Elected. p , , I] An aged negro parson in the South addressed the congregation thus: "Bredren, de time a heah fo' 'lecI tion ob de pastali fo' (lis church. All a dose favorin' me fo' pastah nlease w say aye.' " .. a net. oiieinjc i!icciii.-5 vjuscu.. ^ says he, ''so I'm vo' pastah fo' another yeah." WILD HIDE UPON ELEPHANT. Ionian Had E wcitTune 011 Frightened Animal. . New York, Jan. 22.?The story of j l woman's wild ride on the back of t frightened elephant is related in l suit for $20,000 damages brought ?i* Mro Willio flop flp-flilist tllP XeW J J 1 O ?? i 1 I 1 V_/ V%QV%.?^V ? fork Zoological society, under whose are the elephant was kept in Bronx >ark. One of the interesting details of he suit is that Mrs. Gee alleges the Zoological society used the elephant ls a "common carrier" for carrying >assengers for pay. She charges that t was the duty of the society to proride her with a safe place to ride on ind that the elephant should have >een docile. Instead, she says, she was sitting >n the elephant's back when the aninal began to run around the enclosire and then made a dash for the loorway into the elephant house, employees of the park called out to ler to jump off the elephant's back md she did so just in time to dodge he door casing as th$ elephant went hrough the doorway. In the fall drs. Gee avers she suffered injuries or which she seeks $20,000 damtges. To the Liberty Bell. Dr. MacDonald, the eminent editor if the Toronto Globe, in his Panama xposition address, paid this tribute o our "Liberty uen:" "In this great exposition, that has .athered so much of the wonder and wealth of the world, there is no obect of greater historical interest or ?f profounder international veneraion than that,focal point of attracion in the Pennsylvania building, fhere the flowers are always fresh .nd the crowds are always large? he Liberty Bell. "On this journey across the contilent from Independence hall, in 'hiladelphia, the Liberty Bell of this American republic was greeted at very point with the high and revernt acclaim of all the people. It was ,s when in the days of Israel's renaisance the Ark of the Covenant was irought up, with sacrificial hand and ;rateful praise, from the house of )bed-edom to the sanctuary and neeting place of the tribe. So now ,t this place of convocation for all he world, on the shore of the westrn sea, fronting the Golden Gate,' he Liberty Bell is again set up. tround it press, day after day, unlumbered citizens, not of this nation lone, but of all nations. They stand * j 1-v /\r? /i ? in f It a nrno *'lin UllCUVtJItiU ncaus ao 111 j/jga, nee of this nation's history. They ead its date, 1776, and hear again he Declaration of Independence, "The Liberty Bell is in very truth he Ark of the Covenant; the symbol nd the seal of America's covenant nth the God of nations; the pledge, imerica's pledge, to all the world hat this republic, from sea to sea, or all time and over all the world, hall stand for liberty, not even for tself alone, but for the liberty of very people, the defender of the inocent weak against the arrogant trong, the advocate and guardian of iberty and justice and honor for all umanity. So long as the people of his republic keep inviolat'e the ledge of liberty so long will the Librty Bell represent without rebuke he Ark of the Covenant for this American nation. "And not for Americans alone. The iberty Bell means too much, its hisr>rv runs ton far hadk. its message < ings too wide, for its meaning to be losed in by any national boundaries r under national flag. I stand here, 1 this 'Court of the Universe,' under he stars and stripes, a citizen of .'anada. The flag of my allegiance > of an empire that belts the world, md, in the name of all who speak be language Shakespeare spoke, I laim a share in the veneration paid he Liberty Bell. "The metal of that bell was brought rom far beyond the ^ea. Into it was urned the molten history of London ar more than a thousand years. The ' ote of its liberty was struck more " ' ~ ? A ~ +K A nan niteen centuries agu uy mc rimitive Anglo-Saxons in the dark crests of Northern Germany and round the mouth of the Elbe. The oice of the Liberty Bell is the strong oice of Anglo-American democracy. ? "Through all the centuries of the Inglish speech that voice of liberty nd democracy h^s sounded over all ie hard cries of despotism and mas- , jrship. .It was heard at Runnymede. j t ordered the crown from the head f more than one king. It spoke ! !i rough Hampden and Pym long be3re it touched the lips of Washing- ? 3n and Jefferson. "As in the day when the Liberty tell first rang out the Declaration of ndependence. so today the voice of .nglo-American democracy, through j lie-two English-speaking nations 011 'orth America, declares again and to 11 the world, that any people anyrhere who desire to be free and who re fit to be free shall be given free- i om's unfettered chance.'' I Read the Herald, $1.50 per year. ; ^ r}\ STANDING GUA1 OYER THE MJM WHOLE FAMID texatti 'Mm --ft Ill/il? 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