The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, January 27, 1916, Page 3, Image 3
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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
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. 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,
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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
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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.
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Among the passengers on a train j.
on a one-track road in the middle ^
West wra? a talkative jewelry drum- t
mer.
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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
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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<
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Duly Elected. p
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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.''
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