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~ people L f^1LY mY#r??W' ^ J^CIIANT* >Ki>^pAa'KK jfi COUNTRYMAN'S NE^'tiP^PEB. ^ NJC W^P^Pl^l ^Oft s.tyxigii ANJP iyU YKB. T!IK PEOPLE'S NEWSPAPER. ? j >i . i /.' ; ^ . . . ? i" .IV 1 - -L ? ^PUBIJS^O EVERY TIIUiUSDAY. i*" "? ? ;? . W. A SCHROCK, PUBLISHER. foncRipnoji, st.oo per him. ' C?mdcn. 8. C.. July 12(11, 1IKH?. wr ~ ? ,jriLMKAN AT SANDY FLAT. As the people are greatly iu jte rested in what Senator Till man says, and will say on the ^whiskey questiou iu this cam paign, we' give them, below all 'the salient extracts of his first speech on the subject which he ^delivered at Sandy Flat, in lireenville county last Saturday, together with our commeuts. before entering into the edi torial however, we are go in;* to .ask our readers to cxcuse tlic . use of the big "I" instead of jthe plural "we". We feel impelled to the use of j. 'xe singular instead of the plu ral because wc are u candidate ^for office iu the eusuiug primary ^election, and dou't waut a single vote obtained under false pre Lenses. The following is the first ex tract from the Senator's speech jwhich appears to me to be of im portance: ."The fight is state dispensary vs. county dispensary, for uo one expects the prohibition candi dates, however worthy and well ^qualified they may be, to re foeive very much support. With all their efforts (and they have 'jbeeu ni{!U\y and long continued) the newspaj>ers which have al ways fought the dispensary have ]Hot been able to drum up a can didate for governor who advo cates local optiou straight as against dispensary and prohibi tion." The about expressions are un worthy of Senator Till mau, when ^everyone knows that while 110 candidate has beeu drummed up, a very prominent and honorable ^candidate is iu the race who ad vocates looal option pure and simple, which, under existing circumstances means county dis pensary or prohibition, that can didate being tne Hon. M. P. A11 * sol. This brings me to the second find third extracts, which, to ^se a slang phrase, are warm propositions : '?The local option offered the .people, is between prohibition and county dispensary aud the whole fight i? to destroy the $r04e dispensary first with 110 ?other purpose than to thou obtain, the privilege of re-opening the bid barrooms under the new guiso of liquor stores "selling ?under constitutional limita tions." and "U)0 cities where the princi pal 'newspapers are published will have the Hfjht on the issue or state dispensary or county dispensary with the ultimate purposo of having the county dispensaries turned into licensed oarrooins if the county dispen sarios lire nbolished. The scheme a3 to restore the sale of liquor Jo private individuals rather Than let it remain in tho hands of state officials. " If these extracts are not ema nations from a brain State dis pensary diseased, thoy are from the mouth of u IT)IU1> W|1Q foi. ,ljs pwn purpose is deliberately en deavoring to deceive tho people. With all reverence, I say, who in the name of God has any thought of re-opening barroooins under any guise? "The scheme 1* to restore the salo of liquor to iirivato individuals rather than eta remain in the hands of itate officials." Hot. As Sena Stor Tillman Is such a stickler >r *l*cifyingt I, as a citizen de and that he specify in this iu stance. He can't do it for the very good reason that there is no such scheme and he knows it. duZn?o? *l,?c,ft,n?r for county dispensaries instead of one state hoT,?ry ,'nu" <J?mo?snuu! hnntoL U> Pr'V?nt (tor frnptum among the thirty or or y county boards than to stop t m one state board. I have great faith in the good conation aeuse of the people and do not 1 believe they can be persuaded to destroy the state dispensary and leave each county to purchase and sell its own. liquor. If Senator Tillman had the greatxco.nfidonce in the good edminon sense of the {>eople that is indicated- in the above, be would know that a way will be, or has been found U> preveut the corruption in county dispeusa ries that is said to reign iu his pet institution, the State dis pensary. "The only possible good rea son that can be advanced on this line is that the prohibition coun ties under the constitution re ceive a part of the profits which arise from the sale of liquor iu the other counties. This is uu just us everyone must acknow ledge, but it cau be remedied very easily by having the state dispensary make no profits other than a few thousand dollars above its running expenses, thus leaving the counties and the towns to divide tlio profits be tween them. This can be easily done.'* I will wager my reputatiou for fairness against a dozen paid subscriptions that not one per cent of the voters have given a thought to the fact that prohibi tion couuties share equally with wet counties in dispensary pro tits. liis suggestion to run the 'slate dispensary without proiit comes rather late from the man who openly stated that the State would make a protit of more than $500,000 annually from the scheme, and ahould do so. "The leakage or stealage in bottling of liquor at each couuty dispensary would be immeuse and I know of 110 way that it could be jnv /ented, nor do 1 kuow any by which it would be possible to preveut the whiskey being watered, bottles refilled, relabeled and oilier schemes of makiug money dishonestly, if the system were udopted. It is not possible to prevent it and I do uot think any seusible man who considers the question will seriously couteud that it is." Leakage, Stealage. "I don't know of auy way it can be pre vented, &c." Certainly you dou't Senator. Nobody expects you to know for the simple rea son that you dou't want to know. I think I can speak for Kershaw county. What we dou't know, we'll find out. "It must uot bo forgetten, be cause it was the understanding (aud a bargain was made) dur ing the tight in the legislature last winter against the state dis pensary, that the ultimate pur* jx>se is to have Charleston Whole sale liquor dealers supply the county dispensaries as well as the jug trade by express in dry counties; aud while this would be belter than to have this liquor shipped in from North Carolina and Georgia, as it now is, be cause it would keep the money at home, 1 do not believe that the people of the state are now willing or will ever be willing to see the state dispensary de stroyed, with the inevitable re sult that liquor selling will gradually go back to the old system of private control." The bargain, which Senator Tillman so vehemently avers was made, has been indignantly de nied by those whom the Senator charged with being implicated in it, while his reiteration of his idea that liquor selling will, un der another system than the state dispensary, inevitably drift back into the old system of pri vate control, should not be taken seriously by sensible men any where. " "I believe that the people only need to see and know that the dispensary system can bo re formed and cleansed of corrup tion to make theui stand by it." The people have had ten yours experience in this humbug of reforming and cleansing a mortified body, and moi'e patch work in that direction will only result> in further disappointment to them, aud disgrace to the state. I believe they have had enough of both, however eminent its advocate may be. Senator Tillman concluded his remarkable speech with the giv ing of an elaborate plan for purification of tno present sys tem of selling liquor, several of the features of which are good, but none that could not bo in corporated in a county dispeu sary law to better protit. He also paid his disrespects to the Governors, the legislature and newspapers, which I hope made all of us feel bad. In writing the above, I want all the people to thoroughly un derstand that I havo not writ ten it as an office seeker, or as *4 ??? <? i? , > Is J editor who wants to dictate, to them as to what they shall, or shall not do with this miserable problem. I have written it as a citijfen of Softth Carolina, with ; an eye single to her good. My reputation of saying exactly what I think, is pretty well es- | tablished, and I am now too old to learu the modem code of morals, which in the opinion of many ^eems to be, "Think what you like, but dou't say it uuless it is popular." W. A. Bchroclc, Editor. "Whiskey In Kaiitmn. As every body knows Kansas is one of the three>so culled pro hibition States, but it will be' seen from what a Kansas paper says below there is no trouble to get whiskey out there. A man by the name of C. 8: Jewel, of New Castle, Pa., wrote to the Appeul to Reason, a weekly paper of large circulation pub lished at Girard, Kunsas, the following letter : "Prohibitionists here say that out in Kansas they have uo use for jails since prohibition has been adopted. Is that so? The Appeal to Reason replied as follows: This will be news to Kansans. If prohibition rules in Kansas it has not been discovered. In tins littlo town we have five open saloous uud there are some fifty or sixty saloons in the coun ty. Our jails are just as full as in Pennsylvania. Just us long as protit can be made sclliug liquor it will be sold ? according to law or in violation of law. In Kansas prohibition does not pro hibit Our saloons are really a greater menace than licensed saloons. When it is known that about three thousand people m Kansas hold United States Internal Rovenue licenses to retail whis key and other liquors the state ment of the Kansas paper can easily be believed. All Sorts. Col. Pumpkins has withdrawn. Why not? This is a free coun try. Scraps and base ball. Are both necessary to success in the same game? Hon. Cole Blease, senator*of Newberry county, and would be Governor of South Carolina, says if defeated for Governor, he will go back to the senate, and work ior the dispensary for the next two years, "so help liiin God. ' Good church people tell us that God is agaiust the proposition. Attorney General 7?pumans is not prosecuting alleged grafters fast these days. Blama Lyon. Cert', but why? Governor Hey - ward has a clearer right and duty to make an affidavit than has Lyon as all the evidence is in his hands, and the pardoning board takes all responsibility off his hands in case of convictions. The Graduation or Tlielt. Stealing a million, is genius. Stealing $500, (XX), sagacity. Stealing $100,000, shrewdness. Stealing $50,000, misfortune, r Stealing $25,000, irregularity. Stealing $10,000, misappropri ation. Stealing $5,000, speculation. Stealing $2,500, embezalemeut. Stealing $1,250, swindling. Stealing $100, larceny. Stealing $10, theft. Stealing a ham, war ou socie ty. ? Ex. Half Tlie World Wonder* i how tiie other half liven. Thone who use liiickleti'n Arnica Salve never won der if it will cure Cut*, Wound*, Burns, Sores and nil kind* of Skin eruptions; they know it well. Mrs. ({rant Shy, 11110 E. Reynolds St., Springfield, ill., says: ?'! regard it- one of the ab solute necessities of housekeeping." Guaranteed by K. Leslie Zemp, drug* gist. 25c. UNDERTAKING CALLS ATTENDED ANY IIOUU DAY OU NIGHT. :: :: Est. E. O. McCreffflit. Notice. Notice is hereby given tliat no claims against the. county for work on the road or bridges of the county will be approved un less the work was authorized by a member of tlio board, and the member of the board authori zing the work must approvo the claim before it is presented to the Hoard. J. M. SOWELL, County Supervisor. Hnnouncemeuts. FaeTmurarer. At llie solicitation of friends I hereby announce nay self a can didatflLfo&re-eleciioy to die office of Treasurer of Kershaw county. D. M. McCaskill. For Um Senate. Mr. Editor: I have been out of politics for the last tweuty years aud bad hoped thnt I would remain in private life. But in response to the call of my friends throughout the county 1 have consented to an no tiuce my self a candidate for State Senator under the rules of the Democra tic party. In doing this, I pledge myself to do my duty in every thing as I have always done. . L. L. Clyburu. ? \ Mr. Editor: We take great Kleasure i\i plaping the name of Ir. W. U. Hough before the peo ple of Kershaw county as a can didate for the Seuate. Mr. Hough is well known throughout the county, having served us faithfully iu the past. He is a young man of sterling business iutegrity and high character, and will ably represent the in terests of the people in the Seu ate. Manv Friends. For tlic Legislature. At the request of many friends I have decided to announce my self a candidate tor the Legisla ture for Kershaw County. I pledge myself to abide the* re sult of the Democratic primary, and if electcd, "will serve the peo X>le to the best of my ability. Respectfully, R. L. Lang ley. I hereby announce myself a candidate for the Legislature for Kershaw county in the Demo cratic primary election in Au gust, and pledge myself to abide the actiou of the same, and to support the nominees thereof. Respectfully, W. A. Schroclc. We hereby present the name of Hon. John G. Richards for re election to the Legislature. Mr. Richards needs no introduction to the people of Kershaw coun ty, having already tilled this important position. Mr. Rich ards will make for Kershaw couuty in the future what he has in the past? a fearless and im partial representative. M r . Richards merits the confidence and support of the voters of Kershaw county. Muny Friends. Mr. Editor: We desire to pro sent the name of Mr. D. M . Be thune as a candidate for the leg islature from Kershaw county. Mr. Bethuno is well known throughout the County and will make a safe and conservative Representative. Having already servod the Couuty he is familiar with the duties required of a Rep resentative. Mauy Friends. For Auditor. Mr. Editor: We desire to pre set) t the name of Mr. VV. P. llus sell, our efficient and faithful auditor, for re-election, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. No one more suitable could be chosen fctr this impor tant office. Many Friends. To the Democratic Voters of Kershaw Co. : I respectfully announce my self a candidate for Auditor of Kershaw county in the eusuing primary election, subject to the rules of the democratic party. If elected, I will give my best ttiought aud service to the officc in the interests of the people. Respectfully, W. M. H iuson. Hupt . of Kit m at Ion. We hereby nominate Mr. W. B. Turner for re-election to the office of Supt. of Education. Mr. Turner has given entire satisfaction, and is to be com mended for his fearless dis charge of the duties of the office. His mauy friends will Ih? gratified to see him re-elected. Eastern Kershaw. For County .Super visor. ? We hereby present the name of Mr. M. B. McLeod as a can didate for the office of County Supervisor, and pledge him to abide the result, of the primary election. Mr. McLeod is oue of our staunchest citizens, and will,# if olected, till tne office of Super-" visor to the satisfaction of all tho people. Yours for (Jood Government. Voters. In response to the wishes of a number of my friends through out the county for me to enter the race for County Supervisor, I hereby announce myself a can didate for said office, and pledge myself u? abide the results of the democratic primary election. If elected to said office I will give the peoplo tho best service of which I am capable, and seo that tho affairs of the office are ad ministered faithfully ' and im partially. It. H. Williams, t A . I -4 ? ? ... I t For SttpervlKor. Al the solicitation of n number of toy friends, I4?erel>y announce my sol f a candidate for Super visor of Kershaw county, subject to the rules govern tti?* the Demo cratic party. If elected I will give my undivided time and ut tentiou to its duties. . D. P. Dixon Please announce Mr. M. C. West a cuudidate for the office of County Supervisor. Mr. West's knowledge and experi ence with county affairs eminent ly qualities him for tin* position. Buffalo Township. Clerk of Cm ri. We hereby .announce Mr. 1. C. Hough a candidate for Clerk of Court in the approach*! u,? pri mary election. Many Friends. At the solicitation of friends, I hereby announce myself a candidate for Cleric of Court, and pledge myself to abide the result of the Democratic Pri mary election. G. W. Moscley. For Magistrate. We hereby preseut the name of Mr. J. U. Nelson us a caudi date for Magistrate for the upper sectiou of West Wateree iu the coming primary election. M:\ Nelsou needs uo recomuienda Lion from us as to his fitness or character, as he is well known to be one of our best citizens iu every sense of the word, and a right man for the oftice. ' West Wateree. Mr. Editor: Please announce Ii. M. Fi tidier a candidate for re appoint tnenl in DeKalb Town ship. lie lias macle a good peace otHcer, and merits the support of the people. Many Friends. Editor of The People: Please announce the name of W. T. J??ffers for Magistrate in South West Wateree. Many Voters. G. \V. Crosby's Old Reliable Ice House is now muly to serve you with I(JK IN ANY QUAN TITY. . Free Delivery at your ;*ate on regular route. Sunday hours 0 a. m. to 2 p. in. Your Patrouaj'? is solicited. Prompt und careful attention to all orders. G. W. Crosby. DENTAL CARD. The undersigned respectfully informs his friends and patrons that he has resumed his practice. I. H. Alexandkk, D. D. S. Office hours f rom 0 a. in. to 5 p. m. Dr. E. G. Kirven Dental Surgeon. OKKK-K OV Kit DR. F. LESLIE ZEMP S. 80MBWE5IEBI RAILROAD Of 5, C. Time Table No. ft. To 1 ;i k e eftee! Sunday, January 10. l.*>OI,at 12.01 a. m. HuperKPiiiiiK 'lime Table No. 4, dated November 2, HHW. 1IKTWKKN Hl'jrn.U * CA.MDKN. Til A I MS UOINO Horril, No. <IS No. 70 I.v Camden I 1"? p in 7 (hi a hi Son. Ky, Junction -I 'J'* p iii 7 10 a in Ar Kllerbee I J1H p III ^ :tn n m Iteliiberts 4 l:t p in 7 10 a in Ar I louden 1 i?H p in K (N) a III Ar Dnlzell it 1 :< p in s 28 a in Ar N. W, Junction 8 4# p hi H 8H a in A r Sumter G 48 p iii 000 a in TIIAINH OOINO NOHTIf* No. 00 No. 71 l?V Sumter 0 28 p III 0 Mil a in N. W. J ii net ion o 27 p in 0 :|s ? ni Oalzell 0 47 p in 0 >">11 a in llordcn 7 Oft p iii 10 10 i. in ItcmbertH 7 251 j: iii 10 21 a r.< Kllerbee 7 JO p in 10.11 n in Sou. Hy. Junction 7 80 p m 11 00 a iii Ar Camden K (Ml p iii 11 10 a in No. CO leave* Camden Mini., Weil, and Friday at 1 pin, ar. Sumter 51.10. No. 07 leaves Sumter Tuen., Tliurs. .iat. 1 1 00 a iii, nr. < 'aindcii 2 00 p iii. THOMAS WILSON, President State Summer School lor ? Colored Teartiers. The State Summer Hcliool for colored teachers will bo bold in Colombia at Benedict College from .filly to August 25. 4Hoord at the college will be eight (:?h.(K)) Dollars. Railroads give a rate of one fare plus 25 cents. This promises to be a good school and the colored teachers should make every effort to attend. W. R Turner, 8upt of Kd. K. C. New Spring Stock Dry Goods, Notions, Shoes and Hats. A Splendid Line of Ladies' Goods, Gent's, Youth's and Boy's Clothing. ? ? Furniture, Stoves and other Hardware. Give me a call. David Wolfe. Agent for Wa 11 n a 111a k or & Brown Clothing-. SEAI30AI2D A 111 LI XV JiAlL IV A Y. IMORTH-SOUTH-EAST-WEST Two Daily Pullman Vostibuloil Limited Trains Between NOHTII AND SOUTH. First C 1st hh T>iiiiitg CttVR. The IJKST liATKS ami HOUTK to ail Kastern <'iti?>s Vi:i KM'll MON1) ami WASHINGTON, or via No!.' K< ) I . K ami strainers ? To ATLANTA, X ASH VI 1,1, K, MlC.MllllS, I.OL' IM' I l.l.K, ST. I.OIIIS, I'll 1UAG50, NKIV ORI.KAX^, antl all point.- South and Southwest ? To S A V AN X All ami .JACKSON Vll.I.K niul r.ll points in Kl.Ott 1 1 ?A and IT HA. ' POSITIVELY THE SHORTEST LINE BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH. For (let ailed informal:...,, n.trs, |?,ill?,ati res.-rva Hons, etc., apply to any agent of the Seaboard Air l.ine Railway, or \V. !i. Burroughs, Travfllinj; Passenger Agent, ('t>lumbi??, S. I'.. Clias. F. Stewart, Asst. (ionl. Pass. Agt. 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