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SAYS IT IS BEST. Dispensary is Best Solution of Liquor Question, Says SENATOR TILLMAN. If There Is Graft The Men Now Howling | Against thc System Made the Fraud Possible. Turn Out Rascals If Located and See that There is No Recurrence. The following ls tho speech of Sena tor Tlllmau dollovored by invitation at Edgelleld last Saturday as reported for The State by Mr. Wilban Banks Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Fellow Oltl/.ens: It ls six years since I have had the pleasure of addressing a pub lio mooting in this my homo county. On that occisi?n the issue was thc same one which wc have today. Tho people have passed on this quos tlon five or six times and sottlod it by overwhelming majorities. That yoar tho aggregate vote for tho two candi dates who were running as dispensary candidates was 28,000 more than the prohibition candidate got, but there aro some people in South Carolina who have nover been wllliug to submit to tho rule of thc majority. Thoy think they know more, that they arc bettor than the mas; es of tho peoplo, that tiley have the right to dictate to them what tlioy shall do. So boro wc have again this same old bone of contention brought forward for politicians to gnaw on. But why outer upon a discussion of this subject. 1 proposo In response to your Invit ation to discuss tho principles uudor lying lt, and the wil d im or unwisdom of the policy which is proposed; but beforo I do that 1 want to havo a word personally witli yen. Fifteen years ago by 'be suffrages of my fellow citizens I was taken from my farm ten miles below Edgelleld and sent to Columbia to discharge the duties of chief executive. After four years' absence, with only an occasion al visit here, 1 was elected to the Un ited States senate and for nearly ll years 1 have been tilling as best 1 could tlie responsible dulles of that position. Thc so two great o theos, thc greatest in your gift, that you have conferred upon me, have been sources of great gratification to mc but my countrymen they lia vc also caused me to bo an exile from homo, thoy have carrlod me from among ye u, you whom I love better than any people on earth. 1 am a stranger in my own land, and but fer a fow ciel men whoso heads are gray or bald I know scarce ly 20 men in this audit ncc. You all know me; somo feel aggrieved if 1 don't step forward and call yeti by name and shako your hat d, but 1 have met so many people in so many States that faces pass beforo mc like a panor ama, and 1. cannot longer recognix. men. lt ls not bee ms : 1 feel any higher than you, for J am still plain Hen. Tillman. 1 have always regard ed myself your servant and not your master. "TIIK PttlCl? OK 8ILBNCU5." I am here today to disouss this ques tlon. Some haye said it. was Improper and out of place fur a United States senator to meddle with local affairs These men have felt aggrieved because I will not consent to shut my mouth, and close my eyes to the condition in which 1 am as much interested as you arc, and they have demanded of mc tlie price of si lonco. I ain't built that way. Thark Cod 1 ain't built that way. (Laughter and applause ) When I get too cowardly to stand up in your midst or anywhercol.se and speak the truth as I see lt and Understand il then I will have become too cowardly and worthless to represent you any where. I know 1 i hall make enemies. 1 know many of my best frtei eli are to day lined up in antagonism to the liquor system whioh I deviled. Be came they hu ve changed ano l to sur render my conviction? 1 again sav 1 ain't built that. way. The office Of Un ted Stales senator is a high and noble one, but tho tilico in not worth thc price which si me men demand of me Therefore 1 am herc lin answer t< your inyitatlon to toll yen what 1 think, not io dictate-I know you aie not built that way, you oo your own thinking, and nota; 1 .say. What, ts tlie Issut ? llo.v shall wo sell 1 quor or whether wo shall sell it at ?,11? '1 hat ts the whole proposition slated in a brief sentence. Thero are three systems that have obtained In tho State, nob in ibo St.aU as a whole, but in parts of the Stati one is the- lice n e syst? m, the old bar room system, the second is tho dis pensary system under which we aro now working, and the thl d ls prob I bitlon. The ingenuity t;f man never devised any moro than those three systems for tho 1 qu r control. Which ene of those ls t. o best ? Von have beard okqueot ai d strong arguments, facts ano figures a.> they were pre sented in favor of prohibition. I confess to you as hetwe< n pr il bition and the barrooms, saloons ot any system of license, I am a prohib? tlonist. But will prohibition prohibit? I say no. These other gentlemen say yes. Let's give thc facts. ASSAILS I'ltOllIIUTION, Wo had pro' h-ilion in lOJgotleld about 18? I or 1805, When the dry council was elec i'd yen could not buy whlskoy lawfully in thc town of IO Ige field as a bevorage; tho only way you could buy it was to get a certificate from a physician and go to Borne dru store with tho cooler's prescription, if you needed some aqua fortis what other Latin phrase oo they employ! A voice: Spirituous furtnc.nlI Tillman; Some of you fellows who used it recollect, hut 1 have forgotten the formula. (Li ughte ). I know this, that prohibition in thc town of K lee field was a hissing and a by word, and that there was just as much drunk enness then as there ever had ben under the saloon system; and certain physicians who lived in this town thou grew abso'uloly rich by giving pre scriptions or certificat.! s to Johnson, Smith or Jones who applied to thom that they needed this stuff for their health. (Laughter.) A voice: Tho. o physicians you speak of are dead and gone. Tillman: I do not want to speak ill of any dead man, and I do not intend to. Whenever lt has hoon tried lt has had the sam?" result. And above all it has taught thc peoplo to he hypo crites to go to the doctor and say, i have got the belly soho," (Laughter.) My objection to prohibition is, we aro not yet ?angela, moro tho pity} I do not see any winga sprouting on anybody's shoulder; we are sinful hu man beings, made by God Almighty in lits wisdom with shortcomings and tho weaknesses of man; we havo our appetites, and it is in the nature o? tho beast to gratify that appetite for ctimulaats, and if hs cunnot get it lawfully he is going to got it some other way. There has always been and always will be a domand for liquor as a beveridge, simply bcoause mau likos tho taste and its effeot, not be oauso bo is sick, not booauso bo needs lt as a medicine, but simply for his Stomach's sake as Paul said to Timo thy, and somebody will always be ready tosupqly lt for tho monoy. That hoing the cause, I have triod to deal with this question as a truo man and from a common-sonso stand point to treat mon as I lind them and not tvi I would have them to bo, but to try and teach them to minimize and reduce tho evil of whiskey drluklng. I havo not indulged in liquor myself hut 1 have seen it, some of my family have suffered from lt, I have seen its misery, tho mlsory it causes; I have seen too muoh nor, to know that if wo could destroy the formula of alcohol either from fermentation or anything elsi lt would Injure tho medical pro fcsslon In their business, deprive men of their valuable stimulants in cor tain diseases, but tho sum of hu mau misery would ho reduced. But the best thing In my judgment as a practica! man ls to ti eat mon as they are and to try to teach them to restrain theil appetites as far as practical and min Imlzo tho evil of liquor drinking. Yoi have heard a good deal ahout blooc money. AS TO niiOOD MON KY. Sometimes I get awfully slolc in tin senate when I hear a follow got ul and twaddle ahout what he know; nothing of; when 1 hear preaoheri talking about tho drinking of whlskej being blood money. 1 look bick ti the history of the world, I find tba no man, no preacher priest or states roan ever dreamed of attempting ti prohibit the usc of liquor until aboil 75 or 100 ye?.ra ago. bava not under tonk until thc last 60 yeara to sa; that man should nob drink or that i was a sin. 1 clo not hesitate to say can find In thc Bible a d; zan or tw dozen texts recognizing the use c liquor to where you can Hud ou which discourages it or d nounces li Where does the sin como lu? Tho sin does not rest upon Bibi authority, it rests upon tho preacher' authority, and 1 object to an prcachor changing tho scripture t suit lils fanaticism and to make m swallow lils religion. (Laughter You cannot show me In the .scrip u cs exe pt in ono or two Isolated casi where the use of wino is denounced i a sin, and 1 can sho.v you a doze passages where lt is spoken of otho wise. When any man talks to me abm blood money 1 put him down as s abominable ass. I do not Intend an, thing personal. I cannot 860 any po slblc excuso for any one to make sui a charge. 1 saw the other day where son man Haid that rather thau seo h children educated on blood money 1 wouid prefer lo see them grow up illiteracy. 1 do not blame him f saying that If lie believed lt was blu< money. But it is not blood moue Wh rc do you get the authority f saying it ls a sin to uss liquoi? Thc ls no doctrine of that sort in t he Bib You ctn lind plenty of t':xts as to t abuse of liquor, getting drunk ai doing things that a man will do wh drunk willoh are sinful. 1 agreo that. Tho dispensary ls intended mlnimi/3 the abuse of liquor, wh prohibition is supposed to prohibit use absolutely beoauso lt. ls sinful. SO.ME COLD KIUUK1CS. I always Uko to buck up my acs< tions with facts. S.K.IO people chi on tlielr imagination fort?n lr facts, may have done KO at limos, but c not do so Intentionally, 1 have < clared and do now so declare tl prohibition does not prohibit ai whero A fow days ayo 1 received t last printed report of the comm .ioner of int n i revenue at Was ington, and 1 find tbeso ligures: Sti of Kansas with .i. population ol 1,47 405 bad tu lb retail brer or m liquor lice? sis secured from t United Statc8go rerumenb 3,107, or . people to Ovorj retailer of those bi eragos. That's in Kansas, re mem o One llquor aud beor dealer for evi loo people in tito prohib? tl m SI tte Kansas. (Laughter.) Maine has GU Ooo population according to tho 1 censes and had SINS lie ns s issued the Uoit< (1 States g ?vc ornent to ? liquor and beer, or one. bo every \ population. State of South Carol had l 340,000 populat ion and the to number of United States licenses rei all liquor and ho< r including I H)0 and odd di peosnrlcs 607, or ( retail t eller for every 2.304 popula! i Now, those Ugures ought to sp; for themselves without furthor ar? ment; bub 1 have nome furthor fae Take the city of i h r eston, S C had in 1000 55,000 population in rot numbers, and t' e tot. 1 number of rests in that city forthat year i 4,002; arrests for drunkenness 5 Mi (1 you lhey say Charleston is home of blind tigers, au I I know il bc true. Kansas City, Kan., popt tlon 61,000, total number of arn 3,467; arrests for drunkenness ti L'ake Portland, the head entro prohibition, where lt has brothel for 60 years; population 60,000, t number of arrests i,uoi?; arrests drunkenness, 1,106; more than tv? M many as were In Charl ron. 1 poka, Kans., population 33,000, tc arrests 2,071; arrests for drunkenc (il l, a little over half of tho pn latlon of O ?arlcston, and 100 mo^o r03tod for drunkenness. What are KOing to clo with tlic.su facts? S ;me say you arc going to vote abominable dispensary out and s siltu'.e blessed prohibition. I di ciare If you do, and sometimes l rat wish you would HO you can got a < if the physic fo;- iii months. AS TO ll Kill LIOKN8M, Now, we orno to high l?ense; jombinatloit which we aro facing lay, tho high lloonso people, the | li bl blon people and blind tigers, lame wc have been lighting sh co ll I hesopeople who are advocating I Iconsc, The St.ito of C him da, ' Nows and Courier and somo other pe rs, and Sumo of our foll w oltlz /icy arc not in favor of prohibit ?hey tell you .so, they say lets kill llsponsary, then wo will have pro! lon, and then what high lice rho proachors ar.; going ono road, irohlbltionlsts are going another r< md the blind tigers are traveling l-l-., _.1 .U . - "ll . - /?UK. roaci, inn--, .m- .m .i rii. tu ?ho dispensary, and when they kt ind lt ls gone, poor thing, then wi There will be a tight among the pe ?0 say whether it shall behlghllCQ ir prohibition, and what will bbc )cnslbies do then, if we aro so md few between that tome w??? b ?opo to rcstoro tho dispensary, 1 going to line up with my friend Tal bert and shout for prohibition, I never will consent by my vote and in lluenoe to aid the reestablishment of saloons in any oounty in South Caro j lina. ? I failed to give you Lawreueo, Mass., experience, where they havo a high lioeucfo o? ?;?,.voo tor ?he privilege of the monopoly of some barkeeper to . sell whiskey in Lawreueo, Mass. Its population In 1000 was 02,000; total number of arrests, 2,307; arrests for drunkenness, 1,321. The sontimonC against the dispen sary ls running so high I outlined it in a letter which 1 wrote some time ago, and with one exception tho nows papers in my own oounty have not published it, they have not given you an opportunity to read it, but their news columus and editorial oolumns .teem with "down with the damuablo dispensary." I have that faith in tho intelligence and manhood of the citizens of Edge tleld to feel and know that you aro your own masters and will study this question for yourselves, make up your own minds aud vote as freemen. I havo always tried to lead you, I have never undertaken to drivo you, and you know it. Li9ts como down to common sonso, somo good, every day haoon and greens. They tell you to vote out the dispensary, and lets have prohibition. I have no objoctlon to others having their opinions, let me have mine. Peo p?o need not throw rocks at mo and not expect mo to throw brick bats back. I have got a car load of them. Let's seo what will be tho effect at homo. Aside from any moral, religious or temperance idea. 1 have shown you that you will have drunkenness. 'Now, we have le?s drunkenness lu South Carolina than anywhere else. TIIIC ritOKIT K KATU UK. In Edgellold in the days of barroom? what did you country bumpkins, whe have been appealed toso eloquently to day, what did you get from tho ll quoi traille? Nothing except the drunken nora and oxoopt tho misery and pover ty which came to you as individual) for indulging in the stuff. Under thc dispensary system the county school: 'ucludiug thc ttwn of B igctleld an'! Johnston get $r>,800 from thc dispon sary and the free schools aro now run nlng and have been running Uve ti Bevan months a year. Take this $5 800 away and unless ye u put you hands In your pockets and supplo mont lt by taxes your schools wll drop to four months or less. If tba ain't blood money out of the innocon children who aro to bc brought up li idleness and ign?ranos, and God hav morey on thc preacher who sees au says otherwise. (Cheers.) Talk about blood money. They ol fer as a saorilice the ignorance of th poor little country b >ys aud girls tba now havo some o lances to get an edi cation, because they have found new religion which declares that th ! uso of liquor is a sin. 1 Lave some written notes I am g( lng to read. When I want to t peculiarly mean, or as my encmh say, when 1 want to be ''venomous, I write it out, because I can dist I bell Ure IntoJt with my pea. (LaugI ter and cheers.) INVESTIGATE TUE DI1TILLKK Y. I want this committee which tl legislature has appointed to In vost gate. 1 have not beard anything, bi l lust smell something up tho creel (Laughter.) 1 want lt to Investiga the Richland Dlstillory company, th out how lt came to be organized, wi were tho original stockholders, ho much stock they took, and all aboi lt. A voice: You will play the dc\ If you do that. Tillman: 1 am In the humor play thc devil with auythhf that can catch, big, little, old or youn (Laughter and ohcors ) Let this commliteo lind out th stink up the oreek, and quit tal ki i about lt so much. Do you know lu much the State is credited with i the booka of the commissioner as ha mg in possession, over $800,000 wor of whiskey, $100,000 scattered all ov the State and $100,000 in Columbi What do they want with so muc They aie on a cash basis, they c order liquor from any source th choose by the car load, got lt bc and bottle lt and distribute lt in days. Theo I hear, 1 don't know hi ? rue it is, but 1 want this commltt to tell in who is responsible fur. u a stool: of unsaleable stuff I not! that they have what they evil'Mi stock" and "dead sti ck," stock th can sell and stock they c innot se Who bought any dead whiskey, a what sort of whiskey ls itthatnobo will buy it. Senator Tillman here took up t reading of his manuscript but bc c not stick to the iext all the w through and interpolated some m irks which were even warmer th the "distilled boll lire from his pot He said in one side remark that If t dispensary is selling after sun dow that is another place where "slfl twisted administration has \woug demoralization." Ho declared that he was not st ring up factionalism. "1 am not, Help me God, but If 1 must do lt take to the woods, I will take do the ti m tom and sound lt." "T.-ie man who gets nie cut of position will have to tight for lt, help me God," ho said, and the b; yelled. Somebody said the State shoi make its own liquor. Tillman reto er): "Then this crowd which is I' lcrlug blood money wi uki go to I asylum." At another plaoc he said that the limited timo In which bc had p pared tho dispensary law he n I, have made mistakes for "I wasn't lng any stoaling myself and did think of tho legislature putting n in there who would go to stealing, don't know that there ls any steal hi ho said naively, "but I havo he that there ls something rotten up creek." TACK I.KS NO I.KOISI.ATUUK, God knows what will bocom< this p.,or old town." he sahl. "Tl might havo better streets than tl have, but the town does not levy ; tax now." Jokingly, he said that ought to sue titi i old town for v nearly costing tho life of a Uni States senator for he was Injured qi sorloudy lately. Ile recalled thc f that In 180-1 thc law was declared o institutional and the State had i hibltion for four months and blind tigers broke out then and took to tho woods with the lav keep them from killing lt entirely, One blind tlgor oamo .out then i as he went out of offlO-3 soon af warda they had had nobody to their oyes out. Ile does not mear brag, but his successors perhaps not felt that tboy should do much drudgery. Ho told what had donn as governor with thc ass ance of his private secretary In ki lng track of tho di ipcnsa y constat) Tho Ivglslaturo had tinkered vt the law so niuoh that they had got the law rn!te ?hf??rent from tin? original. Ho deolwed that tho original law placed the governing powor In the hands ot men eleotod by the pooplo. vVhaL we waut ls a legislature that will take the law baok to its orignal moorings. Who, under his adminis tration, iiad lizard o? habitual dz unk ards wetting Bquor. Some drunk ards hi this county'bad become al most his personal enemies. Ile dorided tho recent pronounce ment cf the dlreotors of tho dispen sary to the effoot that they would go back to tho uso of the request books Wliy did they ovor drop tho uso of the books? Thoy had no such right to do so. In tho constitutional convention of 1805 thero was a fight on the dispen sary question. It was tho desire of the dispensary advocates to incorpo rate tho dispensary law body and breeches into the organic law. Ile got up when prodded to do so, and said that he would be glad to bavo the law incorporated in tho constitu tion, but tho matter was before tho United States supremo court and if it should bo declared unconstitutional, tho State would have rook-ribbed pro bibltion forever. Ho asked for tho do bato to bo adjourned and he prepared tho seotion in artiolo 8 of tho consti tution which refers to tho dispensary law. If wc get to high lioense, and that is what this bullyballoo'8 about, the town of K bro! i al il cannot issue that license and lt must, ho granted by the authorities at Columbia. Ho roforrcd to tho faot that many of tho people of ridgefield cannot voto ou the dispensary under the Brice law because they have no registration certificates. About 26,000 people would bo barred from expressing their wishes. Again, tho Brice law doos not provide for voting out distilleries. All the blind tigers in Bickens would have to do would bo to drive up to one of these distilleries in a hollow and load up on illlolt whlskoy. Following ls the part willoh he read: ADVICE) TO THE COMM1TT1010. Tho newspapers stato that the leg islative inveetlgating committee will commence its work at Spartanburg next Tuesday. I do not wisli to ap poar officious and indulge in criticism until 1 am certain it ls deserved but 1 feel sure that others beside myself have been disquieted and. somewhat disconcerted, to use no strougor torms, by tho reports which came to us that thia committee has already exhausted Its expense fund of $.'1,000 and there is the probability that its work will be hindered or prevented for laok of money. I hope these were idle rumors withe ut foundation be cause lt would be little short of a scandal if the committee charged with such important work should fail to do lt and go to the legislature with such a fiasco as that. Newspapers have led us to suppose that there would be startling disclosures as to tho corruption In Spartanburg and wo have been treated to a sort of opera bon lie performance in the liti gation Instituted to seoure possession of Mr. Farnum's papors. I fool that I voice the opinion of a great many thousands of my fellow citizens when 1 say that while we are Interested in unearthing corruption in any and every department pf tl e dispensary that the peoplo are noll V(?ry much cal dispensers. Th df.7....?-Option with the dlspensaryXrb?s not rest up on these. There aro a great many stories alloat and 1 have heard any number of these and 1 therefore presume to moke some suggestions and I know that all right thinking men, includ ing th ?se most interested will think, rather than blame, me fordoing what I shall b cause 1 shall do so because no one else seems willing to discharge the ungracious task. There has been talk almost universally of the sudden wealth or evidences of much money bolng In the bauds of two high dis pensary officials. One of these ls Uv h g Mid can take care of himself. The other ls dead, and his friends among whom 1 count myself one, de si ro to have tho truth known and his memory oleared from what wc believe ioho a vile and malicient slandor. It ought to bo easy to Mod out from the bunks and the records in the clerk's cilice whether there is any foundation in fact for these oft repeated stories. "HOW KA LS Bi AND INFAMOUS.'] Mr. Hubert Evans, chairman of the board of dispensary directors, is tho living man who will, 1 am sure, glad ly welcome the most searching inves II gat I on Into his financial condition and tho lamented H. H. Crum is the other. HIS friends will, I know, thank me for giving them the oppor tunlty to prove how false and infa mous ave thc s'atomcnts which have bonn sent broad ;ast about his large es tal e. Thon wo bavo reports that Mr. Towlll, another direotor, accepts a very lino horso from some whiskey man In Kentucky as a present, while Mr. Boykln, the other member of the board of directors, was drummer for some one or two whiskey houses ba fore ho was placed on tho board. Have those houses had any undue share of the trade of tho dispensary? Why ls lt necessary to keep on hand such a large stock at the Stito dis pi 'cary when lt is on a cash basts and goods can be ordered out and distrib uted In 30 days? Who is responsible for such a large stock of unsaleable goods when whiskey ls a staple article and a good brand of lt Just as saleable one day as another? Has all tho whiskey that has been bought been distributed to the local dispensers or Is lt In stock? Has thero boen no loss, or to put lt plainly, no Stcalage In this way? We want light, gentle men of the commlttoe, and we ought to have had it before any of these sleotlons were held. TA I. KS OF <)I.I> TIMBS. I with to call attention to a phase >f the |]nii ir question whloh may liave been lost sight of by many and it this juncture it is well to refresh tdio minds of the people by a state mont of fact. When the dispensary law first went into operations Tho News and Courier, The Stato, tho Greenville News along ,vlth many other newspapers turned .vith thc most virulent abuso of the St ).te government and of all persons ?vtio had anything to do with the aw's enforcement. The constables wore called "spies" ind tho people were urged to resist with all their might and In every way lossibie tho on forcement of tho law. L?awlcssn089 was considered by tin .se lewspapers as a badge of superiority, .he constables were hounded beyond mdurance and the Darlington riot ollnwcd as a natural and inevitable esult. For three or four year-: this lolioy was kept up and every possible nfluonoe was brought to bear by those IT WAS HIS WORK. concerned about . . S. ' . ; -v,'; v newspapers to break down the dispen sary ?y atom. Any uu caber of Hes wore told about any and everybody oonoorned with the administration of tho law and it was only after ropcated defeats at tho polls by overwhelming majorities that any semblance of dc oenoy in attending to the dispensary and the oiuolais connected with it obtain cd. Tho airnory of abuse and slander was exhausted but the lying oontluued to go on; by insinuation, innuendo and falsehood tho system ha? been attacked; and of course, as founder and father of the dispensary, I have been abused and lied on as no other man in tho State's history ever was. "DEEP LAID SCHUMIS TO DK8TKOY." In 1902 all political opposition? ceased and no man was bold enough tc offer for ofllee In tho Stato as an anti dispensary candidate. I do uot wist] to revivo factionalism and I am sorrv to be compelled to have the appoar anoD of doing so, but tho truth de mauds of mo this statement that dur lng tho last six years and even before tho majority of the South Carolins legislature has been composed of thosi who wero once antl-Tlllmanites o Conservatives, and if lt bo truo tha bad mou have been elected to oontro and direct the affairs of the dispensar; the Conservatives of the Stace are re sponslble for it. I bolieve that then ha? bern a deep laid scheme to de stroy the system b> mismanagement and the charge that lt Is a pol?tica machino may be well sustained by th faot that these samo Conservativo leg islatures ammended tho law to provid that tho county boards of contre should bo appointed by tho rccom mendation of tho members of tho gen aral assembly thus placing Its admli: istration in tho counties in the hand of politicians and their satellites, am aware that many of tho strouget supporters of the dispensary now ai men who wore and aro yet probabl Couservatlvos while some of Its mos bitter antagonist aro former lteforn ers. It, theroforo, cannot be chage that I am endeavoring to draw tl old lines which rent tho Stato I twain, but there ls every Indication 1 show that the present onslaught c tho dispensary ls being engineered ar led by those who have been, aro i\o\ and will ever be my most bitter pollt oal opponents. The more venomot of those men have not hesitated recen ly to say In the press and In otb places that they regard tho dispensa as tho main prop of Tillman's politic fortune and that If they oan pull tb down ho will fall with it. Tho people are treated to col um and columns of cant and hypocrltic morall/.lng and sermonizing on t rottenness and corruption and evils thc dispensary system while the sc purpose of the crusade in the oplnl of tho best and closest observers that morality and temperance ha no placa in the hearts and minds these men but that their only ho and desire ls to organize a movemc that will result in my polltioal ovi throw. ELECTED ON OTIIEK ISSUES. I want to say right here and m that I had been elected governor tw on other ISSUCB than liquor control a the dispensary had nothing todo wi my political fortunes. It never e< tributed In thc slightest to my elect! to the senate. The^settlcment of I liquor question came to me unsoug aud I would have been glad to hf had nothing to do with it. Hut as I issue was forced while I was goven I m nie suoh settlement of lt as deemed best in the interest of temp ance and morality among tho poo of the State and the ungraltlied dorsement which has been given I dispensary system by thc masses sufficient Justification of the wisd of any action. I had won thc resp and coi li leuce of the people beca of their faith in my integrity i character. If 1 had consented to k quiet and steer clear of Stato pollt having nothing to do with bical affi as a polttleiau would hava done would probably have had less opp tlon and might have continued In so ?ate without having to fight for place. Thc position of senator 1 vory high one and 1 oovoted tho ho beoause l believed that 1 could ba soma service to the people of tho S ti My record in Washington will si whether or not I have been able to complish anything worthy the adm tlon of tho people and to keep my l Op. their affections. I would not tain the office one minute longer t 1 can hold lt with honor and main) my self-respect. It would be cowal to lo^e sight of the public welfare the pursuit of my personal ambit 1 believe tho dispensary system to the best for the people and for causo of temp?rance and s ) bellev 1 have act ed. 1 believe now that law can he changed so as to preo the possibility of corruption In pur masc of whiskey for the State pensary, and it would rest with people whether or not the r?gul?t and rules governing the local di.i sarles are observed. No law can minister itself and when the gi juries fall, as they have failed, t< that tho dispensary law is enforce the counties the people themsclve.' to blame. STOl'3 Til IC OU AFT No system of liquor selling or pi bl tlon either oin ever suooeed any ter than the dispensary has succe unloss there ls an enlightened anc termlned public opinion which con observance to tho law. If the lc^ turo at Its next session will i such amondmcnt and changes h law as 1 am prepared to offer, boldest and most unscrupulous mles of thc system will be comp to declare that there ls no roora "graft." That the law ls now arcditcd by many who wero onci staunch supporters ls due cn tirol the tcheming of those who changed it and taken thc power the bands of thc governor who: rightly belongs and placed lt In [landsof the legislature and Its Lures, [f there ls corruption ito tobe punished and the system pi l)y such changes In the statute as mako lt impossible. The issue 1)0 presented to tho members of legislature at Its next session ? whether they will chango the la is to lift Its administration i mapleton. 1 repeat again lt ca lono. If tho legislature falls t( jtiftn lt will rest with tho people nimmer to oleot a legislature a governor that will reform tho ititlon or to elect a legislature i governor that will kill it. Il acople want prohldltlon and arc >ared to enforce lt, then I want. 0 havo lt. I'd be glad to seo at 1 do/.en of our counties voto oui llspcnsary botween now and Jai n order to lot tho people of lountles have an object lesson in s low far prohibition will be prohil n South. Carolina. A great man ora and articles arc appoarlng i lowspapor In regard to tho obi that have been wrought in Cherokee aadFiokons by voting out the dis pensary. I- warn the people to tak ) tl ie so at their true vahn. GUALLftNOKS OHKHORKK. A now broom always sweeps olean and the prohibitionists in those counties are undoubtedly exortlng i,.u...... Ives to the utmost at* thia time, but Justas certain as like cause produoes like of feet will it oe ms to pass that demoralization and failure will result there as lt bas resulted in Kansas and there are lndloations that we are not getting tho whole truth about these oounties. Now some of my bitterest enomles have pretended to lind lu my letter to Mr, niggles basis for the Idea that I am straddling nr woakenlngon the dispensary issure. To all such 1 say that they may put their doubt to rekt if they ever had any. I shall light for a reformation in tho dispenary and its restoration to the original schemo upon which lt was organized. I promised Mr. Net tics and other prohibition leaders in tlie legislature In December, 1892, that I would free tho State from barrooms and I did lt even In Coari? ?ton. WillfiRB IIB STANDS. And 1 now say f iat If tho legisla ture now In powor does not at Its next session, ohauge the law so as to reform the system, I will undertake, If I am living and v eil next summer, to light for a legislature that will roform it. I do not stand for a debauched and oor rupt dispensary. 1 will not tight for such. But I do stand for the system as lt was first Inaugurated, and re gardless of consequences to myself, will fight to purify and maintain it. I repeat what 1 have already said be fore. If is useless to talk about sell ing If quor In South Carollua under any Ky sot,m of license, high or low. I have doolared and I believed it to be true that a saloon would never be open in South Carolina again. Drstruotion of thc dispemary will mean of course a free rein for those who sell liquor illic itly, but 1 prefer to seo it sold thus rather than see lt placed In tho hands of Individuals, a privato monopoly | created with tho greater demorali/.i tlon that would follow. Fully one third if not more of those who arc now howling for the destruction of tho dis- i peusary are avowed candidates of high license, and tho prohibitionist dupe themselves Into thc belief that they havo succeeded with the aid of theso men in destroying the dispensary, that they om maintain prohibition. But 1 perdlct that tho light will always be between prohibition and the dis pensary rather than netween prohibi tion and license and In any event 1 shall use every instrumentality in my power to antagoni/.a giving the right to sell liquor tu private individuals. I want this matter settled entirely apart from my personal and political fortunes, lt ls a much greater que s lion for tho people of South Carolina ns to how they shall wisely and best govern the sale of liquor than as to whether 1 or some one else represents them In thc senate. 1 know there are many mon who will vole for me re gardless of their former political af filiations ar,d of their present attitude on this question and it is probable that there will be many who will be aggrieved at my activity in dealing with this question I can not help that. 1 have the same, right and in terest in local affairs as an> other olti zen and my elevation to the ellice I now hold would have been spurned had I felt that I would bo deprived of freedom of speech and action becauso of lt. I prefer to retiro to private lifo If lt is thc will of tho people of the State rather than surrender my con victions on this important matter and play tho c .ward lu dealing with it. WE AT HA?R AND CR0P3. Tho Weekly Crop Bunll?tln IHHUCU by Sootion Director B auor. The moan temperature for the week ending 8 a. m. August 7th was slightly normal, but the weok ended with successive heat. The extremes were a maximum of IKS degrees at Co lumbia on the (i'll, and a minimum of ut) degrees at Greenville on the 2nd, and at Klngstree on the :ird. The prevatlng olear nights were favorable for rapid radiation, causing consider able complaint of tho nights having been too cot 1 for vegetation, although thermometer readings were not un usaly low. The winds were generally light. Thero wore no damages ropor ed from storms, hall or doods. The greator portion of the slate was without rain. A beneficial rain on the 1th covered the territory from Coonee county to Cherokee and a por tion of York, but did noi extcrd east ward beyond tho Piedmont section. The extreme southern portion had ruin on the Oth. Thc drought ls se vere and Injurloiii to crops over the western and central counties, and over practically all the Savannah river valley counties, but the need ot rain ls felt over pr?0Moally the entire State. The weather was f AN oracle for cul tivation and laving by crops which work ls practically finished. With tho exception of gocd reports from the coast counties where cotton ls Impovlng, there seems to have been a general deterioration In the condition of cotton over the winde stato duo to thc plants turning yel low, shedding leaves, squares and young bolls, and to rust willoh ls now wUloly prevalent. Reports of damage by Insects conti nue but a rc fowerthan last week. Cotton is opening gener ally over the southern counties and in places, picking will be active next week. The iirst bale of tho season came from Ilattievlllo and was ginned on the 1st of August. Tho 13 year aver; gd of Iirst bales is August Otb; tho earliest was July 2K, lHiui, tho lat est August 20th, 18?6. The dry weather ls injurious to late ?orn, especially that portion now in tho tasselllng stage. Tobacco curing ls nearly finished, with thc late crop better than tho carly one. lO&rly rico is heading and harvesting will bc jin tho latter part of tho month. Desired Immigration, It is reported that Jlmmlo Hyde threatens to j du William Waldorf! Astor and James .J. Yan Allen In the expatriated colony abroad. If .Jim irtio wiuidonly put his threat into ?xecution aid persuade Harry Lohr, I lotti o Creen, Un de Russel Sago and \ fesv others who could ba oasily ipared to follow snit ha would confer i favor upon tho general public that would mako partial amends for lils record In this country. Lighting' Newberry was Monday night vlslt :d by a severo elcctrlo storm aocom lanled by a heavy rain. Four rosi lences In tho city wcro struck by Ighfening, one of them having tho veatherboading torn from ono end. fortunately noone waslnjund mr vere an\ of tho houses not on fire. i m m Bookkeeping, Shorthand, Typo guaranteed course 20 wooka. Singl hand, U mos. 12 calls for graduates i maud. Write. Machinery Supply H WE SELL neadquartere for EVERYTHING 1 AU kinds of Injectors, Lubricators, : Supplies for Saw Mills, OU Mills and Largo stock of Woll Pumps and Oyll ^ i M COLUMBIA SI .<MH : THE GUINARD ? COIvUMB o Manufacturers Brlok, Fire Proof * Flue linings and Drain Tile. Pr? S or millions. WhlRke I Morphine I Olgarot Habit, I Habit Habit Cured by Keeley J 1329 Lady St. (or P. O. Box 75) Colu se oitd. BRAIN LEAKS. Bright Sayings of Will RI. Manpln In tho Commoner. Tho man who never fails never tries. A home without love is merely a stopping place. It ls easy to make excuses for those we love. God's throne ls not reached by way of tho Onon. JJI? Tva. The man who would be young again should cultivate a youthful spirit. When a man begins wondering if ho looks his agc it ls a sure sign that ho docs. When we want to employ a boy we are not going to employ one who friz zles his hair aud lets the wav?y locks stick out over his brow from beneath a hat set on thc baok of his head. Always speak the truth, but don't forget that it ls often wiso not to speak at all. Strange that so many young men think that in order to be good "fol lows" they have to do wrong things. The man who enjoys what little he has is far better off than the man who has everything and enjoys nothing. - -What hos become of all uuu oldmieh who could oradle ten aores nf wheat a day when they were in their prime. Things would doubtless taste Just as good now as they did when wo were boys if wc han boys' appetites. No matter how rank the grass grows in your yard, if your neighbor goes visiting and asks your boy to take care of his yard, the neighbor's yard always looks well. Young man, when she begins hint ing that you would better save your j money instead of spending lt for buggy | hire and ice oream soda, lt ls timo to either back up or begin looking for a cottage. When "graft" is exposed immediate ly the pessimists begin declaring that tho world is growing worse. The world ls really growing batter all the time because light is being thrown Into dark places and rogues aro being uncovered. "A Merciful Judge." Here are some of the sentences for manslaughter Imposed by Judge Klugh in the sessions court in Laur ens a woek ago: Jim Kelley, two years. Hallo Parks, three years. Mart Gary, two years. Virge Williams, four years. Clarenoo Neely, two years. Coodlcr Clardy and Dick Davis, seven years each. And the following for assault and battery with intent to kill-an offense that would be minder were thc Intent successfully carried out: Flotohcr Spurgeon, 18 months or 9100 line. This looks like playing at Justice. The penalty for manslaughter is from two to thirty years. Tho average In the above oases of manslaughter is not quite four years. The law as thus administered ls no great terror to the the ovll-door. And it looks like putting a verv low ostimatc on the value of human life.-Newberry Observer. Quarantine Brutality, A caso of quarantine brutality was reported to tho Louisiana Stato board of health by Judge J. L. Gaudot, who who presides in the parishes contigu ous to New Orleans. He went from Jefferson to his homo in St. John and was there set upon by several guards and brutally beaten and tho parish health ofiloer refused to recognize tho health certificate willoh ho brought^ from tl. o parish health clffoor ui 3 of fcrson that ho had not been near any infection for six days. 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