Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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EIGHT into mstflms" old state dispensary Political Graft Creator Passes at Hands of Peop'e After Career DURING 23 YEARS iazcoc nzi a m v nuAMPtrc went- If 1 H iVI I tllMI^ULO I I I State Wide Prohibition Went: Into Effect Last Saturday January 1st. The question of the abolition of the whiskey traffic in South Carolina be-1 .gan to be agitated soon after the redemption of the State under Cien. Hampton in 1876, but this early agitation was for local option in a few scattered counties. Special a'tof the general assembly were introduced and passed permitting "wet" and "dry" elections for Anderson. Orangeburg, Laurens and other counties. The contest between the prohibitionists and license men in some of those counties was heated. In none of them which succeeded in voting out the licensed saloons was prohibition successfully enforced in those days and after a few years most of them returned to the licensed saloon system. In the legislature of 1800 a bill for Statewide prohibition, introduced by the late L. D. Cliilds of Richiand county, developed great strength and narrowly failed of passage. This was the period of intense factional division between the "Tillmanites" and the "anti-Tillmanites, and both factions included numbers of men on both sides of the liquor question. Neither faction, as such, was willing to take a stand on either side of the question. In 1802, when the contest for governor was between 1>. R. Tillman and John C. Sheppard, the State iVrrriocrtic executive committee con-' sented that in each precinct a separate box should he placed in which the- people at the primary election might vote as between prohibition and licensed saloons. The total vote cast for governor at this election was ti little less than 88,000 and the vote on the whiskey question totaled a little more than 70,000. The prohibitionists won in the referendum by about 10,000, the vote for license being about 30,000 and that for prohi bition about 40,000. When the result became known it was taken for ^ granted that the legislature would en i act the Childs hill or one similar to' it. Mr. Childs did not return to the I legislature and the new prohibition bill was introduced in the house by < Mr. Roper, when |he legislature met in November. The Tillmanites or 1 "Reformers" had overwhelming ma- 1 jorities in both houses. The leaders i of their faction were afraid of prohi- < bition. They apprehended that it might, if enacted, cause an increase of taxation and in other ways divide the Til! nan forces. The Roper hill was, however, promptly passed by the house. In the senate a number of hills . bearing on the whiskey traffic wore introducd and at one time it seemed as though the subject would be so con fused in that body that no legislation would result. Gov. Tillman already had taken the position that the profits of the saloons, which hitherto had gone entirely into the town treasuries should he divided with the coounties so that the rural sections might share in them. Marlboro county at this time was dry, as it had been since a day *>recediiur <iir> YVm* iv.fM.A/,.. o. r - n v??v/ t 14 i i/i;i witl'II lll(l OUi' ~ I lions, an<l thorn may have boon One or two other dry counties. Gothenburg System. As the end of tTie session of tlu general assembly approached the dispensary bill was introduced by Senator John Gary Evans, then of Aiken. The dispensary system, modeled upon the Gothenburg system of Norway, was already in operation in Athens, Ga. T. Larry Gantt, then editor of the Columbia Register, had lately come to South Carolina from Athens 1a..id it was said that ho suggested the Athens plan to Gov. Tillman. At any rate Gov. Tillman became enamored of the scheme. When the bill was introduced in the senate no one took jt seriously except those of the innereowncils of the Reformers, but it was ?\id that the Reform members of the j^enerffl assembly or some of them held a caucus and decided that it should be enacted. The measure came vp in the senate for discussion at a time 90 close to the day fixed for adjournment that it was impracticable SiX MULES LOST IN SUMTER BLAZE Sumter, Dec. oO?Fire at 10 o'clock tonight destroyed stables occupied by the Sumter Transfer company. Six mules were burned to death. The building was owned by the Pearson estate. The loss is between $4,000 and $f>,000, partly covered by insurance. A high wind caused the flames to gain rapid headway and there was 'ittle ehanr * to save the building or contents. The origin of the fire is unknown. o The state superintendent of educa tion J. K. Swearingen hucl issued a school directory of South Carolina. It is a pamphlet of 28 pages and is re plete with information concerning the school system of the state. to give it three readings in both houses. The prohibition bill already passed by the house 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 filbuster by the seven anti-Tillmanite senators tNe bill was passed, three of thos aligned with the Reform faction voting against it. One of these three was 1). E. Einley, senator from York and now representative in Congress. The new law included the essential principles of the present dispensary system. It was passed in December. 1892. and took effort .lulv 1 1 XO.'t It provided for the establishment o' a State wholesale dispensary and subdispensaries in all the counties except Marlboro which the late Senator W. I). Evans of that county by resolute efforts succeeded in causing to be exempted. Law Attacked. The constitutionality of the law was attacked in the State courts. Opposition to the law was intense throughout the State but it was generally and firmly supported by Sena tor Tillman's faction who were a decided majority of the people. In the spring of 1894 occurred the "Darlington war," as it was popularly called. which resulted in the killing and wounding of three or four men of both factions, resulting in the proclamation by the governor that the eoun ties of Darlington and Florence were in a state of insurrection. About a month later the supreme court of the State, then composed of Justice Simpson, McGowan and Pope, declared the law unconstitutional. Mr. Pope dissented. For some weeks following whiskey was retailed freely without license as there was no license law in existence and the dispensary law had been held null and void. In August the personnel of the supreme court was changed, a new test case was brought and the former decision was reversed. The dispensary system was again in force. At the session of the legislature in 899.'] and at subsequent sessions the law underwent various changes, the essential regulative methods of selling intoxicants being retained. In 1895 the constitutional convention incorporated the dispensary plan in the organic law of the State in a clause which Senator Tillman has said that lie wrote. The Downfall. In 1895 the Brice law, introduced by Senator J. Steele Brice of York, was enacted which permitted county option as between dispensaries and prohibition, and very soon the dispensaries were voted out of numbers of counties especially in the Piedmont section. This was the beginning of the downfall of the State dispensary In 1905 and 1900 an investigation of the system was undertaken by a committee of the legislature and it resulted in unearthing far-reaching scandals anil frauds in the State's liquor business, long suspected and alleged but not hitherto proved. Endeavors were made to tighten the law and eliminate possibilities of fraud, ' ut the legislature dil not succeed. in 190G M. F. Ansel of Greenville was elected governor on an anti-State linptnsary platform ami a general as sembly in sympathy with this idea was elected with him. The legislature in 1907 abolished the State dispensary and substituted the county dispensary system by what is known as the "Ca* roy-Cothran" law. In August, 1909 the 21 counties having dispensaries, by order of the legislature, held ref erendums as to their abolition or retention and all the counties except six voted "dry." Since then about nine counties have voted in county dispensaries. The action of the legislature of 19i:? submitted a Statewide nrnhihi bition law to a State referendum | which resulted in an eelection in September, 191 f>, in accentijne the law. i The Statewide proh(bitfi<am [liquor traffic which bejjaff Saturday in afcord| ance with that aot and referendum. THE HORRY HE CONVICT'S FRIEND ACCUSED BY JURY Thomas Mott Osborne Under Indictment on Many Grave Charges SIX COUNTS BROUGHT i SHOWING BAD STATE Millionaire Warden of Sing* Sing Charged With Misconduct and Neglect. Whito Plains, N. V.?Thomas Mott Osborne, warden of Sing* Sing prison, was indicted on six counts this afternoon by the Westchester county grand jury, which has been investigating conditions at the prison. The first count charged that Osborne absented himself from the prison. The second embraced allegation? [that the warden failed to perform the duties imposed upon him; that he fail ed to prevent felonies in the prison and that he failed to report immorality among the prisoners. The third count charged the warden with permitting convicts to go into the death house to visit Charles | Becker. The fourth count charged j Osborne with failure to maintain proper discipline and the fifth alleged that he permitted fights between convicts. The sixth count contains allega-1 tions against the moral character of, the warden in his relations with prisoners. o TO BE REMOVED Osborne to ho Deposed as Chief at Sing Sing. Albany, N. Y.?Thomas Mott Osborne, millionaire warden of Sing; Sing Prison will be removed from of-' fice as soon as a successor can be ap-i pointed formally under the law. This action probablv will be taken tomor-: ' row, John I?. Riley, State superintendent of prisons, said today after; he had learned of the specifications in the indictment returned against the Sing Sing executive by the Westches-' ter county grand jury. "No man who is under indictment; should continue in the office of warden," Supt. Riley said, "and as soon as a successor can be found he will be appointed." Gov. Whitman's comment was lim-' ited to a brief typewritten statement which read: "From the first I have believed the charges against Mr. Osborne's per-! sonal character entirely unfounded! and I am astonished at the action of the grand jury. But , of course, I know nothing whatever of the evidence which was presented to that body." Osborne was appointed warden of Sing Sing in the latter part of November, 1914, near the close of Gov. Glynn's administration. A short time previously he gained considerable publicity by spending a week at Auburn prison, where a part of his study of penology, he lived the life of a convict and was known as "Tom Brown.": KIDNEY MEDICINE DISSOLVES GRAVEL STONES Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root sells well with us because it invariably produces good results in Kidney, Liver and Bladder troubles. We sold a dollar bottle to one of the inmates of out Soldier's Home near here, and after using it he brought in about one dozen gravel stones some as large as a pea, which he had passed. He states that he obtained wonderful relief from the use of Swamp-Root. ERNEST A.. BROWN, LayfettOj Ind. Personally appeared before me thb 2Hth of July, 11)09, Ernest A. Brown, of the Brown Drug Co., who subscribed the above statement and made oath that the same is true in substance and in fact. DAVID BRYAN, Notary Public. Letter to 1 Dr. Kilmer & Co., | Binghamnton. N. Y. ! Prove What Swamp-Root Will Do foi You. Send ten rents to Or. Kilmer & Co. Binghamton, N. Y., for a sample sizebottle. It will convince anyone. Yo\ will also receive a booklet of valuabh information, tolling about the kidney* ami bladder. When writing, be sure and mention the Conway Weeklv Hor vy Herald. Regular fifty-cent and one-dollar size bottle* for sale at all drug storos.?adv. RALI\ CONWAY, S. 0. 1 11 ' HUNT FOR BUCKS IN THREE STATES Search For Negroes Involved; in Murder Takes a Wide Range I ' - " FIVE NEGROES DEAD LODGES ARE BURNED Quiet at Blakely, Center of Trouble, But Posses - . I Are Uut. Blakcly, Cia., Jan. 1.?The search for negroes connected with the assasi, nation of Henry J. Yillipiguc, a white overseer, on an Early County plantation, had extended into Alabama on I the west and Florida on the South, ae cording to reports reaching here today. Outwardly, however, Blakcly and Early county were quiet after three davs of clashes between whites and I negroes, in which, according to Sheriff T. J. Howell, of Early county, five! negroes are known to have been killed and one probably fatally wounded. Early county borders on Alabama and lies about 30 miles north of the Flori-i da line. According to reports here late last night, Mike and Ulysses Goolsby, two young negroes, accused of killing Mr. Villipigue, had gone either into Alabama, making thier way toward Mont' gomery or had fled south toward Greenwood, Fla. A posse of whites was said to have started toward] Greenwood last night, while others crossed into Alabama. Last night's I outbreak resulted in the death of Kd.j Law and his adopted son, Precious, Law, both of whom it was claimed I had aided the young Goolsbys to escape. Several negro lodge buildings were burned, two within the city limits of Blakely, while another negro lodge in Rlakely was torn down by; negroes to prevent the flames spread ing to negro houses should it be fired. According to reports reaching here today, not a negro lodge has been left standing in the county, and police said they knew five had been desroyed. 1 FOR RHRITIIATICII Ji v; i'l/i J lUiH As soon as an attack of Rheuma-! tism begins apply Sloan's Liniment. I Don't waste time and suffer unnecessary agony. A few drops of Sloan's1 Liniment on the affected parts is all you need. The pain goes at once. A grateful surferer writes:?"I was suffering for three weeks with Chronic Rheumatism and Stiff Nock, al-, though f tried many medicines, they failed, and I was under the care of a doctor. Fortunately I heard of Sloan's Liniment and after using it three or four days am up and well. 1 am cmployed at the biggest department stoic in S. F. where they employ from six to eight hundred hands, and they surely will hear all about Sloan's Lin- j iment.?H. B. Smith, San Francisco, Cal.?Jan. 1915. At all druggists.? |! adv COLDS & LaGtifPPE' & of 6 doses 060 will break any case of Chills & Fever, Colds & LaGrippe* it acts on the liver j better than Calomel and does not tirioe or sicken. Price 25c. o TRESPASS NOTICE. All persons are hereby forbidden! under strict penalty of the law from hunting, fishing, trapping, or in any! manner entering or trespassing upon the estate lands of John G. Floyd and lands of Patience A. Floyd, contain-! ing about one thousand acres, more or less, in Floyds township, Horry Coun-1 ty, South Carolina. Violations of this notice will be prosecuted to the full extent of the penalty provided by law. PATIENCE A. FLOYD, H. J. FLOYD, Nov. 26th, 1915.?4t ? i Schmidt Found Guilty of Murder. Los Angeles.?Mathew A. Schmidt, who was convicted of murder in the first degree last night as an accomplice of James L. McNamara in the blowing up of the Los Angeles Times building here Oct. 1, 1010, will appear in court next Monday for sentence. The jury fixed the penalty at life imprisonment. His counsel will file a motion for a new trial, and it has been agreed that the case will be continued until Jan. 12 for arguments. Invigorating to the Pale and Sickly The Old Standard irenerttt strengthening tonic. GROVU'S TASTKUiSS chill TONIC, drives out 3d n lor to. enriches the blood, and builds up the sysI?Mb A true to%ic. For sduKti and children. 50c I GALLON MONTH LAW ! MAY BE REPEALED Straight Chaingang Sentences For Illicit Dealers in Liquor Suggested. Columbia, Dec. 31.?At midnight South Carolina will be numbered among: the prohibition States unci the dispensary system, around which has centered the political battles of the State for almost a quarter of a century, will cease to exist when the sun goes down this afternoon. Prohibition was voted in by an overwhelming majority in a referendum election held September 14th this year. The general assembly, at its last ses j sion, passed a law forbidding the importation into South Carolina by one person of more than one gallon of spirituous liquors containing over| one per centum of alcohol in any one! month. However, certain spirits are permitted for the church, art and! sciences, under a recent decision of the attorney genral. State Senator Carlisle, of Spartanburg, announced several days ago that he would intro (luce a bill in the general assembly which meets next month, repealing the so-called "gallon-a-month" law, I making the State absolutely "dry": legally In 1^92 the State dispensary system I replaced the old open bar room, audi 1 in 1907, the State-wide organization was superseded by the county dispensary system. Fifteen counties out of 44 now have dispensaries. It is estimated by M. L. Bultman, State dispensary auditor, that at least $125,000 worth of liquor will be on hand when the dispensaries close this afternoon. This surplus has placed the State authorities in a quandry, as the bill providing for the referendum election does not provide for the dis-. posal of any stock that might be loft j over, and the position of every oflicial and subordinate of the system automatically ceases tonight. This raises; a doubt as to the ownership of the remaining stock and what disposition' can be made of it, as it can not legal- j ly be sold in South Carolina. The! matter will have to be adjusted by! the legislature or the courts, it is said. Bamberg and Williamsburg i-uunucs arc me oniy ones mat nave completely disposed of hteir stocks.! It is estimated that the Columbia < 1 is- j pensaries will have a $110,000 surplus) stock and Charleston $.">0,000 worth of whiskey on hand. Gov. Manning states that the pro-! hibition law will be enforced to the letter. Representative Idles, #f Orange burg, at the next session of the Legislature will introduce a bill making the penalty for conviction of the illicit selling of liquor a straight chaingang ! sentence without the alternative of a fine. o TOBACCO GUANO 400 Baqs Plant Bed Guano at $3.00 Der bag cash? I : 10.000 yards Canvass, best | grade? 385 Bags Blue Rose Rice? TIT T I I II ! ! I I I !! I II SPECIAL PRICES TO HOR- | RY CUSTOMERS? I Pa^lrrkctto C5tr<occs-y Co. ! COOPER --- MULLINS Capital and Surplus $80,000 ' \TATirP I ill/ 1 IVTil There has strayed to my place one steer about 2 years old. Came to my | place in April 1915, red and white pided, white spots in forehead, unmarked. Owner may obtain same on p^Y^C,- op?l'ty and paying expen. ' Jt C. HARRIS, I 8tr-p?i. hirley, S. C. AUSTRIA NEARLY Al I MEETS OUR VIEWS I Note Goes Long Way Toward Satisfying Demands of United States * OFFICIAL TEXT NOT YET READ;H Said to Agree in Main With Principles Defined by ^ H Lansing. Washington? Doc. 31.?American ^^B demands on Austria-Hungary in con- ^^B ncction with the destruction of t ho '^^B steamer Ancona apparently have bc?an ^^B met in the new note now on its way '^^B from Vienna to Washington. ^^9 If the official text of Austria's reply ^^B to the second American note conforms ^^B to press dispatches saying that the submarine commander who torpedoecL 11 the steamer had been punished, virtu- ^^B ally only one phase of the incident re- ^^B mains to he cleared up. That would I be the payment of the indemnity for?^^^K American lives which were lost. Aus ^ |^B tria expressed a willingness to make ^^2 reparation. Later, however, there may H be full exchanges between the United States and Austria on the question of WB submarine warfare and the necessity for warning before attacking merchantmen. It was pointed out that in punisl^ ^B ing the submarine commander for failure take into account the panic ^B prevailing aboard the Ancona before torpedoing the vessel, the Austrian ^B government in effect disavowed the ^B act and gave assurances that there ^fl would be no repitition of such an in- ^B Although officials reserved comment toda> pending receipt of the of^ ficial text there was a realization of the tension which has been evident hei*e. Up until a few days ago there was an air of gravity in official circles here over the situation and the relations between the two countries ap peared to be on the verge of a break, BB but within the past day or two there |B had been intimations of a favorabid^ IB settlement. ^B The official text of the communication from Vienna is expected to reach H the state department tonight. Ambus- H sudor Pen field had stated that it had H been handed to him and said that it H would be cabled as soon as it couW be H translated and coded. He gave ? hint, however, as to its contents. \ B The Ancona was sunk by an Aus- B trian submarine off the Tunisian Is- B land coast November 7. A little later the American government dispatched I a note to the Austro-Hungarian gov- I crnment demanding a disavowal of I the attack, punishment of the subma- I rine commander/ reparation for loss of American lives and assuran^es^ I that such acts would not occur UgViin. B Austria's reply was regarded as un- I satisfactory and unacceptable to the fl American government and a second I note was sent asking for a compliance I with the original American demands. I The new Austrian note is in answer to that communication. ? Jfl if T H Notice of Discharge. VI Notice is hereby given that the un- * I dersigned guardian of Jesse Deli Hick I man, minor, will apply to the Judge 1 of Probate of Horry County, for a 1 final discharge as such guardian at the office of said Judge of Probate, at Conway, S. C., at 11 o'clock in the forenoon on the 31st duy of January A. I). 19H). J. D. SHELLY, Guardian of of J esse Bell Hickman, Mitior. lm. 1, TOWN TAXES. Notice is hereby given that Proper| ty Tax is now due to the Town of y | Conway and is payable at the Town Clerk and Treasurer's office at the I I I.. II C T . - -- ? I i wwii mm in>m January ist to Marcti I 1st, 1910. On and after March 1st, a penalty of 15 per cent will bo adriod. Tax payers are liable to execution and levy upon the property aftor March 15th, 1916. w A. H. LONG, Clerk ami Treasurer. o Whenever Yon Need a General Toole Take Grove's The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is equally valuable as a General Tonic because it contains the well known tonic propertieeof QUINIkfB l and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives r out MalariA, Enriches the Blood* and .Guilds up the Whole System. 90 tents.