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'k, Ilk.~"K * I IR t Y', A TREK THROUGH STATE BEGUN UAAIAMN OF IO olNED) AT It Vuly Soo,n Orew Spicy-Mr. Pattdr8on Attatcks (ov. Mchwersey fr(ns Sevmni SiCes-1. V. Jibio Entir" Hnoa Againmt Sews(or T1anmum. Reporb of thk., Firnt Coi Mlet olrl (34-111g4. irg G. omid. (Condensed from Tho State.) Orangeburg, Juno H4.-The (is pensary. That is the keynote to the Stato Democratic camptign prepara tory to the primary election in Au. gust. The chief intorest centors in the candidates for Governor. who represent differet phasew of the question. Tho first meeting at Orangeburg y etorday oponod rathor tamely, but, bogin to got spicy, and it appears that there will be quito a deal of old timo "mud-slingiug" in this cam paign. Mr. Pattvrsoi of Barnwoll 1mado vicious attacks on Mr. McSwoe noy; Mr. Capers ind Ir. M.-Mahan began to warm up; Mr. Brooker and Mr. Dorhani showed sigus of word scrapping, and Maj. Barnard Beo Evans jumpod on his distant relativo, Mr.'W. D. E1vans. Mr. W. 0. Tatum, county chiair man, soundod the gong at 11 1-1, and the candidatto. woro off. Rev. W. A. Rogers of tho Methodist. church opened the oxercises with prayor. When Mr. Tatui introduced Gov. McStvooney thore was some handelap. ping. The boys hadn't (ound the use of their throats. In opening his speech, Gov. McSwoenoy thanked the people of Orangnhurg County for suiffrages. lie had beu twice elected Lieutonaint Govornor and June 2nd, 1899, succeed ed the lato Oov. Ellorbe. le had since succeeding Glov Eller be and endeavored ! carry out all the laws of the State, to be fair and im partial and to requir-o all thoso un der him to do the s-ime. Factional lines had been obliterated, and h claimed the credit for doing as much ,as any other man to bring this about. South Carolina is today regarded as one of the most prog:-ossivo States in the union and thero is no roason why this condition should not continue. He hoped that not tirg would occur to mar the high piano upon which he proposed to conduct the campaign. lie had conducted h oAliee-ou busi ness principles and had tried to ad minister the govornm,.ent without frid tion or interforence with other oli. cials. Whenever imatters required executive action he had conferrod with county delegn. ions, on the prin ciple of self govorrinient. He pro posed to stand oi his record, and folt. that his record wis entitled to endorsoment for ro election to sue coed himself. He believed in hlial and hearty support of the common schools and any man who wo-Ol tear down a higer institution of learnirg is an enemy to tho State. 11. believed in a liberal b)ut econo~mical support of State collogos. Hoe favore.l the building of good roads and believed in governmental appropriations to aid that work. He recalled his efforts to revive the search for the ".Black" documents and reports, his mossage to the Leg islature adivocatinig an appropriation for that purpose, and stated that the State was now in a good way to re over large sums' from the National vernment. 1Ho then began to talk on the dispensary question and eaudience began to listen more sely. lHe said that the liquor stion in this camp)aign perhaps shadows all others. For three easive elections the people have rs , the dispensary. It is giv: better satisfaction now than it over done. The charge that dis sary constables go around armed ready to shoot down pboplo is now true as these men are not so oIljectionablo. Prohibition lot and will not be enforced. - ibition was tried in the lnterreg he courts, and the State was d with blind tiger liquor. entleman in Portland, Maine, ritten him just a few days ago for information abont the dis ry, as they wanted a better --than prohibition. It has proved ure wherever and whenever u. We had prohibition when the nsary was declared unconstitn. I and every one remembers how key was openly sold. Take the rience of those towns and con in which prohibition laws were ed and drug stores and blind tigers a, n night and day and whiskey conk. '~.e easily obtained. With a prohibi tory law you would not only have free whiskey bd t you would have en couragemnent. -He said he would like for the hon est and sincere prohibitionists and -temperance people bo ask themselves why the friends of the old bar room and the advocates of high license are so many of theim fvoktin.g pr(hibi tion anld then Stop loll"-, ("nough to an11sVWO it. Do you suoposo for i momnt tlat they rily wiait to seo reail prohibitioney Their primo ruit son ais stated by thomselves is to broak down and overthrow t1o diis ponsitr-Y. Their real and ti1101 r1011 is that they beliovo prohibitionl would be a f.I"ii.O and then the StttO would 11dopt a license system and finally ro turn to the old barroom. If nJot, t hat those who wiant to engage in the il licit silo know that the opportunities are imu1ch grouter under prohibition 'han the dispenrtiy. It is for the taxpayers to say w%hat they are going to kav,. Will they 1a1vO the StiatO torn to pieCes an Mid the opon ind illicit sale of whiskey every where. Ihien vote for prohibitioi. Tho prohibitionists comeo boforo you with a regular organized purty, and ask vou to electi a candidato as Gov ernor. I am hero advocatiig what I boliovo to be right and for tho bust interests of my State with no organi. zation. It is for you to siy by your votes whether I have administored the 1 gh office of chief uagistrat in s11ch a nner as to merit your en diorsomit. If I have I ask tihat. on dorsoimnt of ily administration to Which 1 I ('l ntit led. If I have not tlen I am willing to retiro without, a murmur. Supposme u; it elvet at pruibitionist governor, wliat itassurinco have you that you will have at prohibitory lIw, for the L'Ill '0411Mncts the laws; aind unlesi ia Lo"islaturo pledged to absoluitm prohib-iti.,n ho Mlooted, there cl%) bo 1o prohibilton las. Gov. Melie a cheered upon the conclusion of his sp(weh. Chairman Tatiu thien introduced COL, JAMES A. no17. Col. Hoyt was not without friends m tho audience. They graoted him warmly on hi,n appearanco. In be ginning he stateI that he was no st ranger hor, a1s ho had visited near ly overy section of the county and had enjoyed tho houspita!itay of many 11011108. Col. Hoyt had boen a friend of Gov. Mc 3weeney for many years, but the latter claimed too much when he cliimed to be the man who broke down factional lines. Thero were many in both parties who had worked for that end. "God forbid that I should over disturb tho equanimity a..d placidity of the conditions in this State," he said. "I am not here to plead my own causo or to urgo for any personal reasons that the p)0plo Should el vato mo to tho high of)ico of chief magistrate of 0'- Stato. It is a call to duty that brings uo to this pliat form, and to tho best of my ability it is itinubent for me to represent those who tire dissatistied with the present statis of the liquor qnostion. That t here are many thousands who do not, beliove in the continuance of the dispensary system, Where1by the Stato k caused to be engaged in the traflic of whiskey as a beverage, has boon ablunldanltly prve iln tihe past, and I ami confinlent that the oppJosi tion grows stronger the more light there is throwni upon the false and pernliciouls system, by which every citizeu of the State is made to share in the trafici. "We deny thmat it is a proper func tion of tiho goveirnnment to engago in this b)usiness for tile m1oney~ there is mn it, and we utterly repudiate ainy resp)onsibility for tile banofuli conso quonces that inevitably flow from the distribution of the groat curse of mankind among tihe pl1oop)1 by sworn oflicials of the State. "No man has yet been found to argue that the morals of the people are intrinsically bonolitted by the sale of liquor. It was noever argued in the days of the saloons that they improved the morals or promoted the righteousness of any community, and the mere change of method in sale does not and cannot alter the situation in this resp)ect. "The State, engaging in this un holy traffic does not tralnmute the X brand of 'chemically pure' into tin agoncy for the promotion of virtue and morality among the sons of South Carolina. The elevation and improvement of society are not in volved in th. increased consumption of liquor by the citiresna of the Sttato, nor does it tend to bring peace anid happinoes to tihe homes of the hnm. ble or the rich. The sale of liquor is admitted on all sides to he an evil and only an evil, and it is not diin-i ish in any respet because tile sov erignty of the State is throwvn around the trafici. "Prohibition Domocrats are op. posed upon principle to this trafile under any system, and they are doubly opposed to the commuonlwealth being engaged in the business, for it makes them sharers in the profit against their protest. At the conclusion of his speech Col. Hoyt was presented wvith t-wo beautiful bouqueta, one) from Mrs. lii 3. 1-orbort, president of the Chris tian Tremnnranna Union of the State. "uo ou i stidardl berer, Col. lloyt, w It P a 1ers and I t WXi,blts Li tho Motlwrs of Oralgo bu11rg.'' )i tho roverso of the vard was at qulotationl from th, prophot ksaillh, chapter- 1:, ver1S0 12. Mit A. 1. l'.\T EiEHON was 1hwn prestented by t('irman Ti ton. This candila'o for Governor elicited no ofnthuisiaitml 41uring1 thIIe first part of his spyoch, Imt lati.r, m0 ho begwi to stir i) sensitionial ia' tvr, ho was chvered by tho crowIt. M Ir. P.attonrson, aftor soml- dtlsul tory self praist as to hil ktml on oducalti'u, got down to b' i: i. In regard to the liIiur < m ih said: II October, 1990, Cov. -Is :i drevssed at circular lvttor to aill 1h'I ma111yors anld inlteidunts of tho town!s aind citivs mn South Carolta, in quiring whether drun kenmi a-al crimo had decreased sinlce tho elmet. mlent, of tho fdispoensary la1w. The'vi r answ9%ers Showed that. the conSumIIp tion of liIlor had docrelse. -17 G 7 pe- cent., druikenness im i Id creased 57i por cent., and tho im bor of eases of druink and disor,dorlv cotinet 110 decrvlvd 0(11 9 10 1wr por ceT. (GOv. Ellorho on (,-tobr 1, 1897, only at littlo ovor t w() Nvars ago, addressed a ciroflar lot 'i to ministeors of the differvi-enti. deomiiii.-, tions in tho State, conitaiin!,g 1b1out the 1111O (u1stis 601a W that, if (14V. E'vaus, and out of -103 miswers r', Cpivvdl, 3241 riported at c dcreas iil drunkeilness of t1 1 #3 [.0o c,evit. You Can jidgo yoursolf vll I hr or not iovernor M;Sweenev h, booln a friend I') tho lispo-my.- b;. What the papers say. Gov. Messe' ney can't go back oil tho paptr-,, L - causo. they are his chiof supporicr, it prosent. 'T'ho Hamptoni GX a. dinll, of which Lo is editor :;n i priotor, caio out ill at strong ito rial just before tho lait :i.m 0, . Lgrisllit Ilre, st rongl Soniator Appelt's locil opti b.;i Cov. M11cSwooney simpky i. til '. did not, know that such all at1ic: WAS going to lippeal in hi; . But yol will 01)erve thI at lit ho hid of his paper is "Miles 1. Alciwo ney, vditur aind propriotor." And the roporters, inl dofeiding Gov. Me Sweeyov said that they (didt Iot know buit thaf, he would have favored some thing of tho kind. Why (d11 ho lot Coue out, filko a Man Mitt say at. that timo "I am not in favor of th l dis pensgary lawl' - At that timjo themdi. penismary Was unfder firo fromI aill sides., o0n iccoulnt of the rovnt. scnlldalS in the Stato Board of Contiro)l, and it great many thought tut it would ho rtpiealed. JVen tho Colimibia Stato eumno out n1111 ;Iltimllatetd that Gov. McSwviey hand a Uit ing towards loval OptionI. A very ti-inificant fact iS Itt th1e IIaIIngers thO 3 Jhulp. ton Guardian havo n-evr comto out 1111(1 denied lilly knowvledg on Gov. McSwoonley's part. It struick tho public as being a frtler a1s to t he str'ength of local1 opItion. Do'3s it not 10ok peculiar that thoe young 1mon1 would haivo wr'ittent an1 editorial that would hiave been calcujlt ed to elect 01r defeat the edjitor anid owner of 11h0 paper? Nowv lot us see how GJoy. McS woo nioy has1 enforced the dispenisariy law ini Charleston. ThIer'e are nraid to he 354 blind tigers in Charileston, lany howv thoro arle .180 'U. S. reovenuo li conlses taken out there, anTd dto you know how many constables Gov. Mc Sweeney has1 placed inl Chiairlston to enforce thle law with? Only fouri. Tho constables aire only requirod t.o make at fow raids, and11 I hi indict monts are turnod over to thle police, and I say r'ight here that not one im dictmnent has1 ever been brought~ in Charleston by tihe constables of the State since Goev. McSwvooney tils b)oon inl oflice. To show you tile mockery of the enforcement of the cdispensary law in Char'leston by the police, I hIavo now boeforo moc a report of the chief of p)olico to tile Gover'nor, of 3(0 cases! which he reported mi July, 1 899, giv ing thio namefls and1 addresses of tho koopor's of the b)liuid tiger's. All of these cases were thlrownl out bly the grandl( jury. W hy ? Becaulse in every single 0one of them the same two men were the witnesses. On Feb. 24th of this year Chief Boyle rep1or'ted 39 r.ow cases, and( algP.ini 0n ly two witnosses woroe used. D)o you blame the grand jury forl thr'owing them out? No. Why did tihey' niot hau11 uip reputable citizAons who pat ronize thOe laces1 and make them testify ? Hoe theni jumpod on (Gov. M~cSwoo ney for not making a hurried ralid on the custom houso8 in Charleston. He staited fur'ther that members of Charleston's city council wvore opera ting blind tigers, niotably August Mathies. tional chergo thzdt slice Mr. McfeSwo ney~ 1ha1 be.n G 0)Iovror of South1 Carolina lie had pautronlized blind I tager himelf "nHeo is h apern i ll lr lti, il1 alo (0 V m n s.ly to t!n b r in I M>u to com y : r. by -L "o d < 11:- , n . 1, 'P !t I, l !I)I I Y301 r, I' V Ivt. h : - : t . ( .o .I S wenerI I I . v ; I tIm. ( aI -. II Vi' . I that helt p:13( . i t 3; h 'wn r : utO sIl1 i 1 . % il ; 1,: 4, . , (I I, 1s cillic, F w th::t 'ov. . i vw'i w n y 1 1 3 . fal r hs I I. I to a1moA, vv" y 11--spapr i:1 "11111 'arolilla on of I ho GovOe*: or'i ce4I inIIgevIIt. finI. ! I e I has-1 11.k mI or1- v from you r in :i n mi,!(\ to p y I i. privato debk. I I hI a-: (1 I,r r . to (lo tlli! t'.:ti h rl h I n ' ofi voillity lvis ',( 1:0,1, a- f ei 'I''rterm 4, h1 ha0 1311., paid l1 o- w pr, tho 11uir.p1on (Gwn dian, anda thw of hil I'I oivato Scere try, tho Niwbl-er v .11 craM and Ncvo:. Ilt it is an attempt 14) oloiiz th prvls by pilt \ I for th III of I ho people)I's nm ov-. Itu , th IO i: r.; not 1"!!. \\o 1111vo hllro t ho rl.>l winl" item:l .'O2( paid Iiekieg fir ph(;tgrahs 'of (l- ( voIr I th t ,tatv. I cvr t;inly havc, no obj e n to hallvin hl) walls 1 of the (t 4; '7 o 1 1, uCs 31 ad'orneQd 3 4 ( :. . 13 : n 's >" Ill', but if I Int' ' I i p r ci it ho -.hloui ii 'I for It 0o ' of hi own pr.it : n ' out of I . iloh'i,s 1; ar. \-v.osv l ) cOpiom f ' he - - ('ou vr. I donl't. knl- h- l0 .td t Ihe:m ftr. All ," a thori::. spend rnol v., ro 4 ~ ~ fh ' I i '0 1'0C I3 loll. :\. 1 \ . . 1 ila , l31'x-pae V.8. the1 ho oi'' repre 3 n OTntiO sprfrilw o' a hig,ih m,1l honorabit 1111'w. He vaAl: W o 1haiv., comlw i''f y, un1111der th dirct1ions3l~ if 3 ~ i )>e . 1arty of .iouth Ca' ie:i o i (.'t1 peopl NN'w1 vot.-I sv s ., W.co to f;c* ad . to t'x wilicvh ' bofort I \ 'omo 3:t to indul!geo [in viLup O h m:l l lit( of one30 otlier, not t. inda!!] in P rk om.li tiv., t nt. lt to T ' t helt r. 'wl w!" It and inl 1'"' r i u ,f Illv al P )4' vn t .3nl u l ': i3b'iU 3'n I v. S'ay A t o l u -(t .3 ik 1o far wi I : I CJne0dI ( thoy vWill b (I uIli,ppoillted. I shal iot hw drawnt in0o p3r,llonI. Oies wore, for I. w 3id r this iwith"tr ma31tters'1. I shal1l treat'~ all miy fel. low cai3 Ihw O.w )rtiv At 13m noamI (im( I sha pveni.1 ty viro"s as3- forcibly :3s 1 t'n, N,(3 ing3)( it my33 pr1iv.iIoge to (eritjii,' in~ pro0per 14331 torz'ancos r f tho1So3 who O1pposo 31(0. I am befor'o you as a c:mud idat o for th h iigh 3 id respiIons3- ile 011lico of Governor. I (en3(ored( this raeo not0 l of my'p own) mo3tion3 and1 to grattify lmy 0Wn3 amtbitioni, but it wasl at th1e 333 licitaltion3 and: earnes03-t. reques0't of m1a3 1ny mem311bers of the1 general31 assembly.31 and3( others' who11 feel a1 depP inltPret in tho w3oflfaro of 0our connuon103 conn3 (iry. 1Ii have' boen1 urge by(<4 many 11(33 wvho feel t hat thel la3.4k of oniforco ment11 of the( dispensa8lry 1law is~ surely undo14rm3ining it and1( will 0oentully wrock ih. TheIy ha3ve3 ur1ged me to mako1( thIis ralCo knlowing m31 t.o bo ai rea'1l friend of the3( disp:jonsalry la1w, anid bolievinlg tlhat a1s long an'1 it is 0on 1h0 staituto booksl I would haveo it en forced. Tlhey urgo meo to malko this~ ralco kningi 3, ,.1hat I aml niot, in favor of forcing tilh bm upon4L an3 un3 willinig people, and13 that 1 3am1 ini fa vor03 of allo0wing ea~03ch county to dlo. terminio what. (er or no0t th1or'o sha131 ho aI dlispousar4ly withi its1 (b1ord0rs. it has; bon re~)C 303.ptd!yV s3ttd that tho GIovrr-or .and I 1 w 'l represen3t ques 11.on17. This m .-y frien lds,14is a mis 1.11ke, if I CO rroc! y imorp3) ret1 ui e: o sage0 to the' n;:Yral: 1amen.blhy. Ini that, messa1~;v' he: uryes that (130 (con trol of the 3:* ld b'-. should011( bo ill managemen'JIh(i of the( liquor should1( h)o remo31ved13 as~. 33: 31.'. po-ile from po ILiial influence100. 110) bo3l iovs 1.1hat I.heo boa(rd of director'1.3 shoul1d havo (ho p)ower'1 to pla~ici4t1 abponsariosM3 ini anly coulnti3l ex.cept t' 0.4( already dIry, and( wher'over Ihe33y oo fit, wvhethi or theo counities deo a d3 ispon03l1ary or' not. In t hi,i s. (iffer. Sinco ani'3 :..'I I!, and 93 Uo 3 a1 ny,31 tConlrod (ou 1o0t11 Pa31'ge. 'I; ri WVe are more ~andC more convilncedj every cday that ouir w y of doing business is the correct-our buy ig anca selling for cash anid soel~ing at a short profit. M~IHVIAUG H i.old you six years ago that these credit stores woulcd have to change their way of doing business, You can't soell an article for 40c. that is only worth 25c., nor can you sell an article for $1.50 that is only worth $1LOO. That is played out. Neither can you cut tirne price and timire-worn goods a cent or two and rneet it ,~i Not that w, are harcd up-we have plenty of myoney 1-buI .or e oF c reat n ; a little sensation every artm u lre sacrificed 1n4 yds. Androscoggan Black CIo for only $1.00 2b ' 40-.inch Sea Island "" $ 1 .00 2. 2 .n Black Cloth (withou drtsin) for only $1.00 .6 wrst Lhirting alico tLr nlha i p0 0 22 "11 O Co Matre T ickin. fJ only g 00 1 ' 3G-inchi Percales1 (not shortI lu' rhs) $1 .00 C /hiLe Lawn, hort len h''i Oc. quality for only $1.00 hous,anas of yar'dh Blck andC Co)lore Dres~'ms Goods at half price. 00 do: t owelsor thre days .4L., I Ce. and I5S., worth double. Q pieces" aleahed able' Ianen, jus ihke other stores ask you 40c. for, our prico only 22 1 -2n 5 ieces BJleached Table Linen just the kind the other stores ask you 60c, and 4c. a yard, Mimnaugh's price only 48 1 -2c EQ doz. Doiheso and Napkins to b~ closed out at half price. She peope a iwny respond a our Cut Price Rates because they know we do exactlv what we adve/$rtise.. has MIMNAUGH ever tolcd you when you ask ;or an article advertised. I have just sold out? Has .MlMNAUGH ever told you the goods are on the road and will be here in a day or so? I don't do business that way. I stick suare up to every word or my adver,isement. M ,ijinrery Depart ent. We have .dozens of odds and ends representing different values, cheap, medium and high price, so t:iat,if you are needing anything in MillInery don't fail.to see our line. tverything in this department must be closed out in the next wo weeks. Our busines s built on Bed Rock Principles UNDERBUY! --UNDERSELL! - CASH! OXFORDS! --OXFORDS! We defy competition to meet any value herein described. Our entire line of Ladies' Misses' and Children's Oxfords to be closed out. 8 Cases L cadies' Ojxfords, regular ic. Onity, now 1 18 dies' Oxzford, regular s. quaity, uow a ha ri . 2 C Li oxford, rglar . q ui y . * - t r 2 C.ases ,aiosie' Ox forde, regular 61. .A0 q ual iy,<~' ( CI now 08 c(nJts;. 2 )~\o~a(ooo hra oua 10 uly 2 cases Lad ies' (Ox ford, regular 7,2.00) ualit iy, ifyo ae oi o heMontino Da.nshoored isrts,e rouand w5.qat a nice Trunk for alittle moineycome to Mimnaugh's where the rich and the poor all stand on the same footing.