The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, July 19, 1900, Image 7
canvass" resumed.
Candidate; Take a Fresh Start After
Their Lun? Rest
1VIIITMAV TAf'.Vr.CC HIC nnemfA I
irim.il/i i mo i uji hum j
Announces Himself in Favor ol !
L cense. ? Good Fetiing Prevails !
Among the Candidates.
Georgetown Gathering.
Georgetown. Special.?After a rest of
twelve days the candidates met here
on Tuesday for the purpose ot reopen,
ing the campaign.
Less interest was manifested here
than in any other county. There were
not over a hundred white men in the
court house.
During the interim since the meet- I
ing at Monck's Corner the candidates j
have not been idle. Gov. McSweeney
represented the State in the Democratic
convention at Kansas City, hut each
of his competitors was hard at work
at home. The mill district in the
Piedmont was the favorite stamping :,
ground for the candidates for State '
offices. Barbecues, picnics and other ;
gatherings on the glorious tourth wit- (
nessed the presence of windy, wordy
candidates. I
The eleven meetings constituting the
first quarter stretch of this open-tothe-world
Democratic hurdle were re- ;
markabie so far as the audiences are
concerned for the good order which
prevailed, for the thoughtfulness and '
independence or thought manifested
and for the sobriety of the people. I
There have been no lines drawn by j i
XiUi I U" |/U1 HOUdU.
Governor McSweeney was not pres- j
ent. Attorney General Bellinger, Dr. j
Timmerman and Mr. McMahan were
also absent.
Col. Floyd was not here, either, nor
his opponent. Dr. Geo. D. Rouse.
Caj)t. R. H. Jennings presented his
clainas for the office of State treasurer j
and was applauded.
Mr. N. W. Brooker for comptroller '
general wanted to go on with the re? j
form which he had attempted to inau.
gurate iQ the method of checking *p
books of county officials.
Mr. Derham said if the people of
South Carolina wanted him kicked out
of office they would not give Brooker
the job of kicking him out.
Derham and Brooker tangled up
over the alleged error in nulla bona 1
taxes in Sumter in 1S96.
Ellison Capers. Jr.. candidate for ;
State superintendent of education,
.U.,. MAM.il.on io hnn?-? nnH in. <
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dustrious. but has trampled upon ther
rights of others. He was applauded
when he attacked McMahan's appoint/ing
white teachers to conduct the
State colored normal school instead of
letting negroes run their own school.
Senator Pettigrew said that in the I
race for railroad commissioner he is
fighting nobody. He will commence
fighting after election?fighting for j
the people's interests.
Col. Wharton spoke of Georgetown's
bright outlook. He called attention j
to injustice of demurrage, the charge j
of a dollar a day for use of car on i
track. Farmer must stop his plow to
Unload car, and the car often remains i
there empty for days.
Maj. Barney Evans renewed his
charges that the people of South Carolina
are paying the highest local |
tariff of any Stare. This is because the .
railroad commissioners are either ig- j
4.
IlUiiillL UI' tUf UUU5J1.
Mr. T. N. Berry was a candidate on 1
his business qualifications, no: on era. j
torical qualities. He spoke in behalf |
of prohibition. The dispensary may j
be a stepping stone, but the State he9
been standing ca that stone long
enough.
Sickness in his family prevented Mr.
W. D. Evans from being present. 15theredge
and MayfleM were not there.
Walt Whitman was the first at the
bat. This was the first meeting where
there were white tnen on one side,
black men on the other and dogs in
the aisle. At cf the meetings
there had been two-legged dogs. He
was glad of the orderly way In which
he was received. The question of e?l- ,
ucation is higher than that of liquor,
but liquor has been made the paramount
is.-ue of the campaign. G. Walt
Whitman, who has been suspected of
dispensary inclinations, declared in fa- !
vor of license?not high license, bat i
just simple license. *
He jumped on higher education by
the State, giving $2i>0,000 to keep up
State colleges which half of the taxpayers
do no; know qre in existence.
He said the "Tammanyocracy"?the
Evanses and Garys and io forth" look
down in contempt on him for aspiring
to be governor, when Ben Tillman
v,;nui.1 f h:i?l crwl "Whitman vou have
got more sense thanall your competitors..
but you haven't got the pull."
Frank 13. Gary congratulated Georgetown
en the progress evident. He replied
with groat feeling to the intimation
by Whitman that the Gary family
had been too much in office. He was
running as an individual. "When my
forefathers were battling for their
country, where were you. sir. he asked,
shaking his linger atWalt. "While
my people were fighting for their
country, the forefathers of thai fellow
at Manning (Appclt) who started this
insinuation against my candidacy were
fishing on the banks of the Jordan."
Continuing. Gary denied that he was
opposed to the dispensary. The friends
of the governor, fearing his (Gary's)
growing too strong, had determined
that something must be done to kill
Gary off. and they had circulated a report
that he opposed the dispensary
law lie warmly asserted his allegiance
to the dispensavv. but was willing
to coneedeprohibition to unwilling
counties.
Since the gauge of battle had been
thrown down, ho would accept the I
challenge. During his six years service
as speaker. lie had known Tilmanite.
no Conservation, had shown no
partisan preference and in this campaign
had made no partisan utteran- i
cos. But there is an attempt to defeat !
him because he is a Oary and a Til- !
mar.ite. Me was a Tillmanite when
Tillman needed friends and not when !
he became powerful.
Patterson was the next speaker. Hi I
was giau that the county to county j
campaign had not been abolished, it !
guarantees free speech. Briefly refer- !
ring to the educational question, he j
spoke of the good features of the dis- '
pensary No plate glass mirrors, no
cut glass decanters, no obscene pictuns
on the walls, no street strikers,
ro selling t;> drunkards and to minors.
u~ ....,,.1,; !iL-,i ?r> 5PP .absolute nrohibi
tion. but it is impracticable. He had j
when years old been prohibition
chairman in his county, and had seen
It fail. People would vote prohibition
and patronize blind tigers. Over a
million dollars of liquor is annually
eold illegally in prohibition Maine,
while in South Carolina with double
the population the sales were practically
less. Crime Is being fostered by ,
prohibition in Maine and Iowa, as well
as political ar.d social distemper. Col.
Hovt Is not asking for prohibition.
Under his proposition the State would
get no revenue from the sale of liquor
but it would be sold, for under the Wilson
act people within the State can
send to other States and get all the liquor
they want The Columbia State,
the bitterest enemy of the dispensary,
and a friend of high license, is supporting
Col. Hoyt because he (Hoyt) last
fall favored coalition. Col. Hoyt says
that he is not responsible for the support
of The State. He knows that
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and he is trying to get out of it
"Whenever The State and News and
Courier tell the truth, you may know
that the millenlum is at hand," exclaimed
Patterson. Patterson produ- '
oed a letter from Jim Tillman in which
the latter declared untrue an interview
in the local columns of The News and i
Courier in which it was said that Jim j
Tillman had denounced Patterson for i
arraigning the newspapers. Tillman'3
letter stated further that there were !
other inaccuracies in the interview.
Patterson said he would not arraign
McSweeney in the latter"s absence
Col. Hoyt closed the debate. Hjs
candidacy, he said, is giving his oppo- j
rente a lot of trouble. In reply to Patterson
he said that the latter favor3
the prohibitive features of the dispen- '
sary law, then why not prohibition? \
Patterson is also aiiacKing me eiuurue- |
men: of the very law which he (Pat- 1
tcrson) supports. He also answered
Patterson's statement that more liquor
is sold in Maine than in South Carolina.
Patterson had compared the
amount of liquor sold Illegally in one ;
State with chat sold legally in South i
Carolina. How much liquor is sold il- !
legally in South Carolina? Col. Hoyt ;
then stated that Patterson had falsi- '
fied his position on coalition. He had
merely urged the prohibitionists in the j
legislature to unte with others to over- '
throw the dispensary law, in order to j
pass a prohibition law When the leg- ,
islatuiv refused to do anything with j
the dispensary he (Hoyt) had stepped i
back upon his prohibition platform i
and is there today, without qualifications.
Any man who-says that he is '
today in coalition with any influences ]
and that he will be so influenced when !
governor talks foolishness. He theu ;
paid his respects to Gary. The latter j
is now advocating local option be- !
tween prohibition and dispensary, and !
yet he refused to vote for the Robinson j
bill last winter. He twitted Walt '
Whitman for changing his platform.
Walt is opposed to the dispensary, he '
is opposed to prohibition, in fact is
there anything in the world which he
is not opposed to?
The candidates for lientenant governor
concluded the speaking. Col.
Blease defended the dispensary. He
favored liberal support of State colle
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Kes, uui lit; nui m
method of granting scholarships
Col. Tillman stated that the educa,tion
of the negro means social equality,
amalgamation and finally damnation ;
to the whtte man. There are not 5,000
pure bred white men In Cuba, where
the races mingle in social gatherings.
. Col. Livingston said that the river
which passes through his county skirts
the city of Georgetown. He hoped that
it would not be long until there would
he bands of .-reel connecting Georgetown
and Marlboro.
Col. Winkler declared that he believed
in the dispensary, not as a
money making institution but as a
means of reducing intemperance.
Col Sloan, the last speaker, hurried
through his speech, as it was but a few
minutes until train time. He made a
few local hits and referred pleasantly
to Georgetown's growth.
Speak'ngat Kingstree.
Kingstreo. Special.?There were
about 200 honest farmers of Williamsburg
who listened attentively to the
politi a! speakers here.
It looked like a scrap when W. D.
Evans got up from his chair on the
stand and started across the stand toward
Barney. But no accident happened.
Gary gaffed Patterson and
Hoyt renewed his charge that Gary i-?
supporting local option now. but didn't
Ill tilt* J?-giaiaiui^ j
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The ball was opened by Capt. Jennings.
Dr. Timitierman was nnt here.
Urookcr andDeerham warmed the boys
MP a little bit. Brcoker charged Derham
with allowing treasurers to make
settlements whenever the latter want
to. Derham, interrupting, said this
was untrue. Brooker said he could
prove it in the reecrd for 1 >97 in Richmond
county. Derhain said that he
was contradicting Brooker's statement.
They agreed to talk it out at
Florence.
Capers made the crowd holler b?
assailing McMahan for naming a flag
on Winthrop college for "a Vai:ke-?
soldier" who was teaching at the summer
s< liool.
McMahan was not here.
Col. Floyd said Williamsburg had !
been one of the banner counuc.;. He
wanted to keep iis support.
Dr. Rousa was absent.
The candidates for Railroad Commissioners
made about their usual
speeches.
Gary was the first speaker for the
office of governor. He for the first
time referred to the fact that he has
no papers hacking him up. reiterated
his support of the dispensary, I
and jumped on prohibition, out advocated
local option between the two.
He produced the record showing that
he had voted for the Archer bill as
amended by Winkler so as to allow
each county the right to establish or
to remove dispensaries.
Col. Hoyt said he had not referred
to the Archer bill, but to the bill pre.
pared by Mr. Robinson of Anderson,
which provided for a vow ctween dispensary
and prohibition. Gary charged
coalition between blind tigers and
prohibition to squeeze the life out of
tUr> flisnensarv. He accorded all hon- |
or to honest prohibitionists, hut .van.
ted honest men not to be persuaded
to vote for prohibition. He again stated
that factional lines had been
drawn against him as he was a Gary
and a Tillmanite. He wants to be
moasived as an individual.
Patterson began by saying that while
Mr. Gary is discussing local option, he
would discuss the dispenary. Nobody
in the campaign has said anything j
about the Garys holding office until
yesterday, when Walt Whitman said
something about it. Nobody is attacking
Gary for supporting Tillman.
He said that Gary didn't have the
courage to come out in favor of the i
'lisnensarv at Charleston.
Gary?That is absolutely untrue.
Patterson said that at Charleston
he had asked Gaxy if the latter waa
in favor of high license for Charleston,
and the latter raid that his position
was understood by the crowd.
Gary?I asked the crowd if they |
wanted me to explain my position j
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Patterson?But the people of South '
arolina must ha\e an explanation.
Gary?The people know how I
stand. You are the only one who does
not, and you haven't got the brains to
tako it in. I can't give them to you.
Patterson then paid his respects to ;
prohibition. Everybody in S;uth Car- j
olina knows that if Gonzales takes up
a fellow it beats that fellow, and so
Col. Hoyt says he did not seek the support
of Gonzales.
Patterson then began on MeSweeney,
making the same charges of nonenforcement
of the law. He made a
"new point." that Mr. Welch, of the
firm r?f Wfdrh Xr Pason of harleston.
runs a blind tiger, and has a United J
States revenue license. Yet MeSwee- J
ney has commissioned him a member i
of the Charleston county board of con- j
trol.
McSweeney stated that he aad nothing
to do with it. The appointments
were made by the legislative delegation
from Charleston.
McSweeney looked bright and fresh j
after his rest. He stigmatized Patterson's
charges as little, absurd and I
flimsy. Did Patterson mean to charge
that the editor of the county paper j
could be bought for a dollar and a half ,
a year? As to granting United States
licenses, how could any power stop the
granting of them. The constables get
a list of those holding licenses and |
trail them, but it is imposible to abso- i
lately enforce the law in a seaport !
ney) could rot go around like Patter- .
son looking for blind tigers. He could
n"' fnrr-a tUo trr?.n>! :iirv in Charleston '
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any more than Patterson when a pro- j
hibitionist could prevent the grand '
jury of Barnwell from throwin gout j
the warrants which Patterson placed
in their hands.
McSweeney defended his record and
said the dispensary law had been enforced
better than ever before and
without bloodshed.
Col. Hoyt said there were admira.
ble features in the dispensary law as
compared with the barrooms. But the |
people who are appointed to enforce j
the law do not do it. It is enforced j
in towns and cities with the aid of
municipal authorities, but not in rural
(districts?at least not in his part of
the State. Dispensaries sell to blind
tigers.
The colonel then paid his respects
to Mr..Gary. The bill he had referred
to was introduced by Robinson from
Anderson, not Robinson from Pickens.
It was introduced in 1899 and Gary
voted against it. It was prohibition.
The Archer bill was dispensary. Perhaps
Gary had changed his mind within
that time and thinks that a little
local option would help his candidacy.
Gary, from the crowd, asked if Col.
Hoyt had not last fall favored coalition,
and if he had not since changed
his mind.
Col. Hoyt stated that he had taken
that position for a purpose last winter,
and that jpurpose was to kill the
dispensary first and to enact prohibition
ai"terwanl3.
G. Walt said he would divide his
speech into three subjects. He would
say something of himself, then discuss
measures, and thirdly do some skinning.
He would ettle the educational
miPKM'nn two vears hence, and the II
quor question this campaign. As between
prohibition and the dispensary
he favored the latter properly enforced.
but license is his latest fad.
There is not a single prohibition injunction
in the I3ib!e, he says. He
thpn proceeded to the "skinning." addressing
himself particularly to J!eSweeney.
The candidates for licntenant governor
then followed.
Col. illman opened. He was followed
by Col. Livingston, who made a
clear exposition of his position on the
liquor question and said that he was
on record as to his stand. Col. Winkler
said that he had never favored
the dispensary to make profits, but to
promote temperance, and he didn't
care if they took away every cent of
the profits.
Col. Sloan congratulated the farmers
on the rain which the candidates
had brought. If their talk did no good
the rain might.
Col. Blease said that the reason he
that it left the question of dispensary
or no dispensary to the general
election. The 42,000 negroe voters, the
balance of power, would settle the
question for the white people. Does
love Col. Hoyt? No. but he hates the
dispensary. The liquor people want
to kill the dispensary, make prohibit
tlon obnoxious and then get high license.
Judge Moore was not there and Gen.
Bellinger had "no opposition. Gen.
Bellinger said that he had heard of
nobody but a trial justice down in
Charleston who had criticised his record,
and he would not tax the patience
of the people by making a
speech.
Sp.'aklag at Florence.
Florence, Special.?The meeting was
held in the court house. Attendance
about COO. Opened at 11 o'clock, re- \
cess from 2 to 3:30, resumed and las- j
ted until 6:45. Then there was a i
night meeting for the benefit of the
Atlantic Coast Line employees.
Brooker and Derham had their usual
spat. McMahan was not here. Capers
attacked his record as that of an
unpractical man.
Capt. Rouse and Gen. Floyd threw
bouquets at each other and declared
an armistice until the meeting at
Spartanburg.
The candidates for railroad commissioner
made their regular speeches
w. d. Evans replied to cnarges tnat
rate on cotton is driving mills away
by saying that $9,000,000 has been projected
ill cotton mills in this State
this year and Augusta mill men are
establishing a blea'hery here.
Wharton had been here 30 years ago
as a Confederate soldier and a few
years ago voted for formation of Florence
county. Why is it flour can be !
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Dill IW A4AA.AX+. w g
Than' to Florence? He wants to stop
demurrage.
Barney Evans sailed into \V. D.
again. \V. D. had chaperoned the
Jim Crow car amendments with uniform
passenger rates in last legislatare.
W. D. replied that he had not
been beicre the legislative committee
at all. He retorted Barney's own
brother voted for the bill.
Barney disclaimed responsibility for
wrs generet! !.v appended.
T. M. L;ny made a prohibiticn tal" '
and said a practical prohibiticpist i.
a -safe business mau.
\V. D. Mayfield contended that ccrton
mills in upper Carolina are sending
to Albany for cotton 0:1 account
of local rates.
Mr. J. E. Pettigrew was at hone and ;
courteously declined to speak, but wel- j
corned the candidates to Florence.
Patterson was the first speaker in
the gubernatorial tourney.
Gov. McSwceney was aot here. He
sent the following:
"A bouncing baby boy arrived at the
mansion early this morning. It "quest
county children to present my best
wishes to the Democracy of Florence
and my regrets at not being able to attend
meeting."
Col. Hoyt was received with cheering.
He was forced to omit discussion
of other issues and confine himself to
the liquor question, as his opponents
had devoted so much time to him.
demonstration. He was glad that Pee
Dee and Piedmont are alike?^regressive
and steadfast to the landmarks of |
Democracy.
After the recess the candidates for
lieutenant governor spoke. Each improves
daily in his exortation for
sary; ditto Col. iliniau and Col. Sloan
for local option between prohibition,
high license and dispensary, and Col.
Winkler for dispensary with a prohibition
local option rider.
Dr. Timmerraan, who was at Gingstree,
spoke here as did Capt. Jennings.
Gen. Bellinger was cordially receiv.
ed and made a pleasant talk to his
constituency.
The candidates for Congress: R. B.
Scarborough made a splendid speech.
Norton had not done more than his
duty in getting United States courthouse
for Florence. He himself and
others had worked for the court house.
Norton had said that committee work
counted. Scarborough contended that
he could go on as important committee
as Newton.
At the suggestion of ftr. Hartwell M.
Aver, the candidates were entertained
by the people of Florence at their
homes, ar.d the visit was enjoyed by
the candidates.
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Check ginghams 5 and 6c.
Bed ticking 5, 6, 7, 8, to 15c,
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Children high chairs 50c to 2.50.
10 piece solid oak snits 18.00.
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tv.lid oak sideboards 10.00
Lu.t. walnut sideboards 7.00 to 8,00.
Bed Lounges 10.00.
Conches 8.00 to 10.00.
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