The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, August 17, 1905, Image 4
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KINGSTREE, S. C.
C. W. WOLFE,
EDITOR AND iPROPRIETOR. |
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THURSDAY, AUG. 17, 1905
As the law now stands Senator
Tillman admits that there is every
opportunity for graft in the dispen?
sary. And, by the way, *he says hej
Ii prefers the old word "stealing," to
the new one, "graft."
?' In his recent Edgefield speech
Senator Tillman, referrng to tinthe
Richland Distilling Co., said
that he had not heard anything, but
he just smelt something up the creek.
Later on he said: "I don't know
that there*is any stealing, but I have
heard that there is something rotten
up the creek.v
The Hon. B. R. Tillman is be-1
ginning to see political spooks. At
Edgefield the other day he made the |
remarkable statement that this anti-1
dispensary agitation i? notning more j
than a conspiracy to biing about his <
political downfall. Then he added:
"The man who gets me out of my I
position will have to fight for it, so
I , help me God!"
t Some dispensary advocates try to
C discredit the work of Messrs. Lyon I
L;. and Christensen in Spartanburg by i
8F,-, ioeeringly saying, "Oh, well, the
only witnesses they had were soreheads
who had been working for the
dispensary and lost their jobs."
Come to think of it this is about the
J-'" only evidence that could be obtained,'
?" from those who were out and sore at
| ' being deprived of a good thing.
Certainly, you would not expect the
fK -V; .
'1 fellows who are "in" to give awav
1$ *
!?< the snap they are enjoying.
b \ - -
We publish in full this week an
? open letter to Senator Tillman
* written by Dr. George B. Cromer, of
?*** "Newberry. The admirable tone and
conservatism of this letter and, witliits
clear-cut logical argument,
? UUIINC It JJCV U ilili I > 1 II III UQ LI H ^ J li O L <(t
^ this time, taken iu connection with
' ? the recent exposurt-s touching tlie
> "great moral institution" and the
agitation pro and con brought about
by the proposed electiou.s in the different
counties under the Brice bill
f Calmly, couiteously and dispassion I
ately Dr. Cromer si/es up the situap
tion and the argument he adduces
against the dispeneary as a system,
seems to he irrefutable.
/ .
| Is li Otfri
Own ti air?
Do you pin your hat to your
own hair? Can't do it?
Haven't enough hair? It must j
be you do nor know Ayer's g
Hair Vigor! Here's an intro- f .
duction! May the acquaint- |
ance result in a heavy growth ; j
ofrichjthic^glossyhair! And
weknow you'll neverbegray. !
* I think that Ayer'n Hair Vicor i\ tho tnnjt
wonderful hairKiower that was over made I
hare used it for fcotne time and I ran truth- 1
fully say that I am greatly pleased with it. I
cheerfully recommend it a- a splendid preparation."?Mies
V. Buock. Wavlaiid. Mich.
A Made by J. C. Ay?r Co . Lowell, Mass.
JA Alio manufacturers of
JLM f SARSAPARILLA.
\jr?i]ers s,re??8iL
.. v ,
To start the da?'with a wine !
? glass of SHAW'S PURE MALT j1
gives vigor to carry on your :
* work; to end it with the same is !
to help nature recuperate. For
sale at the Dispensary.
fijim, ii" "v ,
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?^ ?fc? $ ???i
EPHRAIM IS JOINED I
TO HIS IDOL.
CURIOUS REASONING OF MR. CLAYTON
AS TO WHY THE DISPENSARY
cunm n CTii n
OIIUULU OlttilU.
hditor County luvord,King8tree,S C
f ritnd Wolfe, you know 1 love
you and it i.? from that love that 1
call your attention to a heading that
appeared in your paper of this week
as follows: ".Mr S B Gordon Tries
Hani to Boost a Tottering Institution."
Kvidently, Brother Wolfe*
your headliuer has been approached
by some ardent prohibitionists who
has told him drinking liquor is a
in and that any church member
who did not vote for Prohibition
was no Christian?in other words,
hung him over h?1 lire and scared
the liver out of hint*, lint, brother,
did lie te'l your man how much
taxes people down there in Williamsburg
would have to pay when
this totteiing institution falls? Did
lie tell htm how your schools now
running six months in the year
would probably go b.mk to three, as
was the case before we got dispensary
money? Did he tell about how
the whites have to educate the negro
children and that it is a great hardship?
And did he tell how the negroes
helped lift that burden from
the white man's shoulders, by drinking
liquor? No, 1 don't suppose he
told you this; for any one who will
say that drinking liquor is a sin has
not got common sense enough, to
teach an A -B-C class, still less enliorhmn
iiu-n. Bnt.wit.li vour per
. "? ? ? A
mission, 1 will tell the good people
of Williamsburg county what they
may expect if they do away with
the dispensary.
Now, brother, I have carefully
calculated what what it will cost ns
hen* in Florence to get rid of the
dispensary. It will add about 45
j>er cent to our taxes, and the same
probably to yours of Williamsburg.
Now, our farmeis are taxed enough
already, and to add this burden will
crush them. The man who holds
the mortgage on the ox doesn't have
to pay-the tax; for he can lock it up
in his safe and say nothing about it,
but you can't hide the ox; and where
you paid one dollar tax on him you
will when this tottering mansion
falls, pay $1.45, and so in proportion.
Now our preachers tGod bless
them!) tell you this is nothing in
comparison to the gain you make.
But you old clod-hopper of a farmer
* 1 - ? * - i. L If
remember tne preacner riues ac nau
rates 011 the rail road and while you
are bending your back in the hot
sun of Williamsburg county for
four days to make your roads good
so that the preacher and his wife
can ride to church -without being
jostled; the preacher is exempt from
road duty. In fact, his taxes are
merely nominal and hence he can
readily put a burden 011 you that he
does not bear. When you ride on the
train, you pay full fare, he does not;
hence, you dcn'theur him talk much
of Sunday violation by the 1 ail roads.
But he is some 011 prohibition,wants
whiskey destroyed and temptation
taken away from all. Now, vre
would all like to see everybody perfectly
pure; we would like never to
hear of murders, stealings, adulteries,
and the liKe. Yet we do, and
it is the peculiar mission of the
Clurch to correct those evils, and
because they have not made the
world perfect we are not in favor of
abolishing the Church. No! We say
us reasonable people, man is inclined i
to sin, ai'd if the church fails to
correct .sin as a whole, it docs minimize
it, and we go home satisfied.
But if we took the view of the
preaehei as to the difpensary we
would at once vote to abolish the
Church. But, thanks to education
and reason, we are not so stupid, for
the Church does a great amount of
good and if we did not have it, the
world would be even worse than it
is. And so it is with the dispensary.
It does not cure drinking but
it minimizes it. It: South Carolina
$4.TO, per capita, is the price paid
for liquor, while in the United
States it is SIT. We drink less
whiskey in tliis State * than any in
the Union of equai population. Out
of every 1<>0 persons who use liquor,
less than one is a drunkard. Can ;
the Church show a better record?
Out of every one hundred members
of the Church, would |that institu-,
tution l>e willing to insure ninety- ;
nine to go to heaven? We think the
risk too great to take. Whiskey is
in evil in its abuse, not in its use. .
So is everything else. Now if the j
good people of Williamsburg to pay
the price they can kill the dispensary,
but what will they get in return!
Blind tigers galore. Prohibition
lus failed wherever tried and South 1
-r* v -- . ^
Carolinians arc no iwtter than other! 1
people. These are cool facts, and
if von vote out the dispensary and
find yon have jumped from the frying
pan into :he lire, that just as
much Injuor is sold in your county, '
and that your taxes are nearly
double and you begin to curse and
swear, and your anger gets the bet- .
tor of you and \oii commit sins of
commission and omission, and die,
ami come to judgment, and try aim 1
extenuate your conduct by what the <
preaeheis and prohibitionists have!
told yon \on wiii lino a record up
there thai you were advised better
by. W F Clayton.
Florence, S. August 11, 1H05.
AN OPEN LETTER
TO SENATOR TILLMAN.
MASTERLY REVIEW OF DISPENSARY
SITUATION BY OR. GEORGE B.
IROMER.
The following ijk-ii letter" to
Senator Tillman from Hon (ieo H
Cromer of New berry has been reCei>*d
by The Stale fo. publication:,
Hon^k R Tillman.
hear Sir: 1 ] trot est against the
| introduction of the tom-tom and the.
spirit of faction into the movement
by which the merits of the dispensary
are to be tested. The tom-tom
is the instrument of the juggler and
factionalism is the resort of the politician.
The people of this State
have the right to expect something
higher and better from you. Your
recent letter to Mr Iliggins was a
calm, sane and judicial statement of
your attitude on the dispensary
question, but for this very reason it
was distasteful in certain quarters. <
and you wer? accused of straddling. '
You gave that letter out as an ex-1
pression of your views, and my name;
having been kindly suggested by
you, I was asked to answer it in the
New Voice. I declined to do so for
the simple reason that in this country
we wish to test the dispensary
question on its merits and, therefore,
desire to exclude every po.-sible phase
of "Tillmanisni."
In the Iliggins letter you recog- '
ni/.ed the wide-spread and well- .
founded belief that the present agitation
is an expression of popular
dissatisfaction. But in your Edge
speech you shifted your ground, and
took the position that the movement
is political in significan and is
a covert attack upon you.
In the Iliggins letter you said that
the remedy for the ^corruption rests
with the legislature the friends and
enemies of the dispeusaiy got together
and did nothing but appoint*
a committee; that ever since you
were governor }on have given advice
and made suggestions, but that,
your opinion has had no weight
with the legislature: and that if tints
next legislature does not apply the
remedy, you will help to kill the
dispensary.
In your Edgefield speech you said
that if the next legislature does not
adopt certain suggestions that \ou
in.end to make,'you will help to
elect a legislature that will. And
you said b\ implication at least, that
you will go to the "Reformers'* for
that legislature.
I appeal fiom Philip drunk to
Philip sober?from the temper of |
the Edgefield speech to the tone of
the lliggins Ij-tter. In Newberry
there is no disposition to make an
attack upon you under cover of a
movement against the dispensary. It
is not a political movement. It was
begun in an off year in order that it
might be a (est of a great moral
1111 i i
question, uncioimeu oy personal ami
political considerations. It is net a
lnovenieiit of the politicians, hut a movement
of the people. You have ,
doubtless noticed that the counties
that were 'strongly "Conservative"
are not in the movement. I
1 do not question your ri?ht to1
take part in the discussion. Inde-j
pendendently of the fact that von
are the author of the system in this{
State, it would he strange if you
were to remain silent. By virtue of
your high office and of your great
influence it is your duty to speak, i
but to speak sanely and temperately
as you did in theHiggins letter. You
owe a great deal to the youth of this
Ktute- vou owe them the best that
you have to give. When the uis-1
pensary was tirst put oi* trial there
may have been a good^^eason for an
appeal toa faction, iftt that reason
no longer exists. The^ystem has
been on trial more than 12 years. It
will soon be voted on by thousands,
of men who were only eight or nine
years old when it was adopted.
When you speak now, we are eu(Continued
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GROCERIES, FAf
No Su- .1 Stock Ever Seen He
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CIGARS, ToBACCo'FIN
4- AND 1C
We Thank Our Friends For
vite Them to Our New Ston
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and Pleasure.
IFOR TERMS,
Harris Lith
| HARRIS SPRINGS,
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' of our ware-roo
j pelled to thin d
as to give us m
ations on first
as it is impossil
| ters to work in
part of the sloe
We therefore ai
tion in prices 01
over one hundrt
thirty da\rs 01
have all been re
our factory and
i sible condition.
! following woi
grade pianos:
Mason & Hamlii
Canover, Cabh
Wellington piar
j . Our out of town
the same prices
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prices, and we
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lost and Below Cost. . .
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ie crowded condition i!
ms, we shall be cornown
our stock, so I!
ore room for alter- i '
and second floors,
ale for the carpen- j |
the store until a
:k has been moved.
inounce a biy reduc11
our ent're stock of 1
new pianos, for
lly. These pianos
cently received from
are in the Dest posThey
comprise the
rid renowned hi^h
1 Pianos and Organs.
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10s:
i customers will tfet
as our City friends,
il for catalogs and
will tell you all
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ROUGH PULLMAN SLEEPING
RS ON TRAIN No. 32 DIRECT
NORFOLK, ARRIVING AT
RFOLK 7 a. m., AUGUST 17.
'KETS LIMITED TO RETURN
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four-in-hand ties that has
time,: i"n^
Stetson
The Shoes made by btets<
pair warranted and un
comfort. We have just r<
the factory.
CLOTHING!
Two Piece Suits
YOUTHS9 sum
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Straw
we nave ine Latest
YOU'LL BE
Summei X
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line can be found 2t
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now until the spring sea
strong efforts to clear oui
something in winter $
just write i
Wo'll friru/orH cimnlac oi
TT v* 11 ivji wai u jauipaj ai
HERETOFORE we have
stocks by means of CU1
week, and only our home
benefit. Now IF YOU'L
TER, we'll quote prices f<
opens the wav for our 01
secure the unusual bargai
sales. : :
If you want prices on I
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We wish to receive your pj
are not pleased after purcb
fund you your money in exc
you.
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Celebrated Lion Brand
:OLLAKS and CUFFS.
vear?the prettiest lot of
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equaled for looks and
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Shapes and Styles.
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winter fabrics. From
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t this stock. If there's
roods you can use?
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nnrp
sold out our surplus
r-PRICE sales twice a
customers reaped the
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the next sale. This
it-oi-rown customers to
ns offered at our special
-urniture,Mark your
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STORY SKY-SCRAPER
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fNG SUITS.
st styles of
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asing from us we will re:hange
for the goods sold
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