The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, October 05, 1905, Image 10
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KINGSTREE. S. C.
. C. W. WOLFE,
(EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
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C. W. WOI.KE,
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THURSDAY. OCT. 5, 1905
As to the Mail's "Logic."
The dispensary organ confesses
that it "was disappointed" in our
t reply to its recent dispensary editorial.
Now,really,we feel flattered.
We did not write that article with
? vioir trt tielt liner the vanitv of our !
K' contemporary nor in any sense to
^arCite an emotion of gratification on
its part. How well we succeeded is
demonstrated by our friend's unguarded
admission of disappointment.
Yes, dear contemporary, and
we doubt not that you will feel
grieved and vexed and disappointed
>*' when we have finished with you this
J week.
The Mail sloshes around in a seai
of argument for nearly five columns
trying to answer our article and
finally in desperation falls back on
the plea that we have misquoted it.
When left without a leg to stand on, j
instead of making a frank and man-!
ly confession of error, our misguid;'-f
ed friend comes with the trite and
^ threadbare excuse of being misquoted.
The Mail's whole "argument" j
5s a pitiful rehash and reiteration
of its former statements and the ef- i
tfect produced is that our ^contempo- j
rary is trying to convince itself of
the righteousness of its contention
7 rather than hoping to persuade oth- j
ere to its way of thinking. It is
said that if a man keeps repeating a
story oyer and over again, however '
impossible it may be, he will event-!
ually succeed in convincing himself '
of its truth, and if our friend keepsj
V on threshing out the same old straw j
weete after week he may finally be- j
f lieve some of his ownulogic."
The Mail is very magnanimous i
in promising to eheertully accept j
the will of a majority of the voters|
j; in the pending election. That re-1
;, lieves the other side of a tremendous
amount of suspense and anxiety, for
if the Mail's redoubtable aud puissant
opinion-moulder had decreed
otherwise it would be very little use
to hold any electiou at all. Now :
that the oracle has spoken, Mr Su !
pervisor, you may proceed with the
' election.
Hgtr _ . . j
In trying to explain its position ,
on the Brice law and the Brice law's
relation to the geneial election the
j. dK
Mail answers its own argument veiy
' effectually. A question of this nature
(that is, the dispeusary question),
it says, must be submitted to
Have
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to the in a general election;
under our law it cannot be submitted
in a primary. The law is all
right and the people have had an
opportunity to express their opinion;
if they fail to take advantage of
their tights of suffrage it is their
fault and not the fault of the law.
Very good, so far. But in such an
election where the majority fails to
vote the Mail claims that the result'
is no criterion of public opinion. "In
brief,'* it adds, "our position is that
the bill lot i-j not a oumrantee of nub- i
?
lie sentiment." The latter is certainly
a remarkable statement even
coming from the Mail. If the ballot
is no guarantee of public senti-!
ment we should like for our wise!
and learned friend to suggest some-1
thing tharfs a guarantee.
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As to whether or not public senti-!
ment will be behind prohibition if
the dispensary be voted out in this
county, that is a matter of opinion.
If are there only two issues before the
people public sentiment must fcivor
one or the other and the preponderance
of evidence is that it is not the
dispensary, other-wise it would not
allow the Great Moral Institution
to be abolished. And if it does
not favor the (lisp e nsar y
the i 11 e v i t a b I e conclusion is
that it stands for prohibition. That
is the proposition the Mail says we
assume without trying to prove.
We thought we had made it plain
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euOllgll C\CW 1U1 nil! .uwi ?.V v."...
prehend, but as it seems to have utterly
failed to grasp the point, wej
have made it plainer
In trying to extricate itself from
the dilemma in which we placed it
the Mail makes a bad plight worse.
Here is a sample- Last eek we
said:
.
"Suppose for the sake of argil-'
ment?that only half (of the qualified
voters) should vote and there is
a majority for prohibition. A very
small proportion of the qualified
voters voted in the last general election?does
our friend mean to say
that if all hud voted the result would
r
have been different?
The Mail's reply to this is a fair
example of its bright and shining
"logic." Behold it squirm and
wriggle: "In the last general election
the voters were onlv sanction- i
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ing their previous verdict expressed
in the primary election. Twenty-1
two hundred voters had spoken in
the primary aud if only one hundred
.
had voted in the general election it
would stilt have been the voice 01
2200." Just so. And if only 1000;
vote in the pending election it will
be just the same as though 2200 had !
spoken; for it is a pretty safe proposition
that the proportion that
does vote in a general election voices:
the sentiment of those who through
negligence or indifference fail to go
to the polls. For instance, in Florence
county, we are cr?libly informed
that by mutual agreement
every man <v hose name appeared on
the registration books was allowed
to vote, whether or not he had a
registration certificate, and it was
noted that of the number who under
a strict observance of the law would
have been disqualified, as many voted
for prohibition as for- the dis
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pensary, so thai had they b^en barred
the privilege neither side would!
ha1-'* lo t or gained anything at all.
The .Mail goes on to say,"that the
conditions of this pending dispensary
election and the last general
eleelion are in no wav connected is
apparent to the most listless observer i
and need not he discussed here." We
contend that the conditions are precisely
similar except in one particutihir,
which seems to have entirely
escaped the eagle eye of our discern! <
ti,,. l.i^i <r.1 <i
IU?; 11IVIIW. Ml 111V llin rv..v..?.
election the 2200 voters; in the primary
were sworn to support the
nominees of the party; yet in .spite
of this; many of them failot! to vote
in the general election. When so
few comparatively voted in the general
election after all had
taken a solemn oath to do so, it is
scarcely surprising that the fail voting
strength of a countv does not
turn out in a general election under
the^Sice law. This is an off-year
in politics aiul the people are busy
trying to make a living. Fully as
many who want the dispensary voted
out do not take the trouble to
vote as the friends of the system
who stay at home on election day,
notwithstanding our friend's opinion
to the contrary.
Now as to our misquoting. Thej
Mail makes much ado over our stat- j
ing that its estimate of the probable j
vote in the ensuing election would
be three-sixths when it claims it
guessed three-fifths. We quoted the i
fractal from memory and the .Mail j
is welcome to all the capital that,
can be made of the hair-breadth of!
difference. '
The Mail devotes a lor of space
trving to show that the prohibition- J
ists should have enforced the dispel): I
8uiy law. This argument is .?? fan-1
tastic as to transcend the bounds of!
absurdity. Yes, the legislature did
lietrav the prohibitionists by giving
them the dispensary law instead of!
"
straight prohibition and the fart j
cannot be disproved. Our friend in- J
quires why South Carolina too \ soj
long to lind out that she had been I
betrayed. If by South Carolina is
meant the prohibitionists, we may
say that they knew it at the time,but j
before they got a chance at the bal- !
lot box again two years had passed,
and they listened to the promises
held out by the framersof the law
and rather then have.'t changed
?? + DM 1 th in- snlimiffi".! mill 1
WIlllT'ltV < (.1 till HIV. > Utt vittt wv .j ......
still beguiled by specious premises of
the apologists for the law?the same
old bait you are trying tocateh them
with even now?they patiently bided
their time hoping against hope for
the things that never came.
Yes, the law had a self-enforcing
clause?an army of constables?but
they failed to enforce it because tile
dispensary system is a breeder of
blind tigers. Do you see the pointy
Maybe we'd better make it plainer.
The dispensary law in warp auil
woof is a tailzie of contradiction.
This is jn?t one of many that may
be pointed out. What was meant*
as a s lf-enforeing clause was nnllitied
by the fact that under the dispensary
law blind tigers spiing up
like armed men from the dragon's
teeth and for every one of the beasts
EEN Th
0 DO IS TO CALL ON
n x iif. i-fc I i A-.
I nai yve ouy an Larger v/u
ASE OF HUGS,
'ANCY BASKETS JUST KEGEL
OUR STOCK IS ALWAYS
N AIL 5. '
)U THE LOWEST TRICES.
na and
; of Paints Sold Here. Try
AND
Ever Brought Here. We
Main by a curi-tui le tvo are cre;.i-d
by the system itself.
The Mail quotes from the Kkcohd
as follows:
"The high-license. bar-loom .tiul | .
blind-tiger bugaboos ate largely ini- i 1
aginary anyway and sensible people! (
take theni at their true valuation. j
Our friend gleefully chortles over j r
out discomfiture and fatuously | i
prattles f??r:h "The above is what I
oureonteir.j). : .ry sa\s when we talk (
of blind lig- >. luit when it is con- ,
deiiining i. disjieiisary i' says that!
is a'maim >: i incubator of blind'"
tigers'. I it- own mouth does *
Till-: Kk<v;: > eomlemn itself and
further cotnai-ut i< useless."
We hate t<> c.;arge our friend with (
wilfully perverting our mean- j
in?r. but the foremoinm certainly i
ifives room for such suspicion.
The sentence (juoted from Tiik
Rhcokd is a part of a paragraph ,
relating to the alleged combination
of bar-keepers,blind-timers v
and high-license advocates to
defeat the dispensary. By detaching
a part of the paragraph
the Mailj ives a wholly different
meaning to the sentence, i
With regard to the "unholy al- *
liance" charged we repeat that f
the Ipmli-license, bar-room and t
blind-timer bugaboos are large- c
ly imaginary and sensible peo- 1
pie take them at their true val- t
uation. And we also emphati- e
calh' assert that the dispensary 1
is a mammoth incubator of
blind-timers, and we believe both r
these statements to be pretty 'J
I nearly correct. ! f
v* -At. ? A- 1! K ? 1 r
.NOiwimsiunuing liic /ami aim
eloquence of the Mail and the '
resistless power of its "logic," a
we are still benighted enough to i
doubt [whether the dispensary r
is gaining ground. We do not ^
doubt that the Mail sincerely r
believes its assertion, for su:li a
beliefjs a Mattering tribute to
its editof's ability'as an opinion- *
moulder: but that doesn't neces- ^
sarily make it so.
The vicious jabs that the Mail a
directs at the editor of The s
Record we can afford to over- c
look. As the Irishman said
when kicked bv a mule, we con.
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sider the source and attribute it t
to its ignorance.
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Between the "holier-than-thou i
| Blind
"About a year ago," v
1123 Broadway, Augusta, Ga.,
E3 headaches and backaches, and c
IT CAI
Non-lntoxicatin
immediately commenced to
like a new woman, and wish
all sick women, for I know
them as it did me."
Cardui is a pure, medicinal
vegetable herbs, which relieve!
pains, regulates female fund
tones up female organs to
proper state of health. Try
it for yqur trouble. />
m Every druggist sells
jjjj it in $1.00 bottles.
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I EM?IF
US AW WE WILL
FIMIITIIRE
antities In Each of Our Line
MATTINGS, OIL
VED. IN OU R HARI >WARE STC
COMPLETE. WK ARE Till
WIRE, FE
Glasi
this :
Us and See. Another C
LOA J J
Have the Goods and Guarani
The Better
Way
Th& tissues of the throat are
nflamed and irritated; you
:ough, and there is more irritaion?more
coughing. You take i
i cough mixture and it eases the
rritation?for a while. You take
SCOTT'S!
EMULSION
uul it cures the co.'u. That's
vhat [s necessary. It soothes the
:hroat because it reduces the
rritation ; cures the cold because
: drives out the inflammation;
uilds up the weakened tissues
>ecuuse it nourishes them back
0 their natural strength. That's
lo.y Scott's Emulsion deals with
1 sore throat, a cough, a cold,
>: bronchitis.
WE'LL SEND YOU
A SAMPLE PREE.
5C0TT & nOWNE. ia'^n? *Trt
ndivid ual" who does not drink '
vhiskev and advertises the fact |
rom the housetops as a claim
o greatness, and the man who (
[rinks whiskey and'tries to hide |
lis weakness behind a prohibi- I
ion mask there is but little '
hoice and we would prefer to
>e placed in neither category. .
And, after all, the Mail does |
lot favor the dispensary law! |
Hie ideal arrangement it 'pro- I
esses to advocate might be all '
iglit, but the whole dispensary
aw would have to be made over ,
igain to bring it about and then |
t is a question as to whether or |
lot abuses as bad as ever would I
reep in. It is a condition and '
lot a theory that confronts us ,
Lid the issue is clear-cut be-|j
wen the dispensary, as it j
lands, and prohibition. If the!
Jail does not fa.vor either its
liscussion is irrelevant ju$it now
nd it should "go 'way back and
it down"'until the election is
?ver.
It makes no difference how long
ou have been sick, if you are
roubled with indigestion, constitution,
liver and kidney tr*. ubles, Holistcr's
Rocky Mountain Tea will
nuke you well. 35 cents.
cdache I
1
/rites Mrs. Mattie Allen, of
"I suffered with blind sick Vvl
;ould get no relief until I tried I
Rous
g Female Tonic I
improve, 2nd now I feel
i to recommend it to ^
that it will cure |
[ extract of WklTE
i female SFREELY,
ions, as w# wot yoi u wrlto
a y7 Vi freely and frankly, dacriba
ley all yoar aymptoms. Wt
yy employ a ataff of specialists la female
.<V disorders, who will cart folly coatlder
y yoar case and fjtrt yoa free iidrlce. Do pot
besltaft, bot write ns today, flvlnr a complete
history of yoar troubles, and we will send yoe
Jn Instructions what to do to retvtll, AlIcorres?
see kept perlecUy secret, and reply seet yoe la
sled envelope. Address Ladies' Adrlsery Dept.,
1TAN00GA MEDICINE CO., Cfcattanooya, Teaa. J;
BKBHBSHVBH&l
IV A T
11UI,
SHOW TOO THE Ut
s, Than Our Competitors I
, CARPETS & LI
>ee we can sell you any
<: only people who
N CI IN! D, C
> Ware
JUICES T
:arload of FENCE WIRE Ei
' E D s:
teee Our j rices to Please.
" 1 1 . k.
Fall and Winter Goods.Our
stock is larger and better than ever before and n<.
goods coming in daily.
COME TO STACKLEY'Sx
fob.
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Dress Goods Dry Goods, Millinery and Shoes
and You'IIGet Your Money's Worth In Quality and Quantity
TK&Stackley's
Cash Store.
Kingstiee. S- c.
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? MEET ME AT X
t THESKYSCRAPER X \
j. And we will inspect *
j) S, Marcus' New Line Of ft t
Jn Men's Business and Dress Suits. Also a New Fall Line jf
fL of Boys' School and Dress Suits. New Fall Line of Under- Ta
wear and Hosiery for Ladies and Gentlerrfen- if
'A We carry the following line of fall goods and we are TA
A) selling them at the lowest possible prices: 2lv
? DRESS GOODS, SHIRTS, COLLARS, TIES yl
jr) and SHOES. In fact a New Line of Fall Goods
S of Every Description. (A
fl SPECIAL ATTENTION IS CALLED TO OUR fl
f. NEW FALL LINE OF HILLINERY. if
is. MARCUS,
J KINGSTREE, S. C. *
riAfin ?iin VAin
SUUU liU LVAB
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THE CABLE COMPANY.
We have just finished selling two carloads at Lake
City and in the country out from there.
Our prices are right, our terms are reasonable. Any one desiring
to purchase either an organ or piano will please communi:ate
with Mr A J Thompson, Superintendent of our force at
Kingstree.
In addition to selling and delivering organs our salesman are
prepared to take orders and sell our complete line of pianos consisting
of
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THE CABLE COMPANY,
Largest manufacturers ot pianos and organs in the world. *
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