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THE STATE CAMPAIGN. OUR DAY. What- They Had to Say. The crowd was variously estimated a* fro? five- to ?ftw Unwired, two fifths of whom were negroes. The for? mer figures are anti-Tiliman estimate ; mine is 1,000. Against the wai) of the court boase a substantial platform had been erected. It faced a ?mal! quadrangle, inclosed by the walls - ol low brick and wooden bandings. The plot of ground is green with grass and splendidly shaded by noble elma. It iii really a lovely spot in the ?ery centre of the city and yet se? cluded and private. When the meeting opened six hon dred people collected about toe plat JOTJB. Kev. T. W. Scruggs of Bishopville opened the meeting with prayer and County Chairman D. E. Keels asked that the meeting be orderly as was that is the mst campaign. Thc chairman announced J. A. Sligb and J. Walter Graj as candidates for railroad commissioner, bosh of whom were absent. Railroad Commissioner H R. Thom? as then announced his candidacy, and as this was bis home county "yielded to his competitors as a matter of cour? tesy." J. C. Wilnora, a candidate for the same office, announced himself and de elared in "favor of equal rights to all and special privileges, etc." W. H. Teldell who wants to have a band in controlling the railroads, took the platform and proceded to dissect the history of the State into colonial, oligarchic and reform periods. He ex? patiated considerably about the latter period and gave it a rather handsome endorsement, vectoring the assertion that bat for various ifs taxes would be reduced nest year to two and a half mills. He made a good speech of its kind, bat did not look pretty. He also quo^Lt?n^^rivox $oputf," which he iimprejtei w&h unction. There were about mba cheers when Be swppeSf Gary Watts was introduced and said that the administration of the Adju? tant General's office bad been satis? factory. He had been criticised and abased by "some of-eur so-called Con? servative friends for Iiis course in the Darlington riot" He had obeyed every order of his superior! officers, fie was not running on his war record, but thought that it was a good one. He did not countenance or endorse, '?band box soldier*/* Wd waa glad that we are getting rid of them. He remarked that young as be was he commenced as private tn the ranks nine years ? ago. He spoke briefly and was liberally ap? plauded wheo he sat down. G. Walt Whitman, of Union, who is running for Superintendent of Edu- ' cation, cKfeffa||>ig slice nf ^credit for ? ; the ''incipiency'of Reform^ which he . explained jfeinl''when itffcegan," and snorted out a comparison between the blowing op of Hell Gate in New York .Bartw and the-^erytowon-ef' aristocracy .and ring role. The political hell gate was based on the Sooth Carolina Col? lege"; ne was the'only one left to rain dynamite into it and "don't you think,'* be shrieked, "that there is a mighty poor chance for blowing it op (Cheers, j enthusiastic and derisive.) G. Walt continued in eruption for ? several min?tes ending with "do for j the Lord's sake, elect me Superintend? ent of Education " He got his share of cheering and bis effort evidently en? tertained the audience. Mayfield, who does not wish to rotate from the office of Superintendent of Education, defended the progress which the school system bas made during the last few years. John Gary Evans was the next speaker and began by expressing bis pleasureful addressing game cocks and > thoroughbreds. We are not ali dung- I hills on our side. We have gone into . this fight with our gaffs on and the opposition will have trouble if they attempt to take them off. He had been in several counties daring the cam paign and if the voice of the people in j the meetings means anything, it means I that he was going to win this fight for ? Governor, because the people appre? ciated his efforts in their behalf. We represent the honest and integrity of i the State and the yeomanry of the conotry redeemed the State and placed j U3 in power. Nearly all the thieves \ and fakirs and scoundrels live in the towns. He volleyed the three blind i mice gag. ? The crowd had now increased to j about 1,000 and some estimated it at 1,500 and Evans was frequently cheer- ; ed. He related that the charge had been made that Reformers are not Democrats, that he went to Chicago on the platform that Cleveland was a prostitution of Democracy. Even the ! Colombia State, which had almost de nounced as as Republicans, has now come ont and said : "Boys you are right, Cleveland is a prostitution of Democ racy. (About this time some mao j fainted on the stand.) But Evans j went on in a gallop. "We can't get j peace and harmony unless we get down ? on oar bellies aod crawl and kiss their j feet, and we'll never do it in God's world." The speaker interjected a story about coons catching fish Evans defended what the administration bad done. Some fellow interrupted him. "Don't notice bim, Evans," said a mtn on the stand. "Oh, I don't mind him," replied Evans.* "I am something of a game cock myself." (Another yell.) Theo Mr. Eva o s argued io favo the dispensary law and succeeded v cicely as a temperance lecturer, told the story about what an old colo mao had said about the reform wrou io his drunken son-in-law by close of the bars ; and while discuss the unconstitutionality of the law time expired. "Talk on, talk on/' came from crowd. "It would be unfair/' said Eva "and some fellow might say it was i constitutional." "If you elect Governor PU put on my gaffs and tend to any dunghill that tackies m< said candidate Evans, and sat do amid enthusiastic cheering. The cheer which greeted Tindal v weak, very weak, but unabashed, tl gentleman told about the familiar fat be saw io the crowd with whom he h fought under Lee. His friends h brought him into this race becat (bey thought that be could reste peace among the people. Tbe Refoi movement bad aroused tbe people in a lethargic sleep, both politically a industrially. The turmoil of the li four years bad been unavoidable, bad come from the very nature progress itself and those who bc Governor Tillman responsible for were wrong. Mr. Tindal discussed with erudite tbe rights and duties of minorities, as rehashed the usual defense of the ac of the Reform administration, attrib ting the fonding of the debt to Tillm and Bates. He saw no reason why tl people of all factions could not uni with the Reformers for the progre and upbuilding of the State. The coi 8titutiooal convention should be fn from passion and prejudice. The di pen gary law was another question, should be eliminated from politics an it or whatever law was passed oo th liquor question could only succeed h the support of the moral forces of th State: What impression Tindal made wt good and be received some applause ? his finish. Candidate Ell erbe opened up wit the observation that the Sumter pe: pie were called Game: Cocks, but b come from the Swamp Fox count? and he was a swamp fox himself. H hoped to catch some of these gam cocks. Theo Ellerbe deliberately and rash!; pounced on Evans. He said that b had always been a Reformer, whei Governor Tillman bad no friends, whei Reformers were abused And ostracised when he was even then a Reformer Evans had preceded him only tw year? in public Hid. When Governo Tillman was a candidate for member ship in the board of agriculture, Evan voted for Ancrum, a bitter anti I; those days wheo Tillman neede< friends be was on thc fence waiting fo: the cat to jump "My distinguished lit tie cousin/' said Ellerbe, "gets up ii his grand eloquent style, mimicing and claims that the voice ol the people for ??im .forGo^er?or. Why, Johi Sheppard said ttiat when he was run ning against old Ben and Ben bea bim five to one You'll see this ole Marion swamp fox beat this little lawyei five to one. Voiee-"You'll get there." . Evans had said that he (Ellerbe; was afflicted with political leprosy aoc that he would cure him of it by seed? ing him home to his farm. "But, 1 will be with bim io the campaign auc show him that I am the liveliest corpse he ever handled.'* Here Ellerbe argued that the Con? servatives in '92 were on the Reform platform. Why couldn't they accept it cow and all the people get together again ? A bystander interposed, "Well,.ii that's so, why don't you let us Conser? vatives vote in the first (Reform) pri? mary ? Ellerbe "fumbled" the question. It was a poser aud there was cheering. Gary Evans from his seat : ' Let the antis vote and he'll beat me." Voice-"We don't want any fire eaters We want no fire-eaters like John Gary Evans!" Ellerbe asked that he be not inter? rupted and then doled out the story of bis doings as a Reformer. Be did not even yield to Governor Tillman as a Reformer, and Governor Tillman would bear him out in what he said He was not a compromise candidate. He made no concessions and asked no favors. He was abusiug nobody. It used to be when a man abused him it meant a fight, and he saw no reason to indulge in abuse. Ellerbe discussed the Alliance awhile and wheo be sat down was applauded, but uot so heartily as Evans. Dr. Timmerman arose and stood up proudly A titter started which swell? ed into a roaring laugh and then broke into cheers. Some of the boys yelled : "Coo, Nanny! Coo Nanny!" The Doctor smiled slowly and benigoantly while his mouth closed and opened like a fodder chopper. Then be began and spoke briefly and patriotically, his hon? est and manly face impressing the crowd favorably, io spite of its homeli? ness. He was heartily cheered. The chairman said that Judge Izlar had beeo announced as a candidate for Congress, aod enquired if any one had a letter from him. There was no re? sponse, and Cal. Caugbman was intro uced. That dignitary launched out in I d tremendous voice. He spoke of the j sires of men of Carolina, and the : terrible state of things which made it impossible for a womun to appear on the stand. He deolared that be was a lyncher, because the citadel of woman's chastity had been attacked ; he became the executioner, was tried and ac quitted and "i'm Cal Caugbmao tc dav/' he roared. Re bad the high au thorny of Governor Tillman tbat hi record was spotless He could not b read out of the Reform party. He ba always been a Butler man, and he wa a Tillman man for Governor. Cal. livened up and the crowd bega to laugh and cheer bim. He was n coat tail swinger. All be Reforr movement had done was tn put th outs in. That is why he had joined it Taxes were higher than wheo the Re formers went in. They couldn't reduc salaries On the night the bill wa about to pass John Gary Watts ant all the boys were there crowding in and Cal. went in and saved them Mayfield was there and be was almos "a wreck of a mao" and his salary wa sa ved too. Cal denomeed the dispensary as : damnable iniquity. "That man Trax 1er communed with his God to find ou if he could accept the office of chie dispenser and God told him yes and b? took the job to debauch you people ' (Cheers.) Voice: "He didn't do it.'7 Cai said the whole Reform move m en was a humbug "and you all koow it ii a humbug." He said he had a pol with the administration and intimatec that the Reform Congressmen dido* have sense enough to have any sort o poll. He boasted that in the Charles? ton district he bad returned 900 vote? from a box at which only 45 voten live. "If Stokes ts elected they'll have tc come to Cal for the postoffices, because I am in with the boys. I wine aud dine with the Senators." Cal then gave bis version of the black districting busi? ness, saying tbat its purpose was tc wreak vengeance on Charleston and pro vide a berth for Stokes. Charleston would do her own counting th'ough and return a white Democrat to Con? gress and not follow the example of tbe returning board in B R. Tillman's Reform administration in returning a negro. Cal;s speech was something unique. He demolished the welkins roundabout and laid open the very heavens above. His lung power stood the test, but bis throat grew husky. There were some bard nuts in his speech though, which did deadly execution, and he perspired a gallon. J. Willian Stokes followed Cal and spoke of the Alliance demands, what be had done in Chicago, talked tarifi and free silver and against State banks. He devoted most of bis time to the finance problem and his speech was exceedingly exhaustive and exhausting. lt was the flattest thing of the day. Senator Butler was greeted with slight bandclapping. He said that the six efforts of the week bad had their effect on his voice and be would not occupy his whole time to-day. He said the newspaper headlines bad given an exaggerated impression of the alleged bitterness of the debites. The agitation of the Reform move? ment bad been ascribed to ringism and lethargy among the people, but the true reason was the want of opposi? tion within the Democracy. As the Democratic party after '76 became thoroughly fortified in power, there were not enough offices to go round. There was no Republican party. Every Southern State bad the same experi? ence. The Senator lightly referred to the presence of ?a large number of ne? groes. He assumed that they were all Democrats and was glad to see them, because they were a class who needed instruction. (A gang of white men at the right of the stand were hilarious and seemed to be enjoying a private circus of their own.) Men are all good Democrats in all the factions in this State lu my conver? sations with President Cleveland, he has recognized this fact. I do not see why the speakers representing the State administration continue harping upon "opposition," which is only "a man of straw." Agitation tn public speakers' decla? mation does not necessarily mean bit? terness. Lawyers appear in the court house and apparently riddle each other and theo are friends. The same ap? plies to politicians. Governor Tillman and I have had a bout during the last week. ? lathered him one day and he lathered me the next. The results will be in the argu? ments. Governor Tillman has announced himself as a candidate for the Senate. He has a right to do it, and I have done the same thing. It is your right, it is your duty, to send to the Senate that one of u* whom you think best able to represent you. I have a right to criticize his political record and shall cootioue to criticize it. He has a right to criticiz3 mine. The Senator said it was a question among tbe candidates themselves, whether the State taxes had been re? duced. They claimed credit for Clem? son. He endorsed thc institution, but if he had the money he could restore Solomon's temple to the pristine glory! (Cheers) After apologizing for referring to himself, the Senator said : I make this invitation. Let any man say when, whence, io peace or war, I neglected a public duty. I can hear it whispered around, "But? ler is an aristocrat." There is but one aristocracy in this country, the vulgar aristocracy of wealth. The charge was not made against m-? when in '61. at the age of '2b, I took my saber with seven brothers, and every mao of my name 60 far as I can recall, and rode to the war The Governor says that I am not in i sympathy with the people. They have even said that I am ninety-four ye: old. I am the best preserved mao nicety-four io this State There are bope, a good many years of fighti strength left in me yet, but any o who thinks I am dying to go back the Senate is greatly mistaken. The people of the State pay only $ of my salary. If Governor Tillm wants to draw comparisons of servie* valued in dollars aod cents, I eau back to my humble home in Edgefiel my family thank God, are grown, t wants are few, but there are not pc pie or money eoough io the world drive me from what I conceive to be t duty to South Carolina. (Cheers lo aod long.) > 1 deprecate seeing aod hearing t country arrayed against the town. T towos are made up of the countr The towus are being built up at tl expense of the country, but it is o the town's fault, lt is the result the emancipation of negro slavery. Tl Seoator spoke eloquently of the unfo t?nate results of the war, and the il that had fallen opoo the South. I reviewed the history of the Democrat party sioce the war, its final ioducth into power, and expressed bis regr that his own views on finance had n prevailed. He said that Governor Ti man's charges of corruption were n true, but he was frank to confess th two, or perhaps three, of the Seoato were corruptible men. He named ov* the Southern Senators, saying that thc were honest men and incidentally th: were no two traer Democrats in tl couotry than Senators Voorhees an Turpie. Tbs Senator referred to his s?parai box proposition, and said that son of bis old friends and comrades ha suggested it to bim. They were af rai that if a Conservative Legislature w; elected that it would destroy Clemsu College and adopt reactionary legist; tiou The Governor had said that h had nothing to do with it, but it w; for him to say. He could join in n quest to the executive committee. The cheering was slight when th General closed. As the chairman introducced the Goi eruor there were cries of "Tillman Tillman !" and vociferous cheering The Governor alluded to bis visit her io '88, wheo the delegates to the Stat convention had been previously io structed for Richardson, and agai wheo he came io '90, the first tim that you people could see your candi dates aod look them io the eye. H spoke of the struggle made against hie by the supporters of Earle. Io coo sequence of that factional fight macy o your people came to bate me and believ that I was a "hardened semi-devil: This is an anti-Tilman county, aod i Butler can't, carry this couuty, wher does he expect to get the votes ? Thor are several Edgefield Democrats her who want office. Butler is running ot his record. Dr. Timmerraan is ruoaioj on his looks, Yeldell wants the office, am running because the people d?niant it. (Cheers.) Alluding to Cal. Caughman, tht Goveroor said : He has made an iode cent exposure of his mind to-day, an( Senator Butler is welcome to what as sistaoce be can get out of him. Governor Tillman then branched of into a refutation of Senator Butler7: charges made iu the earlier meetings He spoke deliberately and with sup pressed passion. "I have some thine very unpleasant to do. 1 must answei a speech made at Camden to anothei audience. I shall refer to the Senator'! charges at Camden, and incidentally to his disgraceful conduct at Chester He claimed at Chester that 1 put ai iosult npoo hts character at Yorkville and the stigma was this-at the Rock Hill meeting I confined myself to th< discussion of issoes. Senator Butlei dealt in personalities and sarcasm. It is impermeable to the shafts of malice and lies " (Great emphasis on lies.) I siw 1,500 people at Rock Hill, 80( of whom were brought there to hurrah for Butler Now you know that make: a man mad ; it made you people mad four years ago when men along the Charleston, Sumter and Northern road and from Orangeburg were brought here to boiler for me at the Earle meeting. Haskell brought two carloads of howl? ers from Columbia, but 6ve carloads ol my boys came. Those men were brought to Rock Hill to give out the impression that Butler had a great boom in York county It cost moo ey to bring them there. Now one of two things was true Either Butler paid their expenses, or else the railroads, Wall street or Cleveland did. That is what I said. At this point the iocipieut riot re? ferred to above occured A man in the crowd, who, it turned out was Wesley Villeneuve, askedjSome question about Tillman using money. The Gov? ernor stopped and eyeing the mau, asked: "Are you drunk ?" Atoncethe confusion began. Chairman Keels i cried : ''Keep quiet, keep quiet." ; Villeiisuve said if the Governor would come down in the crowd he would ex? plain it to him. The Governor shouted : "Now, shall I leave here when 3,000 people want to bear me speak and talk to one fool ?" Villeneuve sprang toward the staod. j Two or three huodred wool hats were ; massed arouod him aod some of them ' seized him. The crowd oo the staod ; arose to their feet ; for a minute there ! was wild commotion and the crowd ; swayed to aod fro. The chairman kept i yelliog for order. The wool hats ! shrieked fiercely aod a dozeo meo > pushed aod hauled the struggliog Ville : neuve out of the audience. Keels ex i claimed : "You are not responsible for I this row, only that ooo mao is. Sit down and we'll go on with the me fog" The crowd bad gotten between I reporters and tbe speaker aod t chairman requested them to sit dov? "Move up, unlimber, move tbe tal closer, you pencil shovers, come here," and the tables were moved. Then the Governor took a band p mary on the question whether he b said anything iosulting to the Senate and at tbe word, the gang directly u der him, with a few scattered throng out the crowd, raised their bands in t negative. Only two or three voted ye The Conservatives, as usual, declined participate. Then the Governor proceeded : . Chester, by indirection, "if you sa so," an insinuation, Gen. But! charged me with being a liar. M< were allowed to curse me. Three four purposely brought tbere to crea a riot, interrupted and abused me. Tl I pulsations of my heart didn't inerea ! one-sixteenth of a second, because knew they bad tried to fix a plot bring on a riot. I was too much of Governor to allow a row to occur at see my fellow citizens shoot each otb* like dogs. I tried to get a reply and was refused me. Yesterday the Sen: tor accused me at Camden of eayit "you are another," and said I play? the baby act afterward. I hoisted h shirt and gave him a byperderm insertion !" Voice-There are ladies present hen Tillman-Ladies know all aboi shirts. They know how to make thei - besides, sir, you are io your sht sleeves yourself. You ought to bat the decency to wear your coat in tb presence of ladies (Yells, shrieks an bowls.) The Governor resorted to the han primary again, asking, "was I right I [ lower my State's pride by resenting h I insult at that time." The same ba?? j went up as before. The Governor the I repeated his explanation of the appal ent dispensary shortage, sayiog tbs ooce for all he was done with it. "] j Butler sings it out again, I'll answe i bim by calling it Peter's wife's mother At Camden he said the account after being examined by an expei bookkeeper, were one bundred thoa sand dollars short It reminds me o Falstaff, who io telling about his figb said he caught a man on his sword' J poiot, and repeating himself, said, " j pressed thee two bard," and afterward i said "the three men," and so on unti ! be had it that he had fought and whip ped the seven men. When Gen. Butie ? ?peaks next he will accuse me of swal I lowing the whole dispensary, bottlei and all. I am willing to submit tbi j whole matter to the committee of threi of the House, appoioted by the las Legislature, and pay the expenses o the investigation out of my cootiogen fund. i Gen Butler charged that the dispen j sary spies received $3 from wbiskej I dealers, while they were getting $1 j from the State. It was mighty bad tc i utter such slanders. You Sumter peo j pie are responsible in part for those j spies. After you mobbed them here. ; the first question I asked in appoint ! ing them afterwards was, "Will The} j Shoot ?" I showed you I meant busi ' ness. Afterwards you behaved your j selves, and very little illict whiskey wai i sold here. Newbold, said the Governor, is a de j tective aod a good one, but he was noi at Chester to protect me. He wai i there on business working up the cas< i of the burglary of the Chester dispen i sary The people are my prot3Ctors just as they were a while ago, whee j that drucken man tried to kill me. 1 j have no fear, because I know that thc j man who shoots first will go with me. j But I say this and (turning to Butler] I I defy you to deny it. Two paid de ! tectives of the Richmond aod Danville Railroad are following you arouod. They are your protectors. I Voice: "Speak out Butler. Now is your time." But the Seoator paid no atteotion to them. The Goveroor said that he had beeo : io dangerous places many times iu ' previous campaigns and he sometimes thought of being assassinated by some ; crazy mao ?ike Guiteau. He did not go j to Darlington, but he staid in Columbia i where there was teu times as daoger , ous a mob on the streets as in Darling? ton. He knew that the town was rife with suggestions to go up to Arseoal Hill and bang Tillman, but be would not budge from his house where the law gave him protection. 1 "I put down that riot in short order he exclaimed. Your Sumter men ' flunked, but they came to their senses the next day and I restored them their arms. The Governor then referred again to the charge that he had exceeded his authority in goiog beyond the dispen? sary act to invest more io whiskey than was appropriated and asked the gen? tlemen of the press to copy the follow j ing section of the act : The State commissioner shall deposit ; all amounts received by him from sales ; to county dispensers or others with the treasurer of the State under such rules as may be made by the State Board of Control to insure the faith? ; ful return of the same, and the State j treasurer shall keep a separate account 1 with said fund, from which the com missioner shall draw from time to time upon warrants duly approved by the chairman of said board, the amounts ! uecessary to pay the expenses incurred ! in conducting the business. All rules and regulations governiog the said commissioner in the purchase of iotoxi ! eating liquors, or in the performance ; of any of the duties of his offiee where the same are not provided for by law. i shall be prescribed by the State Board of Control. He shall before* entering upon ?be duties of his office execute a bond to the State treasurer, with suffi? cient sureties, to be approved by the Attorney General in thc penal sam of ten thousand dollars ($10,000 for the faithful performance of the duties of hie office. He theo entered ioto a general de? fense of the dispensary, took a hand primary, and cited the case of the Sumter dispensary as an example of its beneficent workings. He accused Senator Baller of being a "dodger" on the dispensary, and read from a cir? cular issued by him from which be inferred that the Senator was in close touch with ex-barkeepers, blind tigers and the whiskey trust. He said that the News and Courier, The State, Greenville News, Sumter Freeman and other lunatic newspapers were responsible for the feeling manu? factured against the constables. Governor Tillman said that he was sorry for Senator Butler, "poor old fel? low," and that if the General really wanted peace he would remove what friction there was by withdrawing from the race and escape the humilia? tion of seeing him carry thirty-five counties, while he (Butler) would carry none. The Governor went over the ground again regarding the separate box prop? osition, saying that Butler was using it as a crutch. He disclaimed any ref? erence to Butler's lost leg for which he honored him. He was using it as a political crutch. The Governor took another hand pri? mary on the choice of Sumter as be? tween himself and Butler. 44 All you who will vote for members of the Leg? islature pledged to elect me Senator, hold up your hands. And be sure you make 'ern take almost a Bible oath to support me, otherwise they will get out of it after I am elected. There is where Batter's chance is if he has any, and if you want me to be elected you must organize." The same bands shot up in the air, but the Butlerites took no part. Of course the wool bats expanded their lung power generously again. After a hit or two at Cal. Caughman the Governor referred to Gen J. H. Earle's letter io which he said that gentleman charged Butler with decep? tion. He declared that he did not refer to it to get votes. If those who bated him in Samter, though believed now that they had wronged him, he would be glad of their support. If not he could get along without their votes, because he had his election In his pocket. There was tremendous cheering when be ceased and half a dozen wool bats crowded round and shook hands with bim. It was now after 4 o'clock and the wearied crowd scattered like the con? ventional chaff before the wind. W. W. B. -- Prohibition Catechism. The following is a copy of the circu? lar being sent to candidates by the Pro? hibitionists : DEAR SIR : The State Prohibition Convention at its meeting in Columbia on June 7th, adopted a platform con? taining among others the following de? clarations to wit: **5. We believe traffic in that which is against the peace, good health, safety, commercial prosperity aod moral char? acter of a community, State or natioo to be ic violation of the real rights of men, ana therefore inherently wrong. 6. We believe all forms of license of the sale of liquor as a beverage to be morally wrong and in violation of the highest purpose for which the gov? ernment exists. 7. We believe the State should pro? hibit absolutely the sale of liquor as a beverage, aod should provide for its sale only for medical, mechanical and sacra? mental purposes, with such regulations, provisions for enforcement and penalties for violations as may be expected to prove efficient. 8. We believe that to make any prohibitory law effective the Executive and other officers of the law should be in full sympathy therewith." "The executive committee elected by the convention were instructed to for? mulate question to be put to candidates for State offices and for the Legislature and Seoate in accordance with the platform adopted by this convention as to their position upon the same, in order that the friends of Prohibition through? out the State may vote intelligently." By virtue of this authority, we re? spectfully ask your reply to the follow? ing questions : 1. Are you in favor of the State absolutely prohibiting the sale as a beverage of all spirituous or intoxicating liquors, and that any law so prohibiting the sale should provide for its sale only for medical, mechanical and sacramen? tal purposes and contain such regula? tions and provisions for tts enforcement, and penalties for its violation as will prove efficient to carry into effeot said purposes ? 2. Will you advocate and support the principles expressed io the above quoted articles of the platform of the Prohibition Convention : 3. If elected to the office of Gover? nor, will you recommend to the Gene? ral Assembly the, passage of a law absolutely prohibiting the traffic in, and sale of, except for medicinal, mechani? cal and sacramental purposes, all spirit? uous and intoxicating liquors, and will you use all the power and authority of your office to enforce the provisions of the same 1 Respectfully submitted, THOMAS J. LAMOTTE, Secretary Executive Committee.