The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-09-10

made. If he does not produce it, call
you to witness that charge him with
deliberate fasehood. Maj. Moore arraigns
me for having introduced the Local Option
Law, and says that it makes discrimina-
ton between the town and the country.
Mai Moore either has never read this law
or has very limited understanding, for
the Local Option Law only gives the right
of an election to the towns, cities and
villages where license is granted. He
refers to the bill prohibiting the sale of
liquors outside of incorporated cities,
towns and villages. You can see how
insincere he is when he tries to get you
to censure me for introducing measure
which he says the people are satisfied
with, and is working we'll. He character.
lied Maj. Moores statement that the
speaker was not in favor of the country
electing Cotton Weigher and City Council
as ridiculous and hypocritical. Ho said
that if the election of Cotton Weigher
could be confined to the cotton buyers,
and men who sell cotton in Anderson, he
would not object, but that he was opposed
to letting the County vote OH it because
there were many men in the County who
do not sell cotton at Anderson, for it to
be fair. Maj. Moore does not even say that
he favors such an election. He said that
such a thing as the country electing a
City Council had never been heard Of in
the worlds history, and yet Maj. Moore
made it ground of attack on him that
he did not favor thing that had never
been heard of. Maj. Moore has been in
never tried to change the mode of elect
ing the City Council or Cotton Weigher.
AS to not dividing the license with the
country, I can only say that Maj. Moore
is not any more correct in his statements
of law than he is in stating other facts.
The License Law, which introduced,
does give the County license fee of one
hundred dollars for every bar-room.
Mr.. Murray showed that there was no
danger from letting the people vote on
prohibition in this County. AS the mat.
ter stands now, the people let about $50
men in Anderson and Pendleton deter
mine 1t. They would not be apt to be
any more dissatisfied If the decision IS
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County. Mr.. Murray said that there was
no one present to-day who had originated
this question, and that if the charge that
those who sought to unite prohibition
and religion were towards and subterfuges
referred to any body, it must be to the
yYomen's Christian Temperance Union.
That the Senator would certainly not
charge them with being towards, and he
did not think they were subterfuges, al
though the speaker confessed he did not
know what that term meant in such
connection. Mr.. Murray told the audi
ence that they could judge for themselves
whether man who would make such
coarse speech. so full of violent language,
falsehood and mistakes as the speech of
Maj. Moore, was calculated to properly
represent this County, or have any influ-
ence in deliberative body of gentlemen,
who have the intelligence to appreciate an
argument and to detect misrepresentation
This is synopsis Of Mr.. Murrays reply
to the personal part Of Maj. Moore's
speech. We have not space even for
synopsis of the remainder.
Mr., Murray was followed by Col. Ruck-
or in q good-tempered and plausible
speech in opposition to prohibition, at
the conclusion of which the audience was
| dismissed