The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1892-08-03
THE PRoH1sIT1oN1srs MEET
Reports from the Various csnn+,.,.
cia' Prayer to be Made for the success
OF the Cause.
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COLUMBIA, July '2s.-The State Pro-
hibition executive committee held q
special meeting tonight at the Y. NJ.
c. A. hall. There were present the
chairman, L. D. Childs, and from the
several counties in the State there were
Messrs. Tolson, of Lancaster; Kibler, of
Newberry; Jones, of Williamsburg;
Sifiey, Of Barnwell; Rowell, Of Lexing-
ton, and Nettles, of Clarendon.
The chairman made an extended re-
port of his work in organizing the
several counties of the State, showing
that every county in South Carolina
has been fully organized for prohibition
with the exception of Beaufort County
He has visited number of counties in
person, addressing meetings, in some
cases large and enthusiastic, and in
others small, but pronounced in favor
of the movement.
In all the counties the work planned
by the Convention is being carried out
with vigor, and the reports made by
the representatives present and by
communications of those who were
absent, covering twenty OF the most
important counties in the. State;;;y show
Fthe most encouraging progress and
hopeful prospects for the success OF the
cause. In a large namber Of tie counties
candidates already s=ssacdneed have
expressed themselves in favor Of Prohi-
bition, so that movement will not be
without leaders in the legislative con-
tests in all the counties.
Action was taken by the committee
to carry into effect the arrangements
with the State Democratic executive
committee for taking Prohibition vote
in the first primary election. Managers
have been appointed in most Of the
counties at the different precincts who
will represent the Prohibitionists and
have oversight of the Prohibition vote
in the boxes provided. The tickets for
Prohibition will be provided by the
State Prohibition committee and for
warded to the committees of the respee-
tive counties.
Aresolution was adopted appointing
the third and fourth Sunday in Au-
gust, being the Sundays Immediately
preceding the election, for special
prayer in the churches throughout the
State for the success Of the cause, and
requests were made urging the clergy
of the various denominations in the
State to carry into effect this suggestion
of the committee.
A resolution was also adopted request
ing the chairman for. the committee to
prepare an address to the voters of the
State urging them to support the cause
of Prohibition at the primary election.
There was quite rumpus in the
Prohibition committee tonight, and
the first hour of the session was de-
voted to it. Mr.. S. A. Nettles, the Sc
cretary of the committee and one Of the
leading Prohibitionists of the State,
rendered his resignation of the position
and from the committee as the result.
After he had left the hall he was
seen and he said he intended to send in
written resignation. BE said be had
resigned because the movement had
been taken further into politics than
he had any reason to expect.
The committee insisted on forcing
candidates to pledge themselves wheth-
er or not they were Prohibitionists,
thus making some men vote against
their political faction, whereas his
understanding of the action ofthe Con-
yention had been that the committee
were merely to place boxes at the polls
in which the sentiment of the people
could be expressed, and the candidates
were merely to say whether if the peo-
pie so decided they would carry out
the desire SO expressed in the box.
The committee had construed the
resolutions passed differently from him
self and several other members. This
was the very thing that made him
withdraw from the Convention. The
leaders had deceived him, he would
not say Intentionally into believing
that his idea of the matter had been
accepted, and had acted in bad faith to
him. If they had merely intended to
shut his mouth they should have done
it in straightforward way.
He concluded: II just could not
swallow the thing, anG after allowing
them some time to try to convince me
I was wrong, I pulled out of it. I be-
lieve that the present scheme will
greatly injure the cause of Prohibition
in the State.'
Prof. P. E. Rowell, of Lexington,
was elected to succeed Mr.. Nettles as
secretary of the committee.