Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-04-06
rILLMAN GOES WESTWARD
He And Mr.. .Traxler Off To
Visit Liquor Concerns.
Columbia State.

f1SlG LlQuOr COHccrAs'
Columbia State.
It has been kept very quiet and
nothing has been said about it,
but all the same Governor Tillman
will leave the city and the State
this morning on an extended
western tour, which will cause him
to absent himself from the city
for something over a week, or
perhaps ten days.
He is to be accompanied by
State Liquor Commissioners
Traxler, and they are going away
on business connected with the
Preparations for the opening OF
the great State Dispensary. The
Governor aaid when asked about
his trip yesterday afternoon that
he and Mr.. Traxler would leave
the city this morning. He states
that they will visit Cincinnati and
other western cites. They are
going he says, to confer with the
great brewers and whiskey man.
ufactures to see about the selection
of the stock for the big State bar
room. They are also going on to
examine all kinds of bottling,
washing and labelling machinery
with the Intention of securing for
use in the Dispensary the most
improved styles.
The Governor says they expect to
accomplish a great deal by their
visit and learn much about the
management of such an immense
liquor business as the state pro-
poses. to carry on.
Mr.. Traxler will return to the
city this morning and he and the
Governor will leave at once.
This is perhaps the first time
that a Governor of any States has
ever gone on such a mission.
The Governor when asked said
that he. did did not have the
slightest idea that anything would
come out of the determination OF
the liquor men to fight the Dis
pensary, and their assertion that
they would be found open after
the day fixed by law for the Dis
pensrry law ogo into active opera
tion. He said he was there to see
that the law was carried out ac-
cording to the provisions, and
the opposition of the liquor men
was not worrying him injhe least.
The Governor says that the
stand taken by the liquor men
that those who had paid their s1OO
to the county 'treasurers, and
secured licenses from the cities
and town to carry on q liquor
business for year, such licenses
being secnred prior to the time time
that the la8-as they claim-
could have bee operative; can can
not possibly hold good and it Will
never be SO decided. He gives his
reasons for this, but does not care
to make them public. The Gov
ernor certainty has no fear what
ever of any barrooms remaining
open after the last day of Juae
next.
He says the preparations for the
opening of the .Dispensary will be
pushed energetically, and the time
for the opening will, find every.
thing in readiness. He and Mr.
Nh. Traxler have given explicit
instructions ill regard to the i'm.
provements on the Agricultural
Hall and they will carried be out in
their absence.
The people of Columbia are
watching the preparations and the
status of the fight of the liquor
men with the greatest interest
The outcome will be more in.
teresting still.
When the Governor returns the
meeting of the State Board 81
Control will doubtless be called
at once, and the county boards Of
control throughout the State
will he appointed. Then they will
organize and will proceed with the
selection of the county dispensers
so that arrangements can proceed
for the opening of the county Dis
pensarics, where petitions are
presented for their establishment
"The Father OF Batesburg."