The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-06-21
FORCING i DISPENSARY.
One Of the Means Employed is by Holding
ON to the Freehold Voter Against
his Will.
1Greenviiie NeNS.l

board of control. We submit an out
line of the facts as matter Of informa-
ton for other boards Of control aud
for the instruction Of the general pub
lie.
In the. first place, there was never a
petition for a dispensary, as the law
requires. r. C. Maybin took around
paper asking for appointment as dispen-
ser and secured SO signatures to it.
The clerk of the board of control Sc
cured from the town clerk an alleged
list of freehold voters of the town,
showing al names.
Of the 93 names on Mr.. Maybin's Pc
tition % do not appear on the official
list of freehold voters. Therefore Mr..
Maybin had Il names of freehold voters
according to the official list-exactiy
majority. :s>:
1t was shown, however, that of these
II L. w. e. Blalock has been a citizen
of Richmond, Va, since last February
and Jas. L. Cannon has been dead more
than two months. Yet these two are
counted as freehold voters of the town
of New berry for the purpose Of estab-
fishing liquor dispensary. 2 from 14l
leaves 139. 2 from II leaves 60 which
is not quite half of 139.
Furthermore, the board received the
following from persons whose names
are on Mr.. Maybin's petition:
To the Board of Control for Newberry Coun-
| ty-Gentlemen: You will find our names on
one or both Of the applications for the APP
pointment Of Dispenser for Newberry. We
| placed our names there under misapprehen-
sion, and We respectfully ask that they be
erased, as we are not willing to be regarded as
signers when you come to pass upon the ap-
| plicationS. Wm. 7. HoCSEAL.
&C. McWHIRTER.
THos E. EPTING.
r. C. WILLIAMS.
J. S. RUSSELL.
June 9, 1893. ...........
This was disregarded. The names Of
these five men were counted for the dis
pensary. -.... ........ ..
Furthermore, evidence was offered
that there are several freehold voters of
the town whose names do not appear
on the official list so that even counting
the dead man and the Richmond man,
the list did not have majority. This
also was disregarded.
TO secure dispensary, therefore, We
find the following propositions are to be
| held. ...-+. ...- -
That when a citizen signs public
| document under mlsapprehension or
| Misrepresentation he is not to be al
lowed to withdraw his name. A man
| may stop payment of a CHECK if he finds
he has been deceived or may cancel his
| lame on note if he has been fraudu-
lently secured and is not in the hands
of an innocent third party, but on a
dispensers petition it must stand for
ever. No power can remove it, not
even an act of the legislature or death.
When a man has once been free
hold voter for dispensary purposes, he
is always one. He may sell his prop
erty, or move away or die. He remains
freehold voter Of the town where it
is deemed expedient in the interest Of
| reform and pure morals and the eleva-
ton of the peopleto establish State
| liquor shop. : e:
Now is there any sense or spropriety
iu this, to say nothing of the matter of
legality? -s >.-.. --..
Where is the use of trying to force
liquor shop on community obviously
opposed to it? There was a great,
mournful and stimulating howl from
the Refawm organs some time ago
over alleged advice from anti Tillman
newspapers to violate the proposed dis
pensary law. Yet here is Refawm
board of control violating certainly the
spirit and probably the letter of the
very law it is supposed to be putting
into operation. There can be no ques-
ton that the dispensary law was in
| tended to leave the question of dispen-
sary or no dispensary to be submitted
directly to the freehold voters of each
town and city, such voters being sup
! posed to represent fairly the intelli-
gence, morality and taxable values of
such communities. It has been found,
however, that the people are not so
anxious for whiskey as they were
thought to be. Therefore the law is
evaded and this sharp practice of
doubtful legality and of morality not
at all doubtful is resorted to. The peo-
pie have been induced to sign one
thing and are counted as having signed
another.
If our information is correct the con-
dition Of affairs in Newberry is nearly
approached by that in Greenville. A
number of men who thought they were
signing paper to make Mr.. Hill dis
penser in case there was a dispensary
find themselves counted as signing an
application for e dispensary, which
they oppose; and when they ask to
have their names erased they are told
it eau not be done. They have voted.
We think that question is to be
tested in the courts. Whether it is or
not, we ask the people not yet trapped
if they propose to sanction, uphold and
sustain law which it is proposed TO
establish on basis Of practical fraud.
Trusts and Combinations
Are unpopular. But there is one form
of try,st q oatnSt which no one has any,