The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-06-27
GALL TO PRoHIBITIONIsTs.

Circular issued by the Central Com
mtttee-AnUther Effort to Defeat
the Operation OF the Dispensary
Law.
The prohibitionists of the State are
making another effort to prevent the
establishment of dispensaries. Acting
upon the Attorney Generals recent
opinion that when man signs petit
tion for an applicant for the position
of county dispenser, his signature is at
the same time q vote for the establish
ment of dispensary, the central COM
mittee of the prohibitionists have sent
the following letter to the chairmen
of subcommittee in the various coun-
ties:
STATE CENTRAL PROHIBITION Com.
COLUMBIA, S. c., June 20, 1893.
AT a meeting of the Central Com
mittee held June 9Th an executive COM
mittee was constituted, and charged
with the duty, among other things, of
appointing enforcement committees at
the county seat of each county in the
State.
This committee at subsequent
meeting selected you as the chairman
for your county, and request that you
ing to your assistance two or four las
you mays deem best) good and true
prohibitionists to act with you in pro-
noting tho cause in your county.
Your committee, when thus organized,
Will constitute tho enforcement COM
mittee of the county, having under its
control the organization and direction
of the subcommittee you may deem it
necessary to appoint elsewhere in the
county.
The special work which the execu-
fiy,n l.,
this time is the careful scrutiny by
your committee of the petitions which
have been or may be presented for the
establishment Of dispensers and dis
pensaries under Sections 7 and of the
Act.
We would direct your attention to
these points On the subject:
Signing the petition of an applicant
for appointment as dispenser is an ap-
plication by the signer for the
establishment of q dispensary, and no
one opposed to the dispensary system
can consistently sign such petition.
Signers must be " freehold voters of
the incorporated town or city in which
the permit is to be used," (Section y
and any signature not of this class OF
persons, is invai 1 and should be dis
regarded by the BOARD of control.
Each signature must be in the hand
writing Of the person whose name it
purports to be.
No one can sign for another.
The petition must estate that each
person before signing has read said
petition and understands the contents
and meaning thereof, and is we'll and
personally acquainted with the appli-
can't"
Such petition must contain a ma
jority of freehold voters as ascertained
from the record of the city or town
clerk or auditor to entitle the applicant
to appointment.
These are essential requisites to the
appointment of dispenser, and the
committee should carefully ascertain
If the petition is right in all these
respects, and If not the attention OF
the Board of Control should be called
to the defects, proof of the same
furnished and objection made to the
appointment, when the matter comes
before the board for it's action.
Should the board disregard such
defects and appoint a dispenser not
withstanding, your committee should
promptly report the same to some OF
the officers as provided in Section q
of the Act and to the central com
mittee. When dispensaries are estab
lished In your county it will be your
duty to aid in every way strict en-
forcement OF the law by reporting all
violations of the law, whether by dis
pensers or others, to the proper au
thorities and to this committee, and
thus show that our purpose as prohibit
tionists Is not to obstruct the opera
tion of the law, but to extract from it,
enforcement whatever may promote
the cause OF prohibition and goot
morals.
In short, you are expected to de
promptly, earnestly and fearlessly
within the lines of the law, whatever
Is possible to foster and encourage the
sentiment among our people in favor
of the ultimate prohibition by law o
the sale of intOxicants as a beverage
Please notify me of your purpose Il
act with us and of the organization o
I your committee. Respectfully,
l.. ID. CHILDS, Chairman.
THos. j. LAMoTTE, Secretary.