Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1893-07-11
TILLMAN FULL OF FIGHT
SOUTH CAROLYN WILL SOON
HE ALIVE WITH SPIES.
The Governor VIII DishOut some
A-iquOran a Great Deal of KEunA
bic PIE t0 Those who Have
Rcen Against Kim.

CHARLESTON, S. c.. July 3.-The dispcn-
sary law is menaccd in many ways and
from many sides. AS the Governor arraycd
his forces against the intelligence and cap
ital of the State so the intelligence is now
ST nd wing to render his law imperative.
In the first place the townspeoplc have
stocked their houses with six months
supply of wines and liquors. Next the
liquor dealcrs-one whose license has not |
expired being chosen to make a test |
case-are likely to challenge the consti- |
tutionaIty of the new system which has |
destroyed their business, and has been |
avowedly set up to make money for the |
State. The railroads will cndcavor to |
cripple the law. Their officers take
the ground that the provision
forhidding them to carry original
and other packages of liquor into
South Carolina is an interference with
the internal commerce of the country.
which only Congress can restrict or reg
ulatc. In the second place, the State
Railroad commissioners, under the Gov
ernor's orders, have ordered a reduction
of the freight rates on liquors purchased
by the State. The railroads will decline
to alter their rates, and one principal
line, the Richmond and Danvllle. was
reported on Sunday last to have already
instructed it's agents to accept and carry
liquors consigned to citizens at any all
points in South Carolina. The lawyers
of the State assert that the law can be
upset upon a review of the manner in
which it passed the lower House OF the
Legislature where it was concurred in
as an amendment, instead of having
three readings, as separate bull
Finally, it is urged that the Governor
committed grave breach of the revised
statutes when he expended more money
| than his Legislature set apart for his
| Icxpcriment.
| But the complete failure of the law is
predicted on grounds entirely apart from
| its possible unconStitutionality and
| apart from any restrictions the court
may put upon it's enforcement. Its fail
urc is considered certain, because it is
believed that it cannot be enforced so as
to prevent the same illcgitimatc sale OF
liquor that has accompanied all prohIbi
tory laws in all parts of the country.
Over the three land borders OF the State,
and into it by way OF the sea. liquor is
sure to find it's way. Indeed, no one
doubts that the railways, the express
companies, and even the postofflce will
bring it in. The Tillmanitcs include
thousands Of tipplers, who will them
selves beat the law, and will decline
either to expose or convict those who
are caught smuggling the stuff or main
tanning "blind pigs" In the counties
along the coast all sumptuary laws are
abhorrent to the people, and the laws
forbiddng the sale of intoXicants out
side the towns, now and for a long time
on the statute books. have been openly
and defiantly set at naught there, as
they are today, and will be under the
dispensary act. The limiting of the dis
pensares to only one for each county Is
considered a weak point, which will en-
courage greater hardness of illicit
liquor.
To all these predictions Gov. Tillmar
replies, as he did in his interview will
the correspondent of the Sun: 81 viii
make the places that don't accept dis
pensaries dry enough to burn. l will
send out enough constables-known only
to myself and the commissioner
have to cover every block in the citie
with separate man." 1t is admitted
that he has the power to do this, be
cause the law permits him to employ con
4 or more constables." But his opponent
say that the spy system is repugnant t.
the people and will not be supported
They say, also, that at the rate provide
by the law, So day and expenses, eac
IcOnstable will cost the State SO day
A thousand constables would COS
100000 in year, and yet thou'
and would not prevent the smugglln
and sale OF illicit liquors. They say tina
ITillman cannot afford to lose money o
his experiment and that he will abando
it before much is lost, because he stand
pledged to make money and to reduS
taxes, and his own followers passed tt
bill through the Legislature for no oth'
purpose.
The straightouts thus console then
1. fN hot 4
dispcnsary law is practically stillbor
but the correspondent of The Sun, du
ing a very recent visit to the Stat
observed that the Governors opp
nents were doing little or nothing b
predicting, whereas the Governor al
his allies were very active indeed. Aft
hearing the story of the Governor
political career, which evidences extrer
shrewdneSs; after hearing the Governor
talk, which was full of earnestness; al
after seeing the Governors face, which
as expressive of stubbornness and will
any face in America, this corresponds
is not of the opinion that the Govern
has committed himself and his people
a law in order to abandon it at the fiji
obstacle or the first one hundred rebui
good portrait of ex-Gov. Mckinl
- would serve for a poor picture of &c
'e' Tillman. The faces of the two are of G
type. He has but one eye, owing to
misfortune IN his youth, out that IS
very firm, clear and cold optic. His l
~ are thin, and are held closed together
tight as a watch lid. slower jaw a
strong, square chin are indicative of
the will power and perseverance IL
in enabled him to turn topsy-turvy
very last State in which such a f
"S' would have seemed possible.
In all likelihood he means to constr
ng a close and great political machine
means of the dispensary law, and
full may rely upon that to return him
Office, even il its cost materially redu
the profits upon the state liquor.
'Pe' secret service constables, the dispcns
the local boards in each county,
bookkeepers, and the workmen in
main storage warehouse will form
considerable body of dependents sucl
no other party in the state ever had.
has not gone at the introduction of
~ new system as a weakEng. In tw
the eleven counties that have dispense
at the request of the majority of the
holders in the towns where the shops
set up, it is urged by the straightC
that fraud was resorted to in setting
the dispensaries. The means which