The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-03-22
Whi,key Men In for War.

are beginning to take lively aspect in
regard to South Cardinals new dlspen-
sary law now, and it will not be many
days ere this will be the most absorbing
toric of discussion throughout the State,
overshado wing the Federal patronage and
all other questions now agitatlng tne
public mind.
Oflate the liquor men have been keep
ing very quiet and this gave rise to the
impression, after Judge Simonton's
decision in the premature test case, that
they had given up all hope of successfully
com batting the enforcement OF the law
after July !. But such is not the case
The liquor men were never more hope
full of winning their case and keeping
their doors open than right now. 1t IS o
fight to the death, and the liquor men, 1t
can be positively stated, have not the
least idea Of backing down.
was talking to-day to one OF the lead
ing liquor men in the State, man VINO
would lose as much as any other in the
State perhaps il the law is enforced. He
saws the fight is really just beginning,
but they have not been talking about
what they have been doing for prudential
reasons, He says that all those dealers
who failed to get the receipts for license
for a wear from date will not be in the
fight at all that there is no chance Tor
them, 1t seems that this yearly License
matter and the questions as to the date
the law became operative are going to be
two of the leading features Of the test case
when the case comes up.
The leading Columbia dealers certainly
got their annual licenses before the law
Could have possibly become operative.
This dealer gave me an insight into many
of the other leading questions that will
be involved in the test case, but am not
ct liberty to make them public yet. He
stated, however, that he and many other
dealers had not the slightest fear that the
State would be able to make them close
their places of business on July l:
He does not regard the decision o.
Judge Simonton ip the recent "snap''
case as having any effect on the real ques.
tion at issue. He says that there was not
single issue, brought up in that case,
which bears on the real issues involved.
He said, further, that when the Chester
case came up IN the Supreme Court next
month, the people would begin to see
that the grounds on which the liquor
dealers are making their fight are quite
another thing from what is generally
supposed.
whether the Liquor Dealers Associa-
ton will have its attorneys take part in
the Chester case or not remains to be
seen. They will certainly be here. The
State, there is no doubt, will use every
endeayor to have this case made the final
test, but how far it will go does not yet
appear. The Attorney General is GER
tainlv going to take q hand in the fight.
Governor Tillman has said that the law
will be enforced, and the fight is going to
be much longer one than anybody ex-
poets.
But while all the preparations for the
great fight are reaching termination,
the Governor, as chief barkeeper, is pre-
pairing to open up the great saloon OF
State, and he's not wasting any time
about 1t. He has not yet appointed the
State dispenser, but says be will Go 30 in
ample time for the opening OF the dispen-
sary.
Since the Governors illness he has been
arranging to secure the bottles, TASKS and
jugs which will be used in all the dis
pensaries, and visited the Executive
Mansion to-day and found splendid
array of such necessaries and could not
but admire the Governors taste. He is
making as good selections rs the most
accom- plished saloonist could do. He has
manufacturing companies.
The chief competitors for the cohSract
for furnishing bottles and TASKS were
Pittsburg, Pa, and an Augusta, Ga,
company. The former company offered
beautiful flask with a metallic screw
top. The Augusta company offers the
old standard style flask with cork stop
pers. The agent of this company was
here yesterday In consultation with the
company, and 1t Is announced. that the
contract for the manufacture of the TASKS
has been awarded to the Augusta COM
pany.
The best sample Of Jugs the Governor
has come from the Hahn's pottery, at
Trenton, in this State, near tho Cover
nor's home. This jug is a new style one,
the shape being more like the standard
oil can. The material is good, and it
seems to be very strong jug. 1t will
doubtless be adopted as the dispensary
jug, and Mr.. Hahn will very likely get
the contract.
It is said that the Augusta company
will proceed with the manufacture Of the
TASKS at once.
It has not been decided how the TASKS
and jugs will be marked, but it has been
suggested to the Governor that the coat
of arms Of the State, with the words
"South Carolina Dispensary" under
meath, be blown in the bottles and stamp
ed on the sides of thejugs. Another sug-
gestion Is that palmetto tree replace the
coat Of arms.
While the State is trying to unbottle
Port Royal har Dor, it is thus seen to be
trying to bottle its liquor, but so the
world goes.-Correspondence Ne,cs and
Courier.