The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-06-12

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} ty, commercial prosperity and moral
: character of community, State or ma
, tion, to be in violation Of the real
} rights of the men, and therefore in.
: herently wrong.
/ vi. We believe all forms of license
of the sale of liquor AS beverage tc
be morally wrong, and in violation oi
the highest purpose for which govern.
ment exists.
VII. We believe the State should
prohibit absolutely the sale of liquor at
} beverage and should provide for its
sale only for medicinal, mechanical
} and sacramental purposes with such
regulations, provisions for enforcement
} and penalties for violation as may be
expected to prove efficient.
VIII. We believe that to make any
prohibitory law effective the executive
and other officers of the law should be
in full sympathy Herewith.
Tho report was signed by the entire
committee, and was unanimously adop-
ted by rising vote of the convention.
The committee on resolutions re-
ported as follows upon Mr.. Gray's re-
solution:
Your committee on resolutions bav-
ing carefully considered the resolution
submitted by Mr.. w. L.. Gary to the
convention and referred to the COM
Prohibition ticket should be nominated
they do not approve of said resolution,
rs u whole, but report the following as
substitute:
Resolved, That this convention take
steps towards nominating full State
ticket.
Mr.. Gray stated that he offered his
resolution for the purpose Of testing
tho sense of the convention ON that
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member Of the convention which met
here in 1890, sent by the so-called Re
formers. AS q representative of tho
people he favored primary instead of
tho convention system which prevailed
in South Carolina. He offered re-
solution to that effect, which was
seconded and supported by Governor
Tillman with his usual eloquence.
There had been no time before 1890
when he had not been proud of South
Carolina; since then he and many
others had had many heartaches over
the divisions of the people of South
Carolina. He praised Tillmans utter
ances at the laying of the cornerstone
of Winthrop College, especially that
deprecating the strife among the peo-
pie of the State and hoping for peace.
The convention was for peace, not
for abuse of Tillman and the Dispen-
y
by politicians, but to offer such plat
form as could be stood upon by all the
people OF South Carolina. He then de-
precated the evils Of the liquor traffic.
He said he had been told that the
Democratic committee was going to
start the campaign on June Is. They
would not let Prohibitionists come into
that. He urged nominations and the
advocacy of the prohibition cause in
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Once the street cars in Columbia
only bore two signs" Cemetery and
Asylum" If the convention did not
make nominations he hoped those signs
would be restored and all the members
of the convention given q ride TO ono
or the other places, for they would be
the places to which they should go.
MIR. w. ID. Evans stated that he was
elected while he was away from home,
but with the understanding that he
would not support nominations. He
saw that the convention was drifting
into nominations and he was not in
sympathy with it, Every vote he had
cast in the General Assembly had been
against prohibition, and every vote hc
would ever cast would be prohibition.
AS an honorable man, If he remained
through ballot on tho question of
nominations, he would be bound to sup
have dis name be withdrawn from the
roll, which was done.
Mr.. Waddy @. Thompson Of Lancas-
ter asked ii the Greenville delegation
had not come instructed against nomi-
nations. Being answered in the affirm
ative, he asked if adoption of the re-
port would not deprive the convention
of its chairman? He was again an
swered in the affirmative. He ex-
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Mr.. II. Y. Williams expressed op-
position to the making of nominations
by the convention.
Mr.. Gray stated that his resolution
tied the Prohibitionists to the Demo-
cratic party, while the report of the
committee cut the Prohibitionists
loose and tied them to nothing.
Mr.. Williams said he was opposed to
nominations either in or outside of the
Democratic party. A State ticket
could not be elected. What votes were
party. The larger cities take no in
terest in the prohibition cause. In
them either meetings were not held or
were slimly attended. The Reformers
will not vote for prohibition candi-
dates if in order to do so they had to
go back on Reform or Reform nomi-
nees. A Prohibition ticket would be
| Durleu ueep.
Mr.. l.. B. Haynes said the Prohibi-
tionists had gotten everything they
had ever asked for and they only need-
ed to get the State officers and could
have them for the asking. He was in
favor OF nominating State officers. The
Reformers never won until they had IL
ticket upon their platform, and they
never could have won without that
Even If the Prohibitionists did not win
they would do work of education.
Mr.. r. B. Watson opened his speech
with the statement that he had never
taken drop of liquor as beverage
and had mover failed to do all he could
to put it down. He believed it would
be tho supremest folly to nominate q
ticket. What did the people see? In
an hour after the Dispensary law was
declared unconstitutional over 200 bar
rooms were opened in Charleston and
they had been open all along.
Mr.. Gray: Where are they? They
are hidden.
Mr.. Watson: No, sir; they are open.
He then wont on to show that educa-
tion is necessary to bring about sup
preston of the liquor traffic. He
showed how juries in Charleston had
acquitted men who had said they were
guilty. He then showed the progress
in the direction of that education which
would suppress the liquor traffic. He
said man must be ignorant of the