The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-08-07
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tnem u speech, and i have got inv
tions to go out there, and 1 would
dld not have 10 run the Dispensary
the government.
We have got to issue money enough
to do the business of the country. Some
members fthe Alliance are quarrellinv
with me about that old sub-treasury
business. I'VE want Tillman to est
up on the platform with all four feet
Well, l can't endorse the sub-treasury.
II we bring our platform down to be
plain so that everybody in this country
can stand on it except the gold bugs.
we Will whip 'em sure as there is God
In heaven. will not lead fight to go
before the Western people and say
I'VE must take the sub-trersury or
nothing" We must not quarrel about
the distribution Of the money until we
get the money. Why, do you quarrel
about how you are going to cook the
rabbit until you catch the rabbit? /
kept the Alliance out of politics i'm 1890.
we are now in possession of tho ma
chtne and carrying it with us when we
go. Look at the Alliance in the other
Southern Statos. They followed Tom
| Watson into the woods in Georgia. and
where are they? And where are thgy
In Alabama? II you will just hold
these follows down and don't let them
pass resolutions about not sending mon
to the convention who do not stand on
tho Ocala platform, we will be all
right. We are all Democrats; we
sucked 1t in with our mothers milk. I
am willing to change tho name, but
not the principles. l am willing to
join the West. l think it's mighty
near time to pack our baggage and
walk into the red sea.
We'll, the Dispensary is open to-day.
I shut 'em awhile because wanted any
OF you who got drunk to-day to do it on
bad liquor instead of dispensary. Why
did open the Dispensary? Simply be-
cause the Supreme Court has adjourned
without deciding on the Act of 1898. L
took the Act of 93 and put it under my
coat and hid out with it. I used my
wits and Buchanan used his. All the
lawyers in the State and all the bar
keepers did their best to get thatI law,
but one little farmers and one littis
lawyer kept 'em out of it. They killed
tho whole tree and then took a little
sprig and stuck it out here and said:
whats prohibition" Well, God
knows the people are tired of prohibi-
tion. Inc tigers are on all sides, not
blind but with four eyes.
Well, finding that they adjourned
without doing anything and having
about hundred thousand dollars worth
of liquor thought it proper to open
the Dispensary and make that court
pass on it; but waited till one of the
old judges got out, and l want to say
that when the newspapers say that 1
have got Judge Gary to decide my way
because 1t Is my will they are liars
He was Lieutenant Governor when the
law was passed and have talked with
him about it's constitutionality and
know what his opinion is, and there
fore know what the decision will be.
This Dispensary law is u temperance
law. The Legislature was about to
pass prohibition. Some of us who did
not believe that 1T was practical got
them to pass this law instead. They
had in that law that when you wanted
liquor you must say you wanted it for
medicinal, manufacturing or sacramcn-
tai purposes. They just intended to
make you liar. Well they say you
must buy now from the Dispensary and
put your name there. That don't in
tcrfcre with the buyer but with tho
seller. 1t was done to protect the
whiskey is too high" OF course you
fellows that can go up the branch and
get a gallon Of whiskey for seventy-fvo
cents, think you can't pay two dollars
and three dollars for it, Well, we put
the price up 20 benefit you. If you can
go and take dollar and get a gallon
you will just lay drunk four, five or
six days, whereas if you get only a
quart, you get drunk tonight and you
can go to work tomorrow. Now, this
evening you go to Hill and say, Here,
want a gallon of whiskey," and you
have high old time going home this
evening. Where does the money go?
Fifty cents goes to Traxler to pay for
tho liquor, ono quarter goes to the
county and one quarter to the city OF
Greenvillc. Under the old system tho
II tfxr,N f,,NA tNyytt 10 Ill L
expenses are paid you fellows get tho
benefit of the balance in reduced taxes
next fall. If you fellows don't like
liquor just keep away from the Dispen-
sary and the blind tiger, too. want
you fellows from CLASSY Mountain to
get together and make all the liquor
you can and bring it here in a quantity
and ! will buy it from you. And after
awhile, If can get any constables who
are brave enough to go into CLASSY
Mountain, | am going there and SEQ
after you. What want you to do is
to put the moral forco of this county
against breaking the Dispensary law.
You see it is for tho good of the coun-
try. Put yourselves behind the law
and enforce it. (Thc Governor here
took q hand primary on the law, asking
all who wanted it to hold up their
hands, and nearly every hand in sight
hold up. (Up went three or four
hands.)
am very glad to find that the peo-
pie OF Greenville are just as immova-
BILE In their adherence to Reform prin-
ciples as ever. / am very glad to find
that you are still adhcrcnts of Ben
Tillman, and l here and now, as in the
past, pledge you, 80 help me God, a
continuance OF the same, wherever
: you may put me.
Gen. Butler faced great audience
and made a strong, well knit speech.
He had a great deal to say about f.
nancial legislation and said his remedy
for existing troubles was the rcmonc-
, tization Of silver. He entered into u
clear and elaborate explanation Of tho
money and tariff issues and explained
) his attitude and voting thereon. The
| tariff bill was tho best bill ever passed
and when 1t does come the South will
be in better shape to accept it than
/ any other section. When prosperity
t begins cotton factories will come
= tumbling into the South.
The General related in an eloquent
feeling manner his struggles in South
] Carolina's behalf, and how he had new
: or been able to learn how to steal or
y become dishonest.
) Hugh Barton, an Allianccman. ask
) ed Gen. Butler IL he had worked as
t hard for the Alliance petition for
, | money 40 he had for tho ouisiana su-