Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-04-11
I would have gone out of it a
corpse. (Cheers.)
Who is doing all this?

L WOulQ nave SOAe ouI VI IL U
corpse. (Cheers.
Who is doing all this?
THE BLAZING ELEMENT.
the match which is trying to reach
the powder. is the barroom men,
the whiskey men and those who
are egging them on, encouraging
them are the rulers of the old
oligarcby whom we overthrew in
1890 at the ballot box. This row
which has broken forth is a politi-
cal frenzy; the blood that has
been split is an offering to the
Moloch of whiskey; they claim
and declare that the State shall not
control the whiskey trafics, that
they will resume their iniquitous
trade, debauch our households,
destroy lives, furnish poison to
the people and make them kill
one another. and they will repeal
the dispensary law by saying they
can sell whiskey from their resi-
dences. Shall this demon who
has already had four or five victims
have any more? One negro at
Spartanburg white man at Well
ford and three men at Darlington,
killed. I do not intend for him
to have any more If I can help it
he has had enough. In Gods
name as statesmen and as a
leader of enlightened public
opinion
sHALLNoT BUDGE ONE INCH
from the position I take that this
is the peoples government and
the people shall rule it. (Cheers.)
Now, gentlemen, you may
imagine in asserting this, that |
am going to aggravate the trouble
that in claiming the right to
search priva:e residences I will
cause an outbreak. I will tell you
what I am going to do.
IN THE INTEREST OF PEACE.
am going to tell the State to-
morrow III proclamation-the re-
vised statutes of South Carolina
are a mine of strength, wealth, and
wisdom Cor Governor who will
search them and enforee===them;
What would I have been able tc
do if I had not been a&lle to con.
troll the railroads and telegraph
preventing them from reinforcing
the insurgents and sending abroad
lies to inhame the people? There is
ANOTHER SWORD OF DAMoCLEs
which the law places in my hand
to suspend over these insurgents
or people who are pressing for thi.
law to he annulled without process
by the Legislature; and tomorrow
l shall cut the thread which holds
that in suspension and use it, and
that is section 519, which gives me
power in an emergency to take
charge of the police. We have had
the spectacle presented of the Off
GERS of the law opposing officers Of
the law; those who have beer
sworn to support the constitution
and the laws, disobey them, ant
aid others in disobeying them. Il
the mayors and city councils dc
not make the police do their duty
l intend to see that the police dt
their duty or I will discharge the
last man of them. (Cheers. A
voice: That's the way to do them
I intend, as I say, to control the
State in the interest of law ant
order; I
WILL NOT SURRENDER 10 ANY MOI
or any whiskey element. If thc
dispensary law is good and proper
and the people want it, they shall
have it, and those who don't wan
it must take it. (Cheers.)
Until the result of the new move
is seen l shall confne the duties O.
the constables to watching the rail
roads and seizing contraband whis
key, and to watching the police
seeing that they do their duty, anc
report TO me whether they are do
ing. If they don't obey my orders
strictly, if the authorities of tht
towns don't cooperate, then I shall
call the Legislature of South Caro-
lima together, and I will have thu
power given the Executive to re
move these men and appoint Others
in their stead who will obey ths
law and enforce it. (Cheers.) W.