The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-01-09
MUST GO 1T ALONE.
The City Authorities Must Enforce the
DiSpenSary Law.

| Dispensary Law.
COLUMBIA, S. c.. Jan. 3.-The news
hungry reporters were glad to find
Governor Evans in his Office yester-
day because they felt reasonably sure
of getting at least one good item.
They were not disappointed
Governor Evans was asked regard
ing the Dispensary law and his pro-
iects for It's enforcement He said:
You con state that 40 applications
will hereo fter be received for positions
on the constabGiarv force. Instead OF
increasing the force we are going to
cut down and give the cities and
towns chance to enforce the Dispen.
sarv law without the interference of
State officers. They will be allowed
! to enforce II in their own way, and If
they do it there will be no necessity
for return to the present plan or any
other plan.
TO low many men are you going
to cut the for, e.!
We expect % cut it down to about
thirtv-five. he answered, about one
from each county We have already
cut four or five men off. We now
have about eighty men employed.
Asked as TO what disposition Will be
made of the small focet be employed,
Governor Evans answered that they
will be sent to the country and away
from the cities and towns. A large
number of them. he said, will be
placed on the border of this State and
North Carolina. 1t seems that just
across the South Carolina line, ID
North Carolina. and bordering on this
State. are four prohibition counties.
\ great deal Of whiskey is made IN
these counties and is run across into
this State and sold. The purpose of
Governor Evans will be to have these
men watched and arrested They will
not be tried in South Carolina, tut
Will be sent back into their own State
for trial on the charge of making
whiskey. The chance Of conviction
will be greater than in this State.
Governor Evans was asked as to
what the cities and towns are doing
about enforcing TIE law. He answer
ed that so far as he had heard they are
doing what they can to carry 1t out to
the letter. The towns which have
passed ordinance instructing and Civ
ing their officers the powerto enforce
the law will, as have stated, )" he con-
tinued, ''be allowed to enforce the law
in their own way. The towns which
-do not pass ordinanceto have the law
enforced within the next thirty days
will be aided and will have the laws
passed for them" While the Cover
nor did not say it IN so many words
he meant that the metropolitan police
law would be put into operauoain-t the
refractory towns.
Darlington is supposed to be one of
these towns. That town passed an
ordinance instructlng the police to en-
force the law before the Darlington
riot. After the riot it is said that the
town council repealed the ordinance.
All the large cities of the State,
Charleston. Columbia and Greenville,
are enforcing the law. Greenvlues
MAYOR. James 7. Williams, visited
Governor Evans personally and prom
ised that the law should be carried
out. Sumter Aiken and Florence have
passed ordinances giving their police
bower to enforce the law Many OF
| the smaller towns have done likewise.
Governor Evans says that the rail-
roads have promised that they will
hereafter aid in the enforcement OF
the law by refusing to haul contraband
goods-that is, when they know that
the goods are contraband. So the
outlook is for quiet enforcement of
the famous law by municipal authori-
ties.
Ii Governor Evans finds that the
municipalities are not earnestly trying
/ to carry out the law he will take a
hand and metropolitan policemen vii!
decorate the streets of a number Of
places. An earnest, honest effort on
the part of the municipal authorities
everywhere is all that the Governor
asks or expects.-Register.