The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-05-17
WHAT EVANS SAYS
South Cardinals Governor Talks
of the Future.
CONCERNING THE DISPENSARY LAW.
He Says the Recent Decision Does Not In
terEere in the Slightest With its Prac-
tIcaI OperatIon-BIInd Tigers
the Only Competition.

COLUMBIA, >. u, may l1.-1here IS
still much talk about the two decisions
of the United States court affecting the
two most important laws in the state.
Although nearly every one comedies
that the knocking outsof the feature of
the dispensary law, preventing liquor
from being brought into the state, is
practically death blow to the law,
Governor Evans is declaring that the
profits will not be affected. This is in
the face of the claim that better liquors
can be delivered here from points out
side the state at lower rates than the
dispensary rates.
The effect of the registration decision
is of more vital concern in view of the
negro majority in the state and yester-
day the state democratic executive COM
mittee, controlled by the dominant ele-
ment, was called by the state chair
man, Senator Irby, to meet here on
Wednesday night next. 1t is evidently
for the purpose of arranging to face
the new condition of affairs.
What Governor Evans Says.
List evening, Governor Evans gave
to the represe natives of the Southern
Associated Press the following inter
view, designed to express his belief as
to the future of the dispensary law and
the effect of the decision upon it. The
governor said:
The practical operations OF the dispensary
are not interfered with in the slightest. The
great number of patrons of the dispensary are
people who are in sympathy with the law.
Those who have been forced to patronize it
belong to the class who cannot afford to import
ao,r 81 hai- Hr1an ~ ic
from the sale Of the cheaper grades of whisky
in quantities of one-half pint. These people
cannot afford 70 import.
The only competition that could come would
be from blind tigers and old whisky dealers,
who under the guise of importing for their
own use, will endeavor to supply them This
will be check-mated by more strenuous ef-
fort than heretofore to prosecute them under
section %, OF the dispensary law This is the
section which provides for injunction, and the
entire vigilance of the dispensary force will
be centered upon the Illicit traficker. One or
two convictions will soon put an end to the
traffic and this will be done without recourse
to juries
Metropolitan Police idea.
II we find that the police of the towns do not
cooperate with US in suppressing the Illicit
sales of whiskey 1 viii Immediately place
every town in the state under the operation of
the metropolitan police law. This will be of
greater advantage to the enforcement of the
law than the employment of the constables,
and will save to the state 1880 month which
we are now expending for the constables. The
row Of the Illicit trafficker will be a hard and
stumpy one, and the resources for making it so
are abundant. 1 shall not hesitate to use
them. So instead of being death blow to the
dispenSary, If this decision is sustained by the
supreme court of the United States-and can
hardly see how it can be-yet we will make it |
an advantage to the law, by reason Of this
saving in expense of its execution.
There is no opposition to the law in any part |
of the state except in the cities of Charleston |
and Columbia and very little in the latter city.
The foreign element is the bone of contention |
in the former CITY, and they will never become |
to our institutions
In spite of the fact that the great benefits of |
the dispensary law are reaped by our entire |
people, the law has recently been enacted in |
the state of North Carolina and will be in the |
state Of Georgia at the next session of the |
Legislature, and this accounts for the fierce |
battle waged upon it by the whiskey trust, |
who succeed in buying up United States |
judges.
Test Case Being Made.
Let not the friends of the law be discouraged: |
its success is assured and they will live to see |
its adoption by majority of the states of the /
American Union. The days of the bar-room |
are over, and the influence of the bar-keeper /
in South Carolina. and am satisfied /
1t will be in the nation at no late day.
A test case is already being made in Charles |
ton to carry the law to the supreme court Of /
the United States, and we expect decision in i
twenty days. We will take the case up on 1
habeas corpus proceedings In the meantime, I
the constables will watch the shipments of |
liquor into the state and will not seize any
they have strong grounds to
believe that it is not for personal use.
AS to the decision in the registration case
and our position on that matter, Governor
Evans said, Il will simply say there will be
straight fight now between the white man and
the nigger, and God save the white man that
goes to the negro. Beyond this, have moth
ing more to say than have already said"
While giving the above interview,
Governor Evans received notice that a
United.States marshal had arrested one
Of his liquor constables who had made
a seizure in Beaufort in defiance of
Judge Simonton's injunction. What
will be done about it is not known as
vet. Assistant Attorney General Town
send is now in Charleston at work on
the case Governor Evans refers to.