The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-04-24
Sampson Pope Gets Revenge !

And now comes Sampson Pope
the most rabid Tillmanite and dis
pensaryite that was ever shaken up
by the agitation of 1890, into Judge
COTS federal court, in West Virginia,
and secures a restraining order to
prevent our State officials from en-.
forcing the dispensary law Of. this
State. When Sampson Pope was a
candidate for Governor,it was charged
that he was running in the interest
OF the whiskey ring; that this con-
cern was paying the piper while
Sampson Pope was dancing about
the State. Sampson Pope, however,
denied it, and as no one was present
when the contract was signed, it had
to go so. Now, this same Sampson
Pope has kept up a war on the dis
pensary ever since Governor Evans
wiped the earth with him" 1t will
be remembered what an ardent dis
pensary man Sampson Pope was.
When this measure was going
through the legal machinery, Samp-
son Pope was then clerk of the Sen
ate, and he was so precious of the
bill, and so fearful that some damned
Anti would get hold Of it and steal
it" that he put it under his shirt and
slept with it. O, what change has
come over Sampson Pope! Has it
been brought about by change of
heart? or is it some other considera-
ton that is prompting Sampson
Pope? It matters not what it is,
Sampson Pope is certainly making
himself notorious with or without
profit.
Governor Evans does not seem to
be at all disturbed by the order OBJ.
tanned by Sampson Pope, and from
his recent utterances, we judge that
the Governor proposes to continue
business at the same old stand with
put the permission of Judge Gof or
Sampson Pope. If we understand
he restraining order of Judge Gof,
be has, on the simple statement of
Sampson Pope, issued an order to al
ow everybody to send liquor into the
State without molestation, either
while the same is in transit, after its
arrival, or while it is in the hands of
he consignees. That was nice
title modest request for Sampson
Pope to make of Judge Goff, and his
Honor was good and kind to crafty
Sampson Pope. OF course we do not
presume to know the law, but it does
eem strange to US that a Judge of the
ederal courts should have the power
o interfere with the rights of States
o the extent of saying to the officers
II the State that they shall not en-
orce the laws with which they are
;harged. If Judge Gof has the |
light to stop the officers of the State
rom molesting contraband liquor
While in the hands of consignees, it
would seem to US he would have the
ame right to stop officers of the
'tate from molesting consignee
rho has just received g dangerous ex-
'losive and is about to ignite it. He
ould with the same propriety re-
train the county treasurer from COL
ecting taxes, and restrain cur sheriff
rom executing every mandate of our
tate courts. We do not believe this
ldge will make his restraining order
'ermanent, because the thing
verreaches itself. It is possible that
he dispensary law is defective where
undertakes to prevent the shipping
+ liquors into the State from outside,
ut we do not believe that the federal
upreme court viii hold that the
tate has no right to police
quors or any other nuisance
fter it gets into the State. If
tate cannot regulate its own affairs
hat is the use of a Governor and
Eeneral Assembly? Why not let the t
resident appoint Dictator for each
tate? While this matter is pend
lg we would not advise any one to
rder liquor from abroad, because the i
onstables will be sure to take it, and {
the restraining order is not made
ornament, prosecutions for the vio- !
tions of the dispensary law will /
lrely follow regardless of Sampson
ope. Y