The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-11
CAROLINA IN CONSERVATION.
THE STATE DEMOCRATIC COMMIT
TEE TO MEET.

plans TO eB Discussed for Meeting the
New Conditions of Affairs Brought
About by the Overthrow of the
Registration Law-GOv. Evans
Claims That the Practical Opera
tions of the Dispensary Are Not In
terfered with in the Slightest by
the Court Decision.
Columbia, S. c., May 1O.--There Is stin
much talk about the two decisions of the
United States court affecting the two
most important laws in the state. Al
though nearly every one comedies that
the knocking out of the feature Of the
dispensary law, preventing liquor from
being brought into the state is practical
Is a death blow to the law, Gov. Evans is
declaring that the profits viii not be
affected. This is in the face of the claim
that better liquors can be delivered here
from points outside the state at lower
rates than the dispensary rates.
The effect CT the registration decision
is Of more vital concern in view of the
negro majority in the state. and to-day
the state democratic executive committee,
controlled by the dominant element, was
called by the state chairman, Senator
Irby to meet here on Wednesday night
next 1t is evidently for the purpose of
arranging TO face the new condition Of
This evening Gov. Evans gave to the
representative of the Southern Associated
Press the following interview, designed
to express his belief to the future of the
dispensary law and the effect of the de-
cisiOn upon it.
The governor said: 1.-The practical opera
tiOns OF the dispensary are not interiered
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 1t be
long TO the class who cannot afford 10 i'm
port for their own use. The source of rev
enue is from the sale of the cheaper grades
OF whisky in quantities OF one-half pint
These people cannot afford to 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 viii be checl1mated by more
strenuous effort than heretofore to prose-
cute them under section p of the dispen-
sary law. This is the section which pro-
vides for injunction, and the entire Vigi-
lance of the dispensary force viii be CEN
tered upon the Illicit trafficker. one or
two convictions will soon put an end TO the
traffic, and this will be done without re-
course to juries.
'If we ind that the police of the towns
do not cooperate with us in suppressing
the Illicit sales of whisky, will imme-
diately place every town in the state under
the operation of the metropolitan police
law. This will be of greater advantage 10
the enforcement of the law than the en-
plOyment of the cons tables, and viii save
TO the state $3.50 month, which we are
now eXpendipg for the constables. The
row of the Illicit trafticker Will be hard
and stumpy one, and the resources for
making il so are abuncant. snail not hes-
itate 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 viii make II an
advantage to the law, by reason of this
saving in the 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 ele-
ment is the bone of contention in the
former city, and they will never becoms
recOnciled to our institutions.
I'm spite of the fact that the great
benefits of the dispensary law are reaped
by our entire people, the law has recently
lima, 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 whisky trust who sue
ceed in buying up United States judges.
Let not the friends of the law be dis
couraged; its success is assured and they
will live to see it's adoption by a ma
jority of the states of the American union.
The days of the bar-room are over and
the influence of the barkeeper destroyed
in South Carolina, and i am satisfied it
will be in the nation at no late day.
a test case is already being made in
Charleston to carry the law to the SUI
preme court of the United States, and we
expect decision in twenty days. We will
take the case up on habeas corpus pro-
ceedings. In the meantime, the constables
Will watch the shipments of liquor into
the state and will not seize any packages
unless they have. strong grounds to be-
heye that they are not for personal use.
As to the decision in the registration
case and our position on that matter"
Gov. Evans said, II will simply say that
there will be a straight fight now between
the white man and the 'nigger' and God
save the white man that goes to the me-
gro Beyond this, l have nothing more
10 say than have already said"
While giving the above interview. Gov
Evans received notice that a United
states marshal had arrested one of his
ilquor constables, who had made a seizure
IN Beaufort in defiance of Judge Simon
ION Injunction. What will be done about
II Is not nown as yet Assistant Attorney
general Townsend is now in Charleston
at work on the case Gov. Evans peters to-
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