The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-12-01

! Es Gives Els Views on the Liquor ones.
! tion-Favoro tho DlspensarY First, The I
prohibitlon-He Is Tired of Being Cri II
cised.
Governor ElIerbe has declared his
candidacy for reelection as governor
/ OF the S!ate and in advance OF his an
nual message to the general assem- bly,
| he has seen fit to present his views III
regard to the liquor question. He has
! &iso strongly expressed himself in re-
gard to certain criticisms that have
/ been made of ais official acts. Wed
nesday night tbs governor gave to
! the press the following interview
He said: Il see in the News and
! Courier of Tuesday an editorial COM
menting on the report from its Ches-
ter correspondent, which, while not
directly doing so, may By insinuatlon
lad paople to believe that the COVER
{ no. advised Newbold not to aurren.
der. The language used by the Ches.
ter correspondent is: He was IN
structed By the State authorities not to
surrender today or until the court OF
Ige2e-al sessions of Spartan burg coun'
/! ty bad adjourned.
! II wish to denounce the statement
i&s absolutely and unqualifedly false.
/ sent Mr. N9woold no message, gave
him no advice and made no terms
with auy one for his surrender. I am
getting heartily sick and tired OF such
dirty Aings aud insinuations. Itseems
| that a gentleman has no protection,
but has to submit to such slanderous
/, iasinuations.
II have also baen harshly criticized
for pardoning May and Buice for kill
ling Sims. Sims was desperate moon
Eshiuer who was openly violating the
/: laws OF the State and when May and
| 3lics attempted to seizs the liquor
iS.ms started to fire on the officers, and
hed they not killed him, men in the
discharge of their duty would have
been killed. Moreover, Mr.. Crawford,
who was present, testified that the
killing was in self-defense. This is
ien.i:ely aside from the petitions and
| the endorsement of seven OF the jur.
cr;. There were in addition to other
petitions one signed by many OF the
very best OF Spartanourg's citizens.
There seems to be common un-
derstanding on the part Of certain
people to destroy the dispensaEy law
land they take advantage OF all these
unfortunate occurrences to use them
against the law. Since I have BEEN
governor I have tried fearlessly to
perform my official duties, and Will
not be swerged By idle c!amor or
sense ess criticism.
Several days ago an interview was
printed from Rev. Carroll, in which I
! was reported to have said that rather
!thsn Join the liquor men, I would 60
To- Agraat many have asked me
f.. to fl out that blank. What I said
was: s8efora I would turn this State
over to the liquor element I would go
home and go to blowing
:'Tae most difficult problem that
Ic3nfronts US today is that of the liq'
uor traffic. The dispensary, think,
lis the best solution of the question,
bu; as the courts have decided that
the dispensary is not a police regula-
ition, an III favor of amending the
ilaw so as to make il a police regula-
ltion By eliminating the profit feature.
and, if necessary, not to sell It as
; beverage, but onl y for medicinal and
sacramento purposes.
Those who advocate high license
shave surely not read carefully the de.
lcisions Of the courts, for in the case OF
;Scott VS.. Donald the court advanced
1.-THE view tha. the State could prohibit,
they could inspect, but could do no
Imore. 1.-THE dispensary is not po-
Lice regulation and the State cannot
control the liquor under the dispen-
isary law, It certainly cannot do so un-
:dsr nigh license. Besides, under q
Thigh license system it would in few
imonths d degenerate into the open bar
lroom. AS rule, men who would buy
a license to sell whiskey would have
;no moral character and would be al
together irresponsible and perfectly
indifferent to the welfare of the State
land OF the people. Their only object
! would Be to make money and the con-
Institutional restrictions would be disre.
igarGed. This liquor fight is not fac.
/ fionaI issue. It is fight between the
imoral elements Of our people and ths
jIiqlor men.
DO you proooss to make fight on
this next year."
u propose to 60 before the people
ion nv record and if necessary to ad-
;voc2,e .no policy jlst outlined. Some
;ot my enemies have said might oe
/ re elected because OF the unwrltten
il&w 10 give 9 governor two terms. l
want it understood tha! no one need
keep our Of the rac9 on this account,
lard l would not have it as a mere
! matter OF precedent if my efforts did
iDot warrant az endorsement.
IF ! cannot reiute the numerous
!cnarges that have been made against
! me, end cannot show to the people
ithat I hava honestly and faithfully
tried to discharge the duties Of the Of
i6ce, I do not care to be reelected.
iSome people may think it is a very
:if1e thing to be governor, but there
fare other things ! valure more highly
/; and before would sacrifice my man
illness or any principle would be
! defeated thousand times. While /
like to p ease I had ratkec have the
consciousness Of having done my duty
than taa applause Of the world"
J Killed . Burglar.
!: E:rly Wednesday m:rning Mr.. L.