The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-08-12

ONO VI my OondIOrlal COlleagueS, M L
Allison. He has been in the Senate twen
ty eight years. During the last d0zer
years Iowa has been revolutioniZed {
half dozen times in her politics, anG
yet during all that time and all these
changes 1t was never once known how
Mr.. Allison stood upon q single uues
tion before the public. II / wero q
politician like him l would bo away
from here today but in 1886 l fought
IL Out IN the open, and when get too
cowardly to lead you l want you to
turn me out and get some man with
more courage to take my place. havc
nothing to do with the Senatorial cleo
tion soon to take place. II YOU have
not become capable, throuh your edu-
cation OF the last ten years, to settle
upon the right man for Senator, then
must say that our work Is lost" Son
ator Illlman spoke upon this sub jcct
not with the air OF man who has moth
ing to do with the race, but with the
evident conviction that he was himself
the first choice OF his auditors, and
that the colleague given him would be
one OF his liking.
Leaving this question, Senator Till
man entered the one nearest his heart
the dispensary question. "None Of
these candidates" said he, "appear to
be friends OF tho dispensary law.
There is many a politician hiding out
in the bushes to see how the people
stand" Senator Tillman went on TO
describe the war which had been IN ade
upon the dispensary law by the ci ties,
In which they had openly fought it's
operations, 30 much 80, he declared,
that Charleston had seeded from
South Carolina on the the liquor law.
" 1t was then," said he, "that made
up my mind that the State should take
charge OF the police force OF these
cities. AS Governor always asked, is
such thing right ? is it for the benefit
OF the people ? and when the answer
was In the affirmative there was moth
Ing In sight to prevent my perform
ance OF 1t. | want one law for South
Carolina-one which Charleston will
have to respect just as much as Able
ville.' Senator Tillman went into de-
tail as to how the dispensary law orig
mated. There was an attempt being
made to commit South Carolina to pro-
hibition, as the case was in Maine That
prohibition simply furnished an excuse
for prescriptions by doctors to build up
a a,generation ofahypocrites, who were
always sick when they wanted adrink.
v! preferred the dispensary system
said he, "a prohibition law would not
be enforced, because being purely po-
litical, 1t would go the way OF all poiit-
ical measures. There Is al old ex-
preston that the best way To fight the
devil is with his own tools, and argued
that the best way to fight liquor is
With liquor. do not agree with min
listers who make out that the drin k ing
OF whiskey Is a crime. 1t is the abuse
nj " n iSl to
treat with mon az we would like to
have them, but rs they are.
"Now, what Is the giant evil In the
personal profit, the greed of men who
Of existence. It is personal pro.
fit that opens up brilliant saloons
by which to seduce mon. 1t
buys politicians, it bribes policemen.
As result Of the dispensary we have
to-day less drinking in South Carolina
than was ever before known In the
State. But now" said he, "we hear Of
the appeal to Caesar-the federal court.
Newspapers have fought the system
and little politicians have belled it,
saying that the officers have had re-
bates aud have even attempted to mon
/
will stand up In the face of God and man
and say that they are liars. cannot
go into the indecency of our present
federal judge. In all the iniQuitIes
which marked the career of Judge
Bond, and God knows they were bad
enough, yet he never equaled Simon
ton as a tyrant TO free liquor from
state monopoly Ia only to build up that
personal monopoly which has damned
80 many communities. If the decision
OF the supreme court Ia right, even un-
der high license or low license, or any
other plan, the legislature may adopt,
original packages can still be brought
In and distributed throughout the
State. One Of the candidates for the
Senate, Mr.. Mayfield, has criticised
the bill which I introduced which
commands Simonton to take his dirty
hands of the throat Of South Carolina.
This candidate is pleased to cay the
dtspensary system is rotten. II that
be true, 1t Is the fault OF the admins
tration and not of the law. Wemust," :"
said the Senator, stamping tho floor,
put the dispensary either in politica
again or out OF it. Make the county
dispensers elective, as are your clerks
and treasurers and shorlffs, and II you
are capable of electing those other
county officers you should be equally
capable to elect the right kind OF dis
pensers. The trouble with us now is
that there Is a divided responsibility ty;
that politics has got into the Sta Ue
board" 1t was here that Senator 'rill-
man spoke Of the position taken against
the dispensary by Mr.. Gonzales and
declared his purpose, II necessary to
keep the dispensary to the front, Di
resigning his scat and entering the
fight for the governorship next year
| with that question as his sole platform
mot that want to give up my pres
ont place." said he, II am doing very
we'll whore am. Whenever I got up
to speak every one OF them comes in
from tho cloakroom or wherever else
they may be, and they crane their
necks to hear every word say. And
lot mo tell you," said he, amid the
laughtor OF the audience, that pitch
rocks up there as we'll as here. | went
up to Washington to speak for you and
| am doing IT," At this point per,
sistent gentloman with o rod head in.
sisted upon Mr.. Tillman's taking ur
the tariff bill, which ho did, saying
THE whole scheme OF the Dingley bill
! woa pnhlic thaft 7 an laanrihod A. r