Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1898-09-08
a TALK WITH Fr aTHERsTOSE. q
What Ho Proposes to I,o IL he Is
E8 Elected Governor. NJ .sSs

What Ho Prop0ses to DO IL He Is
Elected Governor. Ny r $5@
4 Il GoLUksbIa, Ssptembor .. Mr.. q, @,
Featherstone, tho candidate for Cover
nor. who viii be In tho second race with
Governor Ellerbe, is in the oity tonight.
He was seen tonight and talked as fol.
lows: 5 .t s Il z 4 j 4
"'How have you stood tho campaignp''
Remarkably we'll. ! haven't lost a
pound Of flesh, and am feeling as woll as
/ over did, 25tGs @ # %uy r.
"What do you think Of your ohancos,
and what will be the RESULT In tho second
'.Well; you know, I am not tho man to
boast, as Isuppose you have discovered
from tho campaign II made, but ! will
say thai my onanGos have boon growing
brighton and brighton for tho last month.
! was sure that would bo in tho second
raco. I.have made an honest, clean cam.
paign, have made friends all over the
State, and if my friends do their
duty / will be tho next Governor
Of South Carolina. People all over
the State have become disgusted
ner in which 1t has boen used to fur
ther tho interests OF certain parties. Dur.
ing the campaign whiskey was shipped
into the:State by houses from which tho
dispensary buys liquor, an it was used
in tho interost of certain dispensary oaIl-
didates. In addition to this, many are
disgusted with tho manner in which the
dispensary has boon run. Beer dispon-
saries, hotel privileges, etc., in various
Wow Of sclling as much whiskey as posi-
bic. nefa11l5itg dispensers have not
been handled as thoy should have boen.
Whiskoy constables have gono beyond
their duties, and whom thoy were con.
voted in tho Courts they havo been par
denod and allowed TO go SCOT Free"
"By tho way, what do you think of the
disponsary law anyhow"
"Well, as you know, L am Prohibi-
tho diEDensary law Is wrong in principle,
and ought mover to havo boon enacted.
But 1 am opposed to it mainly on the
ground thai Il sGllB wiiskoy TO tho people
as beverage and dobauches our citi-
zonb.'
"Somo of tho people would like to
know what gooG it would do to eloct you
Governor with q dispensary Legislature.
Would you mind giving your views along
mo, sir, not in tho loast. TO start
with, it is by no means certain that the
noxt Legislature will be in sympathy
with tho disponsary law. Thoro will bo
in tho next Gonoral Assembly largo
number of simon-pure PrOhibitionists.
Also largo numbor not Prohibitionists,
who arc opposed to tho disponsary law,
and it is by no means certain what will
bo tho result. You will recolleot that
tho last Genoral Assembly came worry
near passing tho ChilCs bill, and bolievo
that if Mr.. Childs's health had permitted
him to be prosont and push his bill, rs he
would hcvo dono but for his i'll health,
tho bill would have become law.
But in case | should DO elected Gov
crnor, and tho Goneral Assembly should
SEQ fit to let tho dispensary system
stand, it would not only bo my duty, but
my pleasure, to enforce tho dispensary
law and all othor laws to tho best of my
ability. Tho law has some good fea-
turos, and with an honest, clean enforce
mcnt, it can be mado to do much better
service than it has done in the past. I
do not moan to be understood as charg-
ing that the entire forco of dispensary
officials aro rotton and corrupt, for I
know that thorc arc some good mon
amongst thom, who arc seeking to do
thoir full duty, but it cannot Ue denied
by the most ardont advocates Of tho law
that thoro has been large per cont OF
corruption and rottonnesB. 1t will also
not bo denied that tho law is capable of
g"@at improvement along tho limo Of
onforcemcno, and to accomplish this a
better class Of mon will have to be put in
charge of great many Of tho Offices.
"lt has beon charged that tho Prohibit
tionists arc not in favor of enforcing tho
disponsary law. Such is lot tho fact.
SO long as it remains n law, rs law-abid-
ing citizons they arc in favor Of its en-
forcomont. They would like to SEQ it
enforced by mon all over tho State who
will mako its management cloan and
honest, who will not uso it as a political
machine and to further their own private
ends, but who will manage it in such a
way as to sell as little whisl1oy as posi-
bio. Such state of affairs l will Darn
cstly try to bring about in case 1 am
elected"
tionai question:"
81 am glad you asked that question.
Whilo on tho stump my timo was so linn
tied that could not discuss this ques-
tion as l might hayo done. 10 start
with, | am in favor Of building up and
in every way possible tho
common schools. This must bo done
before tho colleges con flourish as thoy
ought. Every boy or girl in South Caro-
lima ought to bo given n good common
school education. When this is done.
with tho high schools and academies
scattered over the State, it will be no
trouble for tho boys and girls to bo pre-
pared for college, and the result will bo
the building Up aid iiiuuI isiing uff ali our
colleges. l do not bolicve that any of
them ought to be torn down or allowed
to starye and languish for want of SUP
port.
ut may be, and doubtless is, true, that
there havo been many, or at least some,
extravaganza in tho management of our
All this can and will bo
corrected in timo. 1t must bo done. 1t
is impossible to keep down extravaganza
in connection with such largo institutions
as Clemson and Winthrop. Especially is
this true while thoy are in thoir infancy
and before they become thoroughly Or
ganizod. But all of this will be ovor-
como. | would not say aught against
Clemson, but would say word In
praise. of Winthrop. In my Judgment
there is no bottor or grandcr institution
in the South than Winthrop, and know
whereof | speak, for ] havo boon thoro.
We cannot afford to lot the old South Ca
rOlina College languish and starve. IN
stead of this the standard ought to bo
raised, SO that sho will not compete with
our donominational colleges, and sho
ought to be put upon q firmer and bottor
basis. The same thing ought to bo done
III lOiolCIiSo W LllC clOSu'Sl. lulS Olu
has dono groat work for tho
State, and she will continue to do 80 in
the future i sho is not hamporcd by
want of funds.
"Ono thing I would emphasize and
then | am through talking. What wo
want, and what we must have in South
Carolina, is economy in the management
of all our State affairs. Not stingincss
or ponuriousncss, for economy docs not
mean that, but thoro arc oxtravaganc ,s
which can and must be stopped. What