The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-10-05
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antl-QlSCSQSaGS NS"epSpeis ooeH
very impatient to get a declaration
from Goveror Ellerbe, as to his course
with reference to the dispensary, and
from day to day they are throwing
out hints of q deal made by the Gov
ernor to recommend local option. We
do not know whether there is any
ground to suspect that governor FL
lerbe has changed his views about the
handling OF the liquor problem, but
we have no idea that by word o.. act
has he ever given any man good rea-
son to believe that he will not stand
to the declarations made upon the
hustings, when he went before the
people asking for reelection. The
people endorsed him in spite Of the
combinations and alliances made to
defeat him, and now that the battle is
won, to turn around and recommend
for the enactment into law, measure
which was rejected by the voters in
the recent campaign would be absurd.
Tillman and Schumpert went from
county to county and tried to prove
that local option was the panacea for
all OF their ills, but they would have it
moi, and repudiated both OF them and
their falacious doctrine.
We gave to Governor Ellerbe our
hearty support and we did so. upon
his manly stand for what he thought
was right without regard to political
consequences; had he been trimmer
the prohibitionist would not have
given him opposition because he
would have, on the dead quiet, given
them to understand that he was with
them. No, he made the fight upon
the dispensary platform and on it he
must stand. The only thing for him
to do is to recommend such measures
as will improve the system, and use
every effort to make the law step
towards prohibition, or rather temper
ance, for we do not believe prohibi-
ton can be made practicable. These
newspapers that are endeavoring to
create the impression that Ellerbe
gave the local optionists a promise,
in or6er to get their votes are only
making grand bluff, notwithstand-
ing the fact that the Columbia State
did hint of such an understanding.
Ellerbe were he so disposed, cannot
after satisfying his political appetite
hand the dish over to his enemies,
and the enemies Of the people who
stood by him, when the clouds of dis
aster were lowering very near. The
friends OF the dispensary are in the
majority in the General Assembly
and while many OF them are disposed
to strike out the laws harsh features,
they will, if it becomes necessary put
aside little differences and details and
to O man will stand by the law and
block any attempt to destroy it. The
interviews as published in Fridays
State from the Charleston delegation
is enough to open the eyes of the
opponents of barrooms in South Car
olina; The representatives from that
prohibition() city, where Mr.. Feath-
erstone, the prohibition candidate re-
ceived 81 votes, and high license
Schumpert about 1900, but in the
second primary the high license peo-
pie gave Featherstone their vote, are
bcld in their sayings that they want
license and if they cannot get license,
SO their friends can do ''peezness"
with open doors, then they want pro-
hibition so their friends can do ''peez-
ness behind closed doors.
It is our opinion that Governor
Ellerbe will endeavor to point out to
the General Assembly way to en-
force the dispensary law, more effect
ually than it's being done now, and
with less expense, but there will not
be any "local option" or high license
measure from him. The dispensary
must have fair test, and then if it