Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-02-16
POLITICS AND LIQUOR.
Subjects Which Have Consun


the Time of the General Assembly.
August Kohn in News and Courier, Monday
Politics and liquor have been two OF
the features of the sessions work.
The political talk and ups and downs
have been prolific, and will not close
with the session but members will no
doubt take home with them the inspi'
|rations and prejudices against certain
candidates and measures that have
been nursed in Columbia. Most OF
the politics here has been of quiet
order, except when it broke forth in
all of its furry in the election of the
comptroller general and on the print
ing propositions. These were really
the only two occasions on which the
political schemes came to the surface ;
but volumes might be written of what
is, and has been going on beneath the
surface. There has been no end of
gubernstorial prospecting, and, while
there are now several candidates be-
fore the public as self-avowed or
placed in nomination by their friends,
it would appear that the list is not
complete. By that is meant that d
number of entries have been an
nounced, and q number have been
suggested; but when the start is made
at the first campaign meeting the list
is likely to be materially changed.
Some of those now looked upon as
candidates will, for good and sufficient
reasons, not be at the starting pole, and
others who have not gotten the same
degree of prominence as possibilities
that others now enjoy, will be at the
first meeting to make the race.
The present session has emphasized
the liquor problem as an issue in the
approaching campaign. The issue was
clouded during this session, because of
the lack of combined effort and organ.
ization on the part of the opponents
of the present system, and the oppo-
site condition on the part of the friends
of the system. There has never been
such total and absolute demoraliza-
tion of forces and lack of purpose as
there is with those who are opposing
the existing state of affairs relative to
the liquor question. Had there been
the proper effort made to change the
conditions, there is no telling what
might have happened. The house on
every proposition it has had that did
not contemplate the change of the en-.
tire law for something that was not
matured, has voted against the dispen'
sary. The bill to exempt three coun-
ties from the operations of the law
went through the house by decisive
vote. The resolution repudiating the
granting of hotel privileges was unan-
imously passed by the house, and so
it went. 1t was no wonder that the
Childs's bill was not acceptable, when
its author said it was imperfect and
did not even suit him. Mr.. Meares's
vider was impromptu and sort of
feeler. Mr.. Pollock's bill was merely
intended to reach the "original pack
age" stores, and meant no serious
change of the existing conditions.
Mr.. Hydrick's bill has not had a fair
test, and the "snuffers' have been put
on Mr.. Simpkins's' resolution looking
to popular election on the matter.
In the senate they were not ready
for change. 1t is somewhat remark
able that the dispensary advocates
have persistently and repeatedly re-
fused to allow Mr.. Simpkin's bill to
come up on its merits, when it merely
proposes to let the people Of the state
not of the counties-say what solu-