Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-07-30


ever and ever, world without end
amen. Laughter and applause.
Continuing, the speaker sarcastically
suggested that the constitutional con
vention made mistake in not vestine
the right to this Office in Mr.. May6eld
his heirs and assigns forever.
Senator E. L. Archer, of Spartan
burg, announced his candidacy for
governor with the explanation that he
was farmer. He was not Prohibi
ZIONIST; but believed in the dispen
sary as the best solution of the liquor
question. However, he did not like
the use of dispensary money for school
purposes. He stated how the consti
tuition called for So per capita for edu'
cational purposes, and stated that the
amount had not been raised; that il
was only about $3.50, and ifthe people
wanted the balance, they would have
to go to the dispensary and buy enough
liquor to make it up. Senator Archer
was careful to say that Prohibitionists
were good citizens, inspired by high
ideals; but he did not think that this
was the best way of dealing with the
liquor question from the standpoint o.
statecraft.
Governor Ellerbe was greeted with
cheers, and was the first candidate to
be honored by that distinction. He
gave brief review of his official acts
and told how he had been unable to be
extreme enough for one faction, OF
conservative enough for the other
He claimed to have saved the state
5000 in letting out the public print
ing to the lowest bidder, and also told
how he had tided over financial
squeeze by borrowing from the banks
without interest. The banks had been
using the money of the state without
interest, and they were willing to re-
ciprocate. He then told how George
D. Tillman would denounce Clemson
college as a humbug, and anticipated
the colonel by reading a laudatory
official report that Colonel Tillman
had made on the college. If Colonel
Tillman had known that there was
anything wrong he should have said
so at the time. He admitted that in
big institutions like Clemson and Win
throp, there might be some extrava,
gance; but he would not recommend
a reduction of the appropriations SC
long as these institutions did such
splendid work. The whisky issue was
whether we should have prohibition
or continue the dispensary. He said
that prohibition was a failure and
meant free liquor. The only difference
between South Carolina and Maine is
that in one state liquor is sold in viola
ton of the law, and in the other it is
sold in accordance with law. Under
the dispensary law, the people car
have prohibition if they want it.
"You have no dispensary in Yorkville
because you do not want one, and il
YOU do not want one it is your duty
not to have it," In conclusion, he
told how the preachers of the state
had testified that the dispensary had
reduced drunkenness 46 per cent, and
how one preacher said lit had reduced
drunkenness $50 per cent. but he was
-opposed to the blamed old law all the
same" Applause].
Colonel George D. Tillman said he
was seeking the Office of governor moi
for the salary but for the honor. He
wanted to round out his political ca
reer with a term as chief executive oi
his native state. He had made state
craft the study of his life, and he be-
lieved that hc was we'll versed in the
matter; but to attempt to discuss i'm
portant issues in Is minutes was oul
of the question. He could only make
a hop, skip and jump. The issues, he
said, were the college question, the tax
question and the dispensary question
He spoke of the Arabian Nights
promises that had been made in behalf
of the dispensary, and then denounced
the system as nothing but politica
machine. He understood that York
Vile declined to have a dispensary
and also Rock Hill; but that one had
been forced on the county at Tirzah
which place was celebrated only TO,
annual campaign picnics where states
were arranged for the last time previ'
Gus to elections. He said that every
civilized government in the world rec,
ognized intoxicating liquors as the com
modify that would bear most taxation
with the least grumbling, and stated
that the science of taxation was tc
pluck the goose without making it
suuawk. Before the dispensary law
went into effect, the barkeepers paid
the state $250,OOO year in licenses
He believed that if the counties were
allowed to manage the liquor traffic
each would realize from Sc, 900 to $50,
900 year from it, and this would helE
to reduce taxation. He wanted less
taxes and more liberty. During the
colonel's speech the Narrow Gauge
train came along making lot of noise
and Colonel Tillman protested te
Chairman Brice that it was not fair tt
rob him of 80 much of his valuable
time. Then the colonel again gave
utterance to his despair at being una
BILE to tell his story within Is minutes