The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1898-06-22

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ness, he could not be expected to
compromise his common sense by
advocating a prohibition law when
the best people do lot keep such q
law.
SOLICITOR O. L. sCHUMPERT
was the sixth candidate for the gov
ernorship to be announced. He was
cheered and made fine impression,
his splendid voice captivating his
hearers. He bluntly remarked that
he was here simply because he want
ed votes. He advocated education
from the lowest to The highest poiIt
necessary to fit citizen for any po-
sition in the gift of the people. He
hoped that the State institutions
would be eliminated from politics, so
that this question could not longer
serve as The stock in trade of politici-
ans to stir up the passions OF the
people.
He was not prohibitionist, but 10
was open to conviction. He believed
in local option with high license.
THE PROHIBITION CHAMPION
then appeared in the person of MIR.
G. G. Featherstone, who announced
that as the candidate suggested by
the prohibition convention had with
drawn, he had decided to withdraw
his candidacy for the lieutenant gov
ernorship and to hold aloft the ban
ner of prohibition at the head OF the
| head or the Column.
MIR. Featherston made an eloquent
argument from a prohibition stand
point, illustrating it with figures and
printed statements. II love liquor"
| said be, and wag on the front bench
shouted, Il know that from your
shape"
Mr.. Featherstone said that no law
could be perfectly and entirely en-
forced, but this was no reason why
the whiskey evil should be en-
couraged. The fault he found with
the dispensary was that it sold
whiskey as a beverage and encouraged
its sale by the advertisement that the
| whiskes was chemically pure. 1t
was the duty of the people to head
off an evil. Three million dollars
were spent yearly in South Carolina
for whiske;. If this money could be
applied to education the State would
be many times better off and crime
and misery be averted.
SURE WINNER
for reelection then loomed up when
the chairman announced Major NJ.
! B. McSweeney, the pleasing and
debonair, as the only candidate for
the lieutenant governorship. He cut
his remarks very short, saying that
he had as president Of the senate
labored to be fair and impartial and
he appreciated the compliment con-
tanned in the fact that he was unop-
posed for rejection.
FOR SECRETARY OF STATE
there appeared three candidates,
headed by Col. D. H. Tompkins, the
incumbent. Many of the colonels
friends had been yearning to see him
on the stump, but they soon ascer-
tanned that he was a platform foeman
worthy Of anybody's steel. He de-
clared that the duties Of his Office
would be the same no matter what
political or economic views obtained.
His opponents could not attack his
business qualifications. so they were
hopeful that they could beat him on
the third term issue. He cited the
names Of Sims, Thompson, Richard
son, Bates and Mayfeld who had
held office for that period.
Mr.. NJ. R. Cooper Of Colleton, OF
the State board of control, came
next. He believed in rotation and
showed that his experience qualified
him for the Office.
Sheriff D. J. Brabham Of Manning
made taking speech, promising if
he should be elected secretary of
state for two terms he would get out
and then take the governorship.