The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1900-08-09

he regretted having Col. Wharton as
| ; CppCnent. He said two Laurens
citizens had promised to work for him
at any time and he wished to release
them and let them work for Wharton.
! He spoke Of the work of the commits
sion board. that the truckers associa-
ton had tried in vain to get lower
rates on truck to the up-country in
:his county He was fighting nobodv
and nobody was fighting him and he
was running entirely on his record.
W. D. Evans said the audience has
lust been told the voters have been
blind for ten years and they have been
told that the speaker was the honest
and upright man was the one to be
elected.
! The rate from Gray Court on brick
! is now so cents, before April it was
sl.Si. AS to the charge that he work.
ed for the Pee Dee section-the rate
| TO ks home. Kollocks. was the only
| station to which there was no reduc-
ton in rates The trouble with B. b.
Evans was that he heard OF someone
who had bottle of liquor on some
private car and that bottle was what
! B. &. was running after. He was pay
ing his way on this campaign and paid
to come here and the conductor told
him B. B. asked him the number OF w.
D. Evans pass. The fertilizer rate to
Laurens had been reduced. The Laur-
ers mill could now buy cotton IN the
county and then he took up the other
rates that been reduced. B. B. said
he never ma'e a charge that had been
denied.
| w. D. asked il that man could not
, be kept quiet.
B. B.-Keep to facts.
W. D.-I let you go on withou- in
terruptions and this sort OF thing is
| kept up most of the time.
The fertilizers were manufactured
here and the trust has been organized
and more money is coming here be-
cause the rates and candidates
here are favorable to their investing
money here.
! Mr.. w. D. Mayfleld, for railroad COM
missioner, outlined his policy and put
in some licks against the railroads
paying the salaries Of the railroad
commissioners. He said the commits.
sion takes refuge behind the inter-
state commerce commission. but other
! States got lower rates and somebody
has gotten lower rates, in some way.
He wanted the small industries en-
| couraged by lower local rates. Iron
works and such enterprises are handi-
capped by rates; 80 with canning FAC
I tories. The meeting was then ad-
journed for dinner.
/ At the afternoon session A. Howard
Patterson first took up the advan-
! tageS of the dispensary and then took
! up Col. Hoyt and jumped on him for
his coalition" platform. COL Hoyt,
he argued. was trying to cut loose from
Gonzales. Then he argued that men
vote on principle and Hoyt's election
meant goodbye dispensary. Then he
! took up McSweeney's administration
of the dispensary and the alleged non
enforcement in Charleston and Column
bia. He dared McSweeney to tear
down the barfixtures, because If he did
/ he would lose all the votes in Charles
ton. Then he jumped McSweeney for
not indictng the custom house of1i-
cials. The dispensary law cannot be
Judged when in the hands OF one who
is not the friend Of the law. Then he
! took up Gary, just as to the brothers
holding office. his Charleston speech
and Gary's veteran record in the
! house.
| Governor McSweeney wanted the
people to weigh argument and SEQ
whether a single reason was given for
his defeat. The people could see for
themselves what there was in the talk
Of the general non-enforcement OF the
! dispensary law, it is not true he
would remove any constable who did
not do his duty. For years the Gus
tom house had been used as a store
room and he mapped out the plan OF
campaign and secured Tillman's CO.
operation, and he cited what has been
done. He could not 90 around and
watch every constable. In this con-
nection he read letters to show him
the law is being enforced and his in
structions carried out. He took up
the letters from the mayors to show
that the law is being enforced and re-
ceived three baskets OF flowers.
Col. JAS A. Hoyt spoke touchingly
of having been brought to Laurens On
a stretcher after having been wounded
and disabled. He spoke Of having got
ten his first prohibition views from
O'Neal and,his father in Laurens, how
he has ever since been for prohibition.
Then he took his opposition to the dis
pensary and insisted that the State had
! M -iobt 70 anpape in the business. The