The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-08-15

Bible. lie thought llllman nao lot
yet read all of the chapters quoted.
The preachers were attacked first N his
Bennettsville speech ard he had no
doubt Tjllman regretted that speech.
The barkeepers Of today are the dis
pensers: they say the blind tigers are
the barkeepers, but the blind tigers get
their liquor from the dispenssries:
Then he explained what were called
the lex blind tigers" He insisted
that there was 20 alliance between the
preachers and saloon men. He spoke
beautifully of DR.. Gardner and his
standing for all that vas moral and
high. and he felt thatthe people would
reIuke Tillman and show that Charles
S. Gardner was not to be traduced and
maligued. No one could prove an i'm
mora! combustion on the part Of Dr..
Gardner. Then he discussed the right
of the State to sell liquor and insisted
that it was wrong and sinful.
MR. FRANK GARY.
said the main question was that Of
liquor aud he wanted ituaderStood that
he stood fatty for the dispensary. If
the law is better enforced now than
ever, then the law is not what is
claimed for it. McSweeney said he
would send consyables wherever asked
for aud in reply to this he read az aft
6avit from NJ B. Scruggs, Of Cherokee
County. in which he stated that ne had
repeatedly asked for constable for his
section, that the people had convicted
two blind tigers, but the Governor bad
not complied with the requests for con-
stables, but had said he would send
one after the election, and this looked,
Mr. Gary thought, as an offering to the
tigers in Cherokee.
Then he explained his position as to
the prohibition option He regarded
prohibition as farce, bat wanted those
who wished it to have it.
He discussed the school question and
his record in the legislature.
MIRA HOWARD PATTERSON
reviewed the dispensary from its inc.p-
ton to the present time, showing that
it did away With the bad features Of the
bar room system and had decreased
Drunkenness. He said that the prohi-
bition platform is not prohibition. He
discussed Col. Hoyt and his platform
thoroughly. He said that Governor
McSEeeney had not enforced the dis
pensary law.
THE sCRUGGS COMPLAINT
Governor McS9eeney requests that
this statement relative to the Scruggs
affidavit be published: Scruggs wrote
Governor McSWeeney requesting him to
appoint Scrugg's constable as dispen-
sary constable, as the magistrates con-
stable received only $40, and he wants
him to make more. Clerk Harris wrote
to Scruggs that in case constable was
needed to write to Chief j. r FAINT
and request detail, and it would be
sent Scruggs was reminded that as
magistrate he and his constable should
help enforce the dispensary Law, and
all the extra pay he could ALLOW was
half the seizures. Ia reply to second
letter Clerk Harris wrote that Cover
nor McSHeeney would probably rot be
able to take up the application made
for the magistrate constable's appoint
ment until after the election. The
idea being that Governor McSWeeney
was too busy now to wade through the
many applications Oh hand. Governor
McS9eeney would like to have the en-
tire correspondence printed to show
that Scruggs wanted his constable given
a special job to work in particular
territory, for which he was already paid
to work and enforce the law. A K.