The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1900-08-08

mad any other opportunit.
: wish to see how YOU ar,
going to vote on the Legislature
To repeal the dispcnsary law an,
enact prohibition? | will ask YOU t,
hold your right hand in support o
the dispensary. Kohn, YOU hav,
been fair and just; YOU have giveI
us straight report Of the meetings
but you have been unjust to suppress:
things you should report. Now,
ask you to report it as it is. Civ,
us straight report as to the mum
Der of people here. | would SAY
twenty-five hundred in all. All yo,
who are going 10 vote for legislators
VINO Will support the dSpcnSary
hold up your right hand. (Crowd fol
dispcnsary).
THE OTHER SPEAKERS.
At the conclusion of Senator Till
mans speech, the guDcrnatorial can
dldateS were given an opportunity to
rid themselves of their usual speech
| eS.
Governor NJ. b. McSwecney, candi-
date for ELECTION, was introduced.
He said that he was not here to slinp
mud and to run down his opponents
but would make Il clean speech He
| referred the voters to his record as
| governor. lie said that during his
administration the dispenSary law
had been rigidly enforced, that the
constabulary had done splendid
work and that there had not been
any bloodshcd by any of them
since he became governor. The en-
forcement of prohibition law, he
said, would be II farce and great
harm to the people, that the law
would only prove Il mockery if an
effort n1n1n ~ fnrnn - 10
ferred to the utter failure of the pro-
hibition law in Maine, Iowa and Kan
sas. After writing to the mayors of
the different cities of South Carolina.
he decided to cut down the conStabu-
larry force and had thereby saved
the State the amount of $4,000, and
the dispensary law was now better
enforced than it had ever been. Mr..
McSw~ cncy denied the charge of Mr..
Patterson that there were numerous
blind tigers in Charleston, and that
the people there We" going to vote
for McSwccncy because he allowed
sion of his speech Mr.. McSwccney
was presented with beautiful bou-
quet of flowers from Mrs. j. j. Co
wart.
Col. James A. IIoyt was next in
troduced. He said that he did not
intend to make n speech, but felt
called upon to answer some charges
made by Senator Tillman. Col. JlCy5
said that he had nothing to do with
the establishment of separate boxes
for the prohibition ticket in this
county, but that it was the work of
the ma .iority of the county executive
committee. Tillman spoke Of his
Crillman's) right to be in the canvass
4 L
toned Tillman's right to be in the
man he had II right to be in the cam
paign if he so desired it. He said
that all the candidates would agree
with him that the dispensary was a
machine used by politicians to gain
Office, but denied the charge that he
had said that Tilman was the con
Structor Of this machine. Tillman
has shown us his familiarity with
the Bible. l am glad that he has
been induced by some means to study
the Bible. In referring to a passage
in Habakull which he said was the on
ly argument in the Bible for prohi-
was an obsolete book. Probably he
said that because he knew only until
recently that there was such a book.
Habakuk is not an obsolete book and
furthermore there are other passages
in the Bible that referred to Prohibi-
tion.
Col. Hoyt in strong terms dcnounc-
ed as utterly false Tillman's state
mcnt that the preachers were in an
alliance with the barkeepers. He ask
ed the question, "Who are the bar
kecpers?' Don't the blind tigers
here in Grcenvillc go to the dispcn-
sary to buy their liquor? Are the
dispensarics in league with the
preachers? Col. IIoyt said that it
was sinful or immoral to sell liquor,
then deep in sin. The condition of
Greenville and Greenville county is
now ten times worse than it was dur
ing the ten years enforcement of the
local option law. At the conclusion
of Col. Hoyt's speech one of Green
ville's fairest maidens came upon the
platform and in n graceful manner
presented him with n lovely bouquet
of flowers.
G.. Walt Whitman was next on the
program. Mr.. Whitman said that as
soon as he finished speaking he would
be ready to take n drink. lie began
| by giving n history of himself and
ancestors. He said that he was born
| IN SDartanDurR county, ana ullitb Ilc
was proud of it. Mr.. Whitman traced
his ancestry back to q rear admiral
in the English navy. He said that he
knew what it was to have Il hard time
that he had always been hard work
ing man and could sympathizc with
the poor farmers and laborcrs. lie
said that Mr.. Gary had asked h'El
where he was during the war, anl
that he had replied that he was toe
young to go to the war, but hat
spent the time behind the plow hand
les and had lost two brothers who
died fighting for their country. ilt
made an attack upon the state co
leges, saying that he did not bc@cr'
in taxing the farmers in orcdr to
run these State schools. lie asked
the voters to give him vote and sait
that if he didn't make n better rov
ernor than McSwecney had made h'
would kick himself.
Mr.. Gary was introduced and bc2al
by saying, 81 contend that the hes
way to deal with the liquor questio
is by the dispensary system. c'nih
that prohibition will not lead to tn
results claimed by it's advocates" ~
referred to q recent visit of his 30 u
Isle of Palms saying that il
found numerous blind tigers ther
and also in the city of Charleston. ii
said that if Governor McSwccne