The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1900-08-16

time Mr.. Derham said he was not
violent" but wanted to say that the
insinuation was uncalled for. Mr..
Breazeale had both candidates sit
down and there the matter ended.
Mir Derham came UP with his fist
clinched and as ne approached Mr..
Brooker got ready to meet him but Mr..
Breazeale and Mr.. Hood stepped be-
tween them and there the matter
ended
Mr.. Brooker says he intended no re-
flections and was only replying TO the
card circulated about him and he WAS
saying in defense Of his position. III
you were asked to vote ior son VI
Scott or Moses against me-" He went
no further and says it was his purpose
to explain when Mr.. Derham arose and
there were evidences Of the squall that
was nipped
Senator Tillman made very long
and very vigorous speech.
Frank B. Gary spoke first among the
governors. He started out by insist
ing that prohibition was a stupendous
failure. He reiterated his position and
wanted it understood ne was no apollo
gist for the present enforcement Of the
dispensary law He does not think the
dispensery was intended to raise reve-
nue.. II it takes every dollar to sup
press the sale it should DE used and
the constables should not lie Cit off.
He took up the Cherokee case and said
McSweeney should have sent a ccn-
stable there. AS to McSweeney's
claim of educating or helping a poof
boy, he had helped educate eight boys.
AS to the Pons case, had McSweeney
pardoned him the governor would no
doubt have been burned in effigy all
over the State.
McSweeney had no higher place than
anyone else because of filling out an
unexpired term. 1t was desperate
strait to talk about his kin being in
office. 1t was left for peace colonies
to complain of his going to the front.
no one complained when the seventh
Gary brother went to war.
He said he had no organ or ism to
boom him. He relied upon himself.
quoting from John G. Saxe's lines.
A. Howard Patterson commented on
the closing Of the dispensaries at all
campaign meetings and then he eulo-
gized the dispensary system. Then he
attacked the prohibition platform end
said 1t was not prohibition but the use
of the dispensary machinery under the
name Of prohibition. The prohibition
dispensary will be as much OF ma
chine as the present system. There
would be more Hoyt's cologne sold un
der that system than ever before.
There were blamed few prohibitioEists
from principle. Hoyt wants to be gov
ernor moe than he wants prohibition;
then he raped Gonzales and waded
into McSweeney. He said he would
not be in the race II McSweeney en-
forced the law. II the law was en-
forced in Charleston it was because he
was after him with hot stick. The
instructions McSweeney reads are over
a year old. and yet they have seized no
fixtures. He took up the custom house
and otner matters on McSweeney. He
said bloodshed had to come If neces-
sary, but it was not necessary. And
then he took up the constahuiary
figures.
Then he took up the Garys and
argued that they should not take
everything in sight, but leave some
thing for their friends. Garys plat
form meant prohibition, then free
liquor and starvation Of the dispen--;
sary in Charleston, Columbia and
elsewhere. He edged on the Charles
ton incident to-day by saying what he
said there. Every daily paper was sup
po-tirg HIN, and he spoke OF his news
naper appointments and spoke OF me
as an honorable" newspaper Iln.
Gov. McSweeney said all spoke about
violations in Charleston and Columbia.
Why are they not fair and snow no"
well the law is enforced elsewhere
They do not tell you about the grand
juries throwing out cases. Patterson
could not get the grand jury OF Barn"
we'll to believe him and he could 20
nothing to force true bills. He reiate1
what he had done towards genera
enforcement of the law He never haa
refused to send a constable where
asked for by reputable citizens. he
explained the Scruggs-Cherokee mat
ter. He read letter from Chief HOWE
to show the conditions in Charleston
as to seizing bar fixtures. His IN
structions are for constables TO DC
their full! duty. Scott was a partisan
Of Patterson's.
He then quoted the record OF seizues
and cases tried, claiming a better re-
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