The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-08-22

the dispensarv Shall only sell for GER
tain purposes. Their platform was
framed by tifty-four persons who belong
10 their faction of political party. tc-
gether with a few disappointed pollti-
clans of another faction, not to carry on
grand religious principle, but for po-
litical purposes. Mr.. Haynes of Lex
! ington, evidently sincere Prohibition
iSt, fought it on the ground that 1t was
too much permeated with alcoholic
liquor but unfortunately he was in the
minority-the politicians were III con-
troll. and Mr. Featherstone refused to
90 before the people on that platform.
There was no James H. Carlisle or
| Wallace Duncan in that convention to
frame a true prohibition platform, but
because the platform adopted was
labeled Prohibition, the ministry
without sober second thought adopted
it. Those of us who have watched the
movements of politicians can see the
trap which was set to capture the
preachers, and how they unconsciously
walked into it. and how they became
hoodwinked into innocently election
eering for politicians ont of a job. and
Bishop Duncan:
Error is wrought from wan: Of thought.
AS well as want OF heart
Now, what l have asked on every
stump in this county, and what | now
ask is for the advocates of prohibition
here. to show US how they propose to
prohibit the sale of liquor through the
dispepsaries as beverage? They say
by requiring a doctors certificate-a
poor man whose wife is sick and who
has only money enough to pay for the
liquor will have to do without. and suf-
fer. or lie. Besides if he will lie to the
dispenser, he will lie to the doctor, you
encourage and offer inducements for
lying, which will permeate the witness
stand, and the jury box and thereby
become a menace to life, liberty, and
property. They say you will keep the
negro from getting it. No YOU wont,
when the negro finds his employer can
get it and he can't, he will go down
into the swamps and make it himself,
and while you are away from home at
court as Juror, your families are left
to the mercy of these wretches who are
crazed on ''tusic liquor" They say
they will make it misdemeanor to lie
to get it. Yes. catching before hang
ing" but if they did. about one-half of
the people who drink would be on the
chaingang. The idea. Connecting
church with State in a Republic.
Here it is in nutshell: When l
take my motherless child on my arm,
and walk down the aisle of my church
on Gods holy sabbath-day with my
heart prepared to receive the gospel,
poor sinful man that I am. point me
to the cross: not to the ballot box: teach
me how to pray: not how to vote: show
me the evils of ofintemperance and drunk
enness. but not the preachers choice of
candidates in a political primary cleo
tion.
THE dispensary is fixed here by your
legislature and the supreme courts OF
the State and United States: before we
DESTROY it let them show us something
better: or at least how they will stop
the sale of liquor as a beverage and this
they cannot do. They do not attempt
to do so.'
Captain Bradham was not in good
voice but he advocated the '.prohlbl-
tion-dispensary" idea, the selling OF
the State farms. biennial sessions, laid
much stress on the small amount paid
to pensioners, and contended that the
dispensary profits will not be given to
the public schools. He said he wanted
to 60 to the legislature to do something
for the people who had done so much
for him.
DR.. l. NJ. Woods spoke OF his exper-
ience in the legislature and that his
previous service was of value to him,
that the delegation with which he
served had started a policy of reducing
taxation and that he thought he should
be sent back to complete the work
started. He was an advocate of the
because he regarded 1t a
more practical temperance measure
than so-called prohibition. He invited
the people to look at his record, and
promised them if returned to give them
his best service. He voted for 100000
for free schools.
Mai. H. B. Richardson was the last
speaker. and ne started out by asking
that the justice be done him to correct
a mistake which had been made in the
report of his speech at Packsville and
published in The Farmer. He was made
TO appear in that paper as straddling on
the liquor question, and he did not want
to be placed N such position. Major
Richardson then defined his position,
which was a clear cut argument in
favor of the dispensary, position he
has held the past two years to our own
knowledge. He showed that the legis-
lature did for the confederate pen
sioners, just what the pensioners
through their committee asked for, and
in that matter, not being veteran him
self he was content to follow true and
tried soldiers of the confederacy. He
hurriedly explained the amended dis
pensary law, his position on the public
schools. he voted for the 100000 az
preparation for the public schools and
asked for an endorsement. Major
Richardson speech was good one, but
he had to talk rapidly as the crowd was
about tired opss having listened to so
many speeches. Thursday night the
candidates spoke at Alcolu and on Fri