Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1900-07-25

| Soou crowd was present. The farm
ers are working with their tobacco
crops. Tillman made about the same
speech he did at Bennettsville.
Mr.. Frank b. Gary was the first
speaker. There are three in the race
advocating the dspensary and one
! prohibition. He did not want to be
rejected on spccious plea that he has
Kin people who are some account. He
was cordially applauded at his con
Clusion.
! Patterson began by twitting Gary
about making set speech about pen
sions for old soldiers. Gary had never
introduced bill for their relief in the
| legislature. He has no objection to
the Gary family holding Office. but
Frank ought to run against McLaurin
/ lor the senate two years from now.
Gov. McSweeney was applauded as
he was presented. He spoke of the
good feeling. happiness and prosperity
III the State to-day. His opponents
try to make the people think that he
is In league with the blind tigers. If
Charleston supports him it is because
his administration has been free from
politics and anything contemplate, u
business administration.
COL Hoyt was received with an
plause sprinkled all over the yard.
After paying his respects to Gary and
McSweeney he said that Patterson re-
/ minded hlm of Il cogwheel railroad He
mas the same old speech and if he
Slips a cog he can't go. In speaking
or Illicit sales in Maine in comparison
with dispensary sales here. Patterson
says nothing of Illicit sales here. All
OF the public men on both sides in
Maine are agreed that the people want
prohibition and the political parties
are afraid of any attempt to repeal the
law. Patterson knows that Hoyt has
continued to denounce as false any
charge of collusion on his part.
Walt Whitman, too, protested
against his ancient friend. Senator
Tillman, coming into this race. Pat
terson tries to prove that the MONDAY
sun shines. Everybody knows that the
law is not enforced in Charleston.
Any law can be enforced VIII ch has a
semblance of right. by an executive
who has nerve. He had advised Nc
Sweeney not to make this race. He
ought to have taken waits advice.
Col. Jas II. Tillman paid a tribute
to his late personal friend George
Dargan Jim voted II times in &c
although he was only I years old.
Why don't Blease and Winkler go
back 10 ;he legislature and be elected
speaker, Frank Gary isn't in their
way? Col. Sloan was in the Senate
eight years and couldn't be elected
president pro TEN. He had had a lot
of trouble getting Col Livingston on
platform. but he is not on the pro
h!bition platform. Tillman advocated
the dispenSary.
Col. Livingston said that the Pee
Dee is more bond than boundary. Marl-
boro and Darlington had been side by
side in '76. He had not gotten on the
prohibition platform because it is
popular. He is standing where he did
in the Legislature in the sos and in the
sos and is now standing in the Sen
ate York county had asked for the
dispensary to be removed and he had
had the manhood to fight for the re-
quest in the face of the powers then
In control He would cast the decid-
ing vote in the Senate for prohibition.
The next speaker was Mr. c. L.
| Winkler. The people do not care from
which section man comes. What
they want to know is what is the man?
Every man in this race for ..eutenant
| governor is on his merit. not as a
! coat-tail swinger. He is running upon
his record in the general assembly
and upon his ability and integrity. he
advocated the diSpensary
Col. John T. Sloan said he comes up
to the requirements laid down by
Winkler. Was in the house OF repre-
sentatives in 1876, the consttu-
tional convention and was State Sena-
/ foh 10 hag hoA
Client parliamentary training to make
him competent. He L.un't believe in
pro tenn" business He wanted to be
elected fairly and squarely by the
people.
Col. Blease said he had record and
he is proud of it. When he was but %
years of age Newberry gave him l 300
out of 1000 votes for the legislature.
He opposed prohibition. The majority
of prohibitionists want to keep other
people from drinking and get all they
can for self. Man is responsible to
! God alone for drinking liquor.
J. III. Moore said he could never
manage to meet his opponent on the
stump. The latter has gone to Wash
ington on wild goose chase Bellin-
gers record is one of failure. Bel
! linger VS. not here.
DR.. Zimmerman said he could not
leave his office to make every meeting
in the campaign while his opponents
/ is neglecting his office OF clerk of the
court of Fairfield.
Capt Jennings replied that he has a
/ deputy clerk who can attend to the
work DR. Zimmerman is State treas
urer and at the same time president OF
/ a bank at Columbia and an Officer i'm
other banks.
Neither Brooker nor Derham was
well to-day and the usual spat was