Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-08-01
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FARMER, WnO SIOOu well dlnopS uis oSH
people, and who had their endorse
ment for the position of railroad com
missioner. He knew what it was for
the railroad companies to demand half
and sometimes all of the. value of d
truck shipment, and if he was elected
to the Office of commissioner, he would
try and see to it that this condition oi
aft airs was changed. He said he had
the reputation of never going back
when he knew himself to he in the
right, and promised to hold to bis re-
cord this time.
w. D. Mayfeld stated the terms Of
the law under which the railroad com
has its existence. There are
three commissioners, the term of one
of which expires every two years, and
his successor being elected for six
years. The salary of a:commissioner
is $1,000 year. 1t is paid by the
railroads, which also furnish an Office,
clerks, stationery and free passes. He
this should be changed. II
the state paid the commissioners, the
influence of the railroads would be
less. He did not, however, charge any
corruption in the present administra-
tion of the Office.
Mr.. ]. H. Wharton thought that Mr..
Pettigrew was too good man to be
railroad commissioner, and he twitted
Mr.. Berry about having been born and
reared in so many counties. He prom
ised that if elected he would devote
his attention to the regulation of rail
road schedules so as to prevent travel
ers from having to lie over in out OF
the way places for "a hours on account
of a difference of only three minutes
in the time of arrival and departure OF
trains. Like Mr.. Berry, he wound up
bis speech with the funny story of the
the brave man who undertook to sleep
in a haunted house to prove to his
that there was no such a
thing as ghosts. The only living thing
he encountered in the house was q
black cat, which looked up into his
face and said, "Nobody here but you
and me !" "No," replied the brave
man, as his rising hair lifted his hat
off his head "and 1 am not going to
he here longr' The brave man ran
with all his speed, crashing through
fences and into bitches without looking
which way he went, until he had made
more than d mile, when he set down,
out of breath to rest. Looking down,
the first thing he saw was the black cat,
which remarked "Pretty tight race,
wasn't it?" "Tight, the devil" re-
piled the unbeliever in ghosts. "Talk
about tight racing I am now going to
show you something that is racing
right" Mr.. Wharton's application
was to the way he was going to leave
the other fellows on the 28th of Au'
gust.
The Jokes of Mr.. Berry and Mr..
Wharton were both we'll told and
brought down the crowd with cheers
ana rOarS OF laughter.
FOR GOVERNOR.
The candidates for governor are A.
Howard Patterson, of Barnwell ; M.
B. McSweeney, the present incumbent
of Hampton ; Frank B. Gary, of Able
vile Jas. A. Hoyt, of Greenville and
G. Walt Whitman, of Union. They
were allowed a half hour each, and
each consumed his full time. There
was an occasional interruption from
the audience; but no interruption sug
gestive of disorder. All of the candi'
dates were applauded generously, and
even G. Walt Whitman was properly
commended when he said good thing
Governor McSweeney, who had moi
previously appeared on the stump in
this county, made good impression
upon the people, and the echoes from
the grand stand assured Colonel Hoyt
that he was in the home of his friends
Mr.. Gary was at some disadvantage in
that he came last; but, nevertheless
he was well received.
Mr.. Patterson was the first speaker
He introduced his remarks by expa
tiating on the benefit of campaign
meetings, which enabled candidates tc
meet the people face to face, and ena
bled the people to gather their i'm
pressions of men and measures indie
pendently Of the newspapers. He
then went into a discussion of the IL
quor question, arguing from newspa
per and other statistics, that prohibi
ton had been a failure in Maine, and
wherever it had been tried, and thai
the dispensary system is the best solu
ton of the liquor question that has
ever been proposed. He recited the
fact that there are now only 90 dis
pensaries, where there used to be soc
bar-rooms and he stated that accord
ing 10 the testimony of 324 preachers
out of the 463 who had been questioned
on the subject by Governors Evans
and Ellerbe, drunkenness had been
reduced 49, per cent. He claimed
that the blind tigers of Maine sold
more liquor than did the South Caro-
lima dispensary, and argued this tc
show that prohibition in Maine is
failure. He claimed that the only
trouble with the dispensary law is lack
of proper endorsements; but to admit
that we have no one capable of enforc
ing it would be disgrace to the civil
ization of the state. He jumped on
Governor McSweeney for his alleged
failure to enforce the law in Charleston
and Columbia, claiming that the gov.
erpor had passed by blind tigers in
both cities by the score without lifting
a finger against them. He charged
Colonel Hoyt with being local op'
zionist, favoring high license in prefer.
on,,o to tho diopancarv and he CHARGED