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

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his barrel Of literature later on, and
insisted that his platform was coun-
try school man to have charge Of the
county schools They both reiterated
their customary platforms.
Gen. Floyd made a patriotic speech
and suggested that the militia ought
to be kept up to high standard. in
view of the danger with the other pow
ers on account of the Chinese troubles.
The railroad commissioners said
nothing unusual.
Col. Hoyt was the first of the guber-
natorial candidates to talk. He want
ed it understood that he was making
his race on principle. and that this
was the first time he had ever pre-
sented himself for office and that he
did not run because he liked to go
into politics. but because he was pre-
sented as the exponent Of a principle
that was dear to him. The talk of the
political and unholy alliance was simp-
ly an effort on the part of some to
cloud the issues. If it was not right
for the citizen to engage in the sale OF
liquor it was not right for the State
to do so. He favored the repeal of the
dispensary law. and this did not mean
Inc sale of liquors through drug
stores. He said he had no objection
to the part that Tillman took in the
campaign, except that ne tnougnt llil-
man should take no part in State poll
tics, and it was even being intimated,
jokingly no doubt, that Tillman had
come out to help Hoyt. II Tillman'
persisted in fighting him he woula try
issues with the present argument and
was satisfied that the people would
act without dictation and as the,
should. He felt that prohibition vas
wanted and would win.
G. Walt Whitman spoke with fire.
He jumped on the State colleges, made
fun of the McSweeney badges, spoke
of the rottenness that was alleged to
exist in the State government. SAID
what he would do If elected governor,
and insisted that the dispensary was
neither enforced inside or OUTSIDE OF 1t.
Mr.. Frank B. Gary defined his posi-
tion as usual. He asked to know what
had become OF the investigation as to
the constables who had attended the
meetings. and said that constable at
tended yesterdays meeting no doubt
for the purposp of booming NC
Sweeney.
He repeated the affidavit of ScrusgS
as to a constable not being in Chero-
kee. and urged that there were GER
tainIy need for more than four con-
stables for Charleston. He defined
his position on the dispensary. public
| schools and other matters the same as
heretofore. and made no mention OF
the Charleston incident,
Mr. A. Howard Patterson made his
regular dispensary speech and argued
10 show that there were more liquor
drunk in prohibition times than ever.
and that prohibition. was delus!on
and a snare He urged that the
| Charleston police were in Cahoot with
| the tigers, and wanted to know why
McSweeney had not called upon re-
| putable citizens to testify? He again
attacked McSweeney for not seizng
bar fixtures in Charleston, and dared
him to telegraph that the fixtures of
Hemme Halsey. the Charleston hotel
and Calhoun hotel, be seized. He
then took up Mr.. Gary. repeated about
| the effect Of Gary's election and how
many brothers that would put in Of
fee and what salary it would give
| them, and then argued that Gary's dis
pensary views meant the gradual dis
| integration Of the dispensary for
Charleston, Columbia and other places
would get from under the dispensary
| only to have it starved to death.
Gov. McSweeney said that the whole
fight seemed to be to get in his shoes.
The other candidates did not under
take to show that theS were better
qualified or that they could do any bet
| Ter, but simply seemed to want to tear
him down, evidently because they
| thought he was the man they had TO
beat. He took up his regular argu-
ment to show why the dispensary is
not as we'll observed in Charleston as
elsewhere and what he has done to-
wards the enforcement Of the law
there and elsewhere, and how the re-
cords show that his administration has
been as good or better than that Of
others in results. The constables
have instructions to seize fixtures and
they had them for long time. He had
affidavits from the constables at the
meeting that they were in these places
of business. He could not run around
to hunt up tigers and would not do so.
He read the letter in the Cherokee
county matter, and said that the whole
thing was an effort of Magistrate