The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-09-05
ELECTION NEXT TUESDAY.

Ell Captain Narciso Gener Con
zales, editor of the Columbia
State, and counselor in the Has.
kell and Pope movements, now a
recognized leader Of the Prohi.
bition forces, although strong
advocate Of the license system,
in a labored editorial which
might have won laurals for IN
d. Pitts colard porter" seeks to
array the temperance vote OF
the State against Governor NC
Sweeney by throwing bouquets
at Messrs. Gary and Patterson
recent candidates. According to
Signor Gonzales the Gary and
Patterson vote should go to Hoyt
on next Tuesday, because if the
people will only elect Hoyt, he
will enforce the dispensary law
in Charleston, and elsewhere by
remedying the evils complained
of by Gary and Patterson; that
is to say, Hoyt will seize bar FIX
lures and do all manner Of things
TO make things hot, even if he
has to ''raise hell on Chicco
street." The Prohibition forces
are certainly in a dilemma; be-
fore the first primary, the dis
pensary was a stencil in their
nostrils and, as moral principle
it should be driven out, now that
59,596 votes were cast for the
dispensary system against 80, ,s553
for prohibition, a shifting OF
position takes place, and we find
the leaders of prohibition whist
ling through the bung-holes OF
whiskey barrels to keep up their
courage for the second battle.
Featherstone who was defeated
two years ago, has opened up
headquarters in Columbia some
where in the vicinity of the Co.
lumbia States printing presses,
and We look to see the country
flooded with all manner Of itera-
ture, hot from the presses urg
ing the voters to put aside their
individual preference between
prohibition and dispensary and
vote for Hoyt. Manager Feath-
erstone and Counselor Narciso
Gener Gonzales will not be able
to fool the people by shifting
their plan of campaign. Every
man who believes the dispensary
system the most practical method
of controlling the sale Of liquor
will turn out on next Tuesday
and vote for M. B. McSweeney
for Governor. Remember voters,
that on next Tuesday will the
contest be decided, as to whether
Governor McSweeney the rep
resentative of the dispensary or
Colonel Hoyt the advocate OF a
hydra-headed idea called ''Prohl-
bition-D -Dispensary" shall be the
next Governor of South Carolina.
In the first primary the dispen-
sary system received a tremen-
dous endorsement nearly two
thirds of the white voters Of the
State voted to sustain the dis
pensary, and Notwithstanding
the efforts made to discredit Till
man by advising that his name
be scratched, he received 1859
votes the largest vote ever given
to a candidate with opposition in
the States history. Tillman had
oonerunning against him, buth
provoked an opposition to him
by his impolitic utterances. He
gave the opposition an opportu'
nifty to seek and advise revenge,
and wherever they could in
iuence a man to scratch his name
they did so.
In the election which is to take
place next Tuesday, the Prohi-
bitionists rely upon the vote be-
ing light outside of the cities
and towns; they hope the coun-
try vote will not turn out and
that the opposition to the dispen-
sary system being principally in
the towns and cities, and the
voters in them being convenient
TO the polls, they will turn out
in full and thereby give Colonel
Hoyt majority. The result OF
the first primary shows conclu-
sively that the General Assembly
will be anti-prohibition, then If
the "Prohibs" are not after Office
what hope can they possibly
have for prohibition if Hoyt is
elected. Turn out next Tuesday