The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1900-08-09

that the up-country should vote for
Hoyt or himself The dispensary law
had better be repealed than allow the
law to be trampled. He branched out
to Jump on State aid to colleges.
GARY's DISPENSARY VIEWS.
Frank B. Gary impressed his usual
positions and there ought to be no
misunderstanding about his dispen-
sary views so persistently does he re-
iterate them. It seems they all agree
that Gary is the man they have to
down. Patterson's attempt to soil him
does not make Patterson worthy or en-
titled to the office. He branched on
to saw the State needs all its colleges
as we'll as common schools. He raped
Patterson for questioning his good will
towards the old soldiers.
PATTERSON AND THE GARY
BROTHERS.
Mr.. A. Howard Patterson said Gary
had put himself in hole by his own
speeches. The Garys were his friends
and he hoped would SO continue and
then he took up the Gary brothers,
their offices and pay and was against
concentration Of power in the Gary
family, and IS, 900 was too much to go
to one family. OF course he reiterated
his charge as to the Charleston speech.
DeIended d1spensary and jumped on
prohibition. He pounded away at the
alleged tigers in Charleston and Co
lumbia.
Col. Hoyt joked at the expense o. the
other candidates. All Of the candi-
dates would take votes IL they could
get them All this talk about Mr..
Gonzales and The State is all bosh,
for il they know me they know that
Mr.. Gonzales or no one else would
boss him. Patterson had square
cornered head and had loaded the non
sensical coalition matter in his head
and could never get it out. AS far as
he heard Patterson was about the
standstill when he started. 1t was
curious that Patterson had never got
ten a paper to support him and yet no
one objected to such support. Patter-
son had paid the News and Courier
more than any candidate had yet spent.
Any candidate would accept honorable
newspaper support. He devoted time
to support his prohibition platform.
He insisted once and for all time that
he was against the State and county
boards and enforcing the law. He
was confident of Unions independence
and how it would vote.
Gov. McSweeney insisted that every
effort to show that he was not the
friend of the dispensary was unfair
and untrue. He gave fully his reasons
for reducing the constabulary and how
he is practically enforcing the law as
the records show. His course was
popularizing the system. He explain
ed the trouble in Charleston to show
that the fault was not his, but belong
ed to the Jurors. He read letter to
Chief Howie dated January II, in
which six months ago he wrote that
he had heard the constables were
afraid to act in Charleston and Clerk
Harris wrote: Il wish to know IL
there is any impression prevailing
among your men that the governor Is
in favor of your permitting any tigers
whoever they be to operate unmolested
in your city. If so you may assure
them that l have seen the governor in
reference to this rumor and he directs
me to say that you and your force are
expected to enforce the dispensary law
in Charleston as thoroughly and rigid
ly as possible and to seize liquor from
anyone unlawfully shipping or selling
it. Believe the minds Of your men or
any erroneous impression they may
have in this respect and urge them to
be diligent and show no quarter to
blind tigers. II it appears to the gov
ernor that they are not doing their
duty in this respect he will remove
them"
Col. James H. Tillman spoke on pa
triotic lines. He stands fatfootedly
on the dispensary platform and vigor-
ously against prohibition.
Barnard B. Evans took up -four rates
and then the cotton rates, which he
said forced Union to buy its cotton in
Mississippi instead of in South Caro-
lima. OF the rates on meat, flour,
farming implements and the like, moth
ing IS said, because nothing is 6oGe on
those rates. Spartanburg and Union,
he argued, are Disseminated against
in coal ratees, because the commission
sits idly by and does nothing. Carlisle
pays 81 more car for corn than Ches-
ter, and it goes through Carlisle to
Chester. The trouble is the commits
sion does nothing, and then he took
up the Southern and Seaboard missing
connections at Carlisle. AS to his
brick rate, he got it from James L.
Howell, a reliable man Of Union, pays