The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-09-05
ANDERSON, S. G.. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER s. 1900

honesty, both charged upon the stump
that the governors enforcement of the
dlspensary law a fraud and humbug.
senator Tlllman made almost the
same charges.
"Now, there is no doubt of the fact
tnat Il great many len who favor the
dlspensary believed those charges and
thought the present enforcement of the
law could be improved on. Most of
them, too, are men who honestly and
sincerely believe that the dispensary is
the best solution Of the liquor question
and whoare especially interested in the
enforcement of the prohibitive features
OF the law. In other words, they have
o sincere desire to make the present
law better and better and to do what
they can to make it lead up to out and
out prohibition. That there are thou
sands of such people in the State can
not be doubted, and they have the
respect and confidence of those who
do not agree with them. A large pro-
portion of the men who voted for Gary
and Patterson came from their ranks.
Now that their candidates arc out Of
the race for whom are they going to
vote? They cannot consistently Vote
for Governor McSweeney, and, in my
Judgment, they will vote for Colonel
HOyt. And they will do so for the rea-
son that they know that he will enforce
the law rigidly and make it rs near
prohibition as it can be made.
but in addition to this, part of the
Gary and Patterson vote came from
their personal friends, not because they
believed in the dispensary law, but be-
ability of Gary and Patterson. Mr..
Gary has been in the General Assembly
for 10 or 12 years and for q part of that
time presided over the. House with
conspicuous fairness and ability. He
comes from q large and influential
family. His brothers. who are upon
the bench, are men of ability and influ-
ence and there is not particle of
doubt hut that q part Of his vote was a
purely personal one.
"And the same can he said of Mr..
Patterson, whose ability and good pub
lie record cannot be questioned. A
part of this vote l know will go to
Colonel Hoyt, and I believe that by
far the greater part of it will do so.
"And then we must take into consid-
Grafton the fact that there is good
large vote which did not come out last
Tuesday because it was uncertain as
to what chance Colonel Hoyt stood.
And there are at least 1000 voters who
were out of the State-in the noun
tains and elsewhere. But nearly NIL of
these votes will come out in the second
primary.
"a systematic and organized effort
will now be made by Colonel Hoyt's
friends from this on and there is every
reason to believe that Colonel Hoyt
will be our next governor"
w nat about the whiskey vote in the
State? Who got itP" the reporter
asked.
No man can look at the Charleston
vote and the mountain vote and doubt
for an instant that Governor McSwee-
ney received it. The talk about Hoyt's
getting tho whiskey vote IS nonsense.
His vote came from prohibitionists,
from dispensaryites who want better
enforcement Of the law and from 9TH
ers who know his record in war and in
peace, and who recognize his ability
and purity of character.
81 want my friends in the State to
know that the fight is not lost by q
great deal and that by strong pull
and pull all together we can win.
eve fought upon principle and for
the right and have nothing to retract.
We will fight to the last ditch and ex-
pect to win.
eve will conduct the york LARGELY
from Columbia where our friends can
reach us for the next few days."