Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-07-18

friends of the law have dragged it
down or5degraded the State.
| It has come to a pretty pass
when an honest man in South
Carolina shall not geek emolument
and advancement on account Eof
his name, because relatives are
Holding Office in South Carolina.
Mr.. Gary held the crowd we'll
and was applauded.
There was considerable con-
fusion while Mr.. Patterson was
speaking. He claimed relation
ship with these people because his
Uncle Angus and his father came
from Robson county. His pro-
hibition friend will on the 2Sth of
August feel like the wrong fellow
at the baptizing-''like durn
fool" He concluded by saying
that he had great deal more talk
in his storage battery, he would be
there in the afternoon and wanted
to speak some more.
Gov. McSweeney was pleasantly
greeted. His references to
Scarborough created applause for
both. He didn't believe Col.
Hoyt could enforce prohibition.
When he first became governor,
lhe agreed TO reduc the con-
stabulary if he could get cities and
towns to aid him in enforcing the
law. He had received proper
assurance and had reduced the
constabulary. AS to where blind
tigers get their liquor, he said that
1t is very easy for liquor to be
brought here from North Carolina
Before the law enforced, liquor
} was brought here and peddled on
the streets. AS to Charleston,
whoever says that he, the governor,
is coguizant OF their identity, that
man tells, what he knows is not
so. AS to the deficiency in dis
pensary profits it should be made
up by diect appropriation. ;.
AS to cutting off heads of dis
[pensers who do not do their duty.
the on us is on the people to elect
: the proper representatives and
r senator, rs the selection of the
county boards is with them. He
earnestly declared that he has
. done his duty, and is as competent
! as any man IN the race. He wat
5 applauded.
Col. Sloan said he had spoken
y in many kinds of houses, but never
before in tobacco warehouse
which is a monument to the IN
dustry of Horny county. He
: referred his competence, intel
ligence and integrity to scarbor:
+ ougn. Derham, McDermott and
6 Jerry Smith with whom he had
served. He declared for locallr
I option. If "a county wants prohlbl'
ton, 1t should have it; if another
e county wants dispensary it shoulo
have it; if another county want:
high license, it should have it
There is a bigger question thar
L that of liquor. He wants to eel
s more churches and more schoo
houses. He had worked fol
Winthrop, Clemson, Citadel anc
South Carolina college, but he If
, more deeply interested in the com.
} mon schools. He was with the
8 men of Horry. and wept with them
]. when the flag went down.
4 Col. Blease said that he had
. voted for the appropriation of $780,
600 for the common schools. He
9 wanted to see white children
9 educated. White peoples taxes
: for white children and not fol
D "free niggers." If elected 1t
! preside over the senate and called
upon to cast the deciding vote be-
9 tween dispensary and prohition
q he would vote for dispensary
e Between dispensary and higt
h license, he would vote for the dis
, pensary. If town wants dis
. pensary, it can vote it, but no boarc
y of control could put it on them
He favored biennial session of tht
a legislature. It would save abou
@ $4,000 annually.
t Col. Jim Tillman said he hac
= entered the race sat the request Of
y a number of prominent men tt
: whom the people had already
r given their sufrages." He hac
r not intended to be personal 10 Col
+ Livingston, at Marion, when ne
q said that Col. Livingston shoulc
practice what he breaches. Col
9 Livingston had in turn been per
+ sonal. He had referred to the
, threat to courtmartial Jim Till.
man. The speaker said that the
y reason Of it is because he hai
!. ordered his men not to salute 6
negro officer, and he had been put
under arrest for refusing to lei
{ 'his men" accept pay from negro
, paymaster. Col. Livingston had
3 laughed athim for not going to
Cuba. The courage of the Till
mans is on record. On the Pal.
! metto sment at Columbia are
, the names of five Tillmans. He
was applauded.
Col. Livingston said he was sorry
the unpleasant incident had occurr.
: ed. He dismissed it in a manly
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