The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1900-07-31

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LII was an outrage to limit the Gov
| 'rnors to thirty minutes. They arc
all the same. They should all have
moro time, but somc Of them do not
want moro time. Every mur should
have all the time he wants."
1t was funoy, ho said, to 500 Con-
%alHS, an oprH, avowed license man.
no" tho organ Of the prohibition
party. Ho said that Gonzales fourht
openly and brnvely, although he
sometimes did not tell the truth. 1t
was old and stale, this thing about
mo liquor mon and preachers being
on the same line. Ho never said
thero was an agreement between tho
preachers and barkeepers. Bat much
is now being made out of it, although
nc had repeated it twenty. five times.
lie pictured the army Of ministers in
white lighting the dispcnsary, and
Col. Hoyt, said he, was accepting all
OF these votes. Now, the sole cues.
ton Is whether these armies are
lighting tho same dlsponsary. Now,
bishop Duncan had said that hr
Tillman, lied when he said the Pro-
hlbitlonists and liquor men were al
lied under Col. Hoyt That was So
we're languages, and he once used such
language, but he did not do SO now
that he was in the Scuatc, but left
that to Bishop Duncan. (Anl.lnuse. }
Ho fr.t that Bishop Dnntqa would
feel sorry for what no had said
Then he took up the temperance
committee and lis dvclnrntion, which
denounced any insinnuton that the
effort Of Christian minister's and
other citizens to rid this State of this
gigantic evil is a sought or voluntary
combination with the saloon clement
as base standcr, that is itself an at
tempt to strengthen the power of
Tins most damnablo iniquity." He
SAID If these ministers wished to &C.
cuse him of issuing q slandcr it was
we'll and good. 1t would not hurt
him. The people saw and know
what was going on and what the con-
dltions actually wore, and ho reitor-
ated that tho liquor men and PRO
hlbltlonists were allied, and whether
this was accident or concert he cared
not, as he only spoke of conditions.
Then he took up DR.. Gardeners
sermon and said ho would reply to
the charges there mado when he got
to Greenvillc, and he said he loft it
to the audience if ho wilfully mis-
represented any ono. He meant no
reflection on tho minister's. He be.
lieved they were mistaken; he be-
lleved they were wrong and perhaps
fanatical. These men had loft heir
pulpits and gcno into politics, and
made themselves liable to criticism.
.s These m, ers had come down TO
discuss politics, and those who come
down put themselves on plane with
other politicians, and he WAS going
to talk out, and if they did not like
it they could lumpit it. The Ten Com.
mandments have nothing against sell
ing liquor, and the Bible makes
liquor selling permissible. No man
can go further than he as TO the evils
of liqnor selling, but he, as much as
any minister wanted to curtail the
sale. He asked his hearers when
they won't homo to think well wheth
or thoy wanted to throw out all the
good things of "Reform." He would
have no complaint as to what was
done, but he asked all 10 watch the
Legislators.
Senator Tillman received a great
deal of applause and whoopod up
the dispensary. Ho will attend the
meetings at Winnsboro, Yorkville,
Gaffney, Spartanburg, Union, Green.
villo, Pickens, Walhalla, Anderson,
Edgefield, Saluda, Lexington, Co.
lumbia.
THE OTHER sPEAKRRs.
Now to return to tho beginning.
The meeting was opened with prayer
and Chairman Caldwell announced
the speakers and begged that there
be no personalities.
Mr.. Derham was absent, but sent