The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1900-06-28
The Beaufort r1eetinp.

beaufort, Speclal.-AS lneTe are le"
rural voters in Beaufort county, the
meeting was held at night, after the
stores closed. A large number Of ladies
were present and the crowd numbered
over 800.
Brooker and Derham did not ire up.
Capers said McMahan was an imperial
ist, in that he wanted to aprciEt coua-
" superintendents anil faculties Of the
county normals: also that State SUM-
ner school faculty are Northern teach
erS.
McMahan replied that there was a
movement to take election of county
superintendent out ot the hands of the
people in order that "iacx-les' poll
ticians could not keep oIt trained and
expert teachers. THIS would not affect
efficient superintendents row n Office.
Gen. Floyd was given quite All ova-
ton.
T. ". Berry opened the railroad COM
missioners' debate on schedule time.
]. E. Pettigrew made himself solid
by saying no sensible government
would think Of removing Port Royal
dry dock.
W. D. Evans rendered an account OF
his stewardship. He had served six
years. A fellow in the gallery had OBJ
iected to marriage because he wanted
the gal himself. That was the way
with his opponents.
Mr.. Etheridge was unweil aud mere
ly stated his candidacy.
Col Wharton referred TO Beaufort's
record in overcoming large majorities.
Let them move hell if they want. bot
don't let them move the dry dock, he
said, in paraplrasins another candi-
dates joke.
B. z. Evans said that Beaufort'S har-
Dor is useless as 4 point Of shipment,
as the town is bottled up by the Coast
Line. He renewed his charge that w.
d. Evans had written to Lucas, presi-
dent of the Laurens mill. that he was
not responsible to the Legislature but
to the people, He had the applause.
The gubernatorial candidates then
got under headway, chasing blind tig-
ers. McSweeney was well received. He
had lived in the neighboring county,
had married in Beaufort county and
had always stuck by Beaufort in her
trials. His speech was about the same
as at Charleston. He made an appeal
against lynch law. He would have had
the notorious scoundrel Thomas tried
and hanged long ago, and he decried
delays in court in such heinous crimes.
He defied any Of his opponents to have
one single word against his official re-
cord.
Col. Hoyt told of his record since
1896, through 1890 and down 20 the
present day as servant Of the DEM
ocratic party, without asking for Of
fee. He had been one cf those TO petit
ton for the prohibition election in
1892, which led up to the dispensary
Georges which had been prohibition
law. He recited an incident at st.
town, but had dispensary. A boy Is
years old had forged his fathers name
to a request, gotten a bottle Of liquor,
had taken it to school and had gotten
drunk on it. He is II years cid now
and a drunkard. This was an instance
Of the State debauchinS its youth.
Take away profits and you take away
supporters of the dispensary.
Mr.. Patterson without much prelimi-
naries began to discuss the issues in
the campaign He made the dispeE-
sary the main topic and defended it as
he did at Orangeburg. He wanted TO
know if it were worse for him, vice
president of the Baptist convention, to
advocate dispensary than for Col
Hoyt who had been president 10 advo
cate coalition between prohibition ant
high license as he did in an editoria,
last fall. He charged McSweeney with
evading the dispensary issue tonigh:
and covering it up With local matters.
When he said there were only four con-
stables in Charleston some fellow said
that was too many (Cheers.) Patter-
sen showed that 90 persons in Beaufort
use revenue licenses. This is eviderce
of violation of the diSpensary law.
Go to the Charleston Hotel and yoC
will see bar room in full blast. glass
es. fixtures and everything! Why die
no; they seize the fixtures?
M. Gary made speech along tbs
usual lines. Col. Hoyt had charged
that he. Gary, had not voted for tn,
Robinson local option bill. He did not
recall the purport of that bill, but had
voted for the Archer bill, which is al
most identical with his platform. Ga
rvs applause was next chat of Nc
Sweeney.
The candidates for lieutenant COVER
nor then took the stump. About IL
voters and the negro band were left for
them to talk to and it was nearly mid