Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1900-08-01
THE STATE CANVASS
Politics Not Quite as Hot as the
Weather.
SENATOR TILLMAN is ALONG TOO
And Helps the Boys Contribute to the
dayety of Nations-Synopsis of the
Speeches.
Lancaster Meeting.

hdhCdSttT, SpcLidl.-lne 1lCptln,
here was quiet. The audience was
thoroughly undemonstrativc anG atten-
tive. There was little cheering. no
noise
Mr.. ]. p. Derham was not present
and sent excuses. He was absent on
account OF sickness and announced his
platform and showed the work of his
office
Mr.. Brooker started out by saying
he had already saved the State SO 600
and was in position to save that much
z,NNc- f'he present tax administration
fs absolutely faulty and wrong He
charged nothing criminal but gross ir-
regularities and charged incompetency
In the present officers.
Mr. Clyburn said he made the Ches-
terfleld settlement in 1897 and 1t was
entirely satisfactory. He agreed that
in 1898 the papers were sent to Column
bia.
Neither Mr. McMahan nor Mr.. Ca
pers were present. when their names
were called.
Gen Floyd made a patriotic speech
He came to show how no had restored
the prestige of the adjutant generals
offie. II was now, he urged. the best
militia organization the State has had
in 25 years.
Brooker said the books here were in
excellent condition
Supt. NfcMahan came in late from
Rock Hill and was presented. He out
lined HIS experience, as a teacher,
thinker and student, which he thought
qualified him for his work and theI.
showed how he had worked and was
still working for the common schools
Then came the railroad commission
ers.
w. D. Evans and J. G.. Etheredge
were absent
Then came the governors.
q. Walt Whitman insisted that from
what others saw the various depart
ments are in bad shape and he wanted
to remedy things. Disregard OF law in
South Carolina was amazing and dis
graceful, not only as to the dispensary
law, but everything else IL these speak
ers are to be believed. The best men
at times, he feared. took just a little
too much liquor. a little drunkenness
does not affect man as much as tell
ing lie. God never made misft and
there is use for liquor
Col. j. A. Hoyt said Mr.. Whitman
had stood on every platform that has
ever been erected. The people OF Ian
caster were already convertd to pro-
hibition. The dispensary Is put for
ward as the best solution of the liquor
problem. 1t is a system adopted to a
monarchy, but ii is not for America
The cornerstone of Democracy is that
whatever comes to the people should
come from them. and he explained how
this was not the case. He explained
how diSpensaries have been forced on
the people. The dispensary has its
good features. if they were enforced.
h,tN
good eatures are trampled in the dust
In ne request books you will find
the same signatures and you will find
drunkaTds and minors on the lists
Why should the law be continued when
1t was admitted that it. cannot be en-
forced In Charleston and its good fea-
tures are trampled under feet? The
dtspensaries are the supply depots of
the tigers. The system is rotten to the
core and deserves to be taken out OF
the books. This great dispensary will
build up great political machine and
1t is best to break 1t up now. He then
defended prohibition. He touched
briefly on educational matters and said
there was no difference except as to the
liquor problem.
Boquets were presented Col. Hoyt by
the Women of Lancaster"
Mr. Frank b. Gary thought the flow
era apt for Col. Hoyt's political funeral
He was not here to villify or abuse
anyone. He argued that no better plan
than the dispensary was yet proposed
He knew this to be a prohibition coun-
ty but he would not change his views.
All are marching to temperance Pro-
hdbition will bring tigers. He was no
apologist for the dispensary as now
run 1t Is not q system for revenue.
He was reliably informed there are 200
tigers in Columbia
II elected, Gary said he would enforce
the law in Charleston and Columbia.
For three months before we got hold
ofshim the constables seized only 81 900
worth of liquor and yet last month
alone they seized that much.
Mr.. 4. Howard Patterson said the
people, not the papers, were the jury.
n Gary stood no better chance than
Bryan he WAS sorry for Gary; but he
favored Bryan He stuck to Gary and
his family all along and has gore
down with the family He announced
himself before Gary and had a right to
run. ~ then read from the report of
Gary's Charleston speech and empha-
sized that Mr.. Gary would not answer
his questions in Charleston. lie devot-
ed time to Mr. Gary and said If you
have local option it will be goodbye
to dispenssry
He then took up the dispensary and
defended it, and urged its advantages
over prohibition. There was not a
blind tiger in Barnwell, and he showed
how crime and drunkenness have de-
creased He took up the prohibition
platform and defended the dispensary