Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, 1900-07-28

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goods and argued that the local
rates were too high, and the same
applied to flour mills. Whole
sailing must remain small because
of the rates. He believed the
commissioners should not be paid
by the railroads or provided with
passes.
Mr.. w. ID. Evans said the COM
mission knew some of the rates
were too high, but changes have
to be carefully made. The Texas
commission cut all rates so per
cent. and has been tied up in the
courts since. Then he showed
that recently the rates have been
reduced on fertilizers, shingles,
wood, cotton, brick, wheat, live
stock, tobacco. The only way to
work was to act jointly and eau
tiously. The two Evanses de
nounced each other.
Mr.. Capers then spoke, saying
that if elected he would not en-
ploy Yankee teachers to teach in
the summer schools. McMahan
is honest, but wrong. His chief
complaint was that McMahan ig-
nored county superintendent
and other Carolina educators.
Capers objected to white teachers
being over colored normal schools.
McMahan wanted to explain, but
the time was up.
FOR GOVERNOR.
G. Walt Whitman insisted that
from what others said the various
departments are in bad shape and
he wanted to remedy things. The
disregard of law in South Caro-
lima was amazing aud disgraceful,
not only as to the dispensary, but
everything else. If these speak
ers are to be believed the best
men at times he feared took just
little too much liquor. A little
drum kenness does not effect a
man as much as telling a lie.
God never made a misft and
there is use for liquor. The Bible
does not condemn anyone for
getting drunk. He went to Char
lesion to make investigation, and
found blind tigers on King street
and Meeting street and the Bat
terry and Cooper River and Ash
ley River, and then to the Isle of
Palms he went in bathing on
Sunday and found them selling
beer on Sunday and bought beer
there on Sunday. He believed
every dispenser was violating the
laws today. The. tigers sell more
liquor than the dispensary. They
were once blind, but the tigers
only have cataracts on their eyes :;
the constables are stone blind.
He would enforce any law on the
books.
Col. j. A. Hoyt said that Mr..
Whitman had stood on every
platform that had ever been
erected. The people of Lancaster
were already converted to prohi.
bitior. The dispensary is put for
ward as the best solution Of the
liquor problem. 1t is a system
adapted to a monarchy, but it is
not for America. The dispensary
has its good features if they were
enforced. but they are not en-.
forced. The dispensaries 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 a great political machine
and it is best to break it up now.
He then defended prohibition.
"The women of Lancaster"
presented Col. Hoyt with bou
quets.
Mr.. Frank B. Gary thought the
flowers apt for Col. Hoyt's politi-
cal funeral. He was not here to
vilify or abuse any one. He
argued that no better plan than
the dispensary was yet proposed.
He knew this to be a prohibition
county, but he would not change
his views. He was no apologist
for the dispenssry as now run.
He said he wns reliably infnrmad