The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-08-22
A Good Meeting ia Manning.

+ A Good Meeting ID Manning.
The county campaign meeting Wa,
, not large at Packsville nor Summerton
but when the campaigners reached
Manning they were greeted with d
crowd estimated at about 400 persons
Mr.. ". G. Chandler was chosen TO pre-
side, and he called the meeting to order
IN the court house. After some of the
candidates for minor Offices had spoken
Mr.. Galluchat made a protest against
carrying out the program as arranged.
because the larger part of the crowd
came to hear the issues discussed which
: would be done by the legislative candi-
dates, and inaSmuch as the candidates
for legislative honors had been at pre-
vious meetings put last. he wanted the
order reversed. He also intimated that
the arrangement was fixed by the hand
of a politician. having in mind the man
agement OF the program at Summerton
the day before. The program however.
had been prepared by MesSrs. Chan
der. LeseSne. Wells and Bowman, and
when Mir. Galluchat resumed his seat
Mr.. Lesesne explained the matter and
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order was lost. The court house was
crowded and the heat was intense:
among the audience were several Ia
dies. The heat and crowded condition
became unbearable, when a motion was
made that the speakers be heard out of
doors which was adopted without a
vote.
All of the candidates for the various
court houseE Offices made their usual
speeches and promises, and Mr.. E. D.
Hodge, candidate for sheriff, promised,
if elected, that if he received notice Of
escaped convicts running at large in
this county he would not send, but go
in person and capture them before some
good citizen was murdered or his prop
erty robbed or burned.
Mr. W. J. Turbeville spoke but few
minutes, declaring himself in favor of
the diSpensary, common schools and all
measures which would have tendency
to build up the country and decrease
taxes. He referred his hearers to his
home people and his work in his own
community: that he was 20 orator, bat
he professed to be man witt practical
business sense and if elected he would
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representative.
Hon. G. r. Jones, on account of the
illness of his son in Tennessee, was not
present.
Rev. r. 3. Owen, declared for prohi-
bition as principle. He claimed that
he has always been Prohibitionist
pure and simple" He admitted the
dispensarv was better than any other
system to sell liquor, and that between
diSpenSary and license. he favored the
former. Mr.. Owen said when the dis
pensary law was first enacted it was in
tended as a step towards prohibition,
and now that the ''baby'' was eight
years old. it was time that another step
be taken. He did not stop to consider
whether or not it was eXpedient to have
prohibition, or whether it would be
practicable, that with him the question
is, IS IT RIGHT? Mr.. Owen preached a
nice moral theory, but we doubt eX-
ceedingly if his audience was captured
by his sermon.
Mr.. NJ. c. Galluchat made probably
the best speech OF the campaign: his
ideas were well connected and his
points strong, so much so that we have
been requested to make full synopsis
of his speech, which in part was as fol-
lows:
Il am q candidate for the Legislat-
ure and several years ago when can
didate for the same position | told the
people some things, which they would
not heed at the time, but they now real
ize what l said then was true. and
things have since happened as predict
ed. In those days your confidence in GER
tain politicians was thick veil over
your eyes and YOU could not see. but
that veil, by recent events has been
lifted and now the truth shines out.
There is an issue in this campaign and
it is for YOU to determine which side
you are on. The question is, Whether
we shall retain the dispensary as 1t Is,
or eliminate therefrom the sale of
liquor as a beverage
Our opponents call themselves Pro-
hibitioniSts. but they are not, they are
'Prohibition-Dispensaryites:' their par
ty platform makes them so, and they
cannot shift their position without de-
ceiving the people. You have been
hearing prohibition discussed by the
Methodist and Baptist clergymen Of our
community for weeks. ever since the
nomination of Col. Hoyt, and until
every argument in favor of prohibition
is familiar: they have been preaching
the principles of prohibition, but none
of them have attempted to show where
the platform of the Prohibition party is
prohibition or can bring about prohibi-
ton. Now we are allowed only twenty
minutes to present our side, to show
that in the Prohibition platform the
sincere Prohibitionists, those who want
prohibition, not for politics, but as a
religious principle, will not get what
| they are praying for, nor is it intended
! by those engineering this so-called pro-
| hibition movement that they shall have
what they are praying for.
The Hoyt platform, and mark you,
the ProhibitionistS are Solemnly pledg-
ed TO stand upon it, demands that the
General Assembly shall authorize the
State to sell alcoholic liquors for sac
ramental purposes. Search the Bible
from Genesis to Revelation and you
will find no authority for the use OF
alcoholic liquors for such purpose.
You will see there that God layeth the
beams of his chambers in the heavens,
from whence the springs flow among
the hills into the valleys and water the
herbs, that wine may be made to glad
den the heart of man.
lothian. the old rabbi, in the far
off DAYS of the judges, startled the
Jewish world by speaking OF wine
cheering God so well as man. but
Samuel endorsed it when he wrote his
book containing the acts OF these
| Judges. We are forbidden to use the
| red vine the new wine the mixed
wine and the wine that 'moveth itself.
because until nature has done its work
bv fermentation it is not in the condi-
ton that God would have US use it,
and to mix it is to prepare decoction
of our own manufacture. Where Is the
! .h,,nch that wnnld dare Use mixed