Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1900-08-01
Winnsboro Meeting.

WinnSD0r0 meeting.
Winnsboro Special l-Senator Till
mans speech was again the feature OF
the campaign meeting. He replied to
Col Hoyt as to the interference of
Senator Tillman ma family quarrel.
The meeting was opened with prayer.
Gen. Floyd spoke first. Superinten-
dent McMahan explained why he en-
ployed Prof. Patterson, of the Chicago
Institute. TO teach art He was quail
fed and he saw nothing in the fact that
he was a Northern soldier. He eX-
planned why he and others insisted on
having white teachers at the head OF
colored institutions. This is Mr.. Nc
Mahan's home county and he Ia popu-
lar here.
Mr. Ellison Capers lauded McMahan
personally. but attacked his admins
tration. which he felt would not be
supported. He jumped on his conduct
of the summer school because OF al
legged overriding of county authori-
ties.
The railroad commissioners came
next.
Mr.. j. H. Wharton avoided his Jokes
and talked about Determinations.
rates, stops and the like. Barnard b.
than elsewhere because OF indifference
or substituting
Nimrod Berry wanted the candidates
measured by the standard of business
ability. integrity and sobriety and
cited his claims. J. Il. Pettigrew
wanted his character closely scrut-
uized and Judged by his work and
standing at home. He would no.
promise things he could not accom-
plish-
| W. ID. Maytield wanted special atten-
| ton given to the development of manu>
featuring enterprises. He was opposed
to the commissioners being paid by
the roads.
w. D. Evans said there were six men
! jumping on one and he could not
answer them and make his speech in
ten minutes. When he went on the
! board there was not a Wholesale gro
! Ger in Columbia; there are now five
1t was easy to make charges.
Frank b. Gary went over with vigor
| the arguments heretofore made. He
devoted a bit more time than usual to
show that prohibition was not pract-
cal. He said that the whiskey people
and the high license are going to sup
/ port Col. Hoyt because they expect to
crush the life out of the dispensary
He warned the Prohibitionists when
they voted for prohibi, on they would
not get il. He was here mainly be-
cause the dispensary was not now en-
/ forced. The lax condition OF affairs
| in Charleston and Columbia was the
reason he was running.
A. Howard Patterson took up the
charge that Gary tried to straddle on
the dispensary in Charleston and
/ Georgetown. He again read extracts
/ from the reports OF the Charleston and
Georgetown meetings and said that
| Charleston wants the license system
and that cold water would Kill the
| Charlestonians. The Georgetown pa
per placed Gary in favor OF local op-
/ tion directly, he charged. He went
over his usual figures as to Maine and
| South Carolina. Then he jumped on
the Prohibition platform. written by
! Col. Hoyt. He said that high license
men were advocating prohibition. In
which they did not believe. He paid
his respects to the six hundred tigers
alleged to be in Charleston and the
two hundred in Columbia
The new point in Governor Nc
Sweeney's speech was his reply to
| Gary's charge that the constables have
been made to work harder since the
campaign begun. He said: The seizu-
| res for March were 444 IA gallons Of
whiskey and 119 l-2 dozen bottles OF
beer; 100 gallons of beer in kegs: one
! team oonfscated. OF this tho United
States government seized ia IL gal
| Ions. In April the seizures were 795
gallons of whiskey; 122 bottles of beer
! 100 gallons OF beer in kegs. three stills
confiscated. or this the United States
government seized 206 ID gallons In
| May the seizures were 394 gallons of
whiskey; 2+2 dozen bottles Of beer:
240 gallons OF beer in kegs: one team
conflscated. Two confiscated this
month The United States government
took 81 IA gallons OF the whiskey
seized In June the seizures were 44S
gallons Of beer in kegs; one team con-
/ fiscated; two stills confscated. The
! United States government took OF this
SO 1-2 gallons of whbskey The average
number of gallons seized for each of
the four months was 512. so 1t appears
that June is little below the average.
! The only instructions given the con-
stable are TO do their duty and these
! instructions they have had during the
! time | have been governor. He never
would build himself up on trying to
pull down others. Governor Nc
Sweeney did not speak as long as