The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1901-08-14
The CampaignerS at Hilton.

ing at Hilton yesterday was well
behaved one and was attended by
about 800 people, who gave the can,
didates close attention.
Mr.. Jacob W. Dreher was the
chairman aud introduced the candi-
dates in his usual happy manner.
Mr.. T. G. Sturkie was the first
candidate for the Legislature to speak
He was opposed to high taxation,
such large appropriations to the
higher institutions of learning and
favored more liberal appropriations
to maintain the common schools
and for the improvement Of The sys
tenn. He favored the dispensary
system of selling strong drinks in
preference to any other system and
made a strong argument for its bet
ter enforcement. Mr.. Sturkie's
speech was we'll received and he
created favorable impression.
DR.. j. L. Shuler said that he had
no inclination to enter public life,
that his tastes led him to prefer the
quiet and humber walks of private
life; but that many of his friends
had been so persistent in their solici-
tations to gain his consent to enter
the race for the House of R~presen-
tatives that he had at last yielded in
Difference to their wishes and illus
trated his position by referring to
the time when the first engine reach
ed Roseville. At this point some
thing got the matter with it and a
darky began tinkering with it, when
all of sudden the engine started
and the darky could not stop it and
as they had got him started perhaps
they could not stop him. He was q
Reformer from principle and being
q farmer and an Alliancemap, he be-
lieved the principles of the Reform
movement to be right. In point of
oratory be might not be the equal OF
these young orators, but he would
be with them at the end of the race.
The candidates for Congress were
then introduced and spoke in the
order named: Maj. NJ. P. Howell,
of Colleton, Hon. A. Frank Lever, of
Lexington, Hon. E. D. Smith, of
Sumter, Hon. Thomas F. Brautley,
of Ocaugeburg and Judge 0. W.
Buchanan, of Sumter. We publish
in this issue the views of these
candidates on National issues as an
nounced at the Sumter meeting, also
at the meeting held at Brookland on
last Saturday plight, 80 that it is not
necessary to go over the same ground
again. They are all opposed to i'm
perialism and expansion as advocated
by the Republican party; they were
against the ship subsidy bill: favor
ed the government building and for
ever holding the Nicaruguan canal as
it will be of vast benefit to the South.
All of the candidates were we'll re-
ceived and they all made friends.
Mr.. John Bell Towill arrived and
was introduced as q candidate for
the House of Representatives. He
did not consider that there were any
issues OF Importance before the peo.
pie at this time; that while be was a
probibitionist from principle he con-
sidered that the dispensary was the
best system of controlling and gov
ernipg the whisky traffic. With out
gloves he handled the illicit sale of
whisky by blind tigers and declared
that if he was q man that drank be
would patronize the dispensary in
the clear light cf day rather than
sneak around in back alleys and ways
that are dark to patronize blind
tigers, He promised that if the
people intrusted him with the honor
OF representing them he would dis
charge the duties TO the best of his
ability.
The dinner was an excellent one
and was enjoyed by all who patron
lied it. Ia the afternoon the rain
came up, which dispersed the crowd.
If you wish to purchase a first
class bicvcle cheap. call at this Office.