The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1905-10-24
4. G. JONES TALKS
ON PROHIBITION
IS OPPOSED NOW AS IN PAST
TO ALL NOMINATIONS.
He Does Not Object to Voting Out
the Dispensary Under Brice Law
and Is not Opposed to Local
Option Principle.

Newberry, October Io.-In view of
the conference which was held re-
Gently in Columbia by the prohibition
lists and in view of the fact that Mr..
A. c. Jones was not present at this
conference and in view of the further
fact chat Mr.. Jones has for a long
number OF years been consistent pro-
| hibtiOnist and was active in matters
pertaining to the advancement of the
cause, and in view of the, still further
fact that Mr. Jones announced HIM
self several months ago as a candi-
date for governor, your correspondent
called on him and asked him if he had
observed that the prohibitionists had
been holding conference in Colum-
bia, and that one Of them who> at
tended this conference had, in the pub
lie press, called upon the Hon. Joseph
A. Mccullough, of Greenville, to make
the sacrifice necessary to make the
race for governor, and that another
member of this conference, also an
editor, had endorsed this suggestion,
and claimed to have done so several
months ago. Mr.. Jones was asked if
| he would care to make a statement, or
if he had anything to say in reference
to this conference, and what his atti-
tude as a candidate for governor
would be towards the prohibitionists
organizing, suggesting and putting
forth a candidate for governor. Mr..
Jones readily consented to talk and
replied as follows:
Yes, read the newspaper accounts
of it, and while I don't know positive
ly who called it think it was called
by Mr.. Joel E. Brunson's friends. [
noticed that Mr.. c. c. Featherstone,
Joseph A. Mccullough, James A.
Hoyt the Rev. Louis J. Bristow, John
| L. McLaurin and Mr.. W. H. Wallace
composed the caucus.
A Former Convention.
MIR. Brunson has never forgiven
me for obeying the state democratic
executive committee in 1893, when l
as chairman of the prohibition demo-
cratic state executive committee, was
informed that the suggestion OF the
candidates by the State Prohibition
convention was contrary to and IN
violation of the constitution OF the
democratic party of the state. You
will remember that before this 1898
convention met number OF the pro-
hibitionists wrote to the members OF
the stare democratic executive COM
1nittee and the members of the United
States senate and House for their
opinion as to whether they had the
RIGHT to meet in convention and sug-
gest a ticket to be voted for by the
prohibitionists in the democratic prl-
mary. A majority of these, replying
to them. told them that they did. [
warned them against such action at
the time. and told them that new
committee would be elected in the
spring or early summer, and that that
new committee would say that the
ticket suggested or nominated by
t1em would be declared irregular and
would have to be withdrawn, and that
II would be a mistake to do it. The
convention was held and a ticket sug-
gested and ] was elected to succeed
Mr.. L. D. Childs as the chairman Of
the state prohibition democratic exec
utive committee. The State Demo-
cratic convention me; very soon at
| forwards. elected a new committee, as
I predicted, declared the suggested
ticket of the prohMbitionists irregular
and in violation of the constitution.
The State executive committee saw
nothing they could do Gas they were
all democrats) but to withdraw the
suggested candidates, and to leave
them free to become candidates as in