The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-07-05
showing the true inwardness Of the

showing the true inwardness Of the
present movement.
Let US suppose that the present cam
paign against the Dispensary by coun.
ty elections shall progress victoriously
as it has thus far and that the major
ity Of the counties in the State vote
it cut. Will the question be settled?
By no means. The alliance OF Prohio-
itionists, high license people and blind
tigers which is now wagiDg successful
w.r will have to continue the war be-
tween themselves after the Dispensary
is defupct. Sensible men will not LEAD
their aid to any crusade which only
gives US Confusion worse confounded"
and produces chaotic condition with
no compensation.
Under the decisions Of the Q. S.
Supreme Court Prohibition and no
other State regulation can prevent
LIQUOR being shipped in by express for
personal use Of individuals, and the
Jug traffic from Wilmington, Char
lotte, Ashvi:le, Atlanta, Augusta and
Savannah will be immense under Pro-
hibition, and the money which now
goes into the Dispensary for the use
OF the towns ana counties Of the state
and the school fund will be sent oul
Of the state 10 enrich the dealers and
distil,ers of other states. ST. 8 will
be yun in ever, swan p and Wagons Wi.
peddle liqu all ov r he country. The
on!y fight wtrun enl sting in in Sout
Carolina is between Prohibition as
rigi6ly enforced as it can be and the
DisSeasary as honestly enforced as it
ought to be. High license is not to
BE- thought OF for a moment.
Yet the Prohibltionist say they pre-.
fer the Dispensary to license and the
license people say they prefer Prohibl
tion to the D!spensary, while the
blind tigers want prohibition because
they know it means free liquor.
The elections now being held In th7
counties to vote the Dispensary GU
ara very dis.rent to the Democratic
primary election, which will settle the
question finally. In the first place the
vote in tho;e Counties where election
have b en- held agains: the D;spensary
has been very small as compared With
the regular vote. It requires certi
icate of registration to VOTE at such
al election while In the primary the
cluo rolls Of the Democratic clubs gov
ern. Then men are Indifferent as they
,rere in thu Prohibition election lD
1892 when only sixty thousand out OF
nineJy-JTo thousand voted in that
box. Thare are probably thirty thous
and or mere good Democrats in thf
STATE who from one cause or another
a,e not ao.e 10 vote in the electioos
held under the Brl CO act. That law
was shrewd!r drawn, and for the ex
prass purpcs5 OF killing the D.spen
sary I have been told. These thirty
thousand will determine the q:eStion
il the future as they have in the past
because they will elect the Legis
iature and the State cfdcers in the
State Democratic primary in spite
Of any combination such as is
now giving US prohibition by q mega.
tive process. Voting out the diSpen
sary not because the people want pro-
hibiJicn but giving US prohibition
because soma people want free liquor,
ssne people prefer to buy illicit lquo:
some people want high license aad a
return to the old bar room system,
while many people Will Go anything
70 kill the dispensary with the hope OF
profting by its destruction.
l would advise every advocate OF
the dispensary who is in doubt to vote
against putting the dispensary out Of
his county until we see what the re
port OF the Investigating committee is
and then whether or not the Legisla-
uure at it's next session will purge the
corruption out OF the dispensary sys
tenn and put safe guards around it for
the future. I say uahesita5ingly it
can be done successfully The DiSpen-
sary system has shown its strength in
past elections because people though t
| it was honestly administered. All thu t
! is necessary is to have them under
stand, as they will understand.
by 1906 that they must kill the
| law in order to get rid Of the corrur-
tion ard they will make short work Of
it. 1t must be made clean or it must
90. At present the campaign to vote
it out county by county only brings
about confusion, encourages blind
tigers and causes the counties and
state to lose money, and Settles moth
ing, and it is impossible to settle the
question in this way. I repeat it can
only be settled at the general Demo
cratic primary when all the people
have heard all sides and have made up
their minds intelligently.
desire to add in conclusion, that
practically I am q Ptohibitionist be-
cause very rarely drink any liquor OF
any kind. II believed that Pfohi-
bition could be enforced, UNDER tand-
ing as I do most thoroughly the
great evil attending the abuse Of liquor
7 would be Prohibitionist, but know
ing from the most searching inVesti,
Cation and from the Oft cial record OF
the q. 5. Government that in Maine
aud Kansas where Prohibition prevails
that there has peen most dismal fall
ure to enforce the law I perter the
Dispepsary as the lesser evil, and as |
have often said In the past believe
that State control comes nearer TO the
ideal Management OF this troublesome
question than any other.
I have no personal interest in view
and am only a"tuated by a sense OF
public duty in taking the position I
have occupied in the past and which I
snail continue to occupy. have always
believed in the rule Of the majority.
But want it to be the majority OF
all the DEMOCRATS in the State.