The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-07-05
Fair Play For The Dispensa1y.
Editor The Manning Times:

While the farmers Of this
State have been quietly attend
ING to their business and trying
to save their crops from the
l.avagcs OF the grass, and from
the late unprecedented heavy
rains, there have been a few of
the vanqaished Prohibitionists
tof tive years ago. with their
allies. eN-bacroom keepers, town
iioafers and defeated and dis
1appointed Office seeking dispen
sarltes, waging an unfair war
against the dispensary in some
OF the counties of South Caro-
lima with the expectation that
the unfair war will become gen
eral in all the counties. and ere
long: the diSpensary in every
county Of the State will be
driven out, and all to their sweet
notions, and TO their election
manipulationS.
The boast is Cherokee and
Pickens have put on their robes
iof purity, and an exceeding in
crease in morality and will now
soon be ready to welcome the
advent Of the Millennium-Yes,
We will now soon expect to hear
that the Lion and the Lamb is
laying down together in Chero
kee and Pickens, and that all
things generally are lovely and
serene, up near the North Caro-.
lima line.
Efforts are being made as we
understand from the papers, that
Colleton, Edgefeld, Spartan
burg and Newberry at least will
soon join that band of the earth
| ly redeemed.
Il is very amusing to see how
easy it is for the enemies of the
dispensary to get the required
number of voters in county
that is required to call ar election
on the question Of dispensary
or no dispensary.
70 be fair to all we think the
! list Of voters to a call for an
election should be published in
each county pager at least thirty
days before the election to be
held in 4 county, so that the
friends of the dispensary could
have fair play and could have
the chance to expose, and to
challenge any fraudulent voter
whose uame might be on the list
OF voters calling for an election.
In these elections it might be
charged as it is charged in all
other elections in South Carroll
ma, that many dead men vote as
well as living men.
To sustain the plea for fair
play the writer will quote a little
writing of the Columbia cores
pondent of the Charleston News
and Courier, A. K. in regard to
Spartanburg and voters of Spar
tanburg county.
After A. K. informs the pub
lie genenerally that Colleton,
Spartanburg and Newberry are
taking steps towards voting out
the dispensaries in their coun-
ties, he goes on to say that the
Spartanburg situation is report
ed as follows:
;;The registration lists carry
about 10000 names. The petl-
tions have $500. But the dup
licates and deceased are on the
registration lists. They have
never been corrected. When a
voter dies no note is made on the
precinct list. when one moves to
another, his name may appear on
two lists.
1t is believed that the 10000
will shrink as much as Zenop.
hons ten thousand did and that
there are really not more than
5000 bona fde registered voters
in the county. The petitions will
be sent out to the precincts IN
order that they may be compar-
ed with the list of living regis
tered voters. They wish to be |
sure they are right before they
go ahead"
By this count and calculation
Spartanburg is 1873 short of
the required number of voters to
have a setto with the dispensary
and the friends of the dispen-
sary.
Isn't it amusing that Spartan
burg has been operating a pad
ded and stuffed poll list in all
the elections in the past and an
Of Spartanburg's
voting strength has not been
looked into, and corrected until
this off election year, and that
too, by enemies Of the dispen-
Sary.
There has been wrong doing
charged in the election recently
held in Pickens in regard to the
voting out of the dispensary
there. The charge has been
made of the names of unquali
fed voters being added to the
list of the required number Of
voters to the ordering of an cleo
ton upon the question of dis
pensary or no dispensary.
The county boards Of control