Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-09-29
RECENT DIsPENsARY ELECTION.

RECENT pIsPENsARY ELECTION.
Some Editorial Comments on the York
County Verdict.
Spartanburg Herald: York sweeps
out the Great Moral Institution with a
whoop. Six to one was the way the
vote stood, and yet II was only a few
weeks since the senior senator from
South Carolina, the daddy Of the dis
pensary" appeared at Tirzah In York
county, and spoke in defense Of his
offspring In fine sarcasm, he told
the people of York that he hoped they
would get what they were clamortng
for and in less than three years they
would want the dispensary back. AS
a matter Of fact 1t has been about three
years since the dispensary was put
upon the people Of York. The people
were tired of 1t, they were sick Of 1t,
and so they did as the people Of Spar
tanburg are going to do with 1t In
November, they voted 1t out. In the
language Of the street they put 1t out
good and hard. There is one thing In
connection with this election that
should be remembered and that Is. that
Senator Brlce, the author of the bill
which provides for the release Of the
iniquitous and CALLING dispensary yoke,
was the leader in the fight against the
dispensary although until few years
ago he regarded the system as the
best solution" Of the whisky problem.
He like thousands Of other South Car
olinians cannot be made to stand for
the graft, corruption and rottenness
that Is and has characterized the sys-
TEN. 1t must go.
Columbia Record: In the dispensary
election In York yesterday something
over 800 votes were cast. When the
complete returns are in the figures may
be slightly increased. The result was
as reported, 706 against and 131 In ia
vor of the dispensary. The ordinary
Democratic vote Of York county Is be-
tween $500 and 1000, so that only
about one-fifth Of the voters cast bal
lots. In the other counties the vote on
the same question. so far as elections
have been held, was from a little less
than one-half to a half, one third, and
so on.
Columbia State: Old York did not
surprise us In the least.
Welcome, York! The respectable
minority Is growing apace.
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And York county "toddles away as
all the world with the Lord High Ex-
ecutioner" Of the dispensary.
The moral health department, after
thoroughly fumigating York county. Is
prepared to announce that the plague
Is stamped out and that clean bill
Of health will now issue.
Tillman can now point with pride
to Tirzah. That precinct, following
the visit Of the senator, gave l5 votes
for the dispensary, being the only pre-
cinct in the county to endorse state
whisky.
Charleston Post: The people Of York
county have voted out the dispensary
by a very decisive majority, In the pro-
portion of about six to one. Six coun-
ties have now abolished the state rum
business from their borders and eight
counties of the state have the sale OF
liquor under the ban, Greenwood and
Marlboro having been prohibition
counties from a time when the dis
pensary law ran not to the contrary
Cherokee, Pickens, Newberry, Union
Marion and York are the counties
which have banished the dispensary
Senator Tillman said some time age
that he hoped a dozen counties would
rid themselves Of the system, under the
provisions of the Brice act, that prac-
tical demonstration of prohibition
might be given before the next state
election. One-half the number ne
wanted to make the trial have gone In
for 1t, despite the fact that he stulti-
fed his declaration by arguing to the
people of several of these counties
against their purpose to be rid Of the
dispensary Possibly he will claim that
the people really knew that he wanted
them to vote out the dispensary. Any
way, whether he Or anybody else want
ed them to they have done 1t. There
Is some suspicion that they did jus,
what they had a mind to do for them
selves and according to their persua-
sions Of what was best for their oWr
interests. The people Of South Carroll
ma are rather an Independent sort a'
times. The interesting test, 1t seems
to US. will be not so much how the
dry counties fare under the conditions
their people have decreed as how the
dispensary will get along with large
part of It's business cut out. II this
thing keeps up one-half the counties
of the state will soon be off the list OF
patrons Of the dispensary and how then
can the great moral institution be made
to produce a revenue worth while!
Greenville News: While the vote In
York county on the question Of dis
pensary or prohibition was remarkably
light, the majority against the liquor
system was overwhelming The vote
moreover, was a vindication for Sena-
tor Brice, who framed the Brice Dill
and who fought for 1t even without the
extra tax burden which 1t bears today
The verdict, too, was q great feather
in the cap Of Editor Grist Of THE
YoRKvILLE ENQUIRER, who has told
the truth about the dispensary. and
who has fought 1t for the corruption
which 1t fosters.
News and Courier: The voters OF
York county, at the ratio Of five or SIX
to one have banished the dispensary
but 1t Is significant that the Prohi-
bitionists, who carried eighteen pre-
cincts pell-mell, lost the nineteenth
which Is Tirzah. The Hon. B. r. TIL
man delivered his first speech at Tir-
zah twenty years ago. At Tdrzah N, ne
delivered a few weeks ago his 211. .41Sth
speech (or thereabouts) to 1000 peo-
pie. When a hand primary was taken
it looked like Tillman." Although
only 131 persons in all York stood
staunchly by the Red Nose law, the
Tirzah crowd at the meeting was o0-
streperous for Tillman. The results
of Tuesdays balloting show unmistak-
ably that Senator Tillman has lost
none of his old time popularity, the
people rallied to the polls with the fer
vld enthusiasm of the early nineties
and supported not only Senator TIL
mans law, but Senator Tillmans
baby" at the rate Of three to one, al
Tirzah-the vote having been 10 to 3
In favor Of the grog shop. Bullocks
Creek voted against the dispensary
precisely 16 to /. This proves what we
have always suspected-that Col. Will
liam Jennings Bryan Is the instigator
of the Anti-dispensary agitation. But
Senator Ti!lman is undoubtedly as
strong today at Tirzah as he ever has
been.
- Surgeon General Suzuki of the
imperial Japanese navy in his ad-
dress before the fourteenth conven-
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