The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-08-23
IN A DILEMA, SURE.

HILL VI iiStSA y a''NSN ~
gard to the management Of local
dispensarieS. In the session OF
the General Assembly Of 1900,
in the Senate, there was intro
duced "A Bill" looking to the
reformation Of the liquor man.
acement in this State, and for
those counties adopting the dis
pensary system: a provision was
made for the management to be
by a board consisting of the
County Supervisor, the Mayor
of the town at the county seat in
which a dispensary was located,
and the Foreman Of the grand
Jury. The Senator was opposed
to this at the time, and charged
it was a trick to turn the dis
pensary over to the Anti's, but
Since the lid has been lifted, and
the stencil arising from it has
struck the nostriIs of the Sena-
tor. he has reached the conclu-
sion that the wet nurses for his
baby have not been careful OF its
swaddling clothes, and unless a
cleansing process is adopted the
child cannot possibly survive its
own filth, hence he wants to dis
miss the present wet nurses, and
is willing for the trick to turn
the dispensary over to the Ants
to succeed. We are glad to see the
Senator making concessions, and
before the next primary it would
not surprise US in the least if
this distinguished father of the
dispensary comedies, that, local
option, as provided for in Senate
bill, session 1900. providing for
an election on Prohibition,
License, or Dispensary," is the
best solution of this'much vexed
question.
In his Anderson speech the
Senator read a carefully pre-
pared manuscript. and among
the suggestions he makes for
the control of the system. is for
the management of county
dispensaries to be by a
board composed of the. Super
visor. the Mayor and some per-
son appointed by the State
board. He only differs with the
aill referred to, as to the third
member. The bill provides for
the Foreman Of the Grand Jury,
but the Senator wants the third
member Of the county board to
be appointed by the State board.
It tlooks to a man up a tree as if
Senator Tillman is making an
effort to find jumping off place,
to desert his ''baby." He cannot
turn it over to founding
asylum, nor can he leave it on
anybody's doorsteps, the child
is too we'll known: and It's pa
rent cannot deny its birth
marks; in this extremity there
is only one exit to escape, and
that is outright disinheritarce.
We have read with consider
able care the Senator's plan to
purify the dispensary, which he
proposes to suggest to the next
session of the Genera kAssembly,
and, we presume if that body
fails to adopt his suggestions,
-.he will turn around and help to
Kill the dispensary. In our judg-
ment, based upon present indica-
tons, it will not need the dis
tinguished Senator's services to
kill the dispensary; we believe
the system is in extremls now,
and will be killed as dead as a
door nail in a large majority of
the counties in the State
whether the Senator aids or op-
poses. He just cannot stop the
Swelling tide, but he can throw
himself in it's way and he destroy
ed, as will probably be his fate,
if he continues in his present
course. Senator Tillman is a
shrewd politician, and he can
come near creating popular
issue to advance his individual
interests: it would not surprise
US to learn that the suggestions
he makes to the General Assem-
bly, are deliberately and cum
ingly planned with the expecta-
ton of not being accepted. He
suggests measures and plans,
to accept. would mean stultifca-
ton; hence, he has no idea the
legislature will adopt his sug-
gestions, and then he will take
their refusal as an excuse to join
in the popular demand for the
destruction OF the dispensary.
He will beat his tom-tom to re-
Eive factionalism, and stir up
the "wool hat boys" by telling
them his oldtime enemies are
after his scalp and, he will lull
the anti-dispensary people to
sleep by telling them that he
could not stand for corruption,
had tried to purify the dispen-
sary: the legislature would not
do it, and he is with them to kill
it. This will be his scheme, in
our opinion, until the next pri-
mary is over, if he succeeds him
self, the dispensary will continue
and he will have a legislature
that will carry out his wishes,
but if he fails to succeed himself
he will find the dispensary a