The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-09-13

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ter doing so every one arc al
liberty to form their own conclu.
sions, and if necessary in the
future to act accordingly.
The Brice Bill provides: that
whenever one fourth of the
qualified voters of a county sign
petition asking a county super
visor to order an election to set
tie the question as to whether
the sale Of whiskey shall be leg
allied or prohibited in said coun-
ty. A majority voting either
way settles the question in re-
gard to whiskey Sor four years,
by the operations Of this bill, in
the county or counties so voting.
Cherokee, Pickens and Union
counties have already had their
say and are now Prohibition
counties in name, but in fact, we
believe not. We would not give
a nickle for all the prohibition
that could be mustered in coun-
ties of this State bordering on
the North Carolina line.
There is a few more counties
that is taking steps to vote out
the sale of whiskey within their
borders by the Brice Local OPP
ton Bill.
Local option has been CLAIMED
and thoroughly democractic in
every feature, and this may be
if all matters pertaining to local
option are in accordance with
democratic principles, otherwise
local option are undemocratic.
The Brice local option bill is
undemocratic for the simple rea-
son that under certain provis-
ions of the bill a certain number
of free democratic white men
are not allowed to vote.
If our recollection serves US
right, 1t was charged after the
election was held in Pickens to
vote out the dispensary under
the Brice great democratic bill,
that two hundred white demo
Gratis and taxpayers were not al
lowed to vote, upon the poor
plea that they were not qualified
voters of the county, by not be-
ing able to produce registration
certificates of qualification.
It was also charged that to
get the required number of
names to warrant the county
supervisor of Pickens in order
ing the election on the whiskey
question, that there was names
Of unqualified voters, after their
manner of reckoning, on the list
of petitioners.
If an election was held IN
every county in South Carolina
by counties, under the Brice
bill. it is claimed by authority
known to be good, that there
would be twenty-five thousand
white democratic voters that
could not vote. Democrats, what
do you think of the Brice Local
Option Legislation as democracy
and as a democratic measure?
Heaven save South Carolina
from Brice and from Brice's de-
mocracy.
We think the. people operating
under the Brice democratic local
option bill will have their fatigue
and trouble for nothing in the
little one-sided game that they
have been playing in a few Of
the counties in having things
their own way in running rough.
shod over the rights Of others
in this off-election year backed
only by the infamous Brice Leg
islation.
Yes, they will have it all to go
over again next year, for the
friends and the supporters Of
the dispensary will make the
issue plainly next year, Prohi-
bition or Dispensary, and will
see to it in the next primary
election that every white man
who is a democrat, shall have
the right to vote on a question
that is as much his question as
it is the question of Brice or any
of the followers of Brice.
The Prohibitionists Of the
State, or the more prominent
ones at least, are doing the
ground-mole work and a still
hunt for voters in this business
as they may think, but with all
this cunning, their movements
are being known, and they. next
year, will have to face the issue
and face it souarely.
The mouth-pieces for Prohi-
bition in all parts of the State
are eternally prating about car
rying the State for Prohibition
by ten thousand majority in the
primary election in 1892, and
that too on the issue of Prohi-
bition or open Barrooms, and
yet for more than five years the
leaders of Prohibition have been
afraid to come out in their true
colors and fight the battle on the
issue of Prohibition or Dispen-
sary.
Clarendon with the most Of
the other counties of the State,
as yet, have developed no symp-