Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-07-07

dispensary Is defunt. Sensible men
will not lend their aid to any crusade
which only gives US confusion worse
and produces a chaotic
condition with no compensation.
The jug County Traffic.
Under the decision Of the United
States supreme court prohibition and
no other state regulation can prevent
LIQUOR being shipped in by express Tor
personal use Of individuals and the
lug county traffic with Wilmington,
Charlotte, Atlanta, Augusta and Sa-
vannah will be immense under prohi-
bition, and the money which now goes
into the dispensary for the use OF the
towns and counties Of the state and
the school fund will be sent out Of the
state to enrich the dealers and distil-
lers Of other states. Stills will be run
in every swamp and wagons VIII
peddle liquor all over the country.
The only fight worth enlisting In
South Carolina is between prohibition
as rigidly enforced as 1t can be and
the dispensary, as honestly enforced
as It ought to be. High license Is not
to be thought Of for a moment. Yet
the prohibitionists say they prefer the
dispensary to license and the license
people say they prefer prohibition to
the dispensary, while the blind tigers
want prohibition because they knowit
means free liquor.
Unlike Regular Primaries.
The elections now being held In the
counties to vote the dispensary out
are very different from the Democra-
tic primary election which will settle
the. question finally. In the first place.
the vote in those counties where
elections have been held against the
dispensary has been very small as
compared with the regular election.
It requires certificate OF registration
to vote at such an election, while In
the primary the club rolls Of the DEM
ocratic clubs govern.
Then men are Indifferent as they
were in the prohibition election In
1892. when only $4,000 out OF $4,000
voters voted in that box. There are
probably $4,000 or more good Demo-
Gratis in the state, who, from one cause
or another, are not liable to vote In
the elections held under the Brice act.
The law was shrewdly drawn and Tor
the express purpose of killing the dis
pensary, I have been told. These S0,-
900 will determine the question In the
future as they have in the past, be-
cause they will elect the legislature
and the state officers in the state DEM
'ocratic primary in spite Of any comDi-
nation, which Is now giving US pro-
hibition by negative process, voting
out the dispensary, not because the
people want prohibition, but giving
us prohibition because some people
want free liquor, some people prefer
to buy Illicit liquor, some people want
high license and return TO the old
barroom system, while many people
will do anything to kill the dispensary
with the hope of profiting by its de-
struction. I would advise every ad-
vocate Of the dispensary system VINO
is in doubt, to vote against putting the
dispensary out OF his county, until we !
see what the report Of the Investigate
ing committee is, and then whether
or not the legislature, at It's next ses-
sion, will purge the corruption out OF
the dispensary system, and put safe
guards around 1t for the future. say
unhesitatingly 1t can be successfully
conducted. The dispensary system
has shown its strength In past elec-
tions because people thought 1t was
honestly administered. 4- ah tvt
All that is necessary Is to have
them understand as they will under
stand by 1906, that they must Kill the
law in order to get rid Of the corrup-
ton, and they will make short work
.of It, "rt
It must be made clear or 1t must
go. At present the campaign to vote
1t out, county by county, only brings
about confusion, encourages blind u
gers and causes the counties and state
to lose money and settles nothing, and
II is impossible to settle the question
In this way. I repeat it can only be
settled at the general Democratic pri-
mary when all the people have heard
all sides and have made up their
minds intelligently.
7 desire to add in conclusion that
practically I am a prohibitionist be-
cause 1 very rarely drink any liquor OF
any kind. II believed that prohibi-
ton could be enforced, understanding
as I do most thoroughly the great evil
attending the abuse Of liquor, would
be a prohibitionist, but knowing from
the most searching investigation ana
from the official record Of the United
States government that In Maine and
Kansas, where prohibition prevails
there has been a most dismal failure 10
enforce the law, prefer the dispen-
sary 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 ques-
ton than any other. I have no per-
sonal interest in view and am only ac-
tuated by sense Of public duty In
taking the position I have occupied In
the past and which I shall continue
to occupy.
I have always believed in the rule
of the majority. But I want II to be
the majority of the Democrats In the
state (Signed.)
B. r. TLLMAN.