The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-07-13

THE regular vote. It requires certih-
cate Of registration to vote at such an
election while in the primary the club
rolls of the Democratic clubs govern.
Then men are Indifferent as they were
in the prohibition election in 1892 whc2
only sixty thousand out Of ninety-two
thousand voted II that box. There
are probably thirty thousand or more
good Democrats in the State who from
one cause or another are not able to
vote in the elections held under the
Brice act That law was shrewdly
drawn and for the express purpose OF
killing the dispensary | have been told.
These thirty thousand will determine
the question in the future as they have
in the past because they will elect the
Legislature and the State officers In
the State Democratic primary in spite
of any combination such as is now CIV
ing us prohibition by negative pro-
cess. 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 and return
to the old barroom system, while many
people will do anything to kill the dis
, pensary with the hope OF profiting by
its destruction.
| would advise every advocate OF
the dispensary who is in doubt to vote
against putting the dispensary out OF
his county until we see what the report
of the investigating committee IS and
then whether or not the Legislature at
it's next session will purge the corrup-
tion out Of the dispensary system, ana
put safeguards around i for the future.
| say unhesitatingiy it can be done
successfully The dispensary system has
shown its strength in past elections
because people thought it was honestly
administered. AL that is necessary is 70
have them understand as they will un-
derstand by 1906 that taey must XIII
the law in order to set rid OF the cor
ruption and they will make short work
of it. 1t must be made clean OF it must
60. At present the campaign TO vote
it out county by county only brings
about confusion. encourages blind IT,
gers and causes the counties and State
to lose money, and settles nothing, and
it is impossible to settle the question
III InlS way. iSpedl IL Noh Jill. bS
settled at the general Democratic pri-
mary when all the people have heard
all sides and have made up their minds
intelligently.
| desire to add in conclusion that
practically | am a prohibitionlst De-
cause | very rarely drink any liquor
of any kind. If l believed that prohibi-
ton could be enforced, understanding
as l do most thoroughly the great evil
attending the abuse Of liquor | would
be a. prohibitionist but knowing from
the most searching investigation and
from the official record of the United
States government that in Maine and
Kansas where prohibition prevails that
there has been most dismal failure to
enforce the lar | prefer to 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-
tion than any other.
I have no personal interest in view
and am only actuated by sense OF
public duty in taking the position |
have occupied in the past and which
| shall continue to occupy.
l have always believed in the rule
of the majority. But l want it to be
the majority of all the Democrats in
the State. B. R. TILLMAN.