The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-08-10
VOL XIX
A DISPENSARY CHAMPION.
Mr.. 5. B. Gordon Tries Hard to Boost
a TOnerinq Institution.

Editor County Record: Please al
low ME space to ask Mr. Cause some
onestions aud say little more about
the dispenSary.
The dispensary is made by what
is called the "Reform Party" which
was nothing more than a majority
of the party ruling ont the minority
and throwing out lot of old Office
holders who thought that the offices
of the State belonged to them. They
called themselves "Straight-outs. !"
suppose they did his because they
were going straight out of office.
The Straight-outs opposed every
thing that was done by the regular
party, even ran their candidates in
the general election. They started
the opposition to the dispensary and,
AS usual, resorted to anything to de-
feat it. They first favored the old
way of selling whiskey. They
talked about the high price whi'key'
but that did no good. Now whiskey
i. too cheap, everybody can get it.
So they can't be suited only by let
ting them run the business them
selves, then you would besr no more
about rottenness in the dispens"ry.
Ths News & Courier has always
opposed the dispenssry. 1t will tell
YOU about rottenness in the dispen-
sary and reports rumors that have
been lntimated and committees that
are Investigating the rottenness that
will soon get into possession of the
facts concerning the rottenneSS OF the
dispensary, but facts are never pub
lisbed. This has been going On ever
since the disrensary has been started,
for the purpose of turning the ma
jority against it. Now this old bar
room party, which is the old Straight
out party, has turned PrOhiDit'0nist
IL e
for the purpose of catching the few
prohibition votes that do in reality
want prohibition.
Then tine old politicians like John
McLaurin, who jumped on the
Farmers Alliance and rode into Of
flee and rode the Alliance out of eS-
istence and is riding with one leg
over the Cotton Growers Association
and the other over the Prohibition
party trying to get into office, say
ing all they can about the dlspensary'
knowing that they are dead unless
they can get into Office IN some un-
usual way.
Some of the preachers who are Ia
sympathy with this old Stralght-out
party are trying to help out their
party by working against the dis
pensary. At the Greenville District
conference of the Methodist church,
Rev G Il Harmon said he preferred
the "Blind Tiger to- a tw' eyed
tiger in the shape of the disp"nsary.
Just here | will say everybody else
would prefer "Blind Tiger" who
wishes to use whiskey in smuggled
way and they prefer lawIrssnesS to
anything else. Mr. Blackman said
that oily two members of his con-
gregation at Piedmont are in favor
of the dispensary and he would not
deny pleasure at the prospect of
their early departure.
Mr. Cause wonders if | could not
find some rottenness in the dispen-
sary. will ask him this question.
What rottenuess has he found that
he can prove to be facts? Of course
auy business that requires SO many
people to attend to it will sometimes
get bad man. They get iuto banks
or'most apv ,aercantilc business.
As to the election in 1892, | re-
member al .brut it. | voted for
prohibition then in preference to the
old barrooms, but tIie legislature gave
US the dlspensary All | ;hink they
acted wisely in doing 50.
Can Mr. Gause truthfully say that
less whiskey WIS used when none
was sold openly in this COUNTY? [
cannot see any difference, except now
the State gets the profits and then
the money was sent of, or put into
the blind tigers. Perhaps he is like