The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-06-15
TlLlMAN MAY BE FOR PROHIBITION.
Some People Expect Senior Senator to Take the
Stump Next Year.


Some People Expect Senior Senator to Take the
Stump Next Year.
COLUMBIA, June 12.-The county cam
paigns started in various parts Of the
State to vote out the dispensary has be-
come almost epidemic. Pickens having
Joined Cherokee in the dry column and
petitions looking to the same end being
in circulation now in Anderson, Green
vile, Spartanburg, Union, Oconee, Will
liamsburg, Charleston and Newberry.
And this and other evidences of a change
OF heart on the part of various classes OF
people against the dispensary have start
ed some interesting political talk, which
seems to outline some important realign.
ments for the coming campaign-county
as we'll State, Senatorial and Congress
sional.
Among other entertaining phenomena
held out as probable is Senator Tillman
stumping the State for prohibition. His
close personal and political friends assert
with confidence that he will certainly be
found doing something of this kind in case
it is demonstrated that the State is deter
mined to rid itself of the dispensary. And
the prohibitionists will get numerous
other strong advocates from the dispen-
sary ranks. Among other prominent pol
iticians who have climbed aboard the
prohibition band wagon recently are ex-
Congressman Jasp. Talbert and ex-United
States Senator John L. McLaurin, both
said to have aspirations which they hope
to realize in the coming campaign.
The prohibitionists alone are not strong
enough to carry the State, their voting
strength being only 10000, but there are
many dispensary advocates who have
been accepting the dispensary as the next
best thing, who, it is said, are now will
ing to join the prohibition ranks. And
there is always large whiskey element
ever ready to join either the angels or the
devils imps to beat the dispensary.
There has been no effort SO far to Or
eanize the prohibition forces, but the
leaders say this will be done in the i'm
mediate future, and that the campaign
will be pitched with view to capturing
the Legislature as we'll as the State offices.
Not only State ticket will be put out,
they say, but every county will be organ
lied so as to elect members of the legis-
lature who will vote against the dispen-
sary and for prohibition.
On whom the cold water people will
center their energy for Governor is so far
altogether a matter of speculation. Mr..
J. A. Mccullough, of the Greenville bar,
and Mr. G c Featherstone, of the Laurens
bar, have both indicated recently that
they would not be non-conductors should
the lightning strike in their immediate
vicinity.
The dispensary people show dlsposl'
ton to concentrate on Col. John T. Sloan
of Columbia for Governor, because among
the other candidates for Governor NJ. F.
Ansel of Greenville is regarded as pro-
hibitionist, and Speaker of the House M.
L. Smith of Camden, and State Senator
| Richard I. Manning of Sumter, are re-
| earded as too luke-warm. Chairman Hub
Evans of the dispensary directorate and
State Senator Cole L. Blease of Newberry
have been regarded as probable guberna'
torial candidates, but neither will make
the race. Mr.. Evans wants to retain his
present position and Senator Blease feels
that he can help the dispensary cause bet-
ter by running for Attorney General
quietly directing the dispensary strength
toward Col. Sloan as he goes along.
Experienced politicians say that high
license is an impossibility in as thorough
| " Democratic State as. South Caro-
| lina-that is, an impossibility as perma-
| nent arrangement. The constitution for
bidding the sale of whiskey except under
dispensary regulations the prediction is,
therefore, made that if high license law
is passed by the next Legislature (or by
the new one succeeding it), the exclusive
or monopolistic features of an arrange
ment of this kind will cause it's death at
the succeeding election in favor OF low
license.
Before concluding it might be said by
way of parenthesis, as it were, that it is
felt here that the efforts to vote out the
dispensary will not succeed in either
Charleston or Anderson. In fact the
Charleston petition has been withdrawn,
and it Is understood that the Anderson
paper has no substantial backing.
Speaker Reed and the Barber.
Years ago Tom Reed, then speaker OF