The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-02-08
For The Brice DispeEsary Bill in
the State Senate
FEW SPEECHES MADE.
The Senatcr from York Defested His
Bill in Vigorous Attack on the
Dispeasary, bat it Was killed
BY q Decisive Vote by the
Senator's.

were crowded Wednesday night whe,
the local option bill OF Senator Bric'
OF York was brought up. There wa!
practically little bebate on the bill
and it was killed by vote Of Is to ! l
In the mornir G Senator Brice spoke
for the bill, and in the evening SeEa
tor c. Z. Blesss against it. Senator
Aauldin also spoke for it.
The bill had been introduced by
him, said Senator Brice. to give the
people OF South Carolina an oppor: uo'
ity OF wiping ut the dispensaly, root
and branch. Ie said that il the naked
devil had come to earth this would
have been the sort Of Law he would
have framed. The law bad been adopt
ed as ccnpronise and now was an
in:Quity.
Instead OF being a solution and i'm
provenent CT the liquor question, ssid
Senator Brice, tie dlspensary Law was
ret-ogra6e IN movement. Let the peo-
pie say wha5 they want. This is de.
nocrscy.
The bill which Senator Brice has
introduced this year IS practically
similar to bis local option measure Ct
1904, except that it has no taxation
provision. This was tackled On last
yesr against Senator Brice's wish.
He said n his speech that hordes
Of negroes around the disper rsariss
on Saturday afternoons we're like a
crowd Of carton Crows around q car
cass.'
Fighters against the dispensary had
teen successful when coming out bold
ly, and the tine is not far of when
the system will be broken up, he de-
elared. The tax would not s;are the
counties which really wished to be-rid
Of the 6ispe1sary. Cteroke had voted
It cut in spite Of the TAX.
Senator Biease said that he believed
that the senator from York was sin
cere in bis views on the diSpersaEy
law, and in fact believes that be was
at one time in sympathy with it. he
alluded to toe fact that the Pfohlbi-
tionists had advocated the dispensarY
law after the Cailds bill was defeated
in 1892. II the Pre- hibitionists had
helped the anti prohibitionists the
dispensary law would never have been
passed. II a stone had been given
when bread was asked for, it was the
prohibitiorists who had done 1t.
The argument had been made that
the dispenssry would have been over
thrown If the people had ever bad the
opportunity. Senator Blease cited the
candidates. Of C. c Feathesstone and
James a. Eoy5, who had both been
defeated, and in passing paid tribute
to both. It Is now disgrace for the
State to sell whskey, and yet the pro-
hibition ticket had recommended it.
What matter if it was 'tor medicinal
purposes the effect is the sane,
In giving the advantages Of the 6is-
pensary Law, the sp: aker cited the de-
pravity Of barrcoms, the stringent
regulations on dispensers as to selling
to minors, keeping open after hours,
ETC., and the stamping out Of TIE So
cial drink. There is one stencil in the
nosorils OF the pecple-the so called
social club''-where men sit and
drink and play cards until the We
small hours, but this cannot be laid
at the doors OF the dispensary.
In defense OF the late q. q Crum,
dispepsary commissioner, be read from
The Evening Record OF Columbia an
article relating to the dead mans
estate. The article stated that, al
though Mr.. Crun was reported to be
very rich, he left an estate OF sl3 900
snd owed from this SO, 200. This then
was the real fortune Of man who was
said to have come to the general as
sembly a poor man and died worth
$3.50 Why not tell the truth
about these things, asked the senator.
Pictures had been drawn Of splendid
homes built by those In charge Of the
dispensary, when ID rta!ity some OF
these homes were really crowded cot
tages.
The questions was too big for Local
control. II the 500 voters OF New
berry decids d by a majority OF 100 te
vote out this dispensary, would this
be justice to the other citizens OF the
county?
he vas sorry that the d;spenSary in
vestigation resolution had not, as ort
ginally intended, been carried out, SC
that the committee would have re-
ported by Feb. 1st. It had been sale
that this resolution had been dictated
By a member Of the State beard o1
directors, bat this Senator Blease de.
MED with great vigor.
The single question involved.
ssid Senatoc Nau!din, is whether OF
not the general assembly is willing tx
leave the natter to the people Ct tbs
counties. he said that the dispen
sary law ws.s not being attacked as Z
whole, an6, if such popular institu
tion as described by the senator II. u
Nevberry, it was certainly IL no dan
ger. A la4. Of this kind would be th'
frst oppor unity FOR the masses Il
really dem lnstrate whether or 20
they want the dispsnSary. Sena:o
Nauldin thought government by Ya'
Dacple true Jefersonian Oegooc-sc,
sod Therefore only Just. Tue dispen
ary system mad had as it's chef lee
ommendati; "a that it would reduc
drinking, aud now its chief glory i
It's fcancia success. The State hat
literally set It's seal OF approval Oh IN
system. Lluely friend had aske'
him: "Why not make your motoe
read, DUN spiro spero bibo' and 'Ani
mus opibussue ct paratus spiritus fru
mensi?'
The ayes and nays were denande
and the vc.e was as follows on Sena
tor Blease's motion to strike out th
enacting word:
Ayss-Ssnstess giveas. Blake