The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-09-14
Mr. GORDON'S REJOINDER
To Mr. cause Reply to Mr. Cor.
don.


Cause IS n. .istaken when he calls this
an ''off wear" in politics. Senator
TiIIman's enemies are irving to feel
his strength and trying to see what
chances there would he for the old
party 10 get back in Office again. MIR
Cause is mistaken when he says he
takes ho stock IN politics. He lis in
politics and nothing else. He is
correct when he SAYS he is "Straight-
out" and should have stopped there
and would have been correct, but he
says he wants to get straight cut of
the whiskey business as it now
stands; that every loyal citizen of
South Carolina is whiskey seller
and goes on to picture up the man
who sells whiskey aud makes him
look as bad as possible. There is
no good reason or argument in this,
/. for there is almost as many, or as
many, ,laudnaum, morphine and opium
eaters as whisKey drinkers, and Mr.
Cause may just as well say that the
druggist is responsible for that mans
or woman's death who has these
habits as / say that the dispensary
is responsible for that man who kills
himself drinking wbiskey. Any dis
penser who sells knowingly to a
habitual drunkard should be moved.
/ am just as much a prohibitionist
as Mr. Cause. I have never taken
one drink and have voted for prohi
bition, but would be ashamed to say
that am prohibitionist now, be-
cause the party is so low and cor
: rupt. / have no sermon to write
out as Mr. Cause did. must give
him credit for that sermon; it is ju st
as good as any of the preachers can
preach. / suppose has practieed it
long time.
Now let US see who the prohibi-
ton party consists of in this State:
~ L
The old straight-out party, the high
license man; the man who wants to
sell it in a smuggled way without
any license; the man who is stllling
whiskey and selling without license;
the man who sends off for his whis-
KEY every now and then and loses
some by the constables; the good
church members who don't want any
one to know that they use whiskey
and send eff for it and have it
marked merchandise, glass" ana
such ways to fool the people they
want prohibition; those who want to
run for an office and no one will
bring them out and he can't find no
special issue to come out on he looks
around and sees this prohibition
crowd is getting so st-ong and he
thinks he had better be a prohibl-
tioni$r; the politician who has run
. for office once or twice and has been
defeat,d d Ae sees this large crowd of
prohiLilionists,so he lis a prohibition
ist at oLcc, and then We have the
pure prohibitionists who are prohi-
tionists in reality to get whiskey ont
of the wy. Tlese are so few that
We don't zee them often anu they
don't seem to have any better sense
than to BE- decel, cd with this mock
cry of prohibition: then we have the
preachers who think more about
politics and money and are in SYM
pathy with the Strasht-out party.
They are preaching prohibition from
the pulpit and trying to make their
members believe that whiskey is the
only sin in the world. Can MIR
Cause tell what good can be expect
ed of such a mockery of prohibition?
would say to the voters to single
ont these prohibitionists; take the
ones you know personally and see
what heading they will come under.
The financial part of this question
has been thoroughly discussed by
>S htor Tillman, Mr. Clayton and
others. So it would be useless to
mention that. Any way, will say
n Suttons township, We once had
one white school and one eolored
8 school and three months was all
they could be run and now We have
five schools and can run them longer
than the two was run.