The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-08-16


pensary. I warn the people to take
these at their true value.
CHALLENGES CHEROKEE.
z new broom always sweeps clean
and the prohi ibitionists In those
counties are undoubtedly exerting
themselves to the utmost at this
time, but just as certain as like cause
produces like effect will it ccme to
pass that decentralization and failure
will result there as it has resulted In
Kansas and there are indications that
we are not getting the whole truth
about these counties. Now some Of
my bitterest enemies have pretended
to find In my letter to Mr.. Higgins
basis for the idea that lam straddling
OF weakening on the dispensary assure.
To all such say that they may put
their doubt to rest il they ever had
any. I shall fight for reformation
in the dispenary and it's restoration
to the original scheme upon which it
was organized. I promised Mr.. Net
ties and other prohibition leaders IN
the legislature in December. 1892, that
I would free the State from narrooms
and I did it even in Charleston.
WHERE He STANDS.
Ard / now say t:,ag If the legisla-
ture now in power does not at its next
session, change the law so as to reform
the system, will undertake, If an
living and we'll next summer, to fight
Tor a legislature that will reform it. /
do not stand for debauched and cor
rupt dispensary. I will not fight for
such. But I do stand for the system
as it was fist inaugurated, and re-
gardless Of consequences to myself,
will fight to purify and maintain it..
I repeat what I have already said be-
fore. II is useless to talk about sell.
ing liquor IN South Caroliua under any
sysetm Of license, high or low. have
declared and l believed it to be true
that a saloon would never be open In
South Carolina again. Destruction OF
the dispensary WILL mean Of course a
free rein for those who sell liquor lille
lily, but I prefer to see it sold thus
rather than see it placed in the hands
Of individuals, q private monopoly
created with the greater demorallzs-
ton that would follow. Fully one
third if not more Of those who are now
bowling for the destruction OF the dis.
pensary are avoWed candidates OF high
license, and the prohibitionist dupe
themselves into the belief that they
have succeeded with the aid Of these
men in destroying the dispeEsary,
that they can maintain prohibition.
But pe1dict that the fight will always
be between prohibition and the dis.
pensary rather than between prohibi.
tion and license and in any event
shall use every insSrumentality in my
power to antagonize giving the right
to sell liquor to private individuals.
I want this matter settled entirely
apart from my personal and poiitica.
fortunes. It is a much greater ques
tion for the people Of South Carolina
as to how they shall wisely and best
govern the sale Of liquor than as tc
whether l or some one else represents
them In the senate. know there are
many men who will vote for me re-
gardless Of their former political az.
filiations and Of their present attitude
on this question and it Is probable
that there will be many who will be
aggrieved at my activity in dealing
with this question. I can not helt
that. I have the same right and in.
terest in local affairs as any other citi
zen and naY elevation to the Office
now hold would have been spurneo
had I felt that I would be deprived o1
freedom Of speeca and action becauss
of it. I prefer to retire to private
life if it is the will OF the people Of tht
State rather than surrender my con
vicJions on t;;.ts Important matter
and play the c,~ard in dealing witt
it.