The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-08-02
SENATOR TILLMAN

SENATOR TILLMAN
Is Willing to Engage in a Joint Dis
epnsary Debate.
The Leader of Dispensary Forces No
Averse to Meeting on Stump
Champion Of Opponents.
The Augusta Chronicle says United
States Senator Benjamin Ryan Till
man, although not having a great
deal to say nowadays is nevertheless
taking great interest in political al
fairs. Senator Tillman was seen al
his home in Trenton several days age
by a representative Of The Chronicle,
and readily answered the q:.estions
propounded by the newspaper man.
When questioned on the movement tc
vote cut the dispersary in his OVID
county the Senator Saic:
II have been about very little and
have had no opportunity other than
attending one picnic in Edzefeld, tc
meet the people. I, therefore, am not
posted as to the present trend OF
thought and feeling, but those who
have been around and are well in
formed. tell me that in this county
the sentiment is charging very rapid.
ly. The people are constantly askiog
what they are TO have after the dis.
pensary Is abolished, while the effect
On the school fund OF withdrawing
from the county the money hitherto
received from the state dispsnsary is
causing great many people to change
front.
while ] am lot eager to undergo
the fatigue Of making any speeches, ::
continued the senator, I think ]
zould really enjoy having a lint dis.
cussion with any champion the anti.
dispensary people might decide upon,
or, for that matter, any halt dozen OF
them. The people are disgusted with
the management OF the state d1spen'
sarY, and there is widespread belief
that there is corruption somewhere.
This will cause many to vote against
the system, who have hitherto been
its strong friends.
In my recent letter, I mentioned
some figures as to the effectiveness OF
prohibition, or, rather, its failure IN
Maine and Kansas. I have received
from Washington the last annual re-
port OF commission Of internal revenue
ior the fiscal year e-ding June 80.
1905. In it I find the following fig
ures:
Retail dealers In Kansas, 2,S62;
wholesale liquor dealers, %; brewers,
2; retail dealers in malt liquors, 335;
wholesale dealers in malt liquors, 1O8
''In Maine the figures are: Retail
LIQUOR dealers, 430; wholesale liquor
dealers, 5; brewers, 8; retail dealers in
malt liquors, 55S; wholesale dealers in
malt liquors, %.
NOW, in neither OF these states car
LIQUOR be scld as beverage under the
law.
In South Carolina the figures are:
Retail Equor dealers, 512; wholesale
liquor dealers, I; brewers, l.; retail
dealers In malt liquors, SIS; wholesale
dealers in malt liquors, g."
Senator Ttllman here gave the hguE
es in tabular form, in order to show
the comparison mere clearly:
Continuing, be said: The figures
speak for themselves, and when any
one remembers that no man will pay
the s25 to the United States govern.
ment for the permission to retail for
fun, it may be seen how prohibition
prohibits. OF course, III South Caro-
lima, there are number OF beer priv
leges, and all dispensaries take out a
United States license, and these will
have to be deducted from the figures
shove given in order to show how
many blind tigers we have in this
state.
kansas has possibly 100000 more
population than South Carolina, while
Maine has about halt OUT population.
Any one who is interested can work
out the percentages. The figures saoH
that there are about twice as many
liquor dealers per capita in Maine as
in South Carolina, even including the
6ispensaries, while in Kansas there
are more than five times as many.
II am more than ever convinced
that there is politicsl significance, as
well as desire to further the cause OF
temperance in the move to destroy the
dispensary. / shall be glad II at least
q Gozsn counties vote out the dlspen
saries this summer, because it will
give the people Of those counties 8
good chance to find out how iar pro
hioition will prohibit before the real
6pht wear hence"