The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1906-06-27
EHE STATE CAMPAIGN
OPENED At ST. GEORGE.
Candidates Declare Positions on
Various Issues, Mighty Little
Ginger. Meeting Quiet.
FOR LOCAL OPTION.

Mr.. A. C. Jones, of Newberry, who
has been leader in the many fights
against the dispensary and took the
stump in Newberry county last sum-
mer against Senator Blease and help
ed in driving the dispensary out Of
that county, followed Mr.. Edwards.
Mr.. Jones' speech had grit and back
hone in every line. He does not pro-
fess to be an orator, but he speaks
forcefully and gives voice to his pow
erful convictions. He will be out of
the campaign for several days On ac-
count Of illness at home
Mr.. Jones stated that he is in favor
of education and of pushing the edu-
cational institutions SO that this State
shall in that respect. be the proudest
of them all. ) After few other gen
eralizations, he got down to the liquor
question. Three years ago he had
written to the press a denunciation of
the methods of the dispensary fasten-
ing dispensaries on people who wanted
to be rid Of fthem and partially as a
result OF his letter the Brice law was
enacted He endorses every letter OF
that act. The people should have the
right to vote on that question He
has never voted for whiskey in any
form, but this is practical age and
the iniquitous sale must be cut off lit
tie by little, it can not all be done
away with at one stroke. {
He denied Senator Blease's state
ment with reference to Newberry
since the dispepsaTy had been run out
of that county. Mr.. Jones said that
he has lived there twenty years and
it is now the most orderly town that
it has ever been, and his observation
is that there is less liquor sold there
now than there has ever been The
trouble is in the effort to break up
blind tigers some lawyers will come
along and take the case to the circuit
court. That is the trouble too much
lawyers.
While the Investigating committee
had not at all times followed some of
his suggestions he wanted to endorse
every act they have done. He knows
that they have worked hard, Messrs-
Christensen and Lyon, and their lives
have been threatened, but they have
accomplished a great deal. Nr. Jones
said that his own life had been threat
ened at times, but he would continue
to fight the dspensary until it would
some day go. .
TO REFORM DIsPENsARY-,
Senator r. I. Manning, of Sumpter,
who was next introduced, stated his
record for the last fourteen years as a
legislator from Sumter county, and
for eight years of that time as senator
He may have made mistakes, these
he frankly admits, for all are human,
but he had always tried to apply the
rule right to every action.
The educational institutions are
growing and the fight against them is
largely a. thing of the past. The III
stitutions have grown and of course
the appropriations have grown in or
der to provide necessary accommoda-
tions.
He described the growth Of pension
appropriations from $4,000 to 1925, 900.
The unequal assessment of property
he declared to be burning issue
which he had not the time to discuss.
There should be strict business sys-
tenn in the conduct of the government
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