The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-02-14
4 DIRTY BARGAIN
Was Made to Pass The Local
Option Bill Says
SENATOR TILLMAN,
He Charges Corruption in Dispensary
Management, aud Asserts That
Strengthening Out is Needed.
Says The Dispensary will
be the Issue this Year.
SENATOR TILLMAN,

be the Issue this Year.
MI. Zach McGhee, the Washington
correspondent Of The State says Sen.
aeor Tillnan insists that whan Is
characterised the method by which
shs Morgan bill passed the house a. 3
dirty bargsin" he meant just that
word and no osher, though he says be
Gid not mean TO reh.cs In any way
upon any OF tho Charleston delega-
tion.
Says he: II said there was trade
by which Charles.on's aino votes were
cess for she bill In consideration for
making that noss remarkable excep-
tisn for Charleston, allowing ts the
privilege denied all the rest Of the
Stase Of having license If is wants it.
There nay lot havs been any 90
:ual ov.rt trads, there may not ha7s
been say formal agreomens, but sbe
shing is 30 sell evident that Ii isn't
worsh while for any body TO deny Is.
Charleston has always bean IN favor
OF locsl opsion, by which, Of course, il
is meant that it Tsnes saloons, a16
its representatives In the Legislature
ssw tlas the only way TO get Ii wss
70 vote for thts ELL.
Likewise the antidispensary nsm
bers from other counties kI2w tnat
sne Only way they could get Charles-
con suppors OF 80 called p=oaibtsion
measure would be to e1p@cs Charlss-
con from its operation by giving Ii
the ttird choice OF high license.
Else why Gid they exceps Charles
con, and why did they not excsps Co.
iumbip also, OF Greenville, OF Spar
sanburg, OF any other t0wn?
why, il Is plain az the ncsa on
your face If they had nos given shis
special privilege 80 Charleston they
would not have gos these nine votes
and the bill would have been defeated,
ard they know it,
a few weeks ego IL WILL oa remem'
bered 1t was reported in this cores.
pondence that Senator Tillmsn said
he had nothing to say on the Soush
Carolina situation, considering that
In general way it was not bis busi-
ness 30 interfere and that he had bis
bands full here.
AS matter Of fses, there can be
no doubt that be has bis hands full
here, about as full as any man 10 6he
senate, but he instircsiVely keeps one
ear TO the ground for what Is going on
in South Carolina and it is as iupossi.
bic for him to keep ou5c it as 1t Is
for him to sit quietly in his seatln
the senate when spirited debate 10
going on.
'I would be a fool" said he today,
''to sis here in Washington, however
much I am absorbed With affairs here
and see the people OF Sou1h Carolina
tricked without at least making my
protest. And by people mean the
real majority OF the white people Tor
whom / have struggled"
The senator was once called down
in the senate for using the WORD
"trickery" wnen referring to the pres.
iaent, so I asked him wfss he neans
by il in this connection. i say srick.
ed," he replied, "because that is what
Ii appears to me. The Bricc law dls
franchises one third OF the white men
ia the STATE who can vote in the Dem
ocrartc primary.
Besides, the enemies Of she dis
pensary, why for years have controlled
the State, have besn putting men IN
charge Of it who have mismanassd It,
stolen from ID, brought 1t into bad
order, and the newspapers which are
and always have been bitter against
the d1spanssry snd against me, and
| which make a practice OF suppresing
whatever is favorable 70 tAe dispen'
ssry aud loudly Vaunting What uniav'
orable to Ii, are the onss WHICH have
the largest circulation and the. olaes
which tnese 'd:iftwood legislators
lead and lock upon as the Law, tee
prophets and the gospel so the people
are hoodwinked, bL5 there Is time
coming.
Tue people will get caance to
express themselves next sua.msr snd
without any Brics law to d;sfraochlse
auy OF them snd oossle then up. Al!
:hay need is somebody to STIR shen up
and let them know wnat IS going cb
Tie dispers2ry will be bEe oec!dils
issue ia tas wh)le campaign, nos or;
in Sas 6.sscc .on'cf m3n0ars q sie le!r,-
lslsture BUS In evsry elec5ion 10 t1G
STATE, for gc7srncr, jcr SIaJe cfdcciS,
for county oMsers, ter my successor
IN ehc sena:s and all.
Something was said lss5 suGm&I
.bous the senator 1uHciog fof goVe:.
cor lbstead Ct ter tne senaSe aro
enere las bsea soIs Euca talk hena:
.hcu1n psraSps enanSt:ug from soma
amU ltoas representatives, not aveIsa
10 esng called uocn b7 sne people tc
.ate uore exzi5ed sss5. Askcd ths
.d;rscS question today, Senator Till
Esn Said?
Yes, l have Thoughts many times
OF doing tast. The oniy coadisior
sha5 Rould induce ne 20 consider 1T,
:.ovovsr, from a persorSl s.sndpoint:
could be the fact thas my healtr
ho,,13 no o,,.L, oa tn nn-ka III IN visa