Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-08-14

was reeking in filth and rolling in mud
before you came to its rescue? And
the half Of its filth has never been told.
And now, senator, you are going all
over the state using your powerful
political influence to further fasten
this damnable vampire, liquor, upon
your trusting and unsuspecting fol-
lowers. You are advocating meas
ures that You know are eating the
very vitals out of the young men and
boys Of our state. and that Is reach
ing into our homes, and is making a
damnable thrust at the chastity and
virtue of our women.
My God, Senator Tillman, what
more do you want? We have heaped
honor upon honor upon you. We
have done all for you that worship
ping people could do. Now, is 1t pos
sible that we have for these years
nursed a viper in our bosom that is
to turn upon us and sting our moral,
social and religious conditions to
death?
Senator know you are a hard,
unrelenting master. You don't mind
telling other people Of their meanness.
but you don't like being told Of yours.
Now, senator, you strip this Internal
liquor -dispensary Of Its political garb
and possibilities, and throw 1t before
the people, not in an office-getting ca
pacity, and they will vote it out to-
morrom. And you know 1t is the
reason why you have kept it from
the people.
And today you are trying to move
heaven and earth to try and get a law
fastened on the people in the Raysor-
Manning bill, that, IL 1t should be-
come a law, the entire state will be
placed under the old dispensary law.
with all these communities that have
voted out the dispensaries, and the
communities that have never had
them, to have dispensaries fastened
upon them without the people Il
mean. the whole people) having any
voice or vote whatever in the matter.
And to show you more clearly,
senator, of the insincerity and rotten
ness of this liquor affair, you have
men in about every county Of the
state running for the legislature and
senate, hurrahing for Tillman and the
dispensary,. that have always been
your avowed opponents, and enemies
to the dispensary; and fear hate
both Tillman and the dispensary now
worse than the devil hates holy water.
But now 1t is-Hurrah for Richard i.
Manning for governor, the Raysor-
Manning bill and dispensary. Why!
oh! why is this the case? Because,
fear, 1t opens up chance by which
some fellow that has been wanting
Office for a long while, hopes to ride
in on Tillman liquor. Strip 1t, sena-
tor, (this dispensary, mean) Of its
political affiliations and office getting
possibilities and many a fellow that
is now hurrahing for Tillman and the
dIspensary would curse you to your
face, as they have formerly done.
Now, senator, 1t is patent to the
most commonplace mind that you and
Richard I. Manning have gone into q
compact Mr.. Manning evidently
says, senator, help me to be governor
and I will do what you want me to do,
You have put the yardstick on the
legislators when you said that the
LEGISLATORS that voted against the
Raysor- Manning bill must be left at
home.
So, senator, IL the surmises and con-
clusions are correct, 1t seems that you
are making a desperate effort to be
United States senator, governor Of the
state, as we'll as the legislature. That
Is giving one man too much power
that is depriving us Of self-govern-
ment. And I don't believe the peo7
pie are prepared to accept such, and
will by their ballots repudiate the
whole scheme.
Now senator, in conclusion, let me
say that this liquor question is no
longer a Tillman or anti-Tillman ques-
ton. You should have all you want
We are willing for you to go back to
the United States senate and "cuss'
Roosevelt and those Yankees to your
hearts content; but for humanity 8
and Gods sake, II you can't throw
your influence on the right side OF
this great moral question, pull your
self aside, and let the people decide
as to whether they want the dispen-
sary or prohibition. That is the ques-
ton before us, and you have promis-
ed to let US decide it. Will you be
good to your word?
Very truly yours,
C. P. HODGES.