Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-09-14
TILLMAN AND JONES.
They Disagree on the Question OF the
Defeat of the Dispensary.

They Disagree on the Question Of the
Defeat of the Dispensary.
Senator Tillman on Wednesday gave
out the following to the Columbia cor
RESPONDENT of the News and Courier:
when all of the people spoke" ne
said, in discussing the complexion OF
the legislature, "the state dispensary
was sustained in the election of a leg
Iislature favorable to the state dispen-
sary. / can't count more than fifty
nti-dispensary members out or the
liza members of the house, but to De
/ on the safe side will concede that we
have majority there of only ten or
twelve. In the senate we have g. ma
jority of ten or eleven easy. We elect
ed a big majority Of the new senators,
and had a majority Of the hold-overs.
I'VE will clean out the dispensary,
set II upon its feet, strengthen It,, and
then we will see how well Ansel en-
forces it." said the senator, winking
as If he thought the joke was on An
sell
"But, senator, don't you agree that
the large majorities given Ansel and
Lyon is significant evidence of an anti
state dispensary sentiment throughout
the state?" he was asked.
20, hell, wasn't Ansel one time dis
pensary man. He wanted to be gov
ernor. Governors and attorney gen.
erals don't make laws. We've got the
Legislature elected when ninety odd
thousand spoke at the polls. Ansel
and Lyon were elected with abont IT,
900 voting.
I'VE will see how we'll Ansel enforces
our new dispensary law and how
many grafters Lyon puts In the peni-
tentiary."
Asked to list the fifty nti-dispensary
members of the house he conceded, the
senator gave this: Anderson 5, Aiken
2, Barnwell 2, Oconee 2, Greenville 8,
Spartanburg 6, Cherokee g., York l.
Chester 2, Lancaster l, Darlington 2,
Charleston 8, Williamsburg 8, Newber-
ry 2, Greenwood 2, Edgefield 2, Sa-
luda 2.
so far from being hurt about being
scratched" said the senator, II am
gratified to know that in spite OF all
the newspapers have been saying that
there are 1000 less of the irreconcila-
BILE, unforgiving Bourbons than there
were six years ago. / was scratched
1000 less this time than last. These
people would have scratched me had
| not opened my mouth" Alluding
again to the race for governor he sal
Less than forty thousand people
heard the candidates for state offices" ;"
1.-The dispensary won on the intrinsic
merits of the system, and Blease's vote
evidently stayed at home, Indifferent
as between Ansel and Manning. only
hope that our new governor will do his
own thinking and not give heed to the
Columbia ring too much.
1--WE beat em out in the York prohi-
bition stronghold" said the senator
gleefully "electing three out Of four
members of the house. and we would
have left Steele Brice at home had he
run this time"
State Chairman Willie Jones takes
the opposite view from Tillman, con-
tinues the correspondent. He has not
taken the pains to closely analyze the
house or the senate, but he thinks
yesterdays returns show a decided
sentiment against the state dispense
ry, and he said today that he would
not be surprised to see the state dis
pensary system abolished in favor OF
county dispensary, and this change
would not greatly disturb him. He
thinks the counties will make good
money running county dispensary, and
that success in few places will cause
other counties to go into the business.
"Tf they establish a county dispen-
sary in Richland. this county will clear
100000 a year from the business II 1t
Is conducted properly, said Generai
Jones.
Success here means county dispen-
saries throughout the state, for you
know that soon as other counties see
Richland, Charleston, Sumter and 9TH
er counties making money, they Will
follow suit"
81 think the Prohibitionists made a
big mistake voting for local option If
they wanted to shut off whisky drink
ing"
"This mornings returns satisfy me
as to the way things are going. The
newspapers print the returns accur-
ately They have such excellent facil-
tiles for getting the returns now. The
official returns and the final returns
printed in the News and Courier and
the State tally almost exactly. I am
glad that the vote Is decisive, for con-
tests that would follow narrow major
tiles would develop much feeling"