Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-08-10

who he described as renee Strauuler.
| Ansel claims to stand for local self
government. Why does he not also
allow you a high license option, and
your boards of control? Four years
/ ago Ansel was the strongest dispen-
sary man in the whole bunch, and
now he Is trying TO get elected in
opposition. Mr.. Manning tells you
that he is for the dispensary; but 1t
is only for the purpose Of getting
votes. He voted for the Brice bill,
the author of which tells you he in
troduced 1t for the purpose Of kill
ing the "damnable dispensary." He
took up the record of Mr.. Manning
and claimed that that gentleman had
all along voted against the dispensary.
He had started out In bitter opposi-
ton to Tillman and had voted for
Haskell. He read some resolutions
that were adopted by the Sumter peo-
ple in the early days Of the Tillman
movement strongly condemning Till
man and his purposes and with the
name of Richard l. Manning as the
first signer. Manning and Sloan took
a trip to Washington In January.
When they left South Carolina both
were bitter enemies of the dispen-
sary; but while they were away they
| had a dream and In that dream they
saw a star Above that star they
saw the words, THE way to the gov
ernor's Office" and across 1t the word
'Dispensary" Then looking at the
star through their glasses Of water,
with one accord they kneeled down
and reverently shouted:
90! Ben Tillman, we are for thee,
| And for the state dispensary."
lDerisive laughter.1
L Ia nn tho RaUonr-Man-
ming bill and suggested that some
body ask Manning IL Tillman did not
write 1t. He wanted Manning to tell
Just when he was changed from a
Haskellite TO a Tillmanite and said
that just as Manning used to cry for
water, IL he changes his religion as
often as his politics he will finally
reach place where he can say nothing
else but water; water; water! laugh
teri Mr.. Blease said that Joel e.
Brunson is the only consistent prohi-
bitionist In the race. The rest are
humbugs. AS for himself he wanted
1t understood that he had Joined the
reform movement at the inception
and although he had never taken or
ders from Ben Tillman or anybody
else he stands now where he has al
ways stood. If Ben Tillman should
come into his Office and undertake to
dictate he would order him OUT. He
then read his political platform and
wound up by claiming that he was
willing to compare characters with
anybody. He had gotten his early
religious training from Rev. DR.. J. L..
Stokes, whom he pointed out in the
audience and he referred all inquir-
ers to the doctor. He said that he
and the doctor did not agree on the
dispensary question; bur he was will
ing to abide by the Doctors estimate
| Of his character. AS he sat down ne
was applauded. People who beheld
the amazed expression on the face OF
DR.. Stokes at the time refrained
i from pushing the matter further.
Mr.. Joel e. Brunson
Was not able to say that he was
glad to be present, for he was unable
/ to conceive of q more foolish thing
that a body of men could do than
run around the state making five and
ten minute speeches. He said that
the election Of dispensary legisla-
ture would mean the loss Of such pro-
hibition as the people now have. He
believed in education; but he thought
education should be practical as well
how the illiterate son Of black
/ smith demonstrated his superior
knowledge over the son Of preach
er, by splitting on a hot iron before
attempting to pick 1t up. He thought
the people had already been badly
enough burned by the disp ensary, and
thought they should spit on 1t before
taking 1t up again. He 4rgued that
the dispensary was an expensive IN
stitution from whatever standpoint
and figured that last year 1t cost the
state more than $3,000.000 in the loss
Of material wealth. He charged to 1t
three -fourths of the court expenses
and also a large per cent Of the ex-
pense Of maintaining insane asylums.
He declared that the state loses one
boy out Of every four on account Of
the liquor business, and argued that
/ az everybody no matter how de-
bauched he may be with whisky, has
to marry some sweet girl the ruin Is
more than doubled. You can no
more run a dispensary without feed
/ ing your boys and girls into 1t than
you can run a saw mill without logs.
He related a distressing story Of the
ruin of a certain family by liquor.
He jumped on Ansel for actually brag-
Il ging about the revenue from a dis
pensary in a North Carolina county
money was stained with blood OF
men, women and children. He re-
minded Mr.. Ansel that although he
might get his pound OF flesh, for
shedding Christian blood he would be
condemned to hell. He called upon
God to pity the man who would ad-
vocate whisky for two years In the
governors chair.
Mr.. w. A. Edwards,
of saluda held that prohibition was
all right except that 1t was impracti-
cable. He declared that the trouble
with South Carolina was lax enforce
ment of the laws. He described the
Southern railroad as great violator
of law and condemned the corpora
tions generally. What this state
needs more than anything else he
said, Is somebody to enforce the laws.
He attacked Col. Sloan as an ally Of
corporations.
i Mr.. A. C Jones,
of Newberry, said he was not poll
tician but a business man. He repre-
sented the homes, the boys, the moth
ers and the Christian people OF the
state. Like others who have preceded
him, he Is interested In the matter OF
education. Reviewed the hardship and
self-denial by which the various de-
nominational colleges had been estab-
liShed, and plead Tor the Detterment
of the common school system. He
Is In favor Of an economical admins
tration of the government. Opposed
| to graft and corruption. He was In
favor Of abolition of lobbying. He
was In favor Of immigration to en-
sure that this state shall for all time
be a white mans country. In favor
of a state arbitration law for the set
tlement of disputes between capital
and labor. Had always opposed the
sale of liquor as beverage He re-
garded the present law az undemo-
cratic and vicious in principle and
said that 1t had done more 10 dis
honor and degrade our people than
any law that had been passed during
the last twenty-five years. He claim
ed to have stood with all the men who
had fought for prohibition, L. d.
Childs and others. Referred to the
majority for prohibition in 1890, and
charged that Senator Tillman and 9TH
ers had disregarded the instructions of
the people and put the dispensary up
on them. Took part in the fight OF
1898 and said that If 1t had not been
for a deal between Ellerbe and the
State, a prohibition governor would
have been elected. Was also with the
prohibitionists in the Hoyt race. He
supported Hayward in the hope that
t,a Observation-Disclosures would get consider