The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-01-17
THEY MUST GET TOGETHER.

THEY MUST GET TOGETHER.
The supreme court in deciding
the Brice Act constitutional, eN-
cept that part which forbids
counties that vote out the dis
pensary from sharing in the
school apportionment, is a Soc
doliger, and it put the advocates
of the State dispensary in the
position of the fellow who pray
ed for rain, and received del
uge. The State dispensarites
resorted to every inconsistent
means they could conceive Of, to
prevent the people Of this State
from exercising, and enjoying
the rights Of freemen, and at
last, when they finally reached
the court Of last resort, that
court told them in effect, the
only unconstitutional part OF the
Brice Act, is the miserable rider,
which went through over the
protest of the author Of the or
iginal Brice bill, and which was
intended by the dispensary gang
to frighten away any interfer-
ence on the part of the people
with the political sandbaggers,
who have dragged the good, and
proud name of the State through
a mire Of corruption.
The only hope now for the
CRATER lies in creating confusion
in the ranks of those who are op-
posed to the State engaging in the
sale of liquor. If the Local Op-
tionists, and the Prohibitionists
will come together, there is no
power on EARTH that will save the
dispensary. Will those two eIe-
ments come together, or will
each side stand off in the pride
of opinion while the enemy of
both, the Local Optionists and
Prohibitionists, is permitted the
victory. The General Assembly
has the matter up before it, and
to shirk the responsibility would
be cowardly. There must be
something done to save South
Carolina from a condition as bad
as when the State was under the
leadership of Scott and Moses.
We have said it before, and say
it again, if there is no satisfac-
tory liquor control legislation,
and by trickery, confusion, tech
nicalities or other means the
question is injected into next
summers primary, where the
political schemers are endeavor-
ing to get it. the debauchery.
bribery and swindling that will
be.developed, would put to
shame the carpetbaggers and
scalawags of the days of old.
The people can only nope TO
be saved from this abiectness,
by the manliness and patriotism,
and unselfsh craftsmanship Of
men in the general assembly
who viii come together with
concessions to accomplish the
destruction of the State dispen-
sary. The State dispensaryites
are solidly together; they are not
all agreed either, but to save
the source of their political ex-
istence, they closed up the ranks
and go into the battle in solid
phalanx, against those who have
put them on notice, that, they
propose to pull down the temple
Of iniquity. But the temple can
not be pulled down with the bat
tering rams stacked, while che
leaders parley-one set for pro-
hibition, another for local op-
ton. There must be concert of
action; those favoring the de-
struction of the dispensary,
whether they be prohibltionlsts,
or local optionists, must agree,
to close up their ranks to go
against their opponents, then
only will success crown their
efforts; otherwise, they will drop
the bone and grasp the shadow.
Those who would havethe dis
pensary destroyed, and will not
agree to concert Of action will
be as responsible for the ter.
rible conditions we look for,
should the liquor question get
into our next primary, as all
those who are shrewdly stirring
up differences Of opinion to
create confusion. If this mis-.
erable question gets back into
our primary, the liquor houses
who are interested in the sale of