The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-08-03
THE CANDIDATES "a.
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they are, and he hopes also that pro-
shlbitionists and local optionists will
#also support him, because he would
honestly work in the interest of law
Iand order and Of temperance.
John T. Sloan.
~ am here to present the issues,
sand God knows I'm sorry Of it. There
2are other things dearer and higher to
&me than whiskey." There is real
$pathos in the way the colonel says
$this. The idea of eight men-who if
Sby no one else is each by himself con-
ssidered capable of being governor Of
South Carolina-spending two hours
and forty minutes in every county in
South Carolina talking about click
er!' 1t is disgusting, and Sloan, out
of all the bunch, expresses the dis
gust, not in honeyed phrases-as he
could so we'll do-but in the sure
enough way. He doesn't exactly say,
as good Presbyterian minister is
reputed to have said on one occasion,
"damn licker," but everybody who
hears him and watches the expression
on his face-and who knows the col
onel--has a pretty clear idea that
, that is what he is thinking But since
he has to talk "licker,' he talks it;
and he can get as eloquent on this
subject as he can on the ladies or any
other subject which appeals especially
to his poetic Imagination and his sense
Of the adorable. He believes in the
dispensary, and he tells the people
why. "There are fifteen or eighteen
or, perhaps, twenty thousand kids in
South Carolina" he declares, "who
have never heard the tinl<ling Of whis-
key glasses or the popping of carbonat-
ed water bottles for making highballs,
who know nothing about. brandy
smashes, gin phizzes, Mania Taylors,
Manhattan cocktails, gin rickeys and
mint iuleps. Aren't you proud of
themq" Prohibition won't do. the
colonel says; there's no use talking
about it. And with that minutiae of
detail and that fcarlessness Of names,
dates and places he describes various
tricks Of the blind tigcrs-not in
South Carolina, but in Maine, where
he says he was travelling through the
White mountains.
Sloan s speech is always one of the
principal features Of the day lie
displays such wonderful originality of
expressions, and no man can PREJUDICE
what he is going to say, at least not
how he is going to say it. He was
paying an eloquent tribute to the en-
terprise Of Georgetown, where they
have the largest lumber plant in the
world. "But,' said he, "neither this
plant nor any other can ever turn ont
enough lumber to build a fence so
high that my friend Ansel could not
get on top of it and straddle.' He
declared at Lancaster: 81 m the only
candidate for governor who was
Confederate soldier, who stood where
the bullets whistled between the trees
and sometimes between your legs.
While Brunson was guarding prison
ers in North Carolina l was captur-
ing prisoners in Virginia.'
The Colonel always pays his respect
to the ladies, when any are present,
who, he says, are "thc bright stars
that shine in the political horizon of
this great State.' And he beams
out upon them and asks in an impas-
stoned manner, "What would the
world be anyway without the women,
the singing birds, the sweet scented
flowers, and the sweet signing breez-
es?'
And so I might 60 on for several
columns, but am afraid the other
candidates might think I am partial
to the Colonel.
1t makes very little difference what
the candidates for the various State
Offices believe in, so long as they be-
lieve in enforcing the law, whatever it
be. We need not bother about what
they think; the thing to consider is
what they are. They have nothing
whatever to do with making laws,
and should have nothing to do with
it. So that when a candidate for any
of these offices gets up and says he
is in favor Of the dispensary or not
in favor Of it, it is not Of the slightest
importance or significance. What the
people want to know is what manner
Of man is he. Has he got any sense,