The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-04-04
Dispensary or Anti Dispe1sarY.
;ditor i'hc Manning Times:

Dispensa1y or Anti-Dispeasary.
Editor Thc Manning Times:
For the past twelve months OF
more. the readers Of Che Man
ming Times generally have beer
reading a good deal in regard tc
the question Of whiskey in South
Carolina and the best solution
as to the same as different writ.
ters see.
We have had the dispensary
plan under the dispensary law,
prohibition and high license re,
spectively presented to the read
ers as the best solution, has its
advocates and its supporters.
All this being so, it was sup
posed that the advocates for
each mentioned solution would
have candidates for Office before
the people, both State and coun
ty in the approaching primary
election.
1t now appears from the tenor
of the writings of some writer's
that prohibition and high license
will cut no figure separately in
the comm ngDemocrati campaign,
but rather the more ultra prohi-
bitionist and the high license
tricksters are clandestinely form-
ing a combination, and on elec-
tion day will rally on the STAN
dard of anti dispensaryism, there
by hoping by this kind of trick
to defeat the friends of the dis
pensary and dispensaryism,
The issue has now been sim
mered down and in the next cam
paign will be dispensary and
anti-dispenSory and prohibition,
ard high license will be silent
partners in the game will be held
under cover and will play a hid.
den hand.
We will venture the prediction
that the tricky high license trick
sters will not with their cunning
be able to "hoodwink and bam-
booze all the prohibitionists for
there are many sincere and con
sistent prohibitionists not in this
spiteful crusade against the dis
pensary for they have many mis-
givings as to overthroWing the
dispensary for the venture of
prohibition and the enactment Of
prohibition legislation that will
never prohibit but instead will
ever prove a ridiculous and a hu-
initiating failure as well as a dead
letter on the statues Of South
Carolina.
AS the -dispensaryites and
the enemies generally of the dis
pensary have organized for the
political fight that is soon to
come off, it behooves the dispen-
saryites and the well wishers OF
of the dispensary in all parts OF
the State to organize as we'll and
meet organization with organlza-
ton.
The enemies of the dispensary
had better seek the whereabouts
of the Legislature dispensary in
vestigating committee and i'm
plore them to come to the rescue,
for if they do not the enemies OF
the ,dispensary will find them
selves in a leaky boat and the
whole outfit will be swamped on
the last Tuesday in next August.
The~committee has been quite
mum since the adjournment OF
the legislature and it now ap-
pears that they have been un'
able to make any new imaginary
discoveries ofafairs or any short,
comings Of the dispensary Of
ficials.
For the past years dispensary
humbug Investigations there was
nine thousand dollars of the peo.
ples money expended, and the
only fruits realized was a rich
financial harvest that fell into
the pockets of the members Of
the investigation committee and
in the pockets of witnesses who
made it appear that they knew a
great deal about the wrong do
ings Of the dispensary officials
when really they couldn't tel.
anything, and have simply made
themselves the laughing stock
of all sensible persons without
as we'll as within the State.
At the last session of the legis
lature that body appropriated
ten thousand dollars more to en-
able the investigating committee
to farther proceed in their Dc
nothing business, making in all
nineteen thousand dollars money
of the people, spent to as poo
a purpose as any money was eve.
spent.
Even with all this expenditure
of money the Investigations O
the committee have not un
earthed one dollar of stolen mon
ey belonging to the State.
In the opinion OF all reason
able and fair minded persons
the dispensary investigating
committee has been a failure, TO
all the accused dispensary OF
hcials are still at large, and still
walk the soil Of South Ga
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