Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-07-27

know about York county amt worth
knowing. Now Z into 36 goes times
so / say about one out Of every five
Democratic voters in York county set
tied the question. 1t takes 1900 to
settle that question In primary cleo
ton, but 725 or one out Of every five
can settle 1t under the Brice law, and
that Is not what I call majority rule.
How many Of you get whisky now
unlawfully?
Voice: All of us like it.
No, l will explain. You have In
Yorkville, Rock Hill and Filbert to say
nothing of the little bob tail towns in
the county, an immense jug trade.
The U. S. court has said that a man
can have shipped into the states for
his own use whatever he wants, un-
der interstate commerce and there
fore the officers can't seize 1t. AS long
as grass grows green and water runs
down hill, people are going to have
whisky and drink 1t, and we will say,
to make a conservative estimate that
nine out of ten who indulge In this jug
trade, want the whisky for themselves,
but one out Of ten lat leasD gets 1t
for those who do not indulge In the
jug trade, and the consequences Is, that
he runs a blind tiger and he gets 1t,
and just keeps on a-getting 1T.
How many blind tigers are there In
York county and just across the line?
Voice: It's hard to tell.
How many stills just over the North
Carolina line?
Let us say there are seven, eight or
ten any how. How many? mo res
ponse.1
Let me tell you a little bit Of South
Carolina history. Way back yonder,
when they were running the line be-
tween North Carolina and South Car
olina, it happened.
While l was sitting in the barber
hop this morning, saw map Of
South Carolina, and right in the top
of the map, over near the Catawba riv-
er, I saw "V" which extended down
into South Carolina. will tell you
how that "V' got there.
When the surveyors were running
the line between North Carolina and
South Carolina, they got along over
here about the river and got powerful
dry. Somebody told them there was a
blind tiger just down the valley, so
they headed their compass right In the
direction of that blind tiger and sur
veyed down till they came to 1t.
Voice: see where they were right.
They got down to the tiger, got hold
Of some John Barleycorn and got
drunk, and when they went to go
back, they couldn't follow the line and
made that "V" and that 'V" Is in York
county, and I'm afraid you fellows are
the descendants Of those surveyors and
keep up their habit of going to the
blind tigers regardless Of the compass.
Six years ago, this issue was the
one in the minds Of the people. Col.
Jas. A. Hoyt, editor Of the Baptist
Courier, and an old Confederate soldier
ran on the Prohibition ticket. Nc
Sweeney and Patterson opposed him
and they beat him $1,000 votes.
Two years later, all the candidates
for governor endorsed the dispensary.
Two years ago, Hayward endorsed 1t
and was reelected. You have settled
1t, and settled 1t, and settled 1t, and
here you are again on the same old Is
sue. Is not this hue and cry and all
this racket being kicked up tuckery
by those who tried to kill 1t? They
have linked 1t with me and believe
their scheme was to get 1t befuddled
and confused and get you to thinking
about graft and corruption and rotten
ness by clamoring about the big snake
up the branch so you would Kill II, and
kill Ben Tillman too.
Voice: We amt going to kill you,
Ben.
skin and gone on so long ago that its
been tanned and made into shoes; but
the cry Is, kill the dispensary." Why
kill the dispensary? 1 admit there has
been rottenness in 1t; but over here In
Greenville county, when the people
found out that there was a lot Of steal
ing going on in the supervisors office,
they didn't abolish the office, did they?
No, they just went to work and elect
ed another man. l won't give many
why's, but will give one which think
Is enough. A great many people and
a lot of them in York, want to kill II
because it Is Tillman's law.
Now I've got no quarrel with the
Prohibitionist II he don't sell whisky
for others to drink and provided he
don't drink 1t himself, but 1 do despise
a hypocrite who goes around with the
Pharisee's prayer, 20 Lord, l thank
thee / am not as other men are" In his
mouth, who when you examine him
closely will be found with as many hy
specks on him as I've got.
| am a practical Prohibitionist.
don't drink except when l want 1t.
haven't drunk altogether as many gal
Ions Of whisky as / am years old, and
I'm fifty-nine years old. The News
and Courier Is taking up subscription
to buy me the Goth gallon and they
say they want it named Peaceful Val
ley. (Laughter.l There are some
people around in York who want To
drink that whisky at my funeral, but
/ don't intend to die to please them
Laughter and cries-hurrah FOR I'LL
mani
There was a combination between
the Charleston delegation, the Prohi-
the dispensary.
Voice: Wants to kill Tillman.
I don't say what they want, but they
are hypocrites, for how can they fight
with the barroom men and such like,
and not be hypocrites? That's what
they did.
The delegation made up it's mind to
kill the dispensary, or do nothing and
introduced the Morgan bill, and with
this combination or deal, they passed
1t. The senate stopped 1t and sent a
bill to the house to stop stealing.
Acknowledge that there Is stealing
Why is 1t? They put the dispensary
in the hands of it's enemies. They
changed the law and put 1t In the
hands Of three men at poor measly'
little salary Of $400 year. Down
came the drummers like buzzards
around a dead horse, went right
through to the head Of the machine
and Immediately we have $1,000 bills
and stove-pipe hats.
Who elected these three men? am
going to publish list of the men VINO
voted for them so you fellows can see
lust how York's delegation voted.
got IT from good authority that GER
tain senator said to Mr.. Evans: II am
looking for a man who will steal, and
the report Is, Evans said, IF you Will
elect me, ri steal everything, even the
bricks out Of the door facing. IL Is a
notorious fact that those handling the
dispensary have put it in the hands oi
it's enemies who had no character and
who wanted to kill 1t. Are you gong
kill Il. Zone MOL 1t takes more than
one NO in York county. mo further
nOeS.1
They did away with the little books
and made stealing easy and now they
say Il can't be cleansed. Is that true
mo response] / don't believe II. ii
1t can't, then there Is no seed-corn OF
honesty in South Carolina. l believe
1t can be cleansed, and If these news
papers that make so much fuss watch
as hard to keep down stealing as they
have been watching to find out steallng'
my Cod; there won't be any steaiing
Look at this Columbia glass factory
There has been fifty or seventy hVe
thousand dollars paid to 1t more than
they ought to have had. What did the
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