The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-11-21
THE WILL OF TIE MAJORITY MUST BE
RESPECTED.


RESPECTED.
The liquor legislation at the
coming session Of the General
Assembly will give opportunity
for the display OF the shrewd-
ness Of lawyer members IN the
employ Of those Interested IN the
naaintainance of the State dis
peusary. There will be all man.
ner Of bills presented and a mum
Der of them viii be 50 adroltlE
drawn as to deceive SUCH mem
bers as are not prepared to meet
the tactics OF practiced manlpu, u,
lators. We expect to see a OIL
introduced looking to the keep
mo no OF the State Dlspensary
u1der the Raysor,Mannlng bill,
With a local option feature for the
purpose OF inducing support
from local optionists: and the
bin will be so carefully framed
that. should it be adopted, It will
amount to nothing better than
present conditions. The State
dispensary will continue with
1ae privilege of counties voting
themselves away from the dis.
pensary. In our Judgment, there
IS only one plan for the anti-ols-
pensary forces to adopt, and that
issat the very outset to agree
upon a plan of,action, and place
a bill in the hands Of one select
ed. and all stand by the measure
agreed upon. but if the dispen,
s;,rv opposition permits itself to
become scattered and confused
bv trick bills, OF amendments,
ailit has fought for will be lost
and the machine politicians will
have two more years Of revelry:
There is no doubt in our mind
that the people Of South Caro-
lima want a change IN the man
aeement of liquor control: some
want prohibition and heretofore
would not accept any compro-
mise, but in the last election the
vote showed prohibition to be IN
the minority and that local op-
ton is the choice Of the major
ity. The question then is, will
the General Assembly heed the
demand of the people, or will it
sustain a few men who are IN
control Of the whiskey machine?
We are opposed to the State
dispensary, have been so for
years, but this opposition does
not reach a rule or ruin policy;
we want the crinle-breeder re-
moved, but at the sametime, we
realize the after impractical blllty
of prohibition. and to kill the
dispensary with no form OF
LIQUOR control to take its place
would be unbusinessllke and
bring about a condition Of chaos.
Therefore, we advocate COM
inc together Of the anti-dlspen-
sary forces to agree upon a sys-
tenn which will carry cut the
peoples wishes as indicated in
the last election. It is our judg-
ment, this is the only way
local option measureGcan be Sc
cured. The other side is as
thoroughly organized as were
the factions a few years back,
and it will require. to succeed,
organization to meet organiza-
ton. Then should local option
legislation be secured, the end is
not yet. There are a number OF
lawyers in Columbia in the pay
of the whiskey crew, who will,
to prolong the jobs their
masters, work every ssAeme:
trick, and technicality that in:
genuity can conceive, and what
they fail to accomplish through
the lobby, they hope to gam oy
Injunction and/other legal pro-
ceedings; anything to make the
institution hold out as long as
possible. This was done in sew
eral Of the counties that voted
out the dispensary, and because
of the expensive litigation
brought on by the hirelings OF
the whiskey machine: some OF
the counties that gave a majority
expression at the ballot box
against the institution have been
unable to rid themselves Of it,
and in defiance Of the wishes of
the. majority it continues to
force itself upon those people.
If such a disregard for the
will Of the majority can be in
a county, it will be far greater
when it comes to the State.
A dispatch from Chicago in.
dicatas that the negroes OF that