The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-07-31
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of your who didn't have registration
papers and tax receipts" ... .....
Senator Tillman then pumped on
the investigating committee. "When
they tell you,' he said, referring to
newspapers and individuals, "that
you can't clean the state dispensary,
and you subscribe to that doctrine,
you confess that we have lost the
seed of honesty in South Carolina,
and from this on we are going to have
stealing in all government affairs. ~
in all government affairs.' Senator
Tillman said that the average South
Carolinian wanted honesty in govern
ment: though he might need atching
himself he would not vote for Il man
he believed TO be rogue. CT declare
we can clean the state dispenSary. and
in my judgment all we need to do is to
change the law and fix it SO stealing
will stop. | declare that we can stop
all chance of ii if we pass the bill
which I helped draft known us the
Observation-Disclosures bill. After
we stop it the question is whether or
not it is better to have one state dis
pcnSary or one in each county which
wants liquor sold lawfully,' Senator
Tillmau strongly favored the state
dispensary.
Ilc went into discussion of the
governors race, reviewing the plat
forms of the various candidates.
"Now, YOU have got your choice. as
far as governors 60, but governors
don't make laws. What you want
in the governors office is a man. You
don't want a man with Il cotton
strin" up his back bone. or where his !,
back bone ought to be. and n pair Of |
brccchcS on.
"Yuu want man whose characteris !
clean, whose record is unimpcachablc.
who lives, al home, Il clean and vir- /
tuouS life, who is not afraid to say !
no and not afraid to do yes when the |
law tells him to-
Senator 'rilman advised the people
to choose legislators who would do !
what lie wants to do on the whiSkcy !
their will. 'Makc every man tell YOU
question: The old Columbia club
was referred to by Senator Tillman.
Mr.. Tillman Sayln" that ii sent out
and brought in the legislators in the
old days and made them its creatures.
The fact of the business was. he said.
those legislators in that day, and some
Of those in the last legislature were
just like these sleek lizards YOU see
around houses and on trees. They
are green if they are on Il green leaf,
and when they get on pine tree
they grow brown and if they arc on
straw hat they grow yellow. They
gel the color OF whatever they crawl
ON. and these members Of the lrwiS-
laturr either before the reform move
mcnt or now, will grow the color of
the new Columbia ring. which has its
headquarters in the Columbia state
Office
S"nr rf ihrm. he said. were like
as they got ont of the WATER He want
rd the people to watch and see that
they ,liln't Srud this kind ni men IT,
the legislature this summer. mrn who
would spoil before they cot across
Rr"aI river.
The senator then took up the invrS-
tiatin2 committee again. lie wanted
t" show how it h"cus-lncuSrd the prn-
pie. The first legislature by which
it waS appointed did not give it the
authority to summon witnesses and
make them testify, and this uthuritv
WAS conferred by the next session.
Thry finally 9"t up I" SparlAnhur"
and brought ont corruption and rot
trnurs> there IN regard 10 county dis
prnSaricS hrlnU mi~mANaurd auh that
the county board WAS letting posi-
tl"nS for money. They went on to
Charleston. ne said, and got after Il
Fellow by Tn" name "l Farnum. and
Farlum had Il keen lawyer and the
lawyer told him they had no authuritv V
under The resolution to get his papers.
50 Farnum took his trunk and hustled
off to Georgia. And when they went
to the supreme court the supreme
court said the resolution WAS not
binding. ii did not compel man to
show his papers; SO they had to stop.
Then when the legislature met and the
law was changed so as to give the
committee power the first thing they
did was TO send for Farnum's trunk,
and when they got it everything in