The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-03-01
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Even Congressional Candidates Nay Have to
Line Up.-Stiff Campaign Likely.

Even Congressional Candidates Nay have to
line Up.-SHff Campaign Likely.
WasH1NeToN, Feb. 26.-South Carolina
Congressmen are not questioning the re-
cen, statement of Speaker Cannon that
The House must terminate its delloera-
lions by May Is. There is no good rea'
son Why Congress should adjourn by that
time and possibly leave large amount
Of legislation undisposed Of, except for
the fact that elections will be on hand
during the present summer IN various
3auarters. and there is already DISPOSE
.ion manifesting itself among Congress
men generally to make frequent trips to
their homes to patch up political fences
here and there.
! III is not believed that the work OF Con-
press will he ended before the middle OF
July or possibly the first of August. This
was the statement made today by prom
;rent member of the House. But he
qualified his statement by saying that If
the session should be prolonged later than
that time there would hardly be quorum
present to answer roll call. The next
Shalf of the session will be a busy one, and
there will be a putting of shoulders to the
wheel all round SO that members with
campaigns facing them may not oe de-
tanned here to their disadvantage.
There will probably be more trouble for
some of the South Carolina men to return
to Washington as members OF the eoth
congress than will be encountered
by. the members Of any other dele
CATION. The reason is obvious. Ihe
South Carolina campaign to be fought
during the present summer, from
what is known at this end of the line,
will be conducted squarely on the issues
.of the Morgan nbill-dispensary or no dis
pensary. 1t is too early yet to predict
the outcome, and to say whether or not
the next Congress will see representa-
ton of dispensary or anti.dispensary men
in Washington.
So much of Senator Tillman's recent
statement that the coming campaign
would be more fercely fought than any
since 1890, and that the lines would be
closely drawn around the dispensary
question for all candidates, is not dis
puted by prominent people from South
Carolina who have been in Washington
during the last few days. They say that
so far as the Con gressional elections are
concerned, matters throughout the State
are rapidly crystalizing into one issue,
namely, that involved in the Morgan bill,
and that the people throughout the differ
ent counties are going to demand that
candidates say where they stand.
81 have talked with many people in
different parts Of the State recently"
Said South Carolina lawyer here few
DAYS ago, ''and give it as my opinion
that when the present representatives in
congress 20 before the people this summer
they will have to say exactly where they
stand on the dispensary question. There
was one time when they could satisfy the
people by telling them of their work for
appropriations, pensions, free delivery
routes, etc., but the situation has changed
and these questions, so far as the next
Campaign is concerned, will cut but little
agae. 1t is going to be different I: this
time, and while will not say whether
dispensary men or anti-dispensary men
are are going to be members of the next con
eress from South Caroline, you may LOOK @
for it to happen that all of the seven men
no row in the house are going to have oppo-
sition, aHn - and the kind, too, that will take
them eff the fence in a hurry, if they are
inclined to straddle on the dispensary
question"