Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-06-22
Friday, June 22, 1905
THE STATE CAMPAIGN.
Biennial Canvass of the State Now In
Progress and Promising Little Inter-

Progress and Promising Little Inter
est.
The state campaign was formally
opened at st. George, Dorchester
county last Thursday. From there
the cam paigners went to Charleston,
thence to Walterboro and today they
are at Beaufort; but from all indica-
tions up to this time, there Is to be
very little interest In the sayings and
doings Of the candidates.
While on the train, en- route to st.
George, the candidates elected Col.
John T. Sloan chairman Of the cam
paign party and Col. L. w. Haskell,
secretary. 1t was agreed that the
candidates for United States senator
be allowed thirty minutes each and
that the candidates for governor be
allowed twenty minutes each. The
time Of the other candidates was linn
tied TO shorter periods down to five
minutes.
There were about four or five hum
dred people at the st. George meet
ing and they gave very good atten-
tion to the different speakers except
Mr.. Lumpkin who had very difficult
time In getting a hearing. Mr.. Lyon
probably was received with more en-
thusiasm than was any of the other
candidates. For a time 1t looked as
II Mr. Lumpkin was not to be allowed
to speak; but he met the badinagee
of the mob with such evident good
humor as to compel Its good will and
finally got an opportunity to say some
OF the things he desired to say.
Mr. Ansel was the first speaker. He
talked for better roads, better edu-
cational facilities, better pensions for
old soldiers and local option as be-
tween county dispensaries and prohi-
bition.
Mr.. Cole A. Blease favored biennial
sessions of the legislature, marriage
license system, and the dispensary as
ii stands. He does not believe the
dispensary is corrupt.
Mr.. Rrunson devoted himself solely
to prohibition and insisted on the
absolute impossibility Of purifying the
liquor business. He ridiculed the
profit theory Of the dispensary and
said that out of each 81 spent by q
drunkard for o jug Of whisky all the
profit except two cents go to sources
other than the drunkard's family.
Mr.. w. A. Edwards Of Saluda, de-
voted himself principally to an effort
to show that the Southern railroad
is now in practical control Of the
government and that there appears
He told Of having entered suit against
the Southern road some time ago on
account OF its having violated the law
In acquiring the South Carolina and
Georgia extension and complained Of
the manner In which his suit had been
| delayed.
Mr.. A. C. Jones Of Newberry, said
he had always stood for the uplifting
of his fellow men; he was among the
first to advocate the passage Of an act
allowing the people Of county the
privilege Of voting on the question Of
retaining and abolishing dispensaries;
he Is now willing TO stand for local
option as between dispensaries, high
license and prohibition, by counties.
He said that conditions In Newberry
are better than for twenty years; that
although they have not been able 20
realize prohibition. IL Is principally
| because the lawyers always stand
ready to get offenders of.
Mr.. Richard /. Manning advocated
improvements In the educational sys.
tenn and equalization In tax lssess-
ments. He regretted that the whisky
question should have such prominence
In the campaign. He is not In iayor
Of the dispensary as II has been run
but thinks that the bill he introduced,
| dnu WHICH was hHOWu ID Tue Fbd1oFr
| Manning bill was calculated to Inn
prove the situation wonderfully. ae
Is not believer In local option.
Mr.. John j. McMahan spoke on
rather broader lines than most OF the
other candidates, devotlng himself
principally to the subject OF educa-
| ton and the necessity Of govern
mental aid in various internal Inn
provements. He Is opposed to the
use of liquor as beverage but does
not believe I'm the practicability Of
prohibition. He is in favor Of the
should be purified by placing In
stripes some CT the people who have
been stealing.
Col. John 7. Sloan spoke of his
record as a soldier during the war
and as a wearer Of a red shirt In
| 1876, and told how he had always
stood for the adyanceent OF South
Carolina. He was unequivocally in
favor Of the dispensary as the best
solution Of the liquor question and IL
elected would. do what he could to
/ purge the institution of the corFup-
ton by which II Is infested.
The time allowed to the various
other speakers was barely sufficient
| to permit them to say who they were
and what they were running for; but
all took the stand and filled up ev-
cry minute to which they were enti-
| tied,
When Col. Lumpkin came forward
two or three wool hats" In different
parts of the audience started 70
cheering for Tillman. The crowd
took up the call and for some little
time so great was the noise that IL
was useless for the speaker to at
| tempt to make himself heard. Col.
Lumpkin bided his time patiently,
however, and when Chairman Dennis
had finally succeeded in restoring or
| In his own coin the man who had
started the cheering for Senator Till
man. My wife's husband is not very
pretty" said he. 'I was up here in
| Gaffney and a mule ran away and
somebody pushed me out In front OF
the mule-and 1t stopped. And after
1t was all over somebody asked me,
Say, Mister, amt you the man that
hollered for Tillman down in Dorches-
ter?'" This produced hearty laugh
in which almost everybody Joined In.
Col. Lumpkin paid an eloquent trib-
ute to southern womanhood. He was
born in the south himself, he said,
and all his people had lived here for
a hundred years back. The calls for
Tillman being started up by the same
group which had commenced them be-
fore, Colonel Lumpkin stated that he
was raised on a farm and knew all
about mules, and II Balaam were to
come here now he would say to him,
"Balaam, your old mule Is here now,
1 hear it talking out there in that
crowd" This hushed the group for a
time and Colonel Lumpkin went on to
say that he was a working man him.
self. He was born on a farm, he had
taken to railroading early in life and
he knew the meaning Of hard and
honest toll. 1t is to the homemade
gallus man and the man with patch
ed breeches that we must look today
for the salvation of the country.
Therefore he called upon them to or
ganize for the work which lay before
them.
This was his platform. He did not
believe in candidates for national Of
fees meddling with state measures.
These should be left to the candidates
for state Offices. But he is a Demo-
crat and will support Democratic
measures. II would" he said, stand
for honesty in high places and for
strict obedience to laws. 1 would, as