Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-09-18
LEGISLATIVE LINEUP.
House Against DispensarN Senate
Tending That Way.

FIouee against DiepehsdTyJ SeHatS
Tending That Way.
Greenville News.
COLUMBIA, Sept. Ex-senator TILL
man. in his interview given out in
Columbia yesterday, said:
'In the senate we have a majority
of ten or twelve easy"
Again he said:
ct can't count more that fifty anti
dispensary members out Of the
house."
Senator Tillman must have forgot
ten how to count, or perhaps he stop
ped counting when he got up to fifty.
Senator Tillman Is simply mistaken.
In fact, he Is very, very badly mistak-
en-. The house Is against the state
dispensary system. OF that there is
no more doubt than there is that An
sci has been named as governor and
Lyon has been nominated as atror-
ney general. Senator Tillman may
as well question these two results as
that the house has only fifty anti
dispensary men.
He was careful to say: "I don't
count more than fifty" Perhaps he
did not care to count them.
Leaving in doubt the status Of four
teen members, some OF whom last
year were inclined against the state
dispensary system, as were the re-
elected members Of Berkeley, Mr..
Courtney Of Aiken, the uncertain
election In Lexington and even giving
the dispensary forces such pro-
nounced prohibirionist as Mr.. Morrill,
Of Richland, who Is a prohibitionist
first of all and who may not have de-
cided as to a second plan, the anti
dispensary forces have a clean, clear
and unmistakable majority in the
house. There may be some newspa-
pers and Senator Tillman. who, in
their enthusiasm. claim the house FOR
the dispensary, but 1t is as much
against the state dispensary, and It
ought to be easy to remember how
par it stood against the Raysor-
Manning bill last year and how It
persisted in the Morgan bill or moth
ing.
Senator Tillman ought to get down
to facts. The bureau today tried to
get down to facts and figures and had
a young friend who likes to make
careful studies of such things make
up an accurate list, going to the rec
ords as far as possible for his facts.
Here is the way the situation shows
up, not mere guess work. but facts
from the records and previous votes
Of the identical men.
In the house, against the dispen-
sary: Aiken county, Croft, Wade;
Anderson county, Rucker, Hall, Clink-
scales Smith, Cox; Barnwell, Thomas,
Harkey; Beaufort, Bailey, Legare.
Niver; Charleston, Won Kelnitz, Wha-
ley, Frost, Vanderhorst. Cosgroye,
Marshall, Todd: Cherokee, Macarthur,
Clay; Chester. Hemphill, Brice; Clar-
endon, Scarborough: Darlington, Law
son, Carrigan; Dorchester, Wimber-
ley; Edgefield, Devore, Nicholson;
Florence, Kershaw, Shipp; Greenville,
Cothran, Harrison. Beattie, Nesbit
Greer Hampton, Dowling Youmans;
Horny, Spivy; Laurens, Miller; Ma
rion, Reaves. Sellers; Marlboro, Lane.
nee, Mann. Werner. Orangeburg, ]. A
Banks; Pickens, Carey, Hinton;
Richland, Porter. A. McMaster; Spar
tanburg, Nicholson, Walker, Arnold.
Nash, Dodd, Gibson; Sumter. Frazier;
williamsburg, Bryan, Kellahan,
Gaui,e; York, Saye.
For the fispensarys ;-s.s..:.z-..s1
AbbevilIe, Gary, Carwile, Stillwell:
Aiken, Gyles; Bamberg. Garris. VII
ley; Chester. McKeown, Chesterfield.
Scruggs, Douglass; Clarendon. DIM
gle, Sizen, Lectner, Brice: Florence,
Aver. Georgetown, Sawyer. Doar;
Greenwood, Yeldell; Horny Derham;
Kershaw, Richards. Bethune; Lam
caster, Jones, Robinson; Laurens
Cannon, Boyd; Lee, Tatum, Harris;
Lexington, Epting, Sharpe; Marion,
Horton; Marlboro. McColl; Newber-
ry, Wyche; Orangeburg, Brantley,
Cutler. Hydrick, Carson; Richland
Tompkins; Sumter, Dick. Stubb: I'm
ion, Hughes. Little; York, Epps, Glass
cock, Slaughter.
Uncertain:
Aiken, ]. C. Courtney; Barnwell,
DR.. A. B. Patterson; Berkeley, Park
er, Balentine, Davis; Greenwood,
White; Lexington, Wingard, Ether
idge, (election not declared); Rich
land, Morrell. Harman; Saluda, DAN
lei, or Smith or Dodd.
AS to the state senate, the record
shows a close vote on the present
status Senator Tillman claims the
senate by "ten or twelve easy" II
the final show down gives the dis
pensary forces by the time the next
general assembly meets one majority
Vt will be the "easy" majority. The
fact is, the senate now Is 20 to 21
o-dispensary, but 1t may not stand
that way long In the view of the cleo
ton of Ansel and Lyon and the grow
ing sentiment in favor of county dis
pensaries. Most of the pro-dispen-
sary, however, were elected before
the county dispensary plan took such
firm hold and before their count had
the Ansel-Manning test. and some Of
these senator's may see the end Of the
WHOic uiopCiiSdtJ oJSeCh IL sAOy W.
not take up the county dispensary.
but to be safe not one in this class
Is put down in the column Of those
opposed TO the state dispensary. The
desire has been to be on the safe side
and to be conservative in showing
how the house and senate stand.
This list will be full worth careful
study. The lineup in the senate
shows:
Against state dispensary-Sullivan,
Of Anderson; Bates Of Barnwell
Christensen OF Beaufort; Haynes Of
Berkeley; Sinkler of Charleston. Otis
OF Cherokee; Hardin Of Chester;
Applet of Clarendon; McKeithen Of
Darlington; Talbert Of Edgefeld;
Mauldin Of Greenville; Brooks Of
Greenwood; Smith Of Hampton; Hol-
liday of Horny; Williams Of Lancas-
ter; Crouch Of Saluda; Carlisle Of
Spartanburg: Bass of Williamsburg;
Brice Of York; Carpenter or Robin
son Of Pickens.
For state dispensary:
Graydon Of Abbeville; Johnson Of
Aiken; Black Of Bamberg; Laney OF
Chesterfield; Griffin Of Colleton; Biv-
ems Of Dorchester: Johnson Of Flor
ence; Walker of Georgetown; Hough
of Kershaw; MCGOWAN Of Laurens;
Kelley of Lee; Efird of Lexington;