The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-08-08

I bitioniSts will have to be raised be-
fore prohib.tory law is practicable,
and when that condition exists there
will be no need Of such a law or a
dispensary law, either. He thought
the dispeHhsary law wrong in princl-
pie FOR he believed the State should
not engage in business. He still
thinks so, bu. was willing to see the
experiment tried. The State dispen-
sa1y has been weighed in the bal
ances and found wanting. 1t has been
failure. He could not endorse the
dispensary and would not do so. He
was on legislative committee one
year to inspect the State dispensary
and he then saw things that con-
vinced him that graft and corruption
existed. The: next year when he
could have been elected on the dis
| pensary board, by saying the word,
he had declined and he had since
thanked GOO ne had done so. He
believes in county dispensaries. Sum-
ter county can buy all the liquor it
wants and run its own dispensary.
| The State dispensary is nothing but
! a distributing point and is not need
ed. The counties can run their dis
pensaries honestly and successfully
and make more than the dispensary
is now making-perhaps as much as
$4,000 a year. He next took the
subiect of education and declared
that he favored better public schools.
In concluding he said that Sumter
county in forty years had but one
Senator from the country and while
| he was not one to draw the town and
country line he thought the farmer
should be given representative oc-
cassonally. He read a list Of the SEN
ators who served last year showing
twenty-six to be lawyers and only
four farmers. He said there Were too
nary lawyers in the Senate now.
many of them corporation lawyers
who represent the corporations and
not the people. A great many Of them
rode on free passes despite the law
foroidding members Of the legisia-
ture to do so.
Seven Representatives.
The candidates for the House of
Representatives next had their turn
at the bat.
Mr.. Marion Dorm stood on his rec
ORD as public official. The people
knew how he had discharged his duty
when county supervisor. He favors
good roads, good schools and liberal
pensions for the old soldiers. He be-
elieved the dispensary the best solu-
Ftion Of the liquor evil. He is person
a:lv prohibitionist, but knows pro-
hibitory law cannot be enforced
While supporting the dispensary sys-
tern he does not stand for graft. The
system should be purified and honest
w conducted. If there have been
thieves in the State dispensary they
should be punished.
Mr.. w. G. Stubs fayors good
schools which are not an issue, as all
good citizens think alike on the mat
ter of education as they do on good
roads and pensions for the old SOL
diers. He believes in the dispensary
as the best method yet found for
dealing with the liquor evil and he
stands for the dispensary reformed
and purified and honestly conducted
under the provisions Of the Raysor-
Manning dill or a similar law. He is
opposed to local option or high
license or anything that will lead
back to the old saloon system whose
evils and temptations to young men
he knew from observation and ex-
perience. He concluded by saying that
his solemn conviction is that every
man who voted against the dispensa-
ry and for local option or high license
voted against his own and the public
interest and we!faa.
ur. Herbert a Moses favors good
public schools and the support of the
State colleges. He believes that taxes
are now as high as they will ever be
in the State, and that in a few years
they would be materially lower by
reason Of the increase in the valua-
ton of property and the growth in
the wealth Of the State. He is in ia
vor of the dispensary. The corrup-
ton that has existed has been due to-
the purchasing machinery, by which
three men were made the purchasers
of liquor and other supplies in secret
and We're accountable to no one.
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