The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-10

vice recently from newspapers OF the
state that | should attend to my duties
in Washington and leave to others the
discussion of affairs at home. This ad-
vice is to the effect that / should dis
cuss national questions in the coming
| state campaign be reelected to the
| senate with or without opposition, ana
not stir up strife. 1 am warned and
threatened that should l not heed this
| counsel something might happen to
me. but l am compelled to speak to
the people with my usual frankness
and bluntness.
| 1T gives me no concern that II
fail to heed the advice my seat in the
senate may be jeopardized. There are
things more to be dreaded than the
loss of a seat in the senate. One is the
loss of nv own self respect. I nave
! been trusted by the people or South
Carolina for sixteen years and II l
should now, from selfish motives, be-
trav their confidence and allow amb1-
ton to draw me aside from the path
of duty l would deserve and expect to
receive their contempt and punishment
at the polls. I therefore scorn all sug-
gestions of cowardly non-interferance
in state affairs"
Relative to the dispensary law, the
object of his statement, he shows that
fifteen of the forty-five counties of the
state are "enjoying' prohibition, out
says that in no county was there
vote that represented the will of the
neople. Less than half the total DEM
ocratic vote was cast in each contest
He urges every voter to take part in
the primaries and elections this year,
and gives notification that he will be
on the stump enough TO arouse them.
He ridicules the results of prohibition
in the fifteen counties as follows:
Whiskey by Express.
mo whiskey can lawfully be sold
within the borders of these counties.
but any citizen living in them has only
to keep his eyes open and look around
him to see what the results have been.
First, let every man who reads news
paper printed in any of those counties
search it's columns and see the adver-
tisements of whiskey houses outside
of the state, and then let him go to the
express offices along the lines of the
railroads and see how much liquor is
being daily brought into those counties.
Then let this citizen follow up this
liquor and find who drinks it.
Before doing that let him turn to
the editorial pages of the papers re-
ferred to and see the constant refer
ences to the 'quietude,' freedom from
drunkenness peace and order that
are proclaimed. But you know there
are exceptions to this beautiful pic
ture in recent murders in blind tigers
in the state A voter would be much
edited to know how much money flows
into the Golfers of these journals from
whiskey advertisements, while the
same papers are exploiting prohibition
and sObriety.
Under the dispensary law, whiskey
NV mint and mainly
dispensaries. 1t is now sold
the express offices by the gall
lon and Jug, while retailing is done by
the drink in almost every county, as in
the old barroOm days. l doubt if there
is less drunkenness under the present
regime than under the dispensary sys-
tenn, and the actual condition is that
poor man cannot get his whiskey from
outside states but must resort to the
and peddler for the worst
sort of stuff imaginable. The rich man
has no such trouble. 1t makes little
difference to him whether the supply
comes from the dispensary or the ex-
press office.
Dispensary VS.. Field.
The prohibitionists, high license men,
old barroom element, blind tigers and
moonshiners have united against the
dispensary and want to vote it out
These elements will unite to support
the anti dispensary candidates for the
legislature, as they will hardly put up
candidates pledged to their respective
policies 1t is the dispensary against
the field, and the dispensary supporters
must beware of division among them
selves by advocating county dispen-
saries.
Il believe that with proper changes
in the state system, such as is pro-
posed in one bill, all possibility Of
stealing and bribery in the purchase
of whiskey can be prevented. If we
cannot by law so hedge about and con-
troll one state board as to prevent steal
ing, how in the name of common sense