The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-07-13
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They first put the control in the
hands of men who handle this $4,000,
600 business and get $400 a year for
it. (This with grimmace Of disgust
which made the crowd whoop with
enjoyment.) This gave those men the
fullest opportunity or stealing. There
were no restriction "and l suspect
there was some stealing going on"
he added.
Getting back to the legislature he
said that the law had been fixed so
that the legislature delegations had
selected the county boards. Now
when the expose came last summer in
, ,Spartanburg and it was shown that
the rescals selected by the Legislative
delegations had been receiving bribes
for dispcnsary jobs the cry went up
against the diSpcnsary. The lcgis-
laturc was responsible.
lie had heard one speaker say DUR
in" the day: "I<ill the rotten and cor
rupt thin" on the Congarcc. Till
man $ remedy is: "Let's minimize
the evil and then get all the money
out of it we can. Mind you, l don't
mean to put my reasons on the profit
basis alone.'
He then sailed into the county dis
pensary scheme IF one board will
steal, how will you keep 30 separate
boards from stcaling9 1t. will merely
increase the number of pockets. He
then called attention to his plan, the
Raysor-Manning bill, published in his
Sandy Flat speech. This plan, with a
governor who is not afraid Of his
shadow, could stop all of this illicit
deviltry.
For Governor. /
The issue in the State campaign is
the election of a governor. Four cam
didates are on the dispcnsary platl
form. Four arc against the dispcn-
sary. OF these LATTER one is for local
option, one is for local option with
its tail cut off (laughtcr), and one is
for prohibition.
81 am not going to meddle in this
racc,' said Senator Tillman, and then
he proceeded to tell what kind Of
man to elect. a man Of pure life, pri-
vately and, in public, man against
whom no reproach could be brought,
a man whose outgoing and incoming
could be tracked without bringing any
feeling of shame to the State. "But
have all the pestiferous, candy-giving
baby-kissin@, fence-straddling candi-
dates killed out entircly.' (Cheers.)
County Dispensaries.
He wants ticket for reformed
dispcnsary in every connty. lie thrn
told of the "gamc" which he alleged
is being played by the opponents of
the State dispcnsary system. They
would have dispensaries under county
management. Soon there would be
corruption somewhere and they would
cNclaim: eve were unable to keep
corrupt out of the State dispcnsary,
now away with county dispensarics. -
They would start the cry, "Let's take
the county out of the dispensary bust
ness" just as the cry is now going up
"Let s take the grand old Palmetto
state out of the liquor busincss'
This last Tillman said with much sar-
casm which made the crowd laugh.
Then what after county dispcnsar-
ies9 Prohibitionq Oh, no. There are
those who think of the day when they
ran their barrooms and wore their
diamond rings. They long for re-
turn Of that day. "Barrooms under
constitutional restrictions" he said,
significantly.
He ridiculed the blind tiger situa-
ton in Charleston. The mayor of
that city had sworn before the invcs-
tigating committee that by great eff
fort they had reduced the number of
blind tigers to 120 and every few
months the police judge would round
them up and exact license from
them. Oaughter). That's the way
prohibition works in Kansas, he said.
"We tried to force local self-govern-
mcnt in 1902 he said, in directing
the local optionists, "and now in
Charleston they have a notification
of the dispcnsary law"
In catching his breath for his final
round, Senator Tillman commenced on
the fact that political conditions are
so calm that ladies can come out to
the meetings-and this is the first