The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1906-07-04
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boys who had never seen the inside
of barroom, but what were dispen-
saries but barrooms. He said that
not single feature of the dispensary
law was being enforced. In Charles
ton it is like highway robbery to take
money for constabulary. Alluding to
Mr.. Manning's view of the dispensary
question. Mr.. Jones said that if Gov
ernor Hayward couldn't enforce the
law, as popular as he is, how could
any other man purify an institution
with such a record.
Mr.. MANNING.
The next speaker was Mr.. Manning.
He said that the people believed evil
conditions did exist but they would
not tolerate wrong-doing. If these
evils could not be corrected he be-
ieved the dispensary should go.
Taking up the other candidates, he
said that those wishing to abolish the
institution should show better plan
than he and those who believed i'm
provement possible had suggested.
Prohibition has been proved fail
ure and besides, the interstate COM
merce law cannot be done away with
and liquor will still be brought in.
Mr.. Manning wanted Mr.. Ansel to
state directly whether he desired pro-
hibition or county dispensaries. His
Characterization of Mr.. Ansel as ur-
bane and unanimous met with ap-
plause. AS usual, Mr., Manning ex-
planned the Raysor- Manning bill. He
favored the State dispensary purified
and safe-guarded-no graft or dis
honesty, and believed it could be run
honestly, and good honest men would
undertake it; that the state dispen-
sary plan, properly carried out, was
the best plan of dealing with the liquor
question.
MIR. McMAHAN's SCHEME.
Mr.. McMahan heretofore has not
made the dispensary a leading sub
ject, as he considers that there are
other issues just as important. He said
so today, but, at the same time, took
up the G. M. I. and proposed that the
State go into the manufacturing busi-
ness with light wines instead of the
hotter fluids as the out put. His idea
is to conduct the dispensary more to-
wards prohibition. 1t is wrong to
base salaries on sales because this
multiplies the facility of getting liquor
when really the difficulty should be
increased. Mr.. McMahan wants the
county boards appointed by the gov
ernor from honest business men and
request books to be used with a limit
to a mans purchases; thinks the use
of dispensary for politics and for MAX
ing money has gone too far; the blind
tigers should be broken up and the
liquor commissioner should be paid a
salary that would place him on plane
with bank president or any one at
the head of a large business. His idea
is also to pay the board of commits
sioners larger salaries and have the
board to check up the commissioner,
rather than handle the business.
Col. JOHN T. SLOAN.
The first argument used by him was
Glove thy neighbor as thy self" and
he applied it to himself, in view of
the adjoining counties. Other lieu
tenant governors have risen and Col.
Sloan argued that this was logical
method of advancement. His SER
vices for South Carolina and his love
for education were two other points
he dwelt On at length. Abiding to
the whiskey question, he said: "If 1
was king of the united world, would
issue an order and there would never
be another. drop distilled" But be-
lieving that people are going to have
liquor, and old man Noah had a vine