The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-05-29
TO Kill IT
The Prohibitionist and State Dis
pensarites II Is Claimed
WILL JOIN FORCES


Law. and Put the State Under the
Prohibition Law If they Can Sc
cure Votes Enough to Garry 1t
Out.
The Columbia correspondent of the
Charleston Post saysssgradual tenden-
cy Of the State as a whole toward
prohibition grows steadily more no.
ticeable. Many wise in the ways OF
lSouth Carolina politics are expecting
the present legislature, which last
winter enacted the Carey-Cothran
county dispensary law, to pass
straight prohibition law.
Talks which your correspondent
has had already with State dlspen-
sarv politicians and straight prohlbl-
tionists and county dispensary advo-
Gates who visited the capital on bus
mess of various kinds, indicate that
the prohibitions and State dispensary
people will line up behind straight
prohibition measure in numbers sui
| fcient to sweep the house Of repre-
sentatives, and possibly to get
through the senate with two or three
majority. The prohibitionist who
last winter voted with the county
dispensary people as a method Of
killing the State dispensary system.
now feel that they have discharged
their obligation and now that the
State dispensary is out Of the way,
they feel that the road is clear to the
slaughter pen for the county dispen-
sary law.
Representative J. Wrigt Nash, Of
Spartanburg, who made such a dra-
matte and effective speech in the
house last winter in favor Of county
dispensaries, turning Abraham-like
;; to knife his own Isaac prohibition
bill when he came up for a vote
under the name of Prohibitionist.
Smith of Colleton, will again lead the
prohibition forces next winter, but
Z this time on the straight road for his
5 own bill, bearing his own name,
: whichis on the calendar Of the house.
5 He expects the house to pass the bill
by a comfortable majority, and
thinks it will get through the SEN
ate.
When seen here today, Mr.. Nash
was cautious about talking for pub
lication, but he casually remarked
), on the striking fact that in spite OF
: all the pressure that was brougt to
bear to line up in the house last win,
J ter for county dispensaries, the
: house failed to pass his prohibition
: : bill by only two votes, the final vote
, being 81 to 49. He said that the
period intervening this spring be,
tween the two systems, when there
was straight prohibition throughout
] the State just after the State dis
pensary system went out and just
! before the county system was put
.. into operation, had a most salutary
,, effect in favor of prohibition. The
: taste of prohibition felt like more,
!, There was no disorder nor fragrant
violation of the law. And in the
: counties which have remained dry
like Spartanburg and Greenville
, where there are big towns, the law
lis obeyed much better than many
had hoped, and sobriety is certainly
more marked.
Speaking of his own bill, Mr.
Nash said there were certain feat
ures of it, notably that which places
the sale of whiskey in the hands Of
the druggists under restrictions that
!, intended to confne its sale strickly
for medicinal and mechanical uses,
, which were not altogether satisfac-
tory to him. He feared allowing
druggist to handle it would be abus-
ed, and so far as he was concerned,
he thought if such a law could be
: passed it would be well to outlaw
altogether.
AS means Of meeting the inter-
: state commerce law and preventing
whiskev being shipped in for illicit
. traffic, The favored the Mississippi
law, which requires all whiskey COM
ing into the State to be consumed
within l00feet of the point Of de-
livery.
i Mr.. Nash will make a number Of
Important changes in his bill before
urging its passage.
| State Dispensary Leader J. G.
Richards, Of Liberty Hill. author of
the defeated Richards publication
State dispensary bill authorizes your
correspondent to say for him that he
will support a straight prohibition
bill. He says as he has talked to a
large number of both State dispen-
sary advocates and prohibitionists,
and he is convinced both will vote
solidly for prohibition, With him
was Prohibitionist Smith, of Colleton
who said he would again introduce
his Nash prohibition bill next session
and urge its passage.
The next governor Of South Car
olina,'' said Mr.. Richards, will be
the best man who is smart enough to
run on a phrohibition platform. Of
course, Mr.. Ansel will get second
term, according to custom, but three
years from now prohibitionist will
be elected. y
Many prohibitionists and others
think Mr.. Nash is the man to put up
on such a platform, but Mr.. Nash
himself is rather shy on the subject.
He thinks "a great many things may
happen in three years. A contest
between him on prohibition and
Mayor Rhett Of Charleston on high
license local option platform would
certainly be entertaining, and this is
not only possibility but proba-
bility.
Representative Nash, like others