The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1907-05-31
TO KILL. III.
The ProhibItlonist and State Dis
pensarites It Is Claimed
WILL JOIN FORCES

turc to XIII the County D~ispcnsary
Law, ana Put the State Under tho
Prohibition LAW If they Can Sc
euro Votes Enough to Carry 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
ISouth Carolina politics are expecting
the present legislature, which last
winter enacted the Carey-Ccthran
county d~ispensary law, to pass a
straight prohibition law.
Talks which your correspondent
has had already with State dispen-
sary politicians and straight prohibi-
tionistS and county d%ispensary advo-
Gates who visited the capital on bus
mess of various kinds, indicate that
the prohibitions and State dispensary
people will line up behind a straight
prohibition measure in numbers suf-
ficient 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 ard 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 Collector, will again lead the
prohibition forces next winter, but
this time on the straight road for his
own bill, bearing his own name,
which is on the calendar of the house.
lie expects the house to pass the bill
by a comfortable majority, and
thinks it will get through the SEN
ate.
When seer here today, Mr.. Nash
was cautious about talking for pub
LEGATION, but he casually remarked
on the striking fact that in spite of
, ali the pressure that was brougt to
bear to line up in the house last win
ter for county di~spensarics, the
house failed to pass his prohibition
) bill by only two votes, the final vote
!, being 81 to 40. 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 0 fragrant
violation Of the law. And in the
counties which have remained dry"
like Spartanburg and Grcenvillc
where there L big towns, the law
is obeyed much better than many
had hoped, and sobriety is certainly
more marked.
Speaking Of his WI bill, Mr..
Mash 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 confine its sale strickly
for medicinal and mechanical S
which we're not altogether satisfac-
tory to him. He feared allowing
druggist to handle it would be abus-
cd, and SO far IS he was concerned,
he thought if such a law could be
passed it would be well to outlaw
altogether.
AS a mean of meeting the inter
state commerce law and preventing
Whiskcv being shipped in for illicit
traffic, :hc favored the Mississippi
law, which requires all whiskey com
ing into the State to be consumed
within l00fect of the point of de-
livery.
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
VIII support a straight prohibition
bill. He says as he has talked to a
large number of both State dispcn-
sary advocates and prohibitionists,
and he is convinced both will vote
solidly for prohibition. With him
was Prohibitionist Smith, of Colleton