The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-12-25
WANT TO SELL BOOZE:
In the Old Way IEs:ss:,G :; .:=:cugn
DIspensaTies.

Petition Going Up From Charleston
to the General Assembly to That
Effect.
The following petition to the Cen
eral Assembly is being circulated in
Charleston for signatures.
10 the Honorable, the Senators and
Representatives. the General As
sembly of the State of South
Carolina IN regular session for
the year 1908.
''The humble petition of the un-
signed respectfully shows:
That the dispensary system for
the sale of liquors in the county Of
Charleston in said State in which
your petitioners reside is not desired
by a large majority Of the voters and
residents Of said county as Your pc
titioners verify believe.
That the same is not suited to the
needs, circumstances and conditions
Of the people mostly affected thereby:
That for these reasons the SAID
system IS not supported by public
sentiment, Cificult to enforce and
rot calculated to demand observance
or respect.
THAT your petitioners hu,nbly
pray that such legislation may be
enacted as shall restore the license
system to this community which was
of force at the tire of the original
enactment of the State dispensary
law in the year eighteen hundred
and ninety-two, with the modihca-
tions required by the State constitu-
! ton Of 1895: and your petitioners
feel assured that thereby will be Sc
cur.d. not only all the benefits that
could possibly be expected from the
dispensary system now of force but
the same would operate also for the
we'll being and upbuilding Of our
people"
At recent conferences in which a
i goodly number Of our people partic-
ipated, the undersigned were ap-
pointed a committee to look after
the matter of giving the people an
opportunity to sign the petition and
to present the same to the General
Assembly through the proper chan
nels.
Firmly believing that a large ma
jority of the people Of Charleston will
be in sympathy with this movement,
we approach the performance Of our
duty with confidence.
4 Our confidence is strong because
| in principle our people are at heart
opposed to the dispensary liquor sys'
TEN. In their opposition thereto they
have had ready and intelligent pub.
| lie support from the Charleston news,
papers for the past fifteen years.
It is further strengthened because
we can refer to g law abiding and
law respecting condition which oo-
tained here for many, many years
before the first establishment of the
State dispensary a condition to which
we verify believe the people Of Char
lesion long to be : stored, and which
can afford as mt ch revenue as that
contemplated by the dispensary sys.
TEN.
This confidence is further strength,
ened by the favor according the
home rule" doctrine in the last
State election.
And finally our confidence in the
people Of the State is strong that
they will look into our true condi-
ton, see what is suited to our needs
and circumstances. and favor our ap.
peal, though our Senator ana Rtpre.
sentatives to the Senator's and Rep
resentatives Of our sister counties,
for relief and for the enactment of a
law that Will give us peace, quiet,
good order and happiness.
All who desire to sign the merno-
rial will find copy with anyone Of
the undersigned.
John D CappIemann, 46.4S Broad
street.
! Q. G. W. Marjenhoff, 153 Church
street.
! L. C, A. Roess!er, 166-le9 Meeting
street.
Ashley C. Tobias, 17l-l73 East Bay.
George Lunz. King and Grove
streets.
W. F. Jordan, 1879 East Bay.
Il. O. Strohecker, 2S7 King street.
a. w. Wieters. at Consumers Ice
Company, Wolfe street.
II. B. Shroder, AT East Bay.
Julius D. Roster, l6l-l65 Eas' 2ay.
Frank Burbidge, "a Broad street.
! '.EInDty StDckiaos