The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-21
SED MAY RUN FOR GOVERNOR.
Says Rich Folks Can Still get fheir Liq.
nor. Temptation should be Re-
moved from Poor.


reck In hits erbuut time you wat
a herln from Snady Grove on this here dao
blasted Dlspensary. l guess l started the
war on that mershene an It's erbout time
was comm in fur my shefe on The credit.
Some on my nabers bin lowin 10 me that
auter run fur guverner. They say the man
tuar hates the dispensary wust and been er
hatin IT the longest have got the clerest title
To the guvners seat.
Now this here Judge Fetherstone is bin
holIerin prohibition fur er long time. but all
the while be been er runnin ,fur somethln.
Folks are kinder spicious OF proerbislonus
who can't see thay duty clearly ON tn ls subtle
sepln where they duty an fat office lays side
by side. But I'm er goln TO let my race fur
Guvper rest at present.. as my nrsi duty Is 10
my proerbislon frens In Aboeville County: 49,,
We bin er herin er heap erbout S6O,0OO
protit made by the dispensary er year That
S.0uu0 went 10 the county 10000 the skools a q
u, 40 to the town. No BODY rnusen be fooled
uy lnesc big figures. The s2o 0oO tnat goes 10
No case we would have er few blin tigers
here an there, but If tha got too plentiful we
cud nd erbont mills to our lakes 10 pay FUR
cunstab es and police. The SzOOU what goes
t0 the County Is spent on rodes and briggs.
Whuts the use Nv havin lot OF iron bridges
and lrlu 10 maks. all the 70 Ads like railroads.
Ikln mine the time when IT tux two days
TO carry lode from Shady Grove TO AoVlll
an back home uu less you travelled er good
part NV the Mite. Tnen folks wusn't tryin ter
carry everything 10 town an tryin TO nail the
town back Ter the country. Bad rodes KEEP
um al home an made um rase tha own stuff.
Some NV the briggs The brig whuts down an
keeps the farmer away from town Is the best
brig. guess that's or cllncher on that part
Nv the dlspensary argermint.
We will next take up the SO.OOO what goes
TO the skooles; an this IL the one that we
hears so much erbout. Well [ Kin mine
when We jes paid our teachers 5000 or month
An tha had ter git that DISCOUNTED. We got
teachers then an recln we cud get urn or gin
~ ThnrR
ud lack 10 WORK for thai; and II the hiier
lutiu teachers that's er gIttir forty and hfty
dollars er month aint willin TO cum down
rather than use dispensary muny, kick um
uut, and hire these deservin gals. Tha may
not have as much ejication but tha snow
THAR pubick sperit by bein agin the dispeo-
,ary. It's puolic .sperit we want nrst and
then ejicaLl, n. Fur mi part, don't believe
In 80 much ejication no now. Ejicate all the
poor ks an tina will all git Ter be rister-
Gratis. Now few ristercrats is necessary.
Foxes got ter have sum body ter look up ter:
But II you ejicate all the poor folks tha wud
stan almos asgood or chance as the rich ones
I'm elgtn 1t. The pest way ter keep poor
foxes useful IL ter keep um ignorant. l no.
tics er lot of dispensary money Is bein wasted
putin up new skool houses, buyin desks ben
ches aud the like. Tha amt no sence In that.
got my ejucalion In er log house er setin on
er slab bencn, an L guess got or nuff Ter do
any ORDINARY man.
Now gents, wanter have jest er word ter
say t.r you. II seems like since my ole lriend
Mr.. Wilson Quit you, You amt been er havin
SO much ter say fur he dispensary. l don't
kno whether you're er tixin ter come over er
not. II you ant got no office invue we take
you on, but II you're looKln fur er oihce all
the places In the ban wagin Is filled TWO or
three times over. All the same you better
come over ar les vote her out. lts tne oess
The Auditor says that II mills on the propel-
W NV Abvill County will raise as much as
the dispensary raises. We are er pain eroout
l2 mills now. While as l explained above
that don't bereve that we need all Nv this
mupy, ifit is necessary, who wud objec ter
pain twice as much taxes as be is now pain
f he moved II wus all good oneat money. J.
amt got but er thousan dollars on Inc Tax
books an IL cones me Sl2 er year now. pN
make il is or % or l VIII sen my children ter
skull ihree nunihs insted of eight If It's neces
sary 10 get rid on the dispepsary.
Thare IN SUN good fellers that would like to
get er drink when the proheroision guvner
Hels in. Now / likes er drink myself II aint
40 10 uch ticker, I'm eigln as the dtspensary
You boys kin take my word fur IT that NIL
Amt er soln ter be tetoterly dry. II didn't
no that, Id have ter shift my own persitlop
er little. We proer bisionists cant promis you
nuthIn. but guess It's no harm Iur you 10
see whuls done happened.
Mr.. Shererd, the mayor OF Anderson has
ben er enforcin proerbsion al the pint Nv
the baernet. He fined an old Greek that
wasn't wulh more than 200 at best 900 for Belin
licker. This same Mr.. Shererd rote er article
out twenty tive thousand gallons Nv whisk ey
re served In the express Office In Anderson
durin the year 1908. Nv core this don't count
wagin trade an the like nur II don't count
what goes to Bolton, Honypatb, Piedmont,
PelZer. Iva, y ndletop, an or lot OF little sta
tions that al has expires offices NV tha own
an IL doin bisnese. Anderson Amt got moen
10000 foxes In IT, That's more then galuns
ued fur ever man woman an cblId Ia An
dersup. or erpout ten golon5 he'd for The
men. Now levin that er good many Nv the
men don't drink, theirs er chance fur er In
dustrus drunker ter git er hogshed outer this
avrage. 81 er gentleman Kin be aceomer-
dated mos any whar in Anderson an Ill be
.ue same III Abevill. But poor foxes whut
aiut got the muny ter spare fur ticker an au'
ter have 1t. unlhss tha ken git or little now
aud shen from er tiger. has got ter out It out
That shows how unselfsh er proerbitionist
is He Is willin ter put himself ter all kins
Nv Inconvenience an order his stuf or tbous-
md miles les ter save Some por devil what
ant able ter by II,
Now gents, will close. hope this peace
will cary the lection, and by the time ! gits
REDS, ter run fnr gunner, that you can support
me on the proeibision PLATFORM.
Guilermo Sed.