Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-09-06

gubernatorial campaign, the right of
the counties to decide the question for
themselves; and it is claimed now that
the people have declared in favor of
that doctrine.
Have they? Then how account for
the fact that the statewide prohibi-
iton candidate for lieutenant governor
defeated the local option candidate
being men in every respect equally
worthy and personally one as popular
as the other. True that issue was not
50 important i'm the case of lieutenant
governor. True Mr.. Smith will not be
governor, unless Governor Blease or
Governor FeatherStone, as the case
may be. should die during his term
which is not at all impossible. And in
any event, whoever may be governor,
by election or by succession, cannot
bring about statewide prohibition;
the legislature would have to do thai.
This simply means that Mr. Bleasc's
lead over Mr.. Featherstone was not
due to local option" nor to state
wide prohibition" Else, again. why
did Mr.. Blcase lead Mr.. Mcleod by
nine thousand votes and Mr.. Feather
stone 10y only four thousand?
The fact is, Mr.. Blease has one of
the strongest and most compact politi-
cal organizations ever known in this
state. He is a politician from the
word go, and he has host of politi-
clans working for him: among them
some of the shrewdcst vote -getters
that ever came down the pike" men
that helped to keep the state dispen-
sary here long after it became a
stencil i'm the nostrils Of the great body
of the citizenship: men who hope to
see the days come back again. And
he has a host Of other followers who,
for one reason or other, stick to him.
Don't talk about barroom days! Who
wants barrooms any more? There is
more money in the dispensares than
barrooms ever dreamed of.
So the real question in South CarOli-
ma is dispensary or prohibition-call 1t
state wide or countrywide. or what you
please: and the men who want the
dispensary back are supporting Mr..
Blease and not Mr. FeatherStOne.
Talk about barroOm? The dispen-
sary has done more to debauch pub
lie sentiment and state and county
politics i'm the fifteen or so years of
its existence than barroOms did i'm a
hundred years.
Some are saying the election is a
question between Mr.. Rlease and Mr..
Featherstone. 1t is that and much
more: it is also a question between
dispensary and no dispensary, and, lit
tie as one may think of II, prohahili-
ties and the chances of bringing the
dispensary back again in the event of
Mr.. BleaSe's election are much strong
or than they were for bringing ii in
i'm the first instance i'm 1892.
Now, as to the probabilities of the
election the 18th:
What would Jas. s. Farnum give to
see the old state dispensary restored?
He is credited with having made many
thousands out of it. 1t is certain he
pleaded guilty to grating and paid a
fine of $4,000. which was laughed at
by his own friends as benig ridicu-
lously small for a man Of his wealth.
lie made big money out of the dispen-
sary. And there are others. So there
is no trouble to raise larSe fund to
defeat FeatherstOne.
But, in spite of that and in snite of
the false and villainous reports brought
against him at the eleventh hour, we
believe Featherstone will be elected.
Here is the vote for governor. in round
numbers, at the first primary: Blease
%. 900; Duncan 1.400: Featherstone
20. 900: Hyatt 5000: Mcleod $4,000;
Richards 5000. In the second primary
Mr.. Rlease will likely get 10000 OF Nc
Leod's vote: practically all of Dun
cans: 1000 of Hyatt's: 1000 of Rich
ards'-total. added to his own. OF AZ
400. Feathcrstone will likely get 15.OOO
of McI.eod's: 5000 of Hyatts; 5000 of
Richards'-total, added to his own OF
$4,000.
That is the way it looks to us.