Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-07-29
1.-THE STRONGEST MAN"
Home Paper Makes Out Case For Mr.,
Featherstone.

No large. practical results are at
tached to the prohibition question TINS
year. much as it is discussed. The
state is made up of 4S counties. OF
| these 81 have prohibition. OF the six
wet counties, five voted for county dis
| penSarieS by majOrtics, we believe OF
about 200 or under or perhaps the
majority i'm the five was nearer 100 eX-
cept in Aiken. Even in Richland the
|diSpenSary majority was barely over
| 100. The one strong anti-prOhibitiOn
county in South Carolina is Charles
ton and that county is. whatever 1t
may be- not in favor of the county dis
pensary system. In other words, pro-
hibition would not perceptibly increase
the number Of blind tigers in Charles
| ton for the simple reason that Charles
ton probably now has all the blind IL
gers that the county can support.
There is not trade in Charleston for
more. Prohibition would be unpleas-
ant for Charleston because the county
and city would be deprived of dispen-
sary profits; it would not change the
situation in the least so far as the OBJ
servance e law is concerned.
A state prohibition law would re-
main on the statute books ST. long as ii
was acceptable to the people. The dis
IpenSary regulations as to the sale of
| liquor by the original package, etc.
cannot be easily repealed because they
| are written i'm the Constitution. \
prohibition law could be repealed by
the same legislature that enacted it or
| by the next if either should so wish.
Mr.. Mcleod. an ingratiating gen.
tleman and honest man, seems to be
ccntcred upon as local option Candi-
date but Mr. Mcleod does not advO-
cate local option. Limited option is
his platfOrm-optionS limited to coun-
| ty diSpemSaricS or prohibition. License,
| high license or low license, is cOnSti-
tutional in South Carolina and that
is what at least one county. Charles
ton, prefers. Mr. Mcleod does not
support local optiOn-he dare not say
that he would recommend law al
| lowing individuals to sell whisky at q
low license. say 5000 year. if coun-
ty should so wish. Mr.. McLeOd's
platform is in principle no more To-
cal option platform than Mr.. Feath-
erStOneS-becauSe ii is not local OPP
ton platform at all, it is two option
platform. Local county option means,
practically, if it means anything, the
| permission by law to 4 county to sell
or not To sell whisky in any way not
| forbidden by the constitution. Neith-
er Mr.. Mcleod nor Mr.. FeatherstOne
| will consent that every county, Char
lesion for example. handle the whisky
question under Il law acceptable to
their citizens. If Charleston prefers
Mcleod to FeatherStOne. it is because
Charleston is less afraid of Mcleod :
enforcing the law than of Feather
stone enforcing it-thOugh of course
! the revenue argument has an infiu-
enCe.
| In the Advertisers judgment
FeatherStOme is easily the ableSt man.
/ the best equipped. the most competent
| business man i'm the race. He can best
| be depended on to enforce any law
| the law against larceny. selling co.
Caine or against murder. In emer-
| gcmCicS he will he rcSulutc and prompt: ::
he is an experienced and broadly
grounded lawyer and a man of Vigor-
Gus common sense and moral and ev-
| cry other kind of courage. He is Il
| SagaCiOuS business man, he is accuS-
TONED to dealing with business queS-
tiOmS outside of his law practice, and
| he commands the confidence of buSi-
ness men. The question of refundmg
| the state debt will come up early in
| the term of tn" next governor and of all
the candidates Mr.. FcathcrstOnc is far
and away best fitted L. handle il. Per-
| hapS somebody will say that the Ad-
vcrtiser is biased in his favor-but
him a long time too. and the longer
| it has known him. the more it has be-
| lieved in him.-LaurcnS Advertiser