The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-08-06
WILD TALK OBJECTIONABLE.

It is quite evident that in our
neighboring counties, Williams
burg and Sumter, is soon to have
the ballot on whether or not the
.dispensary shall be re establish
ed, considerable activity is going
on. and much feeling is being
eugendered by statements that
are being made. Those who are
opposed to the institution or the
legal sale, are making a tremen-
dous effort to prevent it, they
are making the fight on moral
grounds, which Of course, brings
into the contest organizations
that usually refrain from taking
part in elections.
In reply to a question, a gen
tleman residing IN Williamsburg
county was in Manning a few
days ago on business, as to his
opinion of the outcome of the
election in bis county, he said: Il
had given the matter very little
consideration until a few weeks
ago, my interest was aroused by
the statements made by a man
who claimed to be an oficialin
the prohibition league. He said
the whiskey trust had men EN-
ployed to go over Williamsburg
county to bribe and debauch the
electorate, it had a lawyer EN-
ployed to carry the election in
it's interest. and intimated that
men of prominence in the county
are the bought tools of the liquor
trust. I am so satisfied that their
is no truth in such declarations:
I Can vouch for there being un-
true, why a man should go about
making such wild utterances aud
slandering men because they
happen to view this question diff
ferent from him. I cannot under
stand. Personally, it matters not
to me how the election goes, l
am not user of alcoholic bever-
ages in any way, shape, or form
unless the same is prescribed by
a physician, but I have my views
as to the policy between the le.
gal sale, or the present system
| Of LIQUOR dens all over the coun-
try, and the pouring in Of liquor
from outside States. Perhaps
the consumption of liquor, since
the dispensary was voted out
may have been decreased to some
extent, which is questionable,
but grant it has been reduced
some, in my opinion, the reduc-
ton has not been sufficient to
justify the loss of revenue, no,
we have the liquor with US, and
Florence and the outside States
get the money.
I would much prefer to let the
question be decided by the vot.
ers untrammelled, l am opposed
to this agitation every few years,
but still more opposed to strang-
ers coming among our people
m aking reckless charges to
arouse prejudices and creating
| i'll feeling. If the voters turn
out and vote Williamsburg will
likely establish the dispensary,
because, the people have exper-
fenced the effect of liquor being
sold all around them, and they
are not content with the present
condition. I do not know how
they would look at it if George
town on the one side, and Flor
ence on the other, was not sell
ing whlskey and making money
out of it, but with this condition
they say, if they must have the
liquor consumption, it is we'll for
them to get some of the profit to
put on their roads and into their
schools.
There are many good people
| in Williamsburg who favor the
legal sale of liquor under present
conditions, but whether they will
go actively to work in its inter
est is doubtful, unless their re-
sentiment of the slanders that
have been made by some of the
speakers, who are in the employ
| of the anti-saloon league or some
other temperance organization
prompts them to get active; !
have heard a number of them say
they are not willing to tamely
submit to being charged with
corrupt motives when they are
exercising their conscientious
Judgment. l have also heard
men who are not in favor of the
dispensary express themselves
as deploring the eXtravagant
statements of visiting speakers. :"