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VOL. XLII.NO. 76 NEWBER'Y. S. C.. TUESDAY -TUNE 13, 1905. TWICE A WEEK. $1.50 YEAR THE DISPENSARY SIDE. A Card From State Senator Cole. L Blease to the People of Newberry County. To the Voters of Newberry County: In view of the fact that the effort is being made to vote out the dispen. sary system in Newiberry county, I take this opportunity of presenting to you some facts in regard to said law. It has been charged frequently that at the election in 1892 the people of South Carolina voted for prohibition, and that the prohibitionists asked for :a fish and were given a serpent. This statement is not true. At the session of te legislature of 1892 the prohibi tionists made a strong fight for the Childs bill, which was passed by a .good, safe majority through the house of representatives. When it reached the senate ex-Governor Evans, then senator$'moved to strike out the Childs bill and insert thle dispensary law as an amendment. That was pass ed by the senate and ret.urned to the house of representatives. The prohi bition leaders, notably Mr. S. A. Net. tiks, who is now a Methodist minis ter, and who had been making' a stren tvous fight for the Childs bill, arose in his seat and begged the prohibition members, whose leader he was, to vote for the senate amendment, which was the dispensary law. Now, if the prohibitionists were strong enough in the house to pass the 'biIl, were they not strong enough to hive defeated the dispensary amendment? Certain ly they could have done so if they had combined with the anti-prohibi tionists, who did ask them to help them kill the dispensary amendment. You see, therefore, tibat the prohibi tion majority is responsible for the passage o fthis law, and not the anti prohibitionists. You all remember the old bar. room system, with all of its evils, which are so numerous that I need not mention them. You also remtma ber that when the courts closed th+e dispensaries for the time being, what the condition of affairs was from orig inal package houses and blind tigers. Do you wish to return to either of these systems? The dispensary law provides that no whiskey shall be sold between sunset and 'sunrise; no w.his key shall be drunk on the premises: no whiskey shall be sold to a minor or habitual drunkard: no person shall be allowed to purchase whiskey but once in a day: no whiskey shall be sold ont credit: no whiskey shall be sold in less quantity than one-half of one pint; and no man pays a cent to keep up the dispensary except the man who buys the whiskey. A revenue is re ceived from the sale and is divided be tween the to. n and county. For the year ending November 30. 1904. the net profit of the state dispensary, placed to the credit of the school fund, was $171.377-73. Int our own county, Newberry. we received $13,504-18. From our county dispensaries the county received last year $6.ooo and the town received $6,ooo. Now, if the dispensary law should be voted out, it would necessitate the raising of the tax levy from two and one-half to four and one-half or five mills. In addition to this, the schools throughout the entire county would be materially injured. We all know that schools which' used to run three and four months are now run ning six and seven months: that the teachers are receiving higher salaries; that the school houses are being im proved. and that new equipment, such as desks. maps. etc.. are being added; and a surplus yet remainse credit of the schools. it has been said that it was a sin for the state to receive this money from the sale of whiskey. Which is the greater sin. for the state to sell the whiskey and receive the profits, or to sell a li:-ense for the sale of whiskey and to receive the license menev? Is it more evil to sell w'his key and receive the profit than it is to license anoiher man to sell whis key and you receive the license? Is it more wrong to sin than it is to en courage it, and license others to do it? Because, in either case, it is money received from the sale of whiskey. It is liquor money just the same. The dispensary system is not re sponsible for bad management, and should not be voted out because some are violating the law, any more than a city should be condemned and boy cotted because it has some disrepu table parts. For instance on Sunday I noticed, while people were going to the opera house to hear the bacca laureate sermon to the graduating class of Newberry college, that a crowd of negro boys were under the court house piazza on the public~ square playing a mouth organ, dancing, laughing, and talking loudly. The same thing was going on during e service and during the time that . people were leaving, returning. home. Should Newberry be shut up and the charter taken away from th'e town because of this? Yet people say the dispensary must go because some )bad management has been shown. What means this- combination among prohibitionists, the blind tiger element, the moonshiners and those who favor open barrooms. It the dispensary is voted out, what are we to have? Prohibition? No; Because it would never be enforced; the attempt would be a failure, as it always has been everywhere, and as a result it would soon become a stench in the nostrils of the people, and then we would hear the other side crying out, Give us the- old bar-rooms, and that is wy they are today swith the prohibitionists and endeavoring to kill the dispensary. Do you want the old ibar-room system in the back end of your drug-stores? If so, vote to kill the dispensary and to establish so-caled prohibition. These are only a few thoughts which I wish to call to your attention and ask you to consider. If the election is asked for, before it is held I hope that the-e will be arranged meetings in the county, where the question can be presented fairly and without prejudice to the people. I stand ready to defend the dispensary system, and at the proper .-ime will invite a joint 'discussion with the leaders on the oth'er side. Then the matter can be presented, and the fight can be made and to the finish. In conclusion, let me call your at tention to the meeting of Saturday and to those who were leading it. Does it remind you of certain other conventions held in our county? Is this another political movement in disguise to help some body get office? Respectfully. Cole L. Blease. Constable Eison To Be Tried. State Constable Julius R. Eison, through his attorneys, Messrs. Eu gene S. Blease, of Saluda, and Cole. L. Blease, of Newberry, requested the solicitor to hand out an indictment to the grand jury of Richland county in the case of the killing of a negro by Mr. Eison in' Columbia on Monday of last week. The presiding judge was also requested to instruct the grand jury to return a true bill, which was done, and the case has been set for trial this afternoon at 4 o'clock. Mr. Eison will be defended by Messrs. Blease and Blease. Magistrate C. G. Blease also went to Columbia yesterday afternoon to attend the hearing of the case. Who Are Entitled to Vote. Those wvho are duTy qualified for voting undler the constitution and lawsof the state of oSuth Carolina and registered in the town of Newberry, are entitled to vote on the bond issue, election to be held at council chain tbers. June 16. 19o5. polls open at 8 MR. EDWIN A. CARWISLE. Etected Cashier National Bank to Succeed J. W. M. Sim mons. At a meeting of the directors of the National bank held on Saturday Mr. Edwin A. Carlisle was elected cashier to succeed Mr. J. W. M. Simmons, deceased. Mr. Carlisle is a son of Mr. M. A. Carlisle, president of the bank. He is a graduate of Newberry col lge in the class of 1893, and a grad uate of the Eastman fbisiness college of Poughkeepsie, New York. He taught school for a couple years and then was made business manager of the Carolina Manufacturing company, which position he filled for several years. He has been for the past two years the South Eastern represen tative of the Springfield Metalic Cas ket company, of Springfield, Ohio, traveling the states of Virginia, North Carolina, West Virginia, South Caro lina, and Florida. He will not assume his new duties actively until the first of the coming month, as he is now on a trip for his company. He is just thirty years old and a young man of good business qualifications, good education, fine character, and pleasing manners. Death of Mrs. Geo. Dickert. Mrs. Geo. Dickert, eldest daughter of Col. D. A. Dickert died at her home at Brainlbridge, Ga., on-Sunday. Her remains were brought to Newberry yesterday for interment. Funeral ser vices were conducted at the home of Col. Dickert yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock by Pastor W. L. Seabrook. Besides her husband and other refa tives she leaves three children. A Contract Maker. And also a contract breaker is one Loomis Vance who was cgptured in' Saluda county last Friday night by Sheriff Buford. There are six cow. i tracts in existence which he made for 1 work in this year, four of them in this county. He was working on Mr. Jake P. Long's place when captured. He is now in jail awaiting trial for the violation of his several contracts. The Court. The court of general sessions for \1ewberry county will convene on the 26th, with Judge J. C. Klugh presid ing. There are several murder cases and several for other offences and the probability is the court will last for the entire week. The following jurors were drawn to serve for that week: Enos G. Counts. 0. Clifton Dominick. 0. M. Jameson. Jno. W. Monts. R. H. Swittenberg. J. C. Leitzsey. T. S. Hudson. James W. Hartman.1 P. T. Livingston. J. S. Floyd, Jr. J. C. Salter. J. A. Hartman. Robt. T. Boland. T. S. Reed. James M. Bowers. Ira A. Miller. Geo. P. Hill. I R. C. Maybin. Geo. S. Dickert. Ben Y. Abrams.- 1 B. T. Marrow. J. T. Baker. J. Hilliard Hipp. Franklin L. Lorick. Augustus Fellers.1 J. N. Feagle. A. W.T Monts. C. D. Buzhardt. WVillie P. Crumpton. J. B. Derrick. J. H. Dominick. E. L. Cook. R. P. Huffman. T. C. Longshore. T. Hayne Chalmers. u Dn Derrick DISPENSARY QUESTION NOW BEING IGITATED MASS MEETING IN COURT HOUSE ON SATURDAY. p Petition Adopted For Circulation t Among Qualified Electors-Com mittees Appointed. ci n In pursuance of a call issued in the ti newspapers s+gned "Many Citizens," 1r a mass meeting of the citizens of li Newberry county was held in the court v house on Saturday morning to consid- tt er the advisability of circ'ilating pe- D titions among the qualified electors a -f the county requesting the supervi- tl sor to order an election upon the question of "d'spensary" or "no dis- ir pensary." . A petition was adopted ci as the one to be circulated, and com- ti mittees were appointed from various ir townships to take the matter in charge. The township committees i were authorized and requested to ap- ti point one executive committeeman e; each from their respective townships, the selection of executive committee- tl men not to be confined to members fr )f the township committees. On mo tion of Mr. W. H. Walrace, the com- no mittees were requested to make all t< possible dispatch in gettingtherequis- w te number of signatures to the peti- h tions. All preliminary arrangements tl looking towards the effort to secure 'I the election were left to the executive e: ormittee, but it was expressed as it the sense of the meeting that the elec- e: tion be held as soon as practicable. it -The meeting was attended by about ho three hundred voters representing nany sections of the county. Mr. R. h4 r. C. Hunter called the meeting to ir rder, and Mr. W. I. Herbert was a: :hosen chairman. Mr. Herbert thank- fE d those present for the honor which m iad been conferred upon him, because k ie said, he thought it an honor to as- ti ist in an effort to put down the evil w ;nd uphold the good. Mr. 'Arthur H. t h Kohn was chosen secretary. a Mr. J. C. Neel stated the object of p he meeting to be to take action look- le ng towards the circulating of 'peti- ti ions upon the question of "dispen- P: tary" or "no dispensary." i2 On motion of Mr. Arthur Kibler, B the act of the last general assembly, ir mnder which the meeting was to take P: iction, was read by Dr. Geo. B. Crom er. This act was published in full Vn n the last issue of The Herald and al Sews. and its provisions are well al (nlown by the people of Newberry P county who are interested in the t< -novement now on foot to vote out a :he dispensary. ~t Dr. Cromer stated that the meeting r< vas called to get up petitions asking tl he supervisor to submit the question si >f "dispensary" or "nso dispensary" to E :he people of Newberry county, these h4 >etitions to be presented, provided it they were signed by one-fourth of ti :he qualified voters. The supervisor u .vould have no choice in the matter, tI 1e said, if the petitions were signed g )y ,the requisite number, and if the ti lection should be ordered every qual- s ied elector in the county would be ti entitled to vote. h Mr. Kibrer stated that this was not g an occasion for speech making. Those iere had come here for the purpose si f getting rid of one of the greatest fi evils in the state. He believed the ci lispensary, no matter how honestlyn t was operated, or how honest were rr :he officials in charge of it, was one sI >f the greatest evils which had ever een placed upon the people of South a: arolina. He believed, if the people vould go about it in a business way, p ~he dispensary in Newberry would a. ~oon be a thing of the past. t Dr. Cromer stated that it would be ti vell to keep in mind that there might t< >e those present who were not in fav- lk r of voting the dispensary out. And ti thre mig-ht be some precsent who n1 ere in favor of an election simply test the question. Mr. J. C. Neel stated that he had Liked around, and that he had seen ly one man who was in favor of te dispensary. He believed that wenty-five out of orre-hundred peo e in Newberry county were in favor voting the dispensary out. He iought it a good idea to make the reachers members of an executive >mmittee, and for them to get the iembers of their churches to sign ie petitions. He thought by these eans, at least one-fourth of the qual ied electors of Newberry county rould soon be secured. He moved iat the preachers of the county, with r. Geo. B. Cromer as chairman, be pointed a committee and circulate ie petitions. Mr. W. I. Herbert who was presid g over the meeting thought that the )mmittees ought to be selected from te various townships. He was not favor of Mr. Neel's motion. Mr. A. C. Jones moved as an amend ient or a substitute to Mr. Neel's mo on, that a committee of one from tch towsship be selected. Mr. W. H. Sanders wanted to have ie committees composed of three om each township. Mr. A. C. Jones stated that he was t opposed to having larger commit es, but that he thought possibly the ork might be better advanced, by aving only one in each township, ran by having larger committees. he motion was to have one from tch township, and that the ministers t that township be made members c-officio. Let each township select s own members, and appoint them -re today, he said. Dr. E. P. MWcClintock stated, that believed that he expressed the feel g of all the preachers in the county, id when he stated' that he was per ctly willing to pledge himself at this eeting to work industriously and yally in every reasonable way fo' te movement, but personally he ould prefer not being a member of e committee, or any part of it. He as very well acquainted with the reachers of Newberry county, at ast he thought they could be safely usted to do their part-all that a -eacher of the gospel, who is a cit. en of Newberry county ought to do. ut he did not like the idea of hay. g any committee connection as a -eacher. Rev. WV. L. Seabrook said that he . as also opposed to Mr. Jones' nendment. He was here today not a preacher, but as a citizen, he ex ected in connection with this 'work, act not solely as a preacher but as citizen of South Carolina. Anything 2 at he might be able to do he was ady to do. But that he did not ink that the fninisters ought to :: and in this movement as a class. very christian citizen of this state, said, should be as much interested1 this work, as the ministers, and iere was just as much responsibility pon every citizen of the county, as iere was upon the ministers .of the ospel. He was shirking nothing. On ze other hand he was probably as lining more by taking that position, ian by hiding his personality Ibehind isofficialposition as a minister of the ospel. Mr. Arthur Kibler moved as ~a sub itute, t.hat committees be appointed 'om the various townships to be >mposed of five members each from Limbers one and nine, and three tembers each from the other town lips in the county. Mr. Jones accepted the substitute -id the motion was carried. Dr. Cromer called attention to the rovisions of the act of the general isembly requiring that when a coun votes out a dispensary, an annual Lx of one-half mill shall be levied, be used in the enforcement of the w if necessary, and to remain in the easury of the county if its use shall ot abe found necessary for the en