SAYS IT IS BEST.
Dispensary is Best Solution of
Liquor Question, Says
SENATOR TILLMAN.
It There Is Graft The Men Now Howling
Against thc System Made the Fraud
Possible. Turn Out Rascals If
Located and See that There
ls No Recurrence.
The following is tho speech of Sena?
tor Tillman doliovoreel by Invitation
at Edgeflold last Saturday tus reported
for The State by Mr. Wilban Hanks:
Mr. Chairman, Ladles and Fellow
Citizens: It ls six years since I have
had tho ploasuro of addressing a pub
Ho meeting in this my homo county.
On that occisi?n the Issue was thc
same one which wo havo today.
Tho people have passed on this ques
tion live or six times and settlod it by
overwhelming majorities. That year
the aggregate vote for tho two candi
dates who wero running as dispensary
oaudldatcs was 28,000 more than the
prohibition candidate got, but there
aro sumo people In South Carolina who
hav.) never been wllllug to submit to
the rule of the majority. They think
they know more, that they are better
than the masses of the peoplo, that
they have the right to dictate to them
what thoy Hhall do. So boro we have
again this same old bone of contention
brought forward for politicians to gnaw
on. Hut wily outer upon a discussion
of this sub j oct.
I proposo in response to your Invit
ation to discuss tho principles under
lying it, and tho wi: ehm or unwisdom
of the policy which is proposed; but
before I do that 1 want to have a word
personally with yen.
Fifteen years ago by *bo suffrages
of my fellow citizens I was taken from
my farm ten miles bolow ridgefield
and sent to Columbia to discharge the
duties of chief executive. After four
years' absence, with only an occasion
al visit here, 1 was elected to the Un
ited States senate and for nearly 11
years 1 have been lilllug as best 1
could tho resp ,nsible dulles of that
position. These two great olllces, the
greatest in your gift, that you have
conferred upon mo, have been sources
of great gratification to mc but my
countrymen they have also caused mc
to be an exile from homo, thoy have
carried mc from amoog yi u, you whom
I love better than any people on
earth. I am a stranger In my own
land, and but fer a few old mcu whose
heads are gray or bald 1 know scarce
ly 20 men in this audience. You all
know mc; some feel aggrieved if 1
don't stop forward and call you by
name and shake your hand, but 1 have
met so many pi opie In HO many States
that faco^ pass before me like a panor
ama, ard 1 cannot longer recognize
men. lt is not bee ins.: I feel any
higher than you, for 1 am still plain
Hen. Tillman. I have always regard
ed myself your servant and not your
master.
"TIIK enron OK SILKNCH "
I am hore today to discuss this ques
tion. Soma haye said lt was improper
and out of placa for a United States
senator to meddle with local affairs.
These men have felt aggrieved because
I will not consent to shut my mouth,
and close my eyes to the condition in
which I am as much Interested as you
are, and they have demanded of me
the price of silence. 1 ain't built that
way. Thark God 1 ain't built that
way. (Laughter and applause ) Wher
I get too cowardly to stand up in youl
midst or anywhere else and speak thc
truth as 1 see it and understand ii
then 1 will have become too cowardly
and worthless to represent you any
where.
I know 1 shall miike enemies. 1
know many of my best frloi els are to
day-lined up lu antagonism to th?
liquor system which l devised. Ho
cau e they have changed am 1 to sur
render my cen vi ct ion? 1 again sav 1
ain't buht that way. The ofllccof i ru
ted Stales senator is a high and noble
one, but tho i nice io not worth the
price which some men demand of tue.
Therefore l am here in answer ti
your invitation to tell yen what i
think, not io dictate-I know you aie
not built that \ / ? i y. J'1 U oo your own
thinking, ai.el nola; 1 .say. What is
the Issue? How shall wo soil 1 quoi
or whether wc shall sell it at all? '1 hat
is the whole proposition slated in a
brief sentence.
Thorn are three systems that have
obtained In ibo State, not in the Stal i
as a whole, but In par.s of the State:
one ls I he license syst? m, the old bar
room system, the second ls the dis
pensary system under which wo arc
now working, and tho thl d ls prohi
bitlon. Tho Ingenuity of man never
devised any moro than tl ose three
systems for tho 1 qu r 3ontrol. Which
ene of those is tl e h.s.? you have
heard ek quent ai d strong arguments,
facts ano figures alt (bey w<_ro pre
sentid in fav.tr of prohibition.
1 confess to you as between prohi
bition and thc barrooms, saloons ot
any system of license, 1 am c. prohibi
tionist. Hut will prohibition prohibit?
1 say no. Those other g< ntlcmeu .say
yes. Let's give tho facts.
ASSAILS MlOllHUTTON,
We had prey Ibltioh in ?dgefleld
about ' fst or 1805, When the elry
Council - as rice ed yru coulfl not buy
whlskoy ? wfuHy In tho town of lO.lge
Held as a beverage; tho only way you
could buy it was to get a certificate
from a physician and go to some drug
store with tho ei cot or's prescription, If
you net tied some aqua fortis -what
other Latin ph ras.; oo tl icy employ ?
A voice: Splrltuciu forment I.
Tillman: s une of jon fellows who
used lt recollect, but I have forgotten
thc formula. (Laughte ). I know this,
that prohibition in thc town of ridge
field was a hissing and a by-word, and
that there was just a i much drunk
enness then as thero ever had been
under tho saloon system ; and certain
physicians woo lived in tills town then
grew abso'utoly rich by giving pro
scriptions or certificates to Johnson,
Smith or Jones wh i applied to thom
that thoy needed this stuff for their
health. (Laughter.)
A voice: Those physicians you speak
of are; (load ahd gone.
Tillman: 1 do nob want, lo speak 111
of any dead man, and I do not Intend
to. Wilone ver it has boen tried lt has
had thc samo result. And abovo all
lt has taught the people to he hypo
critics to go te> the di otor and say, I
have got thc belly nelie." (Laughter.)
My objection to prohibition is, we
aro nob Yet ?angela, moro tho pity;
I do not see any wings sprouting on
anybody's shoulder ; wo are sinful hu
man beings, made by God Almighty
'in His wisdom with shnrtoornlcgg
j the weaknesses of man; wo have our
appetites, and it is in tho nature ot
the beast to gratify that appotlto for
stimulants, and if he oannot get it
lawfully ?io is goi?g to get lt some
other way. There has always been
and always will be a demand for liquor
as a beveridge, simply bcoauso mau
likes the taste and its ciXcot, not be
causo ho ls sick, uot bcoauso ho needs
it as a medicine, but simply for his
stomach's sako as Paul said to Timo
thy, and somebody will always be ready
to supqly lt for thc money.
That beiug the cause, I have tried
to deal with this question as a truo
mau aud from a common-sense stand
point to treat mon as I lind them aud
not as I would have them to be, but to
try and teach them to minimizo and
reduce tho evil of whiskey drinking.
I have not indulged in liquor myself
but I have seen it, some of my family
havo suffered from it, 1 have seen its
misery, tho misery lt causes; I have
seen too muoh not to know that if wc
could destroy the formula of alcohol
either from fermentation or anything
elS3 it would injure tho medical pro
fession In their business, deprive men
of their valuable stimulants in cer
tain diseases, but thc sum of human
misery would he reduced. Hut tho best
thing in my judgment as a practical
man is to treat men as they aro and
to try to teach them to restrain theil
appetites as far as practical and min
lmlzo the evil of liquor drinking. You
have heard a good deal about blood
money.
AS TO ni.OOI) MONBY.
Sometimes I got awfully sick in the
sonate when I hear a fellow get up
and twaddle about what he knows
nothing of; when 1 hear preachers
talking about tho drinking of whiskey
being blood money. 1 look back tu
the history of the world, J. Hud that
no man. no preaohor priest or states
mau ever droamed of attempting U
prohibit the use of liquor until about
75 or 100 years ago, have not under
took until the last 60 years to say
that man should not drink or that il
was a sin. 1 do not hesitate to say )
can hud in the hlble a dozen or twe
dozen texts recognizing tho use o
liquor to where you can lind om
which discourages lt or denounces it
Where does the sin como in?
Tho sin docs not rest upon Bibi?
authority, lt rests upon the preacher'!
authority, and 1 object to anj
preaohor changing tho scripture ti
suit bis fanaticism and to make m<
swallow his religion. (Laughter
You cannot show me in the .serip.ur
cs exo.pt lo ono or two isolated case
where the inc of wino ls denounced a
a stn, and I can show you a dozei
passages where lt is spoken of other
wise. When any man talks to mo abeu
blood money 1 put bim down as a
abominable ass. I do not intend anj
thing personal. I cannot see any po;
albie excuse for any one to make suo
a charge.
I saw the other day where som
man ?aid that rather than seo h
children educated on blood money t
would prefer to see them grow up i
illiteracy. 1 do not blame him fe
saying that If he believed it was bloc
money. Hut lt ls not blood moue;
I Where do you get the authority f<
saying it ls a sin to use liquor? Tliei
is no doctrine of that sort in the Hlbl
You can lind plenty of texts as to tl
' abuse of liquor, getting drunk ar
doing things that a man will do whe
drunk whloh aro sinful. 1 ag reo I
that. Tho dispensary ls Intended I
' minimize the abuse of liejuor, whl
I prohibition is supposed to prohibit i
use absolutely because U is sinful.
SOMK COLD KIQUKES.
I always Uko to back up my acse
[I lions with facts. Some poople eira
?on their imagination for their facts,
, may have done so at ti nes, but d
J not do so Intentionally, I have el
i dared and do now so declare th
. prohibition does not prohibit an
J where A fow days ago I received il
last printed report of the coram
. stoner of internal revenue at W?s
Ington, and 1 find these figures: Sta
of Kansas with a population of 1|47(
.105 had in lt retail beer or mi
liquor licet.ses secured from t
: United Statesgovernment3,l97,oi t
people to every retailer of those be
cragoi. That's in Kansas, remembi
one liquor and beer dealer for eve
.K',0 people in tho prohlbitl n SI ite
, Kansas. (Laughter.) Maine has 00
. ooo population according to tho ls
censes and had 988 lie ?i.s. s Issued
the Uniti d States g iv e n mont lo Si
liquor and beer, or ono. to every 7
, population. State of South Carol!
hurl l 340,000 population.and the toi
; number of United State;; lieu sos
ret all liquor and boer including t
loo and odd di pensarles M>7, or o
n t, ll seller for every 2.301 populath
Now, those Ogures ought to spc
for themselves without furthor ar^
mont; but 1 have "oreo furthor fae
Take ? li ' ci y nf ? h r eston, S. C
had in 1000 65,000 population in rou
nun hers, and f e total l umber of ;
rests in that city for that year v
.1,002; arrests for drunkenness 5:
Ml (1 you they ...ay Charleston ls t
homo of blind tlgara, an '. l know it
h s true. Kansas City, Kan., popu
tion 51,000, total number of arre:
3,?157; arrests for drunkenness ?i
I'ake Portland, the head c n*,re
prohibition, where lt has b^on the 1
for 60 years; population f?o,ooo, ti
number of arrests 1,000; arrests
drunkenness, i, i #>r>; more titan tw
as many as ?vere In Oha rh ?ton.
peka, Kai a., population ;J:I,OOU, to
arrests 2,071; arrests for drunkenn
(?l i, a little over half of the p:>]
lat ion of 0 i arl eaton, and loo moo
rested for drunkenness. What are j
going to do with these fads?
S me say you ure going to vote \
abominable dispensary out and si
atitute blessed prohibition. 1 dc
care if you do, and sometimos 1 rat'
Wish you would so you can got a d
of thc physic for 12 months.
AS TO HIGH L.IOKNSB,
Now, v/e c uno 'o lilith I l?ense; t
combination which v/e aro facing
day, tho high l?ense people, tho p
hiblMon people and blind tlgors,
same v/e have been lighting since IS
Thesopeople who are advocating h
license, The State of c 'lumbla, 'J
Nows and Courier and some other
pors, and nomo o? our fell w oltlzo
they arc not in favor of prohlbitl
they tell you so, they say lets kill
dispensary, then WO will have prob
tion, and then what-high licet
Tho preachers are going ono fOftd,
prohibitionists are going another rt
and tho blind tlgcri arc traveling
third road, they ar? all aiert to
tho dispensary, and when they ku
and lt ls gone, poor thing, then wh
There will be ? light among tho poi
to say whet her lt Shall bo high l c ii
or prohibition, and what will tho i
pensltlOS do then. If we are HO
and fow between that there will be
hopo to restore tho dispensary, I
going to line up with my friend Tal*
bert and shout for prohibition. I
never will consent by my vote and in
fluence to aid the reestablishment of
saloons ia any county in South Caro
lina.
I failed to give you Lawrenoo,
Mass., experience, whore they have a
high license of ?3,500 for the privilege
of the monopoly of somo barkeeper to
soil whiskey In Lawrenoo, Mass. Its
population In 1000 was 02,000; total
number of arrests, 2,3t)7; arrests for
drunkenness, 1,321.
The sentiment against the dispen
sary ls runniDg so high 1 outlined it
in a letter which 1 wrote some time
ago, aud with one exception tho nows
papers In my own county have not
publlshod it, they havo not given you
an opportunity to read lt, but their
news columns and editorial columns
teem with "down with tho damuablo
dispensary."
I have that faith in tho intelligence
and manhood of the citizens of Edge
field to feel and know that you are
your own mastors and will study this
question for yourselves, make up your
own minds and vote as freemen. I
havo always tried to lead you, I have
nover undertaken to drlvo you, and
you know lt.
Lats come down to common sense,
somo good, every day bacon and
greens. They tell you to voto out the
dispensary, and lets have prohibition.
I have no objoctlon to others having
their oplulons, let me have mine. Peo
pie need not throw rocks at mo and
not expect mo to throw brick bats
baok. I have got a car load ot them.
Let's seo what will bc tho efieot at
homo. Aside from any moral, religious
or temperance idea. 1 have shown you
that you will have drunkenness N JW,
wo have lo?s drunkenness in South
Carolina than anywhere else.
TIIK eilOV?T KICATUUK.
In Edgetlcld lu tho days of barrooms
what did you country bumpkins, who
have boen appealed to so eloquently to
day, what did you get from tho liquor
traille? Nothing except the drunken
nora and oxcept tho misery and pover
ty which came to you as Individual;
for Indulging in the stuff. Under the
dispensary system the county schools
including the ttwn of EJ go field and
Johnston get $5,800 from tho dispen
sary and tho free schools are now run
ning and have been running five tc
seven months a year. Take this $5,
800 away aud unless ytu put youi
hauds In your pockets and supple
mont lt by taxes your schools wil
drop to four mouths or les3. If thai
ain't blood money out of tlie Innoconi
children who are to bc brought up li
idleness and lguorancD, and God bavi
morey on the preacher who sees ant
says otherwise. (Cheers.)
Talk about btood money. Thoy of
fer as a sacrifice thc Ignorance of th
poor little country boys and girls tba
now have some chances to got an odu
cation, because they havo found ;
new religion which declares that th
uso of liquor ls a sin.
I have some written notes I am gc
lng to read. When I want to b
peculiarly mean, or as my encmle
say, when 1 want to be "venomous,
I write lt out, because I can dlstl
hell lire into it with my pen. (Laugt
ter and cheers.)
INVESTIGATE Til IC DI 1T1 hi.KUY.
I want this committee which th
legislature has appointed to lnvost
gate. 1 have not heard anything, bu
I just smell something up tho creel
(Laughter.) I want lt to Investiga!
the Richland Distillery company, Un
out how lt came to he organized, wi
wero tho original stockholders, ho
much stock they took, and all aboi
lt.
A voice: You will play the dev
If you do that.
Tillman: 1 am In tho humor I
play the devil with auythhf that
can oatoh, big, little, oid or younj
(Laughter and cheers )
Let this committee lind out thi
stink up the creek, and quit talkh
about lt so much. Do you know hu
much tho State ls credited with (
tlie booka of the commissioner as ha
mg In possession, over $800.000 won
of whi-ikey, $400,000 scattered all ov
the State an i $100,ooo In Columbi
What do they want wit h so muc
T?!oy nie on a cash bas s, they c:
order liquor from any source tin
choose by the car load, get it he
and bottle it and distribute lt in :
days. Then 1 hear, 1 don't know he
vine lt ls, hut 1 want this com m itt
to tell us who ls responsible for. u
a stock of unsaleable stair I no .
that they havo what they o ill "ll
stock" and "dead st? ck," stock tin
can sell and stock they cmnot se
Who bought any dead whiskey, at
what sort of whiskey ls itthatnoboi
will buy lt.
Senator Tillman here took up tl
reading of his manuscript but bc d
not stick to tlie text all the w:
through anel interpolated some i
m irks which were even warmer th;
the "distilled hell lire from his pon
lie said In one side remark tl at If t
dispensary ls selling after sun elow
that is another placo where "si;
twisted administration has wrong
demoralization."
Ile declared that he was not st
ring up factionalism. "1 am not,
help me God, but if 1 must do lt
toko to tho woods, 1 will take do^
the t< m tom and sound it."
"T.-ie man who gets me cut of i
position will have to light for lt.,
holp mc God," ho said, and the h
yelled.
Somebody said the State shot
make Its own liquor. Tillman reto
o.;: "Then this crowd which is h
le ring blood money weuld go to t
asylum."
At another place he said that
the limited timo in which ho had p
pared the dispensary law lie ml^i
have made mistakes for "1 wasn't <
lng any stealing myself and didi
think of tho legislature putting n
In there who would go to stealing,
don't know that there ls any i.te&llrj
he said naively, "but I havo hoi
that there ls something rotten up I
creek. "
TACK I.KS NO LKOISLATUUK.
"God knows what will become
this poor old town." he said. "Tl
might have better streets than tl
have, but the town does not levy fl
tax now." Jokingly, he Said that
ought to sue thl i old town f..r vi
nearly costing tho life of a Uni
States senator for ho was Injured qu
seriously lately. Ile recalled tho f
that In 1801 tho law was doolared i
o institutional and the State had p
hlbltlon for four months and 1
blind tigers broko out then and
took to tho woods with tho law
keep them from killing lt entirely.
One blind tiger came .out tuen f
as he went out of oltlCi soon af I
wanis thoy had bad nobody Lo |
their eyes out. Ile does not mean
brag, but his BUOCCSSOrs p ir'.iaps 1
not felt, that they should do
much drudgery. Ho told what
had done, as governor with the ass
ance of his priv?te secretary in kc
lng track of the dispensary constan
Tho l?gislature had tinkered w
tho law so muon that they had got the i
law quite different ?rom the original; i
He deolarod that the original law
placed the governing pnwor In tho
hands or meu eleoted by the people.
What wo want is a legislature that
will take the law back to its orignal
uaoorlnuB. Who, under his adminis
tration, bad heard of habitual drunk
ards getting liquor. Some druuk
ards in this county ' had become ol?
most hij personal enemies.
Ho doridod tho recent pronounce
ment cf tho directors ot tho dispen
sary to the ofToot that they would go
buck to tho uso of the request books
Why did thoy over drop the use of the
books? Thoy bad no such right to do
so.
rr WAS ms wornt.,
in tho oom-tituMonal convention of
1895 tuoro was a tight on the dispen
sary question. It was tho desire of
the dispensary advocates to Incorpo
rate tho dispensary i&w body and
breeches into the organlo law. He
got up when prodded to do so, and
said that he would bo glad to havo
tlie law Incorporated In tho oonstitu- ]
lion, but the matter was beforo the
United States supreme court and if lt
should bo deolared unconstitutional,
tho State would have rook-ribbed pro
hlbltton forever. He asked for the de
bato to bo adjourned and ho prepared
tho se.otlon in artlolo 8 of tho consti
tution which retors to tho dispensary
law.
If wc get to high lloonse, and that
ls what this hullyballoo's about, the
town of K I go Hold cannot issue that
license and lt munt ho granted by tho
authorities at Columbia
Ho roforrcd to tho fact that many
of the people of ridgefield oannot voto
on tho dispensary under the Hr Joe
law because they have no registration
cortilloUos. About 26,000 people
would bo barred from expressing their
wishes. Again, tho Brice law does
not provide for voting out distilleries.
Ail thc blind tigers in Plckens would
have to do would be to drive up to one
r.f these distilleries In a hollow and
load up on Illicit whiskey.
Following ls the part whioh he
read:
ADV1CK TO T1IK COMM1TTKIC.
Thc newspapers stato that the leg
islative lnveotigatlug committee will
commence its work at Spartanburg
next Tuesday. I do not wish to ap
poar clllclous and Indulge lu criticism
until 1 am certain lt is deserved but 1
feel sure that others beside myscli
have been disquieted and. somewhat
disconcerted, to uso no strongei
terms, by the reports which came ti
us that this committee has already
exhausted its oxpsnse fund of 13,001
and there is the probability that it;
work will be hindered or prevcntei
for laok of money. I hope these wer
kilo rumors withe ut foundation be
cause lb would be little short of ?
scandal if tho oommlttoo chargei
with such important work should fal
to do lt and go to the legislature wit!
snob a liasco as that. Newspaper
have led us to suppose that ther
would be startling dlsolosures as t
tho coi ru pt lon In Spartanburg an
we have been treated to a sort c
opera bouffe performance ?n the Uti
gU.lon Instituted to seoure possessio
o? Mr. Farnum's papers. I foel tba
I voice tho opinion of a great man
thousands of my fellow citizens who
1 say that while we are Interested 1
unearthing corruption hi any an
every department cf tl e dispensar
that the people arc ?<lr? Vt,ry muc
concernod about the ruhio/l} gs of 1<
cal dispensers. Th ' dfp, ....- fjiptic
with the dispensary^oCs hot rest u]
on these.
There aro a great many storli
atloat and 1 have heard any numb
of these and 1 therefore presume I
make some suggestions and I leno
that all right thinking men. lnolu
lng th ?se most Interested will thin
rather than blame, mo for doing whi
I shall b ?cause I shall do so beean
no one elsa seems willing to disonar)
thc ungracious task. There has bei
talk almost universally of thc sudeh
wealth or evidences of much mon
boinn In the hands of two high di
penfiary officials. Ono of these ls ll
h g and can take care of himsel
The other ls dead, and his frion
among whom I count myself one, el
sire to have the truth known and l
memory cleared from what we bello
lo b^a vilo and malicie in slander,
ought to In easy to find out from t
b:inks and tho records in tho clerl
clfiee whether there is any foundatl
in fact for these oft repeated storh
"ll()W KA hS IO A NU INFAMOUS.''
Mr. Hubert Evans, chairman of t
board of dispensary directors, is t
living man who will, 1 am sure, gin
ly welcome the most searching lnv
II gatton Into his financial oondlti
and tho lamented H. H. Crum is t
other. His friends will, I kno
thank me for giving them the oppi
tunlty to prove how false and In
mons aie the statements which hs
bonn sent broadcast about his large
tate,
Thon wo have reports that a
Towlll, another director, accopti
very lino horso from some whist
man in Kentucky as a present, wti
Mr. Itoykln, the other member of t
hoard of directors, was drummer
some one or two whiskey houses
fore he was placed on tho boa
Have those houses had any uni
share of the trade of thc dispensa
Why ls lt necessary to keep on hs
such a large stock at the Stato c
pensar y when lt ia on a oash basis s
goods can be ordered out and dist I
uted In 30 days? Who is rcsponsl
for such a large stock of unsalea
goods when whiskey ls a staple arti
and a good brand of it Just as salon
one day as another? lias all
whiskey that has been bought b
distributed to the local dispensen
ls lt In stock? Has thero been
loss, or to put lt plainly, no steal
in this way? Wc want light, gen
men of thc committee, and wc oui
to have had lt before any of tl
elections were held.
TA L KS OF OLD TIM KS,
1 with to call attention to a pl
of thc Ihm )r question whioh r
have beon lost s'ght of by many ;
at tills juncture lt ls v/oll to refi
the minds of tiie people by a st:
meat of fact.
When the dispensary law first w
Into operations The News and Com
Tiie, State, the Greenville News al
with many other newspapers tur
with the most virulent abuse of
Stite government and of all pen
who had anything to do with
la 'i enforcement.
Tho constables were called "sp
and thc people were urged to re
with all their might and In every
possible tho enforcement) of tho I
Lawlessness was considered by tl
newspapers as a badge of superior
the constables wero hounded bey
endurance and thc Darlington
followed as a natural and inovlti
res tit. For three or four years
policy was kopt up and evory poss
Influence was brought to bear by tl
aewspapors to break down the dispon-11
lary system. Any number of Iles
wore told about any and evorybody
joDoerned with the arl ministration of
bim law and lt was only after repeated
Meats at the polls by overwhelming
majorities that any semblance of dc
souey tn ntl ending to the dispensary
ind *b? officials connooto? -with it
Dbtaiood. Tho armory of abuse and
slander was exhausted but tho lying
Dontluued to go on; by Insinuation,
Innuendo and falsehood tho Bystom
lias been attaoked; and of course, as
founder and father of tho dispensary,
I have been abusod and lied on as no
uther man In tho Stato's history cvar
was.
"UBBF LAH) SCHUMIS TO DKBTKOY
In 1902 all political oppositions
oeased and no man was told enough to t
offer for ofllee in tho Sta co as an anti- ?
dispensary candidate. I do not wish j
to revivo fnationalism and I am sorry
to bo compelled to have the appoar
anco of doing so, but tho truth de-1 j
mauds of mc this statement that dur
ing tho last six years and ?von before
the majority of the South Carolina
legislature has been composed of those
who wero once antl-Tillmanites or
Conservatives, and if it bo true that j
bad men havo been eleoted to control (
and direct thc affairs of the dispensary (
t.lio Conservatives of tho Stace are rc
sponslble for lt. 1 believe that there j
has bern a deep laid scheme to de (
stroy tho system by mismanagement,
and tho oharge that it is a political
machino may be well sustained by the
faot that these same Conservativo leg
islatures ammended tho law to provide
that tho county boards of control
should bo appolntod by the recom
meudatlon of tho members of tho gen
aral assembly thus placing Its admin
lstratlon in the counties in tho bauds
of politicians and their satellites. I
am aware that many of the strongest
supporters of thc dispensary now are
men who woro and aro yet probably
Conservatives while some of Its most
bitter antagonist aro former Reform
ers. It, therefore, cannot bo chaged
that I am endeavoring to draw the
old lines whioh rent tho State in
twain, but there ls every Indication to
show that tho present onslaught on
the dispensary ls being engineered and
lcd by those who have been, are now,
and will ever be my most bitter polltl
cal opponents. The more venomous
of these men have not hositated recent
ly to say lu the press and in other
places that they regard tho dispensary
as tho main prop of Tillman's political
fortune and that If they oan pull that
down ho will fall with it.
Tho people aro treated to columns
and colu -?ns of cant and hypocritical
moralizing and sermonizing cm thc
rottenness and corruption and evils of
the dispensary system while the sole
purpose of thc crusade in the opinion
of the best and closest observers ls
that morality and temperance have
no place in the hearts and minds of
these men bub that their only hope
and desire ls to organize a movement
that will result in my polltloal over
throw.
KLKCT1CI) ON OTIIBK ISSUKS
I want to say right here and now
that I had been eleoted governor twice
on other issues than liquor control and
the dispensary had nothing todo with
my political fortunes. lb never con
tributed in the slightest to my election
to the senate. The'scttlcment of the
liquor question came to me unsought
aud I would have been glad to have
had nothing to do with lb. Rut as the
Issue was forced while I was governor
I m vdt! such settlement of it as I
deemed best in the interest of temper
auce and morality among the people
of the State and the ungratified on
dorsement which has been given the
dispensary system by the masses i.?
sufficient justification of the wisdom
of any action. 1 had won the res peo t
and confidence of the people because
of their faith in my integrity and
c'iaracter. If I had consented to keep
quiet and steer clear of Stato politics,
having nothing to do with local affairs
as a politician would havd done, I
would probably havo had less opposi
tion and might have continued in tho
so ?ate without navios to light for the
place. The position of senator ls a
very high one and 1 co voted thc honor
beoause 1 believed that 1 could bc of
som ; service to the people of the State.
My record in Washington will show
whether or not 1 have been able to ac
complish anything worthy tho admira
tion of tho people and to keep my hold
00 their affections. I would not re
tain the (.llhie one minute longer than
1 can hold it with honor and maintain
my self-respect. It would be cowardly
to lo.>o sight of the public welfare In
the pursuit of my personal ambition.
I believe tho dispensary system to be
the best for the people and for tho
cause of temperance and si believing,
1 havo acted. 1 believe now that the
law can bo changed so as to preclude
the possibility of corruption in the
pu nh ase of whiskey for the State dis
pensary, and lt would rost with the
people whether or not the regulations
and rules governing the local dispen
saries are observed. No law can ad
minister itself and when the grand
julies fail, as they havo failed, to see
that tho dlsponsary law lg enforced In
the counties tho people themselves are
to blame.
STOl'3 Tl IK (I lt A Kl'
No system of liquor selling or prohi
bition either o tn e vor succeed any bet
ter than the dispensary has succeeded
unless there ls an enlightened and de
termined publlcoplnlon which compels
observance to thc law. If the legisla
ture at lbs next session will make
such amendment and changes In the
law as I am prepaid to offer, the
boldest and most unscrupulous ene
mies of tho system will bo compelled
to declaro that there ls no room for
"graft." That the law ls now dis
oredlted by many who wcro onco its
staunch supporters ls duo entirely to
thc (cheming of those who have
changed it and taken thc power from
thc hands of the governor where lt
rightly belongs and placed lt In the
hands of the legislature and Its crea
tures. If there ls corruption lt ought j
tobe punished and the System purged
by such changes In the statute as will
mako lt Impossible. The Issue will
bo presented to the members of the
legislature at Its next session as to
whether they will change tho law so
as to lift Its administration above
suspicion. 1 repeat again lt can bc
dono. If the legislature falls to act
then lt will rest with tho people next
summer to elect a legislature and
governor that will reform tho Insti
tution or to elect a legislature and
a governor that will kill lt. if thc
peoplo want prohidltlon and arc pre
pared to cnf oreo lt, then I want them
to have it . i'd bo glad to seo at lonst
a dozen of our counties voto out the
dispensary hotween now and January
in order to let tho pr.oplo ot those
counties have an object lesson in seeing
how far prohibition will be prohibition
In South Carolina. A great many let
ters and arbloles arc appoarlng In tho!
nowspancr !n regard to the t.hant/A?
hat havo boen wrought lu Cherokee
nd Plokens by voting out the dis
ionsary. l warn the poople to tak)
hese at their true vahn.
cn A i.hUNdici OHKHOKW?. ^
A n&w broom always sweeps olean
nd the prohibitionists In those
unities are undoubtedly exerting
heuisolvcs to tho utmost at tnis
imo, but Justas certain us like cant o
iroduoes like of feet will it oems to
?ass that demoralization and failure
viii result there as lb has resulted in
Cansas and there are indications that
ve aro not getting tho whole truth
ibout theso o aunties. Now some of
ny bitterest enemies havo pretended
io lind in my letter to Mr, nigglns
lasts for tho idea that I am straddling
ir woakenlng ou the dispensary issure.
ro all such I say that they may put
,heir doubt to rest if they ever had
my. I shall Qght for a reformation
n tho dlspenary and Its restoration
jQ tho original scheme upon which it
was organized. 1 promised Mr. Net
tles and othor prohibition leaders in
ibo legislature In Daovmber, 1892, that
t would free tho Stato from barrooms
md I did lt oven In (Jnarleston.
wu KKK IIB STANDS.
And 1 now say that if tho legisla
ture now in power does not at its next
icBslon, change the law so as to reform
the system, I will undertake, If I am
living and well next summer, to light
for a legislature that will toform lt. i
lo not stand for a debauohed and oor
rupt dispensary. I will not light for
mob. Hut 1 do stand for the system
is lt was ffrst Inaugurated, and re
gardless of consequences to myself,
will light to purify and maintain lt.
I repeat what I have already said be
fore. If is useless to talk about sell-1
lng liquor In South Carollua under any
lyeetm of license, high or low. I have
rloolared and I believed it to be true
that a saloon would never bo open In
South Carolina again. Instruction of
the dispensary will mean of course a
free rein for those who sell liquor Illic
itly, but I prefer to see lt sold thus
rather than see it plaoed in the hands
of Individuals, a privato monopoly
created with thc greator demoralize
tion that would follow. Fully one
third if not more of those who are now
howling for the destruction of tho dis
pensary aro avowed candidates of high
license, and the prohibitionist dupe
themselves into the belief that they
have succeeded with thc aid of theso
men In destroying the dispensary,
that they cw maintain prohibition.
But 1 perdlot that tho light will always
be between prohibition and the dis
pennary rather than oetween prohibi
tion and license and in any event I
shall use every instrumentality In my
power to antagonize giving the right
to soil liquor to privato Individuals.
I want this matter settled entirely
apart from my personal and political
fortunes, lt is a much greater (jues
lion for the people of South Carolina
as to how they shall wisely and best
govern the sale of liquor than as to
whether 1 or somo one else represents
them in the senate. 1 know there are
many mon who will vote for me re
gardless of their former political af
filiations and of their present attitude
on this question and it ls probable
that there will be many who will be
aggrieved at my activity in dealing
with this question. 1 can not help
that. I have the same right and in
terest in local affairs as any other citi
zen and mv elevation to the cilice I
now hold would have been spurned
had I felt that I would be deprived of
freedom of speech and aotlun becausa
of it. I prefer to retire to private
lifo if it is the will of tho people of the
Stato rather than surrender my con
victions on this important matter
and play the c ward in dealing with
lt.
WEATHAJR AND CR0P3.
Tho WO( kly Crop Hun Mc (In I KIMI <Ml
by .Sect ion Director II auor.
The mean tempera'ure for the
week ending 8 a. m. August 7th was
slightly normal, but the week ended
with successive heat. The extremes
were a maximum of 5)8degrees at Co
lumbia on the Otb, and a minimum of
00 degrees at Greenville on the 2nd,
and at Kingstree on thc 3rd. The
prevallng clear nights were favorable
for rapid radiation, causing consider
able complaint of tho nights having
been too coi 1 for vegetation, although
thermometer readings were not nm
usa ly low. Tho winds were generally
light. There were no damages repor
ed from storms, hail or Hoods.
Thc greator portion of the state
was without rain. A beneficial rain
on the 1th covered the territory from
Ocoucc county to Cherokee and a por
tion of York, but did not oxterd east
ward beyond the Piedmont section.
The extreme, southern portion had
rain on thc oth. The drought ls se
vere and Inj ur iou? to crops over the
western and central counties, and
over practically all the Savannah
river valley counties, but the need of
rain ls felt over prac Moally the entire
State.
Tlie weather was favorable for cul
tivation and laying by orops which
work ls practically finished.
With tho exception of geed reports
from the coast counties where cotton
ls Impovlng, there seems to have
been a general deterioration in the
condition of cotton over the whole
stato due to the plants turning yoi
low, shedding leaves, squares and
young bolls, and to rust willoh is now
widely prevalent. Reports of damage
by insects continue out are fewer than
last week. Cotton is opening gener
ally over the southern counties and
In places, picking will ho active next
week. The lirst bale of the season
came from Hattlevillo and was ginned
on the 1st of August. Tho 13 year
aver, gd of first bales Is August 6th;
the earliest was July 28, 181)0, tho lat
est August 20th, 1805.
The dry weather is Injurious to late
corn, especially that portion now in
the tasselling stago. Tobacco curing
ls nearly finished, with tho late orop
better than the early one. lOarly
rico ls heading and harvostlng will bo
ghi the latter part of the mouth.
Desired I m ni Iteration,
It ls reported that Jimmie Hyde
threatens to j ?in William WaldorlT
Aslor and James J. Van /Mien In the
expatriated colony abroad. If Jim
mie wt uki only put his threat Into
execution and persuade Harry Lehr,
Mettle Green, Uiulc Russel Sago and
a fe?/ others who could ba easily
spared to follow suit IKJ v.ould confer
a favor upon tho general public that
would mako partial amends for lils
record In this country.
Lighting'
Newberry was Monday night visit
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panied hy a heavy rain. Four resi
dences in thc city woro struck by
lightning, one of them having tho
weathorboading torn from ono end.
Fortunately no ono was Injured nor
wore tin j of the houses set on fire.
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Tho man who never falls never
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A home without love is merely a
stopping place.
It ls easy to make exouses for those
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God's throne is not readied by way
of the back pews.
The man who would be young again
should cultivate a youthful spirit.
When a man begins wondering If
ho looks his age it is a sure sign that
he docs.
When we want to employ a boy we
are not going to employ one who friz
ales lils hair and lets the wavey locks
stick out over his brow from beneath
a hat set on thc back of his head.
Always speak the truth, but don't
forget that it ls often wiso not to
speak at all.
Strange that so many young men
think that in order to be goud "fol
lows" they have to do wrong things.
The man who enjoys what little he
has is far bottor oif than tho man who
has everything and enjoys nothing.
What hoe beoome of all uuo OldTH?ti
who could oradle ten acres nf wheat a
day when they were in their prime.
Things would doubtless taste Just
as good now as they did when we were
boys if wc haa boys1 appetites.
No matter how rank the grass grows
in your yard, if your neighbor goes
visiting and asks your boy to take care
of his yard, the neighbor's yard always
looks well.
Young man, when she begins hint
ing that you would better save your
money instead of spending lt for buggy
hire and loe oream soda, it is timo to
either back up or begin looking for a
cottnge.
When "?raft" is exposed immediate
ly thc pessimists begin declaring that
tho world ls growing worse. The
world ls really growing better all the
time because light ls being thrown
Into dark places and rogues aro being
uncovored.
.'A Merciful JIMIKO."
Here are some of the sentences for
manslaughter Imposed by Judge
Klugh In the sessions court In Laur
ens a week ago:
Jim Kelloy, two years.
Balle Parks, three years.
Mart Gary, two years.
Virge Williams, four years.
Clarence Neely, two years.
Coocher Clfcrdy and Dick Davis,
seven years each.
And the following for assault and
battery with intent bo kill-an offense
that would be murder wcro the Intent
successfully carried out:
Klotchcr Spurgeon, 18 months or
*ino line.
This looks like playing at Jintlco.
The penalty for manslaughter ls from
two to thirty years. Tho averago lu
the abovo oases of manslaughter is
not (i lite four years.
The law as thus administered is no
great terror to tho the evil-door.
And lt looks like putting a verv
low estimate on the value of human
life. Newberry Observer.
Quarantine Brutality,
A case of quarantine brutality was
reported to the Louisiana Stato board
of health by Judge J. L. Gaudot, who
who presides in the parishes contigu
ous to New Orleans. Ho went from
Jefferson to his homo In St. John and
was there set upon hy sovoral guards
Mid brutally beaten and tho parish
health oflloer refused to recognize the
health cor ti Sente, whjph ho brough^
from tLo parish he?iui c??locr or Jef
ferson that ho had not been near any
infection for six days. Toe Judge also
reports that a lady and her child were
manacled and conveyed to a detention
oamp willoh was unlit for human
habitation,
M 1st ?koii l 'or A Bural nr.
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Ga., was fataly shot Tuesday night by
his wife for a burglar. Ile was un
conscious until his death at 1 30
Wednesday morning. Mr. Cobb wa
shot twice, ono shot taking cl?ect in
tho head, the other shot taking effect
In tho abdomen.
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