Show DI NOT RESUME 1 THE RA1D PLANNED Whisky Constabulary Are Now Lying Very Low BLIND TIGERS ARE RUNNING WIDE OPEN Inaction of the State Supreme Court Cause of the Row L 1 People at n Loss to Account Why tIc Court Han Been so Long Con Mideringr the Question of the Constitutionality Con-stitutionality of the Law and i Many Wild Rumors Arc Afloat i Tillmnn Assumes Control of All Police Officers Charleston S C April Contrary to public expectation the whisky constabulary con-stabulary who reached here on Sunday night in their retreat from Darlington did not resume their raiding today They took an early morning train out of the city and proceeded to Orange burg about ninety miles north of here where they are resting at present The object of their visit to that place is not known but it is presumed it is for the purpose of searching for contraband whisky The dispensaries here are closely guarded by policemen and doing but very little business The blind tigers gers are open and there is no trouble in getting all the liquor one may want without the seal of the Jfaimetto state blown in the bottle t I The people of this city as well as those in the interior of the state are I I I looking to the supreme court of the j state which is in session at Columbia for a possible relief from the strained condition of affairs and there are not a few who blame that tribunal for the bloodshed at Darlington Suits involving involv-ing the constutionality of the dispensary dispen-sary law were argued before that court three months ago and no decision has yet been rendered by the three judges of the court Two are conservatives Justices McDow and McGowan the third justice an out and out Tillman i It is certain that an early decision of the court on the constitutionality of the dispensary law would have done much toward quelling the excitement I created by its enforcement I the decision I cision had been in favor of its constitu I I ionality those who are fighting the law would have practically given up the fight People are at a loss to know why the court has failed to render a decision are afloat and all sorts of wild rumors II |