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Show AN OBJECT LESSON. ' The choice for governor at the last election in South Carolina was between one of the old thorough bred South Carolinans and one 7 of the plebeians. As everybody knows, there' ia caste in South Carolina. There are certain families there that believe they are entitled to be called first families. They rate next to them the intelligent darkies, then . the poor whites, then the cotton field darkies. Well, the plebeian won in thia last election, and we mention it just to give bint to our legislature that he won on the score that he did yo'v Jielieve in prohibition prohibi-tion while hia opponent did. They have tried pr-liihilion pr-liihilion several years in South Carolina, and they are very tired of it, not heause people do not drink, but beause it ia making sneaks and liars and grafters graft-ers out of great, number of their people, and so they preferred A plebeian with some ideaa of justice jus-tice to a high-toned, educated, splendid gentlemen who had a kink, in bia heart that he was aerving find by fighting everything in the way of liquor. But the plebeian ia a bright man, no one donbta hia courage and on the whole the best people in South Carolina are willing to give him a chance to aee what he will do. We mention it because our reformers re-formers in theHcgialature who have tried ao hard to get something" equivalent td'prohniilionejtpe'ciHT-ly td'prohniilionejtpe'ciHT-ly for Salt Lake, that they have frittered two winters win-ters away, may learn a lesson from experience. The flood tide of prohibition baa swept over the south and the people have decided that they cannot by statute make real angela out of toughs. |