--=^- ^' ~' : ^ i? - n7."^."?"~'^-M^-^l, "" ""'" " ~~ j iaarl'fff:i:;?r'' I **-???*-*-: n~Q.r*~?^T^i. 1 ansW^^^T ^""^kol-WKKKLY ' I II I LAN OAS TICK. S. 0.! AU l! S T 3n- '9"? KSI AliUShKU^M*^" Whiskey House's Letters tt Col. Mixson Read. Show Debauchery and Corrrnptioi aays M r . Gaston?More About Attempted Briebry. Columbia, 8. C. August 25.? Special to Greoovillo News. When the legislative investiga ting committee was appointed Arthur L. Gaston was named a member of the coramitte.j >? virtue of his chairmanship of th< dispensary committee of tb House . lie has ever been decid edly the champion of the dispen sary. It wub therefore all th more significant when he arose to (lay ami stated calmly and wit force that he was satisfied that th whiskey houses were debanchin the people of the State and thu the debauching and corruption ,va not alone in the lowly places, bu that it extended to the highest of ficials connected with the dispen ary system. This, he said, was result of facts that he hua gather* and particularly of the letters the had been secu-od by the commit tee, notably those from Kelly ?! Co., surrendered by Col. Mi? son. Today closed tho second sessio ot the committee. Tbore will b other meetings and from the wa things are developing there ar likely to be very many more sef sions becau90thei several com nil tees seem to have taps all alon the line and about all that is nec essary is to'sturt the ball rolling Messrs. Spivey and Gaston, c the suecial committee on hnsinns methods have developed u grot deal and when the tables and i gores that they have in hand ar all studied there will he more fore in the work. They are keepin the pace of the Lyon and Chrii tenscn committee, and the Frase Bleaso committee is yet to I heard from and it evidently wi have much to report and man witnesses to present. There wi much lively evidence today an some of if dramatic. THE KEI.LEY LETTER*. Mr. Gaston stated without an equivocation that the Kelley le tors, while extremely guardet meant very much and showed very bad state of affairs. It is I be noted that this firm sold on] $38,000 of nearly $3,000,000 < liquor used by the dispensary ai nually. Mr Gaston had studie the letters during the night and 1 read extracts from the Kelley le ters to their agent Col. Mixson f us to give point to what hewislif to develop. From the letter"! March 15th he read: 4'Our Mr. White will write M Evans in a few days and ask hi when he will be in Atlanta, whc our Mr. White, or Lesxinsky wi a L! it t * mem uuu mere. In the lettor ot September Is there wan this paragraph: "We will endeavor to keep tt gentlemen mentioned on our bid* and will trust you to look afte Messrs. T.& B. In regard to tl cases of whiskey which you asko us to ship Messrs. Towill an Boykin, wo hog to advise that v shipped them promptly, and wro you twice to this effect." Then came these sequels: 4'Oct. 10th, 1903. Mr. Wbi saw your friend in Atlanta tl olher?day and fixed things up wil Lliim. We feel sure that we wi I j Springs at this meeting, but will ( not hope for an order for Deep , Springs now, but nro qnifc suro I it will come later on." n "Dec. 5th, 1904 We bog to advise wo have completed the 1,500 cas? shipment." After the letters had been read Col. Mixson stated that this firm _ did not know either Mr. Hoy kin or Mr. Tewill and had never met . either of them. Ho did not know if , the firm knew the third member of q the hoard, but the letters would v show for thumsel res on that point, i These letters from one wee bit e of a seller showed many thinks. [_ Up in Spartanburg the dispeusers insisted that they knew nothe ing about samplo or complimeiitary cases and got real mad whon b it was suggested that they wrote e for them and then put the goods g on the shelves and sold them, it Here u?e two extracts from the a Kelley letters on this side line: "We are also enclosing you a ~ letter from .1 W. Harmon, Spar* tanburg. Wo have shipped this ft party three cases in the last year, and think this is simply a gouge." "Also shipped today one case of Silver Spring to Mr. Howell the dispenser at Union, S. C., and c* one case to Mr. .J. W. Harm an at Spartanburg. Also a few bottles 1 1. i _ t m.? " ..... eucn tu'o aines macne, at WimisUo10 ro, and A. C. Murrel of Todd^ ville." e TIIE LABEL OHAfT. j. The dispensary has established g a bottling plant for higher priced liquors. Mr. Boykin representing f the hoard went to Cincinnati to inquire into the business. Ho s took with him whatever bids and ir papers there were on the subject * and when he returned ho had lbought over ten million lithogrnphed laliels for more than $35,000. :e ' This label transaction was a red g a light all day. Every now and then some one*would run into it. r- ' >0 Mr. Charles, the dispensary clerk, jl in his testimony presented the bills and there they were for over ten million labels. The commute ^ figured and kept on figuring, but could get no basis. It there were any bids for these labels no one seemed to know it definitely, ox y cept that Mr. Boykin had taken ' with him all bids and had not roturned them to the files of the disa pensary. Mr. Charles stated that ? the bill bad never yet been approv y ed by the board nor had it ho n ^ oidered paid. The labels are be5* ing U8?d. It wa9 developed that l(* the oheap labels now in use are 10 sold at 25 cents per thousand and at one time that they were supplied at eleven cents pec,thousand. f THE MIXSON AFFAIR. Col. Mixson had nothing to r. say on the subject of the Lanahan m denial of his story, but Col. Hal. m W. Richardson stated that a Cin11 cinna*i man told him at that time that ho would willingly pay Col. Mixson $00,000 for a slice of the dispensary melon and that Col. ie Mixson would not talk business. b, L. M. Fouche also told that at the r time Col. Mixson spoke to him !o end others of the alleged Lena(1 han offer and that it was generally ij talked of at the time. Mr. R. E. re Blackeney related that ho heard te Col. Mixson accuse Mr. Lanahan of supplying "Blind Tigers" with whiskey and that he would not te talk business with him or buy any ie of his liquors. Ill WHAT THE RECORDS SHOW. ill The business committee prcpr S3nted a great many intensely in* torosting figures of the sales b o o certain of the supposed favorit houses to the dispensary. Evi denco was presented to show thn during twelve months the dispel sary bought from the llichland Dii tillcry Co., $992,000 worth ci liquor. Tho records shosv thn the dispensary for the same yen bought from all sources $2,299 007.23 and that, thoreforo, th Richland Distilling Co., secure 40 per cent, of the total husines and that for sixteen months thn tho same distilling company o Columbia seemed about $1,212 000, worth of tho business. Th: detailed statement is in the Inter nal Revenue reports. Tho statii tics also snow mat l.anahan 8 who sold tlio dispensary. Mr. it Cantey simply did some clerical 1 f work foi the regular reprosentative of tho firm and was not and ' is hud been for only a short while - employed by Mr. Karl, tho rcgus lar agent of Kleisbmann. Mr. | n Charles was positive that Mr. s Bovkia lia.il novel* represented if Lanaban, as had boen testified to, x and he had no knowledge of his i- ever having represented a liquor le house is There was considerable testi in mony as to tho Weiters case, from ? (Charleston. It was shown that ' >f the State Board held up $5,277.75 J i. out of the profits of Charleston bete cause of this Welters case. Of ) this amount $5,152.28 has been n pTud for feos to eminent counsel, >f for fines, printing, expenses, ' d travelling and tho like. Tho at- 1 i. torneys are to be congratulated as ( i they received $3,700 of tho money h and if it was to be spent it was 1 it fortunate that such good folks got 1 )- the money for their legal talent. & Mr. Harris added to tho stock ( '0 of letter* tho committee is accum- | ,(1 ulating and presented several *et- | ters from the Mallard Distilling i ;s Co., which gave some interesting I id side lights. d Mr. Harris denied that ho had 1 d over received a cent for getting i Howie a job, hut ho was candid in 1 saying he was satisfied Howie had c 'O paid some one for trying to get ( i- him his job. Mr. Harris went on I II to say that while he never accepted i is a cent, that offers were made him < J and that it seemed to he recognized 1 at that time a? being quite the i thing to pay some one for work i (d necessary to get jobs on tho con 1 if stabulary and other places, al- i ?. iKnnnli lio liQ/I nn ,/1nn .11.1 i. MV l?MV? IUWII lull It U1U I iy any good. ft The committee will moot here j again on September 5. August Kohn. Kl A NEW JERSEY ED/TOR'S or TESTIMONIAL. Ilt M. T. Lyneh, Editor of the e- Pbilipsburg, N. J., Daily post lil writes: I have used many kinds ie of medicines for coughs and colds 1(l in myYaraily hut never anything so good as Foley's Honey and 01 Tar. I cannot say too much Ln praise of it." Sold By Funid rtflrhnrbr Phnrmnoi? (y. Vl"?"1 I J . V. w 1IUJU, be Kershaw b. C. h- ?? ?? r(j Charleston Dispenser Short and ,g Skips Away. re j,j Spocial to Greonvillo News. j)e Charleston, Aug. 26.?DiHpenC(j sury Inspector Floyd, has anIW nounced that a shortago of about as $2,700 has been found in dispennt sarv No. 5 on East Bay street and r* Dispenser O. F. Fortune has disY appeared, leaving his bondsmen in the lurch. This dispensary was a resort for d.sck laborers, tfinmstors n. and negroes generally, and did an he enormous business in "old hog" h? as the negroes call "Palmetto One - ed as full, no doubt by the agents, who made a recent invontorj. Pay .your subscription. j if J* Ansel States His Position, i Candidate for Govornor Shows Where He Stands on the 1mp prtant Issuo of the coming Campaign. Kditor Grconvillo Now*: I have received many inquiries is to my views of the lirpior (piesLion in South Carolina, and the best way of dealing with that all absorbing question, dispensary or po dispensary, and 1 4tako this neans of slating my position. In the first place, I aru opposed to the system of a Stale disponsa"f. I once thought it was the post solution of the liquor question, because I thought it would mini ( nizo and decrease the sale of iquors in this Slate, but when we consider that more than three Million dollars worth of whiskey k pas boen sold by the various dispensaries of the State tho past fear, my hopes have been disappointed ; and it appears to me that \ 101110 other method should be adopted. In the second place.I am in favor j )f local county option as between i prohibition and county dispensaries, that is, I am in favor of any ^ joimty in the State voting upon ho question as to whether they .visli Hi^nnnfinriiiu 1 ' n najority of tho qualified voters of .he county desires prohibition for ^ ;hat particular county, then 1 am )ne who behoves that thoy should ^ invo it, und I further believe that j the good people of such county will see to it that tho prohibition law is enforced. * 1 If the votj of any county should t)0 in favor o? the sale of liquor 1 ,n that particular coun ty, then I s favor a law providing for a county 1 lisponsary with a hoard of control 1 >f throo menibors, to bo appointod " r>y tho Governor of tie State, a which county board shall have control of tho purchase of liquors * for tho county dispensaries, the 1 lppointment of dispensaries, fixing their salaries, etc., all sales to ' be made under tho rules and reg- ^ illations of the present dispensary ' law, with such other and further { restrictions as may be thought * wise by the Legislature. 1 am opposed to beer dispensa- 1 rios, as I think that beer when I sold at all shoukl be sold in tho regular county dispensaries. I favor a straight law against the unlawful sale of liquor. My experience of twelve years as one of the solicitors of this State, has convinced mo that whatever system may be adopted that unlawful sales will be made by some. It is, therofore, necessary that stringent laws should bo passed to punish the ubhnd tiger," those who sell unlawfully. Make it the duty of all sheriffs, | deputy shcritTs,magistrates, constablest policemen, and town marshals to sco that tho luw against the unlawful sale of liquor is rigidly enforced in their counties, cities and towns, and it might he well to give them half of the tines that are collected from those convicted through tho agoncy of such | officers of tho offence of unlawful sales, transportation, or making of whiskey. Tho county hoards of control should be required to make a roporl to tho presiding judge at each term of tho Court of General Sessions for thier respective counties, showing tho purchases niado, tho amount of sales by the county disponsaiios, ind of nil theirucN as such county board of control, and should boliible criminally for any violation if the law, rules and regulations of .he dispensary law. 1 am opposed to the high license lystcm. It is too near the old ' inrrooin system, and would not lecrejJso the sales of liquor, what?vor the restrictions might he, but vould incroase them. The man ,vho pays the high license would vant to make all the profit ho ;ould, and hence, the moro sales, lie more profits. Personally 1 would like to see 10 liquor sold in this State as a leverage, but it is a condition vhich confronts us, and the (plosion is how best to deal with that :ondiliou. There is no hivy that :un bo passed Unit will keep some jeoplo from drinking liquor, still [ believe it to be the duty of tho State to pass such laws as will mninizo the use as much as possible. This is a brief outline of my Ucwh upon the liquor question. Martin l<\ Ansel. Greenville, Aug. 20. BIcasc and Lyon Spat. 3ne Thought the Other Discourteous and Theu the Chairman Had to Get Between ? The Two Made up. Columbia Record, 25th. There was something else for ho spectators to talk about at tho lispensary committee meeting just )efore adjournment this afternoon, dr. Charles was on the stand and dr. Blouse made a motion for a eocss, saying that Mr. Charles ill on not bo exhausted. Tho moion came just after a question by dr. Lyon, who at oneo remarked ibout it. Mr Bleusorose to his feet ,ndMr. Lyon Htartedgtowards bun. Mr. Frascr, the chairman, got letwoon Ihnhvo nnil nnirl llml n?lt>. ng discourteous was intended. Mr. Blease also said thn same, 3ut remarked that be was ready for Mr. Lyon any time he camo for him- Then Mr. Lyon remark-, id that when ho did come he would miash his (Blease''s) face. Mr. Blease remarked that ho would tie ready for it. "Yes I suppose you havo a pistol," said Mr. Lyon. ''No, 1 havo not," saul Mr. Blease. All this time the chairman and the scrgoant at arms were between the two gentlemen and endeavoring to quiot them. Mr. Blcaso insisted on being searched and nothing was found on hiH person D I ' Afterwards tho two gontlemon made up in the committee room and mutual explanations were made. USED FOR PNEUMONIA. Dr. C. J. Bishop of Agnow, Mich., says, UL havo used Foleys Money and Tar in three very severe casts of pneumonia with good results in every case. lto* fuse substitutes. Sold by Fonder burk Pharmacy. C. O. Floyd Kershaw, S. (J. Tillman a Prohibitionist. Southern Christian Advocate. Recent utterances and actions of Sonator Tillman indicate that at heart the senator is a prohibitionist. The belief appears justified that if the dispensary were not his creature foi which ho feels an unusual responsibility, he would join with all power to socuro piohibition instead of the dispensary.