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A BIC JaD DISPENSARY ROTTENNE' (Continuied from Firs.t P'age.) his statement to me after hearing my explanation of my sale of that bottle of gin, that ho did not see how I could have done otherwise than obey the instructions of the commissioner, especially as there was a misunder standing in the board as to the or ders given the commissioner. He advised me to appear before the board and make my statement, and said he (lid not see how the board could do otherwise than accept it as sufficient justification of my action. And yet he voted to make my sus pension permanent, without giving me a chance to appear be:ore the board and give that explanation in reply to the charges against m)e. T1he night beofore Mr. lRobinson voted to make my suspension perma nent he told me' in the Columbia Ho tel that he couldl never be accused of being ungrateful, and that he owved me a debt of gratitude for the way my brother anid others of my friends and relatives had worked for him. He added: "I believe you ought to be reinstated, and will so vote. If ) ou find that you cannot get along with the new commissioner you can resign in good standing and not he kicked out." The very next morn ing he told me that my chances for reinstatement wvere bad. -I said that I did not see how that could be if he stuck to his promise. He replied that he was my friend and had noth ing against me, but he would have to vote against me as the members of the board had brought great pros sure to bear on him to vohc that way as a personal courtesy to them. I told him he was a h--l of a Ariend to a man, to help others stick mad on him as a 'courtesy' to them," and bid him go on and do his "d--n dirty work." And he did it. I have shown that there was no just cause for my suspension. But I was not suspended for what I did, though that was alleged as the cause. I was suspended because a political clique wanted me removed from the dispensary. They are bound togeth er by a community of interest, their predominant feeling being a thirst for revenge and a desire to get com plete control of dispensary for the uise of it as a political machine and inore venal aie which can be under *tood from the charge and specifloa ; Line $2.25 )ME ATO a which I will make. Whie: iaselden and Robinson, the investi gating committee, wore in Columbi they left the work of conducting th investigation as to the contraband which a committoo was appointed V do, to Bookkeeper Mobley and In spector Moody, and spent their tim caucusing with Chairman Miles ani the Conspirators. A caucus was hell in the office of a State oflicer, andi was decided to suspend me withou giving me any notice or asking mn for any explanation of the charge against mnc. This determination wa talked around Columbia nearly at hour before I was notified of my sus pension. A friend of mine heardi at the upper end of Main street an< walked down-town to a telephone and told me that the gang had fixet to make it hot for me and to do me The day after my temporary sus pension Chairman Miles gave th4 newspapers an interview which con tained a lie and1 a slanderous insinn~ aMien, whose absolute falsity he conk have easily informed himself of. Hi said: "I did not know until thiu morning that Commissioner Douthii had been doing the same thing, els4 I would have suspended him along with Mr. Ouzts." The afternoon be fore that interview was given out ] told Mr. Miles I had made a sale oi contraband bec4use my superior offi cer, Commissioner Douthit, had made such sales and instructed mc to do likewise, and I showed him or the books the records of such salec by Mr. Douthit. A fter hearing whal I had to say on the subject Mr. Milel declined to revoke my temporary sus. pension then, but said he would thinhi it over during the night and decide next morning, admitting that ii looked hard to suspend me when I had no entent to do wrong and thought I was doing right in obeying the orders of my superior officer. The morning after my suspension he went to Spartanburg. When he re turned he said to Mr. Douthit: "If I had known when suspended Mr. Ouzts what I krnow now, I would not have suspended him." And yet the old hypocrite, after admitting that he had not treated me fairly, appealed to the members of the board to con. firm my suspension and thus confirni his action as a courtesy due him by the members of the board. The slanderous insinuation in hiE statement "that the money obtained from the sale of contraband ba baer of ZE ESH( to 3.501 NCR BEF( on1 The Shoe a proporly turn' d over because 1 told - him so and shi-wed him the record. There is another lie told by Mr. s Miles. Hie promised that I should ,be accorded a full hearing by the > board before a vote was taken on the - motion to make my suspension per. 3 manent. But the vote was taken I without a hearing being given me, I though I was on hand waiting for it. t When I taxed Mr. Miles with his~ perfidy he at first tried to deny hav 3 ing made such a promise. After I forced him to admit it lhe said: "Yes, but I forgot it" Then he returned to the board room and said to the board, "Mir. Ouzts wanted a hearing, but did not know it was my place to I get it for him." While on the question of Mr. 1 Miles's veracity I might state that he is a liar by his own confession. I have heard him say on several occa sions: "I have told more lies since I have been on the board than in all my life before." I dare him to deny that he made this statement; if lhe does I will prove it on him. In my case Mr. Miles is a great stickler for strict obedience to the rules of the board, but he is more lax in other cases. I have shown that it is very doubtful if there was such a rule as wvas claimed I violated, but there are other rules of the board as to which there is no doubt and violations of which have boon re ported to Mr. Miles, chairman, with out any action being taken by him. The board passed a rule forbid ding employees of the dispensary,to drink on the premises. Printed copies of that rule were posted all over the building. Shipping Clark Black had been reported to Chair man Miles time and again for drink. ing and being drunk and cursing in the diepensary, against the positive rule of the board, but he has not even remonstrated with Black, much less suspend him. Yet he suspends me without an investigation of the charge against me. By his position as chairman of the board Mr. Miles was able to give or get the jolr of receiving clerk for his nephew, F. L. Moore Young, of Clin ton. One has only to refer to the books'Young tries to keep to find his utter unfitness for the job. Young does.not know the multiplication ta ble, and could not count a carload of glass correctly if his life depended upon it. Time an< -again he has made strosrs errors in his count of ~ir ES FC or tthis i )RE THE I House a: g)oods re~ceived ati the1 disponsi though his eCun iI was re'lied upor ve'rify the invoic<-s for which the pen)salry paiid. Commiissione~r Douithit is aL b)Onl oflicer. It is his dnty to pa goods receivedl at the dispensary. ho pays for goods wvhich have been received his bond can ho si for the reovery of the money paid. Naturally, Mr. Deut hit doavored to make the rceiingL chi whose reports woero the basis for payments of goods received at t he pensary efliciently disch argo his (11 He reported a number of Young's rious mistakes to Chairman Mi who, however, did not suspend nephew, but; got angry with Douthit and myself, imagining t we were persecuting the boy. votes against myself and Mr. D thit are part of his revenge. It usedl to be an unwritten r that nobody under 21 years of a should be employed in the disp, nary. Young in only 1'7, but 1 temptation of his $50 a month s ary wvas too strong. His childlish turo is shown by the fact that used to play p)ranks on the men w~orkc in the dispensary, thIirowi water on them and hitting th with paddles when they were bem ing over. Because of these prao on a man named Looper, who v one of the best hands in the dispi nary. Because Looper objected, a told Young what be would do to hi if he dlid. not let him alone. Chie man Miles took advantage of I offico as chairman and of Lo., subordinate p)osition and vilely cairs him in the dispensary, arnd thlret oned to eut his "d--n heart onlt " Talking about ignorance and un I ness for position. Mr. Miles is (ha man of the Boar'd of Control, yet did not knowv that the d ieisna had to have a retail Unit ed Stat license to do business, as wvell at wholesale lbcense, until in formed that fact by me the day he at pended. As one of the reasons gave for suspending me, he said thi my selling liquor at retail at the d pensary. I bad laid the dispenisa officials liable to prosoont ion by t internal reuenue departmoet for sie ing liquoi at retail without a ret license. He was very much si prised when I showed him tacked' on the walls a dispensary intonc revenue license for retailing, whi it had to have to do businese. IRL and. I OR LAD:J leek Only SIZES AR] F Newberry ry, Spoaking of retail sales at the dis to pensary, less than three months agc Iis- Chairman Miles bought of himsell and sold to himself at the State di. led pensary a half pint of alcohol, which for he paid for at the price to dispensers If and not to consumers thus cheating not the town ond county out of their eod profits. Why doesn't he suspend so himself? en- In Haselden's and Robinson's re irk, port of the mnvestigation made by his Bookkeeper Mobley and Inspector lid- Moody thore are no charges against .ies me, and he produced no proof so- against me of any wrong-doing in Les, his affidavit, and yet, when Mr. Haz his olden's report was read and after Mr. dr*. Douth it's removal, he, Hazseldoni, hat moved to make my suspension por lis manent, without hearing me as he >u- had promised to (10 the night before he made the report. He voluntarily tilo told mel in the Columbia Hotel that go he had finished his report, and that m- lie had not touched me in it, nor had ho he any evidence of my wrong-doing, al-. and wvhen my case came up he would in promise to hear me and then decide ho how he would vote. The next morn at ing he moved to make my suspension nig permanent withoum hearing my (ex mplanation. WVhen thei board adjourn id- ed for dinner, after voting to remove ks, JMr. Douthit, I taxed Hasolden about -as his conduct ma going back on his 'n- promise about h"aring me, and I nid made him admit in Mr. Boykin's i presence that he said he told me he ir-- had no charges against me and no uis evidence of wrong-doing, and when r's I asked him to explain his action in ed making a motion to pormanetly sus mt.- pond me ho said: "I just done that to bring t.he matter up. I don't it. know how I will vote on it, but will r- decide after hearing you." What lie do you call such double-dealing and ry sneaking evasion ? Is it acting a lie es as well as telling one? In getting a his evidence ho tried to keep every of thing hid, and would sneak around s- like he was ashamed of his dirty ho work, and whecn asked it he wanted at, anything, or if anything could be ex is- plamned to him if ho did not under ry stand it, he would say ho was not bo looking for anything; seemed to be lI- afraid Mr. Douthit and I would find tili out what he was driving at and ox ir- p)lain it so fully to him that he could 'p not have the heart to distort it to al mako it fit his vile ends. Hie seems oh to hate justice, and with~ his perver sion paralyves truth. IEs, BBROKEI ISS Mr. Hasolden now poses as con demnmng retail sales at the dispen sary as contrary to the spirit of the dispensary lawv, but in March of this very year, while H-aseldon was still chairman, lie personally sold at the State dispensary to a committee in charge of a banquet to the visiting Congress men, champagne, whiskey, wine, rum and brandy. to the amount of $106 85, about the largest bill that wvas over retailed at the dispen sary, selling to them at the price to dispensors and not to consumers, theroby swindling the town and county out of their profit. OZS Blear: the Ih idYU aeAwy Bought lInterruptionis Consied. [Spare Moments.] A clergyman who had been groat ly annoyed by the continued inter ruption to which he had been sub jected during the delivery of his ser mon stopped abruptly and looking round at the congregation, spoke as foll1ows: "Some time ago, while delivering a sermon, I was frequently inter rupted by a gentleman sitting in front of me, wvho gesticulated, moved about and whispered to his neigh bors, and at last I addressed to him a sharp) reprimand for his unseemly conduct. When the service was over my clerk in the vestry men tioned the matter to me, and asked if I was ignorant of the fact that the person addressed was an idiot. I have si.nco then always hesitated to reprimand any of my congregation for fear that 1 may be addressing an Idiot, who is not responsible for his actions." Silence reigned throughout the do livery of the remainder of his ser mon. CASTOR IA Por Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Bears the l8Kind You Have Aiwa B0ught Siguatuere ot . nIda Condion (Greenville Times.) It makes one glad to see an occa sional word of commendation, even if it should be a little too high: "South Carolina is now the second manufacturing state in the Union, Massachusetts being first. Accord ing to population, South Carolina is far in the lead. Every town, village and cross roads (what a whopper!) in the State has a cotton factory that takes the crude cotton of the neigh borhood. There the farmers grow the cotton, the farmers' daughters work in the mill and oftentimes it occurs that well-to-do farmers own factory stock," says a writer in the Constitution. Bear. the Ih idYou have Away S Bught Signature of Sir Henry Irviog on Shakeupearj. Sir Henry Irving devoted part of his summer holidays to writing an article, which he has given to The Ladies' Home Journal. It is called "Shakespeare in Small Communi ties," andI tells how the study, read ing aloud and acting of Shakespeare's works may be followed in communi ties away from the larger centres. Ma ;frke* Direct to Purchaeer.U Pano gl - - endles en .~r, A Poor Piano yearsa,nr gie endless athuse SYou take no ohancsln , * ots fsowhatm thaa P , 7)U, n'but, much tb LU EN&BATES Remei aVe ona OPSYmany thousand easeg eealeast two-tirscalled hopeless. In tea .4 etmonial andt TRmn,,, pt reo