Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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- ' ????=^=* i | " ? 1 ' ==5Si i..til i msszs&x 88AjlllH.L". ' " B?I ~"*S ^KTTiTurrir" Minted- ftf TUa 1 O?1~ I TMl o n - ^ ... - . ... _rl iuiuidiwi vi iiicuusycinuri!) l Lie At Blease. Rev. P. H. E. Derrick Charges the Senator from Newberry ^ With Insulting and Impugning the Christian Ministry. Special to The State. Newberry, Aug. 15.?An unexpected sensational dispensary 1. -l ?- tr ? uv.uaic iuuk ai x oung 5 gl ove today, when Rev. C. M. Boyd of T Prosperity, outraged at statements made by C. L. Blease concerning Ti the Christian church and ministry, te protested eloquently. m Following this and at the close sh, of the speaking Blease was halted di by the Rev P. H. E. Derrick, who fo charged [him with insulting and HI impugning the Christian ministry, to On Blcase's denial that he had o\ made certain remarks in his speech d( Rev. Derrick threateningly and c< flatly contradicted him, renewing m the accusation. Blease turned to T walk away but before he had tak- w en 20 steps Rev. Derrick shouted sj after him the words, "and if you ss deny it you are a liar." Mr. tf Blease took no notice of the words. c< While denouncing general hy- h; pocrisy and corruption in his hi crtoooK M- til. :r -11 mi jjitcinc naiu uuii ii an u' the rascals were turned out of the e< churches there would not be a tl quorum left next Sunday, and tl th.it he had never known a preach- ?i er who would not take a gambler's h money. n The whole affair created intense s< feeling. Mr. Jones also interrupt- sj ed Mr. Blease to express his in- o dignation. p Aside from the above incident w the day was without marked p features. i< All of the speakers acquitted themselves well and were listened j, to with attention but at no time 0 was there great enthusiasm. g John C. Goggans presided, in- tl troducing Arthur Kibler as the j, first speaker. Dr. Geo. B. Crom- c er and A. C. Jones followed. I A letter was read from J. A. n Sligh, regretting his inability to q be present on account of sickness. t{ Mr. Blease*s speech followed, n being the only one on the dispen- ^ sort; ci Hp A ffpi* fUp ' ?v.. v..v. n tween Mr. Blease and Rev. Boyd s the crowd called for Mr. Boyd on a the platform. He responded elo- n quently for prohibition. The t crowd was estimated at about 800. 0 8I0KENING SHIVERING FITS * of Augue and Malaria, can be re- ; lieved and cured with Electric t Bitters. This is a pure, tonic medicine; of especial benefit in malaria, for it exerts a true cura- c tive influence on the disease, driv- i log it entirely out of the sys-.em. c It is much to be preferred to Quio- f ine, having none of this drug's j. bad after-effects. E. S. Muaday, of Henrietta, Tex., writes: uMy c brother was very low with malari- c al fever and jaundice, till he took t Electric Bitters, which saved his r Hife. At Crawford Bros., J. F. Mrtckey & Co. and Funderburk : Pharmacy drug stores; price 50c, guaranteed. 1 Pays Big Dividend. , New York, Aug. 15.?The 1 standard Oil Company has de- ] clared a quarterly dividend of $6 < per share, payable September 15 ; to stock of record of August 18th < This makes $30 per share de- i clared so for this year against $20 ] per share for the same time last < year. Subscribe for The Ledger. ] # uiraan suggests nemeay in His Anderson Speech. ;lievcs the Goverrtor, Attorney ieneral .and Comptroller General Should Administer the Law?Would Buy" Year's Supply From the Lowest Bidder. By Jas. A. Hoyt, Jr. ne btate. Anderson,* Aug. 16.?Senator illman came here yesterday afrnoon with the expectation of aking a speech in which he lould outline his views on the ispensary and give his remedies r the canker now eating out the fe of that institute. He had gone 1 the unusual trouble of writing it his speech, showing that he :sired it published, and publish1 in full, in order that his views ight have the widest publicity, he conditions were such that he ac nrA\r<?nfftr1 C*** *.~1 " ?. IIVJIII UL'llVCdll^ 111? >eech in full, though it must be lid, injustice to Senator Tillman lat had he been ungenerous he juld have made his speech and ad plenty of time to do it in, bui e was very careful not to intrude pon the rights of the other invit 3 speakers, and gave way tc lem, particularly to Mr. Smith le president of the Cotton Grow rs' association. SenatoriTillman ad he had the opportunity, migh ot have stuck close to his manu :ript, as he is not accustomed t< leaking that way, and the little f it which he did read was inter olated with side remarks as the] 'ould pop into his head. But hi: reparedispcech is of interest an< i given in full as follows: "A think the tacts will warrant m< i claiming that I know as mucl r more about the liquor traffic ii eneral than any other one man ii tie State. The law was enactec i December, 1892, and went int< flfect the 1st of July, following )uring this interval I examinee lost thoroughly into the whole [uestion und gave the administra ion of the proposed system th< lost earnest thought. Every tody predictedjfailure and I wa? lost anxious that the experimen hould succeed. For a year an< , half I administered the law al nost alone and I therefore ha< he fullest opportunity, both b; observation and experience, to fini >ut its good and bad points an* hove all its weakness. The orig nal dr&ft and much that is still ii he law was the work of the pro tibition committee,'and only sucl barges were made ir. the bill a t passed the house as were evi lently necessary for the change* mrpose to which the law was t< >e devoted. At the next sessio >f the legislature my efforts wer ievoted entirely to strengthening he statute so as to prevent an )unish the illicit sale of liquor. *ave no thought to safeguardin he State against fraud in its ad riinistration except in the rule *nd regulations because I did nc hen believe and I do not now be ieve that the State of South Care iina"could elect three men to th highest responsible offices of gov rnor, comptroller general an attorney*general who would fa 10 low as to become thieves. Dui ing the 12 years that the syster has been on trial the law has bee :hanged time and time agaii But my opinion and advice hav had no weight. The first ba oiunucr was raxing ine law out 01 the hands of men elected by the people and putting it into the I hands of a board elected by the legislature. The next mistake was taking the appointment of the county board out of the hands of the State board and giving It to the delegation in the legislature from each county. The state board is no longer directly responsible to the people and there is no way to get at it unless the governor should exercise his implied power of re moval. The county board is no | longer responsible to the State 1 board because it does not depend upon that board for that appointment and is not responsible to that board except in a way, but looks to the legislative delegation. , Temptations that the governor and , other high State officials would . have been expected to withstand, . have, I fear, proven too strong for the boards elected by the lcgisla; ture. The administration by the i>tate board has been lax and alto. gcthcr censurable. It has allowed . some of the most valuable re, strictive features of the law to fall into disuse?filling out request , blanks, selling to minors, drunk[ ards, etc. There has been no cxl ecutivc head with power to see , that the law was administered in . good faith and the county boards , have too often allowed improper influences, nepotism and other selfish motives, to govern in electing dispensers. * Most Farrcaching Actions. 5 "One of the most farreachicg , and destructive actions of the Stale hoard was the charge in the ^ manner of buying liquor from . that whhh was instituted in the j begining. To wit: the purchase of whiskey to be sold under the brand and name and in the pack^ ages of the seller. The original scheme, which has the soundest i \ ^ reason in good business judgment j for its inauguration, provided no ^ liquor except that bought in barmlu nnil hAHloa at #lioannan ... I..U B Viw MI??| wviilVO UV VllO|IC/KIOU . y 1 u I Jj elled X,XX,XXX, XXXX, uccoidin": to age and quality. All of the bottles sold through the c dispensary were of full proof as designated on the label, and all were sealed tightly with the best t sealing wax. The prices were put j on a card and bung in the window so that there could be no cheating j of the purchaser by tho dispensers y Case goods were sometimes bought j but only upon special orders of .j individuals. They wire not kept . in stock. Let us see what demorn alizatiou has been wrought by the . departure from this policy. The h first years of the dispensary's exg istence the local dispensers were _ not approachable by any man in j the whiskey trade because no one r, knew where the li.innr norr\a ^ _ - VUUIO A i V UJ n and there was no chance to bribe e or corrupt a local dispenser tc r rush any special brand. No case* d were then shipped directly t( I the dispeasers in the package* g from the distillery, so there was I- no chance to pat in extra bottlei :s as bribes. Everything went fron it the State dispensary. All casot [. were uniform size, one for quarti >. one for pints and one for half pinti e and they held a given numbei r- of bottles. The liquor was sealei d hermetically. There was no chanci II to change labels or alter bottlos r- Request books prevented that anc n the governor was in the closest n touch with eveiy cog and whee i. in the machinery. 1 had a de e tectivo who watched tho con d stables and <vho reported to ra< uumu wnuinur or not mcy wore iu collusion with blind tigers. 1 had another detective who watched the dispensers to seo whother they wero complying strictly with the law and the regulations. Whiskey drummers hanging around the hotels iu Columbia to got a chance to sell whiskey wore unknown and the agents of whis*. key concerns traveling ovor the state and getting in closo touch with the local dispensers for the purpose of ccirupting them wero also unknown,and the condition of affairs disclosed hy the Spartanburg investigation was simply an impossibility. 80mk of ti1k temptations. "What are some of the temptations which seem to have been too great for the state board of directors to resist? Purchasing whiskey as it has been done left ii * W|>|>?.>1 Ulllllj JUIl (JUllU^KUl. 11)18 man or that on the board receiving monej as compensation for purchasing from a given concern. The state commissioner subjected to the lomptution of Bending out ' the case goods of this, or that firm jin preference to those ordered by the dispensers. The opportunity for graft, the pet phrase now in vogue, was immenso. The original scheme adopted, as J. say, hastily depended for tho integrity of its administration upon tho high charactei and honor of tho Stato's highest officials. But when wo roccollcct that it is now administered and has been for six or eight years through the breakago charges, leakage charges, watering the liquor in the local dispensaries, because of tho bottles not properly scaled, changing labels, buying places as disponser, the opportunity for stealing at the btate dispensary in not sending out all the liquor bought but shipping it off, it is a wonder we have not had a worse carnival of corruption than seems to exist. I do not doubt after the exposure in Spartanburg others will equal if not eclipse it elsewhere. I could go more into detail and discuss this phase of the subject inoio at length but I prefei to point out the remedies which havo suggested themselves to my mind and which in the future I feel sure will be adopt ed by the means of leformmg the tho dispensary system and maki ing it wellnigh impossible for anyone anywhere to steal any of the public money or bo corrupted by the temptations which have been so plentiful heretofore. 1 "We will take the state dispen1 sary first. 1 believe the admin' istration of this law should bo in ! the hands of men elected hv tho ' nonrtlo )tin uami< nu Ihn ntlioi' lo...a I'?l"~ ? are. 1 believe and always have 1 thought that a board ex-oflicio composed of the governor, attonoy } general and comptroller goueral ' to be the best that can be ) devised. How to provent even ' these high officers from being subjected to temptation or laying i themselves open to charges of cor1 ruption, such as my enemies * have not hesitated to brine s against me, I suggest the follow ing plan: j HOW TO AVOID TEMPTATION. J Let advertisement be made, as . now icquired by law, forbids to 1 be submitted to furnish the State t of South Carolina for a year with 1 such whiskey brandy, rum wine and beer as it may require. Let the act go into details and spccif? ically describe the kind and T quality needed. Whiskey andh beer arc the two main things and these two arc staple articles and : can be described with such dc- I finiteness and [particularity that there will be slight need even of an analysis by the chemist. Let i these bids be submitted in triplicate sealed with wax?one sent to the State treasurer accompanied i by a check for $10,000 as evidence of good faith, one sent to the chief justice of the supreme court and one sent to the speaker of the house of representatives. Have these opened during the session of the legislature in the presence of the dispensary committee of the two houses and award the contract to the lowest bidder. Then let the State board enter into a contract with such lowest bidder requiring the contractor to deposit, for the fulfilment of his obligation, $100,000 in South Carolina State bonds or such amount as may be thought necessary, which shall be subject to forfeit if he does not comply strictly with all the terms aud conditions of his agreement. The contract being thus made for the purchase of whiskey of a given kind and quality at a given price, the State commissioner who will have charge of the business part of the dispensary can order out from the distillery at such time and in such quantities as may be necessary the liquors needed to supply the demand of the local dispensers. Ilavc the bottles and other supplies that may be needed purchased in a similar manner to the whiskey, all of these being paid for by cash checks on the treasurer. Let the State commissioner take out a rectifier's license and have the liquor bottled after dumping and mixing when desired, and this must be under the immediate supervision and inspection of a United States revenue officer whose books will be a check as to the quantity that will thus enter into the consumption. Let the dispensers' books and the internal revenue collectors' book be inspected quarterly by such persons as the State board may appoint for that purpose to see that the quality of the goods contracted for and the goods delivered corresponded and that all the goods purchased have been sent out from the State dispensary, or otherwise accounted for. The legislature through its committee can examine into and report at each session upon the whole management. BRAND ON THE GLASS. "Let tbo name and brand l>e blown into the glass, so tkore can be no change of labels. Have no case goods kept in stock and con nno too purcnase or tncse to special orders from private individuals. Do away with beer dispensaries as now run and lot the regular dispensers koep beer on ice to bo sold by the bottle only and not drunk on tho premises. Above all see that the request books are always used before a purchase is made. "So much tor the central depot. "Now for tho local dispensaries. 1 believe more satisfaction will result and a better administration of the law be had if the supervi sion and control of the local liquor dispensaries be placed in the hands of tho county supervisors elected by the people, tho mayor of tho town in which tho dispensary is located, elected also by tho pooplo, and ono person to bo appoint e?l by tho Slate board who shall receive reasonable compensation for Ins time and labor. Then luivo tho local di-pei >-ors elected by the people of tho country; where thoie is more than one they can bo elected on a joint ticket. Let tho governor have tho power to remove for causo and let him exercise it vigorously. "Any one familiar wiih ih?r>nn_ ditions a? they now exist can roudily understand why such amend litems to the law as are here outlined will make it almost impossible for any one connected with the dispensary from the top to the bottom lo steal any of the public money. "Wo will have better liquor and if the grand juries do their duty we will have 110 more Spartanburg scandals. It must not be forgotten that no law over devised can enforce itself. Union County Joins Ranks of Prohibition. Majority of Two to One Against the Dispensary?Small Vote is Tolled. Special to The State. Union, A u g. 15 ?Union county today joined the ranks of prohibition counties by a more tremendous majority than even the most sanguine temperance workers had anticipated. The complete returns tonight show a majority of 352 and the vote against the dispensary to be 011 the basis of over 2 to 1. A great deal of interest has been manifested in this fight for temperance reform, particularly within the last week, as the dis pensary forces have been unusually active, bringing here one of their great champions, Senator Cole L. Bleaso wf Newberry, and employing an attorney, W. Boyd Evans of Columbia, to block the election by havfng an injunction taken out. This latter attempt failed, judge Tovvnscnd refusing the injunction. The evidence submitted was insufficient and the very fact that an effort was made to take away their rights as citizens added many votes to the prohibition column, and statements made by both Bleasc and Evans on the stand, when speaking last Saturday, turned hitherto dispensary friends into foes. The votimr was rather licht. the total number of votes cast being 1,178. The number cast in the primary last August was 2,67$, and in the general election in November 1904, was 1,65 1. The very noticeable falling ofT in the number of votes cast today was largely accounted for by the very strict and impartial enforcement of the election law requiring voters to present their registration certificates and tax receipts before being allowed to cast their ballots. BRONCHIT/S FOR TWENTY YEARS. Mrs. Minerva Smith, of Danville, 111., writes: "I had bion emus lur iwuuiv yearn au?i nuvm got relief until I used Foley's Honey and Tar which is a sure cure" Sold l> y Funderburk Pharmacy. Also C () Fioyd, Kershaw. lie happy today, for tomorrow you may be married. Von never hear of a knocker 1 using his little hammer to nail lies.