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.- D..i.~ EVOTRDrTO POLITICS, MORALITY, 1DUCATION AND ?0 THE GENERAL INiTIERST OIB TH&ECOUNTRY.
VOL. i.. M **PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAKY, APRIL 4, 1818. .3
'~1IE SENTINEL
o. PunLINSHICD Wat ItTMANAt.
BY D. P. 39RABEEI& qO.
Tei-ftas of ftibsOrItid.
One Ye'af .. . .
Sik Menthe . .
Adlertising Rates.
Advertisements inserted at thQ rqte of $1 00
per dquare, of (9) ninL6 linej oR LEss, for the
Arst inset-tion, and-50 cents for each tibse
quent insert ion.
Contraots made for TIAEH, six or TWELVE
montho, on favorable terms.
Advertisements not-having the. pumber rf
InstIons n trrked on them, will. publih0d
i4titil forbid and charged accordfgly.
These tervis are so simple iy 6hild ny
uiifderstand them. Vine lines is a square
one Inih, In 'every instance *i blate' >y
Lh space occupied, ap eight or ten' lines cas
ke inade to occupy four or five squares, as the
adVrtiet may wish, and is 6haged by the
space ..
Advertisers will please state .he,mn
ber o squares they wis'h,their advertiscients
Le make.
i Business men who advertise to be
benefittod, will bear in m,ind Cbat the
SENTINEL has a large and increasing esii
olation, and is taken by the very class of
persons whose trade they desire.
PUWING F12Abk
THE ENOMOUS S1WINDL4S '-F THE
PRINTiNG RING.
Jones says that in addition to these
checks, about the saipe ampunt wa
paid to moubors- and State .officCrT
in currency, (f* %%hbich there is a tile
inorat-dufin. To sum up:
Checks isFued by Clerk
Jones, citdorsed, $10>,195
Checks payable to bea er,
m16 t 61. do ISed, 3,000
Estiiated anmolint p1id
iut i -er i cy%, 18, 191
Afaking a total of $3, 0
to 11nss an appropriation of *250,0o
thrlolugh the ouse of Reprtbeenta
lives.
The above teotiiony of Clerk Joney
in Fustaiied by . A Si .pkiis, R. 8.
Tarletol, P. R. R'vers, Abram Diw&
nerly, C.- F. North, Lvi Lhe S. J.
Keith, David raham aind: 00b0.s,
.chaeek. for their votes and support tof
-the printing bill; also, by Represen
tafive Spears and ot:hiers, if~ refererice
to cash piaythieats mde - Sjears
say8; " voted for th ,priitingm
of the Republican Print.ingC9om >a
ny, ahd in conaderationif ' y 4bt9
A. 0. JoneyClerk of theJouse an
a member ot the said-coIipany, paid
* me a certain sum ot' mongy,.,tte pi
mount of whieb I have forgeten."
Also in regard to paytrents to:Statc
officials, Gov. F. J. Moses, in huis.
test imony, says he was paid $15,000
for signing the bill appropriating
$250,000 (or. public printing, From.
the extract of the testimony-of Jones,
the. humiliating and disgusting fact.
Repreeentativea Of the people ofd
South Carolina, contisthig of 124
members, of the sossion of 1872-7'3,
forty nine mnehikbfs -have beeu conk
clusively poven to bgvg ),eeni brihed
by tireir own endor'sensa 4' eheeks
*.receive~d; that. i all1 according to
accou t kiept by Olea'k Jones, there
weref fty-three-fif ty.-wo being Ro
publkdans and-one solitarf,Democr at.
* Othern members~ wWru paid in t'cash,
Vof which no n.emQdraridm was kept.
A t the 5ssionl of '187 3-74, Jones
testified that the following ord
*ere giyon to the partieS pmui
'tbo books of Col. Be3nedict basiness
manager of the BepublicanPrinting
- C~o My,' arid- p)aid byfEl iQz,
titicates of indebtedness, andy were
givu subsequent to the paesa e ot
the act authorizing their. issueo, alathec
dame Bssion of 1878-74.' The"a
propriation was $3,0faygd
est.Nons gvesor ders for :paynen:
tforty-one-membersa of ths 19e
whohe banes are- annexed to his tee
timony, and .the order8 are Also, ap~
pen,dedig ~arked) " hibit 14)7*
amoupts,.anid muh mnore, na shown
* &y the books of said compan, ivme
* paid. 'On pagee 4, 5 and 24 of the
6oipa0y Ibe following entries' are
found', the initials only lbeing used
in most cases;and in. -tbo expents
account the letters "S. S. F." indi..
gte 6Secret Service Fund," and is
tbe ainiount paid State officcrs:
T 11urley, $5,000; T Hurley, 1,300;
.Mi4ort,2,000, 8 J Leo, 5,000; Thos
flarniltion, 800; K 11 Gourdin, 100;
54;, Groonwood,.50; G A Reed, 25;
D.P McLaurin, 50; P Presslqy, 50; N
B Myors, 950; N B Myors, 300; J 0
11obinson, .500; IT 11 Marun, 50; 11 M
illison, 75; N T sponcor, 80; J Pho
lean, 50; J C Wilson, 50; W A Grant,
209; M L Owo?ns, 100; A H Ford. 75;
A W Hougb, 40; H1 Grant, 175; J C
.pngman, 75; Princo Young, 25; IL
Riley, 50; E$ori Hayes, 50; J Felder
Miyers, 800; J Warley, 100; Lowis
SimnsA, 26; John A Barker, 950; i
11 Humbert, 100; S Grecn, 200; S
roen, 950; E Cain, 100; Jas A Bow,
Iey; 2,000; J A Bowloy, 8,000; J A
BOWIoY, 1,500; A Collins, 25; J Wal
lace, 25; 3 T Gilrore, 25; W M Thom
,is, 1,000;For4uno Gilos, 50; Jas Mills,
25; P $impkins, 258; S J Keith, 1.175;
S Swails, 200; S Swails, 50; GiuaLer
Holland, 300; do., 175; J F Pcterson,
50RV Tu'rner, 200; R D Gaithers,
75; jB Spears, 450; Charles Sims, 50; B
'Tarlcton, 100; W W Ra msay, 5u0; C C
Puffer, 1,000; J F'Grcen,*500; M DA.
vil, 75; J Qrews, 2,000; 3 Crews, 200;
11 A Williams, 50; J Young, 50; C
Suli van, 50; 1R M Smith, 1i,000; nos
A Tato, 100; C1 Sperr, 1i,0;l A 1P
Hohne4, 200; Rk Artson, 5150;
Black. 75; W Black, 75; S B Thomp,
onl, 100; P R Rivers. "f. Levi Lee.
IJones*~ and WVoudiFnffa shown by'
t14 "evidenice, which includes a
~m<mOnts1 m)lid StaLte (fileers and Seni.
{atprs Svisl sveina e1rsres, -)n
thlu leilgYt! of Illu j)rinit '.J' comt iiv
wvo find erasurea of the following
3ntries: T. 0. Dunn, $1,000; J. Hol,
ingshead, $1,000; C. D. Iayne,
$1,000; W. .Holcombe, $1,000; -.
1l. Joues, $1,000; G. F. McIntyre,
$2,000.
Thoee erasures wete made before
'lie "little book",,eame into the pos
iession of the committee. Mr. Max-,
well, who previously had charge of
tie 'little book," testifies aS follows:
U60OMS JO1NT INVESTIGATINO COM
Nr1rrEE, AT THE' STATE1m CAPrIAL,
Dec. 18, 1877.
Edward J Maxwell, being duly
sworn1, testifies as follows: 1 am a
residont of the city of Columbia, in
this State, and am attorney arid couil
elor at law. I am familiar with
the book iarkcd "L," and c.--mmonly
know as the "little book." It came
11to my possesioi Foinetimo in Fe
bruaiy, in the year 1876, while 1
v;as stopping at the W beeler House
n thiis city. *It was handed to ine
)y Dr. W. 11. Jack3olir formerly con
iceted with the R1publican Printing
Joi lany of this City. lie stated to
ne that it was a trauscript of the
books of that company; while he
was in the employ of the company.
r'he b-)Uk remained in my possession0
intil sometiue in the following wIU
er, vhen I dolivered it to Mr. Masi
k IV ith diiectiuls to retain it, sB~
C. L Iu Ia i; rd(1- . tw demanded(16
1,mir 111L. da sny. and I dcelined
L> give it il. I was inlf-riimd ti1t
te uantd to have it StjpprtsCd for
vaious cideralins. I tod MI';
1acka'. Lt I gaIe the book, into his
bie <tftit hant I lad myvself maode au
1proper ntC of the b0ok. The book
was balidei back to 1Ie f or the plr
Wbe of podmlneilg the iame bkdorC a
"nniii1itteo othe ! enate. I an fa
niliar w6ih 1 the 1 haldwriting of W.
[I. J.ekson, and blieve the entries
na41de in lj; book are written by
i1m, of whicb 1e following is a
xipy. . ED. J. MAXWELL.
T1he Testimnony of Mr. Max well
da comparison of theo "little book"
vith die ledger' of the p)rintin*g comn
>any sho~w that the "little book,"
nade a year before f.he appointmens
>f the committee, was a faithful
ranscripIt of the ledger, and it still
s so, (eet in maters of the era
Your' conniuittee find thlat hn::go
raud:3 wer' commi71itted iuder thei
icad of newspaper advertising, and
:at thei peo0ple were lo'aded withI an
>pp)ressive tax to subsidize a venlal
'iress in frauds einal in propor'tiou
.o thos~e of the Carolina or Republi
lan I*r intinrg Compa&ig.
PRINT1ING TIHE LAWs.
Not satisfied with the large sums
ptaidI them as leading SenatLIors anhd
R~eprceenta ti v e, uny of the samie
p aities f1iched considlerable~ somirs
fr'om the tr'esury for printing the
laws in the doinnty niewspalpers es.
talinhed for that purpose. Se veral
instanicea are on record wh'Iere a Sen..
stor received 85,000 for' publ ishinga
con1trolled by a Senaittor wonh1l have
eeved for thIo samo wvork ahont
85i -. It is a mnatter of pr'of liat
daily newspapersi were est ablish~ed
in Ch arleston and (Co!nibia, and
were ini the personmal int.ere,t of the
milIeber of lhe ring,v and IranJs~ were
perpe1trated in the making up anid
collectijon of snehl nee9onnite scarely
((p iailled by anTy other. WVitJi a v iewv
of saLtisfy'inig Ite (General Ass;emibly
ofi the truLthI of th is charge, we will
b riefly recite some11 i ntan (cs.Jae
!i. DJisekeri. Edin il Forde andl Ed(win
A. Nelson,..all1 exper iceod and prac
ical pr'inIter's, hiave carefully and
m!inutely mteasiirod all the offliia
aid ve1'tioements of every description,
contained in files of the Ciharlestoni
Republican, (harge amoun ts of which
were made out and collected ini the
namo thy. Carollna Pr intii-~ Cut.s
lany.) They find, and so state, that
according to the contract made with
the two clerks for publishiing 'ihe
laws, and the rates charged by, such
paper would be 824,538.20,but on ex
arination of the vouchers paid and
in the State Treasurer's (ffice, they
find and report that there was paid
said paper the extraordinary suim of
$60-982.14 during its existence, and
at times there was paid the monstrous
Surk of twenty-five cents a line each
for-both daily and w e'ily Republi
can for pubtlishing tho acts. This
contract is altached to the evidenco
marked exh'ibet "E. D." as a i enark
able curiosity in businese matters.
Thus it is seen that the State paid
$31,3906.94 over and above the le
gitima4e sum due, in order that "the
organ" of the party in po\ver might
subsist. In deed and in truth, the
Charleston Republican was a lively
bonanza that n6'ver hailed to prove a
grald source f.4 revenue to 8oin1 of
the moLdrIn b1atesIen. ThiG is es
tablishe:d by the largeo amounts
paid as claims to "We friends, of the
Republicanl, pasLed from time to time
reaching several thousand dollars,
when at tLh tilne of the paage of
the claim tho company drawn largely
inl eXcess Uf any amount properly due
it. We refer to paper marked ex
hil)it "A," as a specimen chm1 of
Lhis Ubaracter, being -Unly 0110 (if
tay in the Treasurer's olice. eV
also refer to tihe evidence of the
printers above imned, who say they
have examined the files of tlhe (. o
lumli D,ily Union and find there
'va1 due Li. C4s Car penter, editor
tuidi pro; r istoir,.thea s um of $ 17 174.05
IromI November, 1870, to May, 1873,
mider c--ntract to puiblisii the laws
-t L\\ Cnt) Cet6 pe0. ri lne, an 1d the
Ldvertised rate6 for other oflieial ad
Vertisenlents. Nevertheless the
vouebherj in the Treasurer's ofliee
1oW tlhat JMir. CarpenIter was paid
59,987.64 for ad vrtising in his pa
pcr, inclhdirg SG,2S6 claimed to have
b)en due for publications made in theo
weekly issue, thus defrauding the
State out ofi $33,526.59 ini less thlan
chree yeLars. hi additioni to this Mr.
Uarpecnter was p)aid a claim ot $2,500
lor publibhing acts in 1874. Ie was
alsoI paid muore than $5,000 for fur
iishing papere to State oilicials,
memcibers of the General A seem lbly
andI other lesser lights of the party.
The voucbers showv that lie received
vover $10,000 for publiThing two acts
known as
"1NsU'RANOIE LAws.'
The ev idece of D)r. iNcagie, then
Comiiptroller General, and hiis hlter
to Mr. Carpeniter, herew ith subm it
ted as exhibit "J. L." shows that
the amount thus collected were with
out any authority of lawv. Ini this
let ter of Decemnltor 2, 1870,1)Dr. Nea
g~le refers to haLvingY ordered Carpmen
ter to stop all such publicatione.
theu it wasR, accordiq~g to the test i
m1131ny( Xf Woodlruff and Jones, that
they were infourmeid that it was their
duty to certify to the correctness of
th~ se accounmts (by Attorney General
Chamberlain.) These accounts so
certilied we're raised by inser'tin~g the
figure one0 to mnany of themn, all of
whielh was imade (out in fiues,1 thus
indienting al fixedJ designm to ralise
each by add ig one0 thouisand (lollairs.
In furvther i llustrat ion of these
l'AL.PABrLN FRAUDs1),
the vonebers show t hat Ol 8,159 was
paid' for the pub1llication of 11he t wo
aCts referroed to above, ini less than~
three ye ars, both of which contaiuned
only 289l ines equal to about ('1e ando a
half coluns. In) theC imonth of De
comber, 1871, these~ acts were insert.
ed in thle Daily Uion 4 timesc, Silh,
9th, 20th, and 25th, while thme vouch
ers show that t be Statepaidl $1 720 bor
suach, puiblicationi. WVe have no bet
ter miethiod of shoin the mannilre
by which the printing\ claims were
r aised t han by sulbmDi' ting t he follbows
ing" iden(.ce.
RAISINO THE BILLO,
ROOMS JOINT IN VIWTIGATING 00M1MITTEE,
Columbia, February 7, 1878.
Jasper C. Roath, Esq., being re
called, tys: TLat he resides in Co
lumbia, by occupation attorney at
law. That ho was cashier of the
South CIarolina Bank and Trust Con.
pany, and familiar with the accounts
and orders against the State having
examined a large number of such
during his connection with the bank
and belioves himself to be competent
to judge of the signatures and gencr%
al writing of the various officers of
the State government, and also that
of L. C.ass Carpenter, so as to be able
to express a decided opinion as to
whetlier any account made out by
either of the )arties named has bec9,
altered or raised from the original.
On examination of the vouclerq sub
moitted to him L>y the committo; he
has no hcsization in stating that the
account of Daily Union, dated Sep
teniber 17, 1871, has been altered
from the original amount of $181.28,
to $1,181.28, by the izisertion of the
figure one (1) inl front of the bun
dredths unit. Account of same pas
per, March 4, 1872, was originally
made out for F4S6.40, and raised to
$1,486.40 in saie way. Account of
same paper, dated December 13,
1371, has be,en altered and r'aised
from thin original amount of $720 to
1 ,720 in same way. Account of
same paper, of December 13, 1871,
w41 originally madioutJfor $878.33,
and raised in same manner to $1,
ST8.33. Account of October 20, 1871,
was origirtally $784.67,,altered in
same mailnr to 1,784.67. Account
of Daily Union, of January, 1872,
wus raised in same manner from $540
to J*,5l4(). Account of same paper,
Janury 4, 1872, was raised from
$195 to tG95, by altering the figure 1
to 6. Account of Januiry 20, 1872,
was raised and altered from 8155 to
$655, by changingLhe figure 1 into
a 6. Account of same paper, dated
February 27, 1873., appears to have
been raised fromi original amount of
$j676 to $1,676. I have also exam
ined the accounts submitted by the
conunittee of tihe Carolina P?rinting
Company, and find that an account of'
$1,500 has been raised to $2,500 by
changing the figure 1 to 2. Have
also examined fiv<Aothec- acc.>unts of
sameo company, all ot which have
the appearance of being raised one
thbonsand dollars'each, by t he inser
tion of the figure 1 in front of the
figuires representing the h undrede; in
most caises the 1 was of a dlifferent
coloredl ink, and( in some instances
the other figures have been traced
after the insertion of thme figure 1, so
as to canse t hem to have a uniform
color anid appea; r'ance. I also find
that in some instances the lIotter
was applied to the figure 1 when in
sorted, anid niot upon01 the other figures
These accounts wer,e for p)ublishking
acts of the Geineral Assemnbly and
insuran4ce laws. I think the ac
countds made out fur the Carolina
P'rin tinig Company represent amountsi
due the Charleston RepIubifca. I
was a m10od;or of t he Carol in a Print
ing Company, ahd know nothing of
these alccolunts beinrg raised. Thlle
accunts2 all have the appearance of
bing11 paUid to L. Cabs Carpenter, as
shown by the~ State Treasu rer's en.
durlenmenIt on the back of them uind
Tmceisurer'di numbers.
. J. C Rouru -I
Recing called anid sworn:
We have examniied the accounts
referred to ini the foregoing evidence
s)t J. (5. R~oath, and we hiavo no hos,~
itationm in corroborating so miuch of
said evidenIce as5 relates to the chani
ginug and r'aisinlg of tile acequuts.
J. IL. SAwnm,
-Cashier Central National Bank.
C. J. IiREDE,,
Cashier Carolina National Ban k.
D. GxAanaJI,,
A OoNTRAST-THIC OUARLETON NAW01
Contrasted with the accounts of
the dai ly papers, hereinbefore ref(r
red to, we submit the evidence taiot
relative to the accounts of the dal
News of Charleston. The contract
iade with the proprietors of this
pa per was twenty five cents per I1go
for publishing the acts in three pa.06
pers, the Daily, Tri-weekly and
Weekly j News, which was twenty
Rve conts per fine less .than was paid
to the Charleston Republican for
publielling the same acts in the daily
aud weekly. All accoutatA of the
News were iteni7ed, giving itbe-106
Af thle act and date tf publication lft
the three papers owned by them, and
the nuiber of lines contained in each
act. Cummont is unnecessary,' fb*
the evidenco is ii, itself a sufflolent
tributo to the integrity of the pro
prictors of the Newel, and the correct.
lneis of their accounts:
JoINT INVEsrTGATING Comrrr",
Charlesl6n, S. 0. Feb. 18, 1878.
J. fler--uan Schulto, ' being duly
SWOrn, deposos on oath j%s follows:i
My name is S. -Ierman Schulte. I
reside at 12Rbtledge treet, in the
city of Charleston, and I am by occu
pation the manager (f the Journal
of Commerce. I was in the office of
the Cbarleston news from November
185, nntil it was mergod into the
News and Courier up to Mar6h,
1877. I was first collector, and af
terwards book keeper. I think I be.
came book keeper about the middle
of January, 1871. (Witness referred
to the ledger of the News and Cou
rier and recognized entries in Jan
ary eighteen hundred and seventy
one, as in his handwrjting.) -
The measurement of the News and
of the Noews and courier, adopted as
to all their nvertising custom was
nonpareil woauremnent, excepting
business notice4, whieh wore inserted
4t fifteen cents per line, by count of
the lines, in eighteen hundred and
soventy rne. At that time the rates
which the News was charging the
State woro ten cent.s a line by nlon-*
pareil measurement for the daily,
and five cents pei- line, of similar
measurement, for the tri%weekly and
weekly. The cred it- rates of the
News at this time for- ordinary cue
tomners were in the Daily News, fits
teen ccnts a lino nonpareil for first in
Bertion and 10o a -line non pareil,each
subsequent insertion, with a diseount
of 20 per" cent. off for monthly pay
ments to regular advertisers. Rates
of tri.-weekly and weekly were about
the same as the daily to ordinory
cnstomers. I was accustomed to
make the measarements, and 'etite~
theO charges for advertising In the ofA
fice of the News in eighteen hundred
and seventy one, and I made 'out all
thme bis against the State for adveaw
tiding,'and I am satisfied that thbe
mneasuremnts are correct.- (Aftes'
measu ring advertisements at random,
in company wit h Mr. A. F. Melchers,
from the tiles of' the News for the
years eighteen hundred.and toeventy
one, eighteen hundred and seventy
two and eighteen hundred and sev
en ty th ree, witness con tinued.) I am
still satisfied that the measuremente
aire correct. 'There is one advertLises
mui(ut charged as 3,413 lines, March
t wenty lift bi, eighteen hundred and
seventy one, w hich, n measuf-ement,
is only three thousand three hundred
and fitteen lines, and which,- -I am
satisfied is a mistako In counting th6
hundreds. The generality of the ad%
vertisomonts aro charged one or twd
lines less thman the mneastirement. The
measuriiotmiont is thme saniti'standard ai
that of thme Journal of Uomnmerce, and
used to h) oe mode of the Charies
ton Courier also. It is thme Qustorg
of Neweimpers to charge for' the
spaice taken np, including ents and
all kinds of fat matter. 'The advery
tisemnents of acts of thils Legi.latmre
in :he Ne~ws had no cute, and r