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Intelligencer. Published every Wednesday. J. F. CLINKSOALEB, ) EDITORS AND ?. C. LANGSTON, S PROPRIETORS. 'lEEMB ; ONE YEAR, - - - - $1 M SIX MONTHS, - - - 75 WEDNESDAY. JUNE 13, 1906. .MORL" CORRUPTION IN THE STATE DIS PENSARY. Evidence of dross and shameful corruption among the head officials of the State dispensary waa disclosed bo fore the investigating committee in Columbia last week. Rumors of graft and stealing, implicating the Board of Directors, have been fre quent and persistent for years, but this is the first time that the testi mony of reputable witnesses has been produced to show specific acts of cor ruption. The rumors have been popularly accepted as true, but in a court of law they would, of ooureo, have no weight. That the dispensary system offers al most unlimited opportunity for pri vate and illegitimate gain through tho acceptance of rebates from liquor houses, no sane man for a moment doubts. And it is only human weak ness that offioials, some not of the best reputation and highest integrity. ' should yield to the love of money ana ' thus beoome traitors to their State, ? Lewis W. Parker, of Greenville, president of several cotton mills in S i this State and connected with many . ; banking and other industries, was summoned before the committee last ^ week, and, though naturally unwilling to give testimony because of the no coQoity of divulging facts given to him in a private conversation, waa forced to testify under an order of the Su preme Ceurt. He made an excellent witneBB, and the obaraoter and stand ing of the man renders his evidence of the highest value. His statement was that Samuel J. Lanahau, a wholesale liquor dealer in Baltimore, had complained to him that he could not get business from the dispensary without using unusual methods, and that when they had arrangements fixed they would not stay fixed. Lanahau said that he was convin ced that it took more than tho merit of the liquors to do business with the State dispensary. He said that the dispensary bought cheap, moan liquor. Ho said that it cost monoy to do busi ness with the board in 1904 and 1905, and he could not afford to pay what had to be paid. Ho told Mr. Parker enough to make him say that the conversations im plied that rebates were paid to get orders. He told Mr. Parker that "At tho laBt letting of contracts, which bad juet passed, there was in it for the memDers of the board of control not leBB than $5,000." Later on Mr. Par ker explained that Mr. La?aban said that the regulation rebate appeared to be |5 a barrel on orders, and he . was not a competitor with his goods on thst bssis. Mr. La?aban is quoted aa having < offered to sell the dispensary liquor at from 15 to 20 cents leta per gaiion than it was buying at, if he did not have to give up anything, and Chairman Evans told him that if he did not like the form of bids of the board that _ he need not hid at all. Mr. Lanahau tried repeatedly to -get Mr. Parker to suggest some South Carolina man with a pull to represent bim, and finally secured someone who \ . held an official position to represent him. m*_ Ti-..\_ j_l:_3 i_ __ iur. JL s in. Cl usvuusu w givo LUU <v? namo'of this representative, and the jjpSi committee, by a vote of 4 to 3, de . . ' ' oliacd to order him to give the name, rc j Some suggested he was a member of vi * the General Assembly. Mr. Parker kV-/ ! thought thia representative was paid $2,000, but had never learned whether ; (such a representative had ever gotten orders or not for Lanahan & Son. * I Mr. La?aban is quoted as having ,v told Mr. Parker that "he had arrang *. j ed with Mr. Boy kin, ono of the mem bers of tho boord of control, for Mr. i ^ 4 Boy kin to be Ma representative on i - ? the board of control, and to see to it i that he got his share of the business." He did not get tho new business, and v. Mr. Boy kin is quoted aa having said ? that "he bad not gotten a more satis- i '. faotory offer from others, but that ^ others wore providing for other mern- i hers of the family than himself, and i blood was thioker than water, and *h?t a certain other liquor house em- ! ployed a brother-in-law of Mr. Boy kin as special representative or some M thing of the sort, and that the other i house was doing equally as well by I v>: him as Mr. Lanahan." * Mr. Evans is alleged to have said that . there was an agreement by V which members woulo order from C . certain houses, and that the agree ment was for Mr. Boykin to see tb ' Mr. Lanahan's business. Mr. Parker spoke of what he under : stood to be a "system of corruption," and that seemed to have soaked down P deep into his thoughts after the r? ?tated conversations with the cautious sm J. Lanahan. who had done hun i:?.'..= dreds of thousands of dollars worth of Rl$aeineta himself with the system. mmMr. Parkst said: VT/ cannot say fi W4t that the term rebate waa used, but Iff tanas thai implied rebates; lass gait* J Mk?Ml statements as to liavieg agTse- . |^-/nMU.w1tn'?ettbefe' of tho board by fek -. Mr. Lanahan made it plain in did EMUJLMPM????T?' "t*- 9SS* ?*d? AB aamna*J. mmiiV^l?*. Hs had voluntarily offer >|?ed to reduce prices, and the offer was f "^?fc. A; A. Bristow, president of i^el'Groeuville chamber of commerce : aud i onW the bast kuown buoinasB - t? ahAt l&*aon*hs sgo Abe Hamberger, order from tho dispensary aggregating $07,000, and for which he paid romo person or porsons $8,000. Ho sajd that he paid this money over in cairn. In reply to Mr. Bristow's question as to how ho could alford to givo that much commission on an order of that sizo, Hamberger replied: "You don't know much about the liquor business. You can mako it of chemicals." Ham berger went on to Bay ihat his whiskey was not poisonous but that it was a very easy matter to doctor whiskey. Ile said that tho first shipment of his house was $10,000, and "they trem bled in their hoots" for fear it would I como back. But it did not come back, I and the next shipment they made was worse. The liquor houses were thus *blo to sell ''doctored" whiskey to tho dis pensary, givo big rebates and still make a great profit out of it. It seems that thc cheaper and meaner tue liquor was thc better tho liquor houses could dispose of their produot. The rebates fattened Homo ono's pocket, but the bad grade of liquor fired hundreds of citizens of South Carolina into thc commission of every crime from mur der down. Who can estimate the harm done to tho innocent women and children of tho State by the perni cious effeots of this "doctored" dispen sary liquor? It has caused blood to flow shamefully in every county of the State. Mr. Parker's testimony presents some interesting speculations aa to the opportunity for graft in tho dis ponsary system. Suppose tho cheap liquor houses paid from 12 to 20 per cent., as Mr. Bristow testified, to got orders. How muoh would the rebates amount to? Take the low estimate oi 12 per cent. Last year the dispensary bought $1,750,000 worth of liquor, Twelve per cont of this would bc $210,000. If tbe board of directore did not get this, who did? The most sensational testimony WOE given Friday when a reliable mac from Newberry said under oath that he had been told by Chairman H. H, Evans that the board had an arrange ment by which the several liquoi houses were to be provided for in thc award of purohases, and that whet Mr. Evans' friends were not lookec after properly he fixed up a plan bj which, while standing upon a table he saw money passed to the otho: members of the board, Boykin ant Towill. This witness was Mr. C. C Davis, a builder and contractor. H< swore that on several occasions Chair man Evans had displayed wads o: money and said that he had receivee it from his friends, meaning the whis key houses, presents, including mon ey. There were on the outside ol these wads bills of the denominador of $1,000. Mr. Davis had tried to BOC how many bills of this donominatiot there were, and he had onco soot as many as throe bills of th< value of $1,000 each. Mr. Evans had said that be had taken oaro of hit friends and had at the same time rep resented the State of South Caroline properly. Mr. Davis also swore thai Mr. Evans had reoeived a oar load ol furniture as a Christmas present fron Bluthenthal & Biokert, of Atlanta the firm whioh has figured so oonspiou ously all through the investigation at one whioh has sold adulterated liquoi and had bribed the county dispensen by putting extra paokageB in the ship ments. GOVERNOR HE Y WARD ACTS. When these evidences cf ccrruptic: were brought out by the investigating committee Governor Hey ward notifi?e tho Attorney General to prooeed witt criminal prosecutions against dispen sary officials suspected of misoonduo in offioo. His instructions to Attor ney General Youmans are as follows "I see through the public prints that as a result of the ruling of the Su Ereme Court, evidenoe was produce? efore the investigating committee charging former members of th< board of directors of the dispensary with malfeasance and corruption ii the discharge of their official duty, direot this matter to your attentioi to the end that you may prcmptl: cause suoh prosecution to be institu ted as shall be proper and necessar; to vindioate the law." The Governo has aoted with commendable prompt ness and firmness for the good nam and reputation of the State. The* sub committee, consisting o Messrs. Lyon and Christensen, is t< ba commended for their suoeeesfa fight upon the graf tera in the fase o opposition from members of the oom tait tee of whioh they are a part. The work of investigation shoul prooeed without interruption anti every grafter, high and low, is place in stripes. The dispensary system has been purse and a disgrace to the State. I is the basis of a strang political me chino, almost as corrupt and Bhamc less in its operations as the notoriou organization of political thieves i Reconstruction times. The dispen Bary is doomed, and we believe tba she next legislature, representing th? will of ao outraged people will strike tho corrupt aod corrupting law from the statute books. - Sixty anarchists alleged to be from Baltimore, are believed to bo in Wilmington, Delaware. - Seven persons were killed by lightening near Stanford, Ky., and seven others were drowned as a result of a storm. - Out of forty-one criminal cases tried in Riohmond County, Ga., supe rior court lsBt week. tL^rd was not a Bingle acquittal. - Twenty convicts made a desper ate dash for liberty at Birmingham. Guards opened fire and stopped all but six, who got away. Blood marks were left, showing that some had been wounded. - William Akers, white farmer liv ing near Trousdalc, Tenn., attacked his wife and child with an axe and j then shot himself in the mouth with ! a pistol. Ho had been unbalanced for some time. - A monster reception will be given William .fennings Bryan in Madison Hquaro Garden, .New York, on his re turn to this country about Aug. 1st. Thc entire country will bo invited to take part. - il. A. Guimarin. an ongineer of Atlanta, applies for a divorce, charg ing that he was made to marry his wife, to whom he was not even engag ed, by her aunt, who held a isvolver at his head. - Scott Town, a village of 200 peoplo 20 miles north of Ironton, G., was completely washed away by high water on Tuesday, 5th inst, .not a house boiog left standing. The inhab itants, exept MTB. Sayres and her daughter, escaped drowning. - At the meeting in Now York of the American fire inauranoe companies a resolution was apopted which sets forth the attitude of tho underwriters in regard to liabilities at San Francis co. The rules adopted affect about 75 per cent of the insurance carried by the American companies and explicitly denies liability for puroly earthquake damage. It is now believed that the settleroeht of many of the San Fran cisco iosBOB will entail long legal fight. - Charged with participating in the lynohing of John V. Johnson, a white man, oixteon men were arraigned be fore Judge Walter Neal of the supe rior court in Wadesboro, N. C., and were released under $5,000 bail eaoh to appear at the next term of the su perior court in Union county, which adjoins the county in whioh the lynoh ing ooourred. Tho men wero bound ovor upon "probable grounds" of be ing guilty of lynohing a prisoner. - A Central of Georgia train crash ed into the roar of an Atlanta and West Poiut excursion train Wednes day night in Atlanta. Ono man waB killed and Beveu or more injured, some seriously. The fire department was called out to chop the viotims ont of the wreok from the rear of a oar of. the Wost Point train. Tho Contral engioeor olaimod he had no signal to slow down or stop and waB running into the station at the usual speed when he crashed into the train a hesd. m m o? Executor's Bale, f\a Salesday in July, 1006,1 will sell at "public auction before the Court House door to the highest bidder for cash, ten (10) shares of the capital stock of People's Bank, Andereon, S. O., par Taine $50.00 per ahare^and one share of the stock of jreopiirs r ara??ur? Company, par value ?25.00. S. W. Wtlllford aa Executor of the W1U of W, Hr Wlliiforl, deo'd. Bun? 13, 1006. 52 st Notice of Dissolution of Part nership. N otlco ia hereby given tbat the part nership heretofore- existing between Julius H. Well, A. Loaser and Simon StrouBo. under the firm name of Julina H. Well A Co, ha? thia day been dis solves, by mutual consent, A. Lesser ?i?-? ??j? sole! bis interest in tbs business t? Jouas H. Welland Simon Strouso, who will continu? the business ander the name of Julina IT. Well A Co. All obligations due to the old arm moat bs paid either to Julius H. Well or to Simon Strauss. JULIUS H. WEIL, SIMON ?TRGU8E, A. LESSER. Anderson, 8. C., June 0, 1906 J?nela, 1006 62 4 Notioo to Creditors. ALt persons haring demands against the Estate of J. T. Johnston, deceas ed, are, hereby notified to presen t them properly proven, to the undersigned; within the time pres cribed bylaw? ano those indebted to make payvrie&t. a M. JOHNSTON, Adm'r. ?uflg 6,1006_ 61_3 Notice of final Settlement. THE undersigned, Executors of the Estate of 8. O. Dean, decoyed, hereby give notice that he will on Friday, the 6th day of Joly, 1906, apply to the Judge of Probate for Anderson County, 8. 0" for a Final Settlemont of said Estate, and a discharge from his office aa Executor. L. A. DE AK? Executor. June6.1906 61 6 Just to clean out a lot of short and odd pieces in sum mer Lawns, Batistes, Dotted Swisses, etc., wo have arranged on a conter table several thousand yards of these goods. Nothing in lot worth less than 5c. Most of them worth 7 1-2, 10, 12 1-2, and some of them worth 15c, but to clean up the lot we have marked them at ONE PRICE YOUR CHOICE TILL LOT IS SOLD Only 5c Yard We are selling Val Laces 25 to 40 per cent lower than you can buy them elaewherer We buy them in case lots direct from importers and save 25 per cent on our purchases. CL UL BASLES, A. yftv A A ^> A A A ,A, A^A^^A.^^Aa 4 DO NOT FORGET THE BIG 4 AT THE J J. iv $3.50 Bay State Shoes at $3.00 $5.00 Cushion Shoes ?at $4. This sale will last fifteen days. $ Everything sold for Cash only toing this sale. Tours for business, THE BOSTON SHOE STORE S?ABT?N SEMGMAHj Proprietor. LT wo doorsifrom'Farmers and MerchantsBank? Myq^y ny <y '^1 gp Specials for This Week. Come early or you are going to get left. Men's Black Clay Worsted Brits, worth $6.75, go at - $3.60 Men's Fine Fancy Worsted r*nd Serge suits, worth $10.00 go at.- - $5.00 Men's Fine Black Thibet and Granite suits, worth $12.60, go at -.$7.5$ Boy's suits, made of fine Worst ed, worth $4.50 go at - 81.89* Men's Working Shirts - . . . - - V 19e> Men's Fine Dress Shirts, ? . . - ? - 35? Men's Gauze Undershirts and Drawers worth 85c, each 15^ Men's Silk Neckwear - - . - - - - 16ey Men's Fine Straw Hats, - - ? - - ? . 25c Men's Elastic Seam Drawers - - ? ? ? 38& Men's Diamond Mesh Underwear . . ? ? 83c Men's Shoes &nd Slippers, - - . ? - . $1,2$ Our entire stock has to be closed out COST DOES NOT FIGURE IN' THIS SALE. Try and see if you can match any of the above items? JULIUS H. WEIL & CO. 113 Granite Bow* O?anse 600 BUSHELS TO ARRIVE THIS WEEK, Place your orders with ne. Wo treat yon fair and appreciate your trade. p| J. h. HcGEE. ?hone 132. ; ; ;- :^?^^0?^^\ We are holding the price down to $1.25 SmsML BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13.1908. VOLUME Xiii-NO. 52