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1 In &e Name of Sense* that good common sense* of which all of us have a share, how can you continue to buy ordinary soda crackers, stale and dusty as they must be. when for 5^ you can get Uneeda Biscuit fresh from the oven, protected from dirt by a package the very beauty of which makes you hungry. NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY WHAT HE KNOWS About Frand in the Management of the Dispensary. SENATOR TILLM IN Gives Testimony Before tbe Investigat ing Committee in Columbia. He x Says That Circumstantial Evi dence^ Points to Much Thieving? The Columbia correspondent of the Augusta Chronicle says there was no standing room on Tuesday night of last week in the able or galleries cf the hall of the house of representa tives when Senator Tillman took the stand to testify before tbe di-pensary investigating committee. 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I Can Certainly Save Them Money, and Will Guarantee To Do So If They Will Give Me a Chance. Respectfully, hi. C. Wannamaker, (At the People's Bank.) Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic has stood the test 25 years. Average Annual Sales over One and a Half MQHon bottles. Does this record of merit appeal to you ? No Cure, No Pay. 50c Enclosed with every bottle is a Tea Cent? package of Grove's Black Root. Liver Pills._ MWBIlllBHillMrmiM .?????I? bis evid-rcs disclosed nothing new. Still what re bad to say was received with mtteh inferest and frequently he was appl aided generally. He often turned the isbles on the attorneys questioning him, these incidents ran^o*" laughter to his favor. At times the hearing resembled a typical Tillman campaign meeting. The sen ator arranged a seat for himself on top the speaker's desk so that Che could see and he seen by the entire house. When be mounted the desk and sat down he was vigorously ap plauded. "Have you anyjinformation in rer gard to ?n* graft, rebate or improper dealing on the part of any dispensary cfflvjlal or any record about the dis pensary, Senator Tillman?" was Mr. Lyons' first question. "In order to be able to have myself so aright and have the committee understand just what I know and what 1 kon'b know and what I believe upon very strong evidence, I will have to answer that question in my own way. "As to knowing sp'dfically of any instance of my knowledge that any such thing has occurred I answer.be. A.nd as for the iea.on which have ii duenced me in Baying what 1 have -aid in interviews and in speeches 1 wih cive ?he foundation for my opin ion" Here Senator Tillman iyvn,r \< react a recent advertisement of the board for bids. . LI_. "I have one other question," inter rupted Mr. Lyon, "while you were in charge of the dispensary, did you re ceive any money in rebates, graft or in any improper wa> from the Mill Creek Distillery Co.?" "I did not.". "Did you receive it from any source?" "No." Sei ator Tillman went on to,explain that he had twioe volunteered to-come before the committee, and though be was exceedingly busy in Washington and as a United States senator was not within the jurisdiction of the com mittee, he came because the commit tee was ready for him. After reading the advertisement, Senator Tillman said: evidences of graft. "I have bad no time to get up any papers to produce the necessary b?Bis for a legal argument. I am not a law yer as you all know, but I will call attention to this circular, and any man here who ohoses to examine the facts under the dispensary law will see that it required that purchases for the state dispensary shall be made by 2ompotiti e bids, and I say most emphatically that this method of purchasing has not one element of competition in it, and the law then fore as I understand it has been vit iated absolutely and without regard to the oath of c dice or other conse quences, by those responsible servant* of the people or of the legislature, 1 should say, and not the people who have been placed in charge of this business involving a million and a halt or two million dollars. "Why do I say that there is no competition in the bidding? Let me say to vou that 'One-X' rye is not to be bid on for less than .81.50. What isjX-rye? There is no definition whatever under this specification that wouia establish the test of what one X-rye is. No man living can tell by this advertisement what kind of 11 qu uor be is bidding on, except the price and the price is fixed with the kind of brand in any barrel which he might choose to sell and send here ont-X twc-X or four-X and no man living, chemist of nooody else, can deteot the difference and be able to prevent fraud on the state.'' Cboard violated the law. , Accusing tha board of also violot ing the law in allowing discontinu ance of request blanks and criticising it for tl e revelations about bottles and labels and whiskey, Senator Tillman Bhouted: ? "This smoke has been getting very big, and It seems to me stealing has been go.ng on here. 1 bad the carn age to say.lt as I believe it, and thai !r all there is to it, that is the base Dt it. Now, who has got it 1 don't know. I will say in this connection, I wa. t do see this committee probe this thing to the very root. Go back to the beginning and come on down, or begin here and go back, whichever you chose, just so you travel in the road from end to end, investigate Govornors Tillman, Evans, Ellerbe, and McSweeny. I demand it bo far as I am concerned. I bave nothing to conceal or to be afraid of from an in vestigation by any mortal, either alive or dead, which could be brought out against me. (Applause.) accused him of stealing. "Ten or twelve years ago there were accusations, charges, insinua tions, sneers appearing in certain newspapers, and uttered by certain people, that I had lined my pockets witn rebates and had gotten rich. When I left the governor's office in 1894, I returned to my home in Edge field. I had occasion to buy some land for the purpose of getting a home on the rallpad. I was born and reared ten miles from a depot or a telegraph office. Having been elected to the sen ate of the United Slates it was neces sary that I should get in touch with the world more intimately, so 1 oought a plantation at Trenton, for which I paid cash. This buzzing in the air, these slanders and these lies, I will say, going about the country, notwithstanding the people had pass ed on them by electing me?these things caused some people to go to E Ige field and search the records to see what I had. The probe of the enemies of Ben Tillman went into my individual business. My friend, W. A dark, president of the Caroline Na tional bank came out and stated tha: he had loaned me from his bank the full amount of the purchase money, 86,000, because I had entered public life poor, and if there is any credit to claim it, I am poor yet. (Applause. "I want to say without presuming to criticise you gentlemen of the com mitte, you know your business ann you ought to be able to discharge It Intelligently without suggestions from me?when I saw from the newspapers that your members had gone about trying to find out something about the present financial status of the present members of the board, ft was understood that von could not go Into such things as that. Why make these discriminations? I bad to endure if. Are these men any better than I am? If public money has found its way into official's private pockets, it is your duty to investigate it and not honeyfruggje, but go to the bottom in any way possible." (applause). must have been something in it. Chairman Hay: "Where is your au thority for that?" Senator Tillman: "I am giving cir cumstantial evidence coupled with various statements that have been brought out in evidence and it is .in evitably my cor elusion tbat no man would prostitute his office and dipobey the law so brazenly and openly in making purchases for the state, at these exorbitant rates over and above prices people in other states are pay ing, if there was not something in It for him. That is the logic of tbe sit uation. Circumstantial evidence Is the strongest evidence when it will bold, and it is very week wbea It will not hold. Why would any man object to his private affairs belog Investiga ted if his character is involved? I cannot see how any man can refuse to have the fullest investigation made in a financial way or in anv other way if his name is involved. If he owns any poperty be ought to be able to explain where he got it and where tbe money came from." Senator Tillman tben went into a minute description of the brands of whiskey tbat had been bought under hls administration, his'trip to d flu ent parts of the whiskey sections of the country, the manner of manufac turing the different brands, tbe pr.cet piid for Bame and the manner in which purchased. opposed bad whiskey. Mr Lyon: ''Did youever request Gjv. McSweeney to make any pur chase from the Mill Creek Disti'lery Co., at a higher price than tue R m Co., f flared, and if so what was paid on it?" Senator Tillman: "I do not recol lect thatl ever did, probably I did. I thought tbe man who stood by the dispensary in its Infancy ought not to be thrown overboard, because some rectifier from Baltimore or elsewnere would come down here and offer rot gut to us at lower prices." Mr. Lyon: "So far "as I am imfornc ed tbe committee has no other ques tion to ask, unless some lndivicual member has or the board of directors who stand under accusation as I un derstand it. They may possibly di sire to be heard through their repre sentatives;" questioned by defdnse. General Bellinger, who represents the directors Boykin and Towill, pro ceeded to question Senator Till man. ' "Your intention in rfferirg your-' to the committee was to testify as a witness?" "I did not offer myself to trie conr mittee except under this cotdltioo: Tbe newspapers were sneering ana using every Imaginable argjmen; against tbe dispensary and sug/ester that Senator Tillman ought to come before tbe committee and tel. wba he knows. I bad been making speeches and feeling then as now. 1 ?vas willing to give any light I could I did not have aa. acuch lnfornation then as now but I was ready to ap pear before tbe committee wh:nevei they.wanted mei" Q Your idea in coming before he committee vas to nake a speech before the committee was itnoi, or t< usury b facts which you yoursell ere arq"*ln'ed with?" A. "I did not feel like making a speech. I have plenty of opportuni ties to make speecht s. Q "You will ploase answer my question Senator. Your Intention Id coming before tbe committee was for ( what purpose?" A "To make a suggestion, that they might get a truth '' Q "Did you Dot on several occa- 1 sions at various places in this state, , ind perhaps in Washington once 01 < twice, state that there was collusion ( and fraud and you could prove it?-'1 A. What I stated was in the ' papers. , Q. That you could prove it? A. That I could prove it from cir cumstantial evidence, which I have adduced. Q. You wanted to come here to vindicate yourself? A. I have nothing to vindicate. Nobody has charged me with any thing. What do you mean by vlnd. cating my position? Q.' When you charged tbe dispen sary board, tbe present managers of that b^ard, with fraud, aod stated that the dispensary system was go'jd and . cub thing to do was to tun out -.9 pre ent thieves, Ls that th? poa < you desired to come down here and sustain yourself ol? A. I did not desire to come herp at all, if somebody had not asked tha5 I come and you are the very mao, It believe who did. But for that I wou d he in Washington now. stands on his record. Q. Don't vou think representing as 1 did some of the members of the hoard when I asked this committee tc bring you here, that ycu should try t< prove what you said you could prove? A. So far as I am concerned, I die not think anything about lt. I stand in my record, stand on my character, stand on what I am and what I have .ione. Q. You have said that you wer charged by many people In this statt with lining your pockets with rebate* ind commissions when you were man aging this dispensary. A, Yes sir. Q. And a great many people Id tbe state believed that A. Yes I believe they did. Do you wa?t to know my reason? Q. No use to give that now. A. Ah, you do not want my opin ion now? (the crowd laughed ) Q. You can give, said Mr. Bel linger. A. I look at It from this stanc' o'iot. 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