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members of the board-I don't know thbat though-found that I wouldn't work with them on this Bishop deal for this dispensary, he went to Mr. Scruggs, Mr. Smith did, so Mr. Scruggs told me. and told that if I got my commission before this elec tion I would vote against Mr. Morris, and Mr. Scruggs being a friend of Mr. Morris of course wanted to hold up mny commission. Mr. Smith told him that if he would write to Columbia to Mr. Evans, or the board, rather, and ask them not to accept his resigna tion and to hold up my commission until after this election he would vote for Mr. Morris. And I wanted to say, also, that while I had been on the board as chairman I haven't been rec ognized at all as a member. I have bad no choice wthatever in dispensers or clerks and have been ignored in everything which has come up. O course I have been on there; and Mr. Evans, i have written to him on one or two matters and have never re ceived a reply from him. And it is customary for the cdhairman of the county boards to ge: a duplicate of these orders from the county dispen -sers, so as to check them up, but he has never sent me one, and conse quently I don't know whether the dis pensaries are straight or not. I just have my commission, and that is all, I also wanc to state that the county board, if everything everywhere else is like it is in this county, is a com plete humbug. In the first place, they go and sign the blanks when there are no figures on it all. That is the monthly report." Q. That is a paper like this? (Pre senting paper.) A. Yes, sir. they go and sign -hese papers, and I myself. before I had any instructions or found out any thing about the workings, signed it. Q. This blank here contains the consumer's profit, gross profits, ex penses and net profiets? A. Yes, sir, and stock on hand. Q. And all of your expense ac count, the whole business of the dis pensary? A. Yes, sir. Q. And at the bottom you are re quired to sign tihis certificate: I cer tify that I was present and actuall) assisted in taking the stock of this dispensary the last of this month and it amounted to so many dollars, what ever you found it to be. and ther you are required to put the itemized expense account of the dispensary or the back of it. and that goes to the state dispenser to show tihac the dis pensary is correct: you say the sign -ed this up in bland just like this? A. Yes, sir. Q. Do ycu know these signatures? A. Yes, sir. Q. Who's are they? A. Mr. W. N. Avant and Z. H. Lan ford. Q. Are they on the board? A. Yes, sir, I have never received any duplicates of these orders and could not tell whether they were straig!ht or not." The following report in the News anid Courier gives the testimony of Mr. L. Reibling and Mr. C. 0. Smith. who were one the stand on Friday morning: Spartanburg, August 11.-Before the morning session was called to or der Mr. Blease referred to tihe afflic tion which had befallen Mr. Horace L. Bomar. a member of Spartan burg's bar and an ex-member of the house of representatives, in the death of his wife, whose funeral was to occur this morning at 1o o'clock. Some of The members of the commit tee and some of the attorneys pres ent. he said would like to sihow their sympathy with Mr. Bomar and their respect for the deceased by attending the funeral, and I move that the com mitree recede from business until Mr. Frazer seconded the motion. fittingly referring to Mr. Bomar's faithful public services and the re sDect that was due him in this lheur ci his bereavment. The committee receded from business until 10.43. The witness this morning was AMr. L. Reibling, who testified rhat he had >been a beer dispenser here for three years. Mr. Reibling testified that tihe newspaper fund in Spartanburg was raised only to buy pen space in the r:ewspaper, so that the dispensary p.eople could use it when they wvanted to inser: matter. Hie was asked cr. cerning an affidavit, which he haid made when, prev:outsly examnned hy stated that he did not recc'iec zay ing ttiat the newspaper fund had been raised to "pay fer his trouble. Mr. Lyon asked if he didn't re member that he was asked when the affidavit was taken if it was for edi torials, and that the witness answer ed yes. Witness said: "No. Not for edi torials. We had nothing to do with editorials in any way. I was an open space to advertise if we wanted to advertise anything." Witness said that if he stated it in his affi davit that it was to pay for editorals he "sure was wrong." Mr. Lyon then asked him if he did not remember that when the affi davit was taken mhe was asked if they got him to write editorials occasion ally, and that witness answered, "Yes. sir. He is a dispensary man. He always stands for the dispensary and 'always looks out for the dispensary." Witness said he did not remember, that if he did so, now he did not mean in that way; that they did not get anything from Mr. Henry, ex cept an open space. Witness said he must Have misunderstood when the affidavit was taken. He said that Mr. Ladshaw, a civil engineer, had written one letter for the open space. A Space Purchaser. He could not recollect who else wrote any. He said he was one of the contributors to the fund. Wit ness said he lhtad told the truth in his affidavit so far as he understood. That he was not a lawyer and there were lots of words in the English language he did not understand. He was not perfect in the language. and he might have made a "mis-slip up.'" Asked how long he had been in Amer ica. he said since 1869. Mr. Lyon closel, examined the witness on his affidavit, but witness continued to thbold that the newspaper fund was simply to buy an open space. He had forgotten being asked the ques tion in his affidavit: "You were showing him your appreciation with some money,' and answering, "Yes, sir," and did not recall the next ques tion, being a Christmas present, and the next answer, "Yes, sir." All that he knew about it now, he said, was "we got an open space." He was not asked about any of the alleged bartering of offices, as he has all along kept as close as a clam. Smith, Head Of The Clan. The next witness was the former chairman of the 'board. Chas. 0. Smith, the young man who is cred ited withi managing the deals for jobs and of holding :the Spartanburg sit uation in his palms. He seemed rather excited, quick in his articula tion and worried. He has a good face He himself asked to make his state ment. and, as he is one of the per sons attacked Ihiere, 'his defence is fully given: I want to state, in other words. that newspapers have saidI a great deal abottt me. While a mernber of the county boa'rd of contrM and chairman for something over o,ne year, I want to acknowledge to you as the committee, that I have not done my full duty. So far as the fi nancial part of the business of Spar tanburg county, so far as the dispen sary 'has anytVh'ng to do with it. is concerned, I have looked closely af ter it the best I could. I know that I elected Mr. Morris, and the other members of the board, and after his election was held. I was looking after Mr. Morris. When I found him I found him on Laurens street in a house lying on the kitdihen floor drunk, and afterwards he acknowl edged to me that the woman that kept that house was a woman he wronged in Atlanta. Morris, interposing: "T'hat is a lie. I did not do any such thing. Smith: You jast keep quiet. I v,ill take you there and settle outside the court if you will wait a few minutes. Iam teilng the truth. You have lied on me. Mr. Smith. continuing b.is state ment: On other occasions I have gone to that man and have taken 'him a'way from there drunk and lugged Ihm up his narrow steps to his quarters over store and put him in bed, and 'taken his money out. He tried to make me take it, but I gave it to his wife, who. will say. I believe is one of the best romen in Spartanbu'rg I have held :im in hed rhere. not oiniy one time, ut more than that. I can't mentin ih times I have caried him there b.+ T hae dAne t T nderstand he says I have been drunk. an( Zr. Chairman. I have been pretty full, I don't deny that. So far as this Thompson business is concerned, that was only a joke with Mr. Thomp son. That is someThing I hlIave never drawn on o man, a knife, because I think I am man enough to handle the majority that come along. Mr. Sims: Why did you say you failed to do your duty while a mem ber of the county board? In what respect did you fail in your whole duty? By not turning him down right then and patting a man in his place. I understand-I haven't read the testimony-but I understand, Mr. To land has said he sent money to me to secure his election. When I was first put on trat board whether through Mr. Toiand's influence or not. I am satisfied :ie tried what he could and I see two of the gentleman herethat supported me. I believe that is all now in the court room. Wheth er he did any good for me or not, I don't know, but he led me to believe he had When I put them there they here that suported me. I believe that were supposed to be put there as my friends. When I was elected on the board I told Mr. Toland I would support him in his next election, which I did. Now, why would I .send to Mr. Toland for $275 when I was going to support him anyway? and as for sending for thie money to give Mr. Wall, that is a lie. Mr. Wall was not going to support Mr. Toland under any circumstances. Money could not have brought him to support him. So he goes along and he was reelected-Mr. Lanford and myself supported him-and his business got in bad shape and he got behind with the county, and I would go to him and make him pay the county. He got behind in some way with the state. I don't understand his -first shortage, but it seems he went to the brewery and they fhelped him straighten that up. So he came home again and started his business and he was way behind with the state still. He fell behind again. So hbe was going away. I tried to work every way I could when he was closed up. I believe Mr. Carson, attorney for the Atlanta Ice and Brewing com pany, took something like 72 half barrels and turned it over to Mr. Huseman. That beer was sent to ~him on consignment. He was tro pay so much a week on back indebtedness to the state. Tha' di-d not work and he went away to A'sheville on a trip and tihiere was a certain woman in this town of ill-repute (the witness was interrupted by Chairman Hay. who stated that :he witness need not refer to the character of the woman.) Helping The Dispensary. Mlr. Smith said he was trying to show what 'he Ijiad bden trying to do Ifor the dispensary. Chairman Hays said he could do that. Mr. Smith said the woman was where 'he was going to get the money. Mr. Blease suggested 'that the wit neSS oughit not 'be allowed to tell any thng as to the virtue of any woman, but if there was a money transaction he ought to be allowed to tell it. Mr. Smith: I followed her 'to the station. and in the freight depot tried :o get her to give me the money which then she had, and has yet, and robably to pay up this shortage for him. That is my sitewardship. Mr. Moris: I see, says he asked me for a book of instructions, and Ithink heI did, and I told him he ought to know h'ow to run his place, to open his place as soon as he could to run it as long as he could, and to make as much roney as ble could. I think I wou-Jd if I had one. I see further in the State there thatc I was in Columbia, and he says that I told him that I sold twelve 'blind tigers in Columbia. My people tihat I represent 'don't sell any-butc as jobbers-and that is infamously false. I represent one of the biggest whiskey houses in the world, Fleisch mann & Co.. of Cincinnati. T have sold some individual p -0p.:~ in Spar anburg for Paul Heimer, of Augusta, but never have I sold a drop of whis key to a blind tiger to my knowledge. Most of them were gen:clemen and ad an open account with me. Chairman Hay: WVhat jobbers do 'ou sell inl South Carolina? 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