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and he appealed to the state board, and litigation followed as to turn ing over his dispensary. He told the board that he would n4t be kicked down by any such board and he told the board he would only be removed legally. He t,old the board he would go to jail before he would turn over his books,. because he needed them Tor his settement. Vith regard to any offer tk _ir. \Vindiam there was no authority for any such uffer. He never authorized Mr. Gailliard or Mr. Reardon to make any offer to any one for his vote and he so told Mr. Wind ham. He had M1i. Reardon make an affidavit that he had not offered Mr. Windham any monev. He had nothing to do with the San ders proposition. Mr. Sanders' name was mentioned as clerk, but the coun tv board elected its own clerk and he had no objection to Mr. Sanders. Mr. Raffield testified further at considerable length to the same gen eral effect. Charges Against Mr. Boykin. Mr. E. D. Smith was dispenser at Mayesville, and clerk here for a while. Mr. L. W. Boykin visited him while inspector. He got him to order some wine and place an order for "West moreland Club," which is sold by Ullman, Boykin & Co. He said this was while he was on the inspector's force, and that if he would push these wines and special brands he would see that he had his salary raised. He thought the wine ordered came direct. Later on Mr. Boykin represented the Acme Brewing company, and Mr. Boykin, while representing Ullman, Boykin & Co.. wan-ted him to push those goods, he said, and t,hen to use the text of the evidence. You say that was while he was inspector that he was doing that? Yes, sir. He told me that if I would handle that stuff and push; the sale of it that when salaries were re adjusted in August he would use his influence to get my salary rais '. If you would push this :ain brand? Ullman, Boykin & Co. and Garrett & Co's. Well. sir, did he take the order? Well, I wrote the order while he was present. and sent it to the com missioner. and he made a note of it. He made a note of it? Yes. sir; of the amount. The goods were delivered, I sup pose. Yes, sir. My recollection is that it was shipped direct from Weidon. N. C. I will not be positive. The other went through the dispensary. Did he represent the Acme Brew ing company. Yes, sir: I think he did. What did he suggest to you as the reason for your ordering their beer. He stated That they handled a good beer, that he wanted to push the sales: that there hadn't been as much as there should be, and that they were going to give five thous and dollars. Tro Elect L. J. Williams Governor. The chairman (Sena:or Hay.) was he inspector at that time? Witness: Yes, sir: at that time, sir. Mr. Lyon: WVas that the reason he gave why dispensers'should handle that beer? WVitness: That was the nominal reason. (And so on at considerable length.) Mr. J. D. Blanding, a beer dispenser at Sumter. He only spoke one hunderd and twenty words, but there was real meat in it. He has been a beer dispenser here for fif. teen months. He was asked: Did the representative of WViede man's distillery from Newport, Ky. ever call on. you: Yes, sir. Did he make, a proposition to yoti to sell you bottled beer? He wanted to sell some bottled beer and made some prices, but I told him I did not think I could handle it on account of the freight being higher. and I asked him about export beer. and he said they could not ship ex port beer into our state, and I asked him why, and he said the State Board Wanted Too Much Rake. Off! Well, sir, what was the amount of the rake-off that the state board got? Well, he did not say, but he inti mated it was about a dollar a barrel. Hc.a many barrels go into a car load? About sixty-six is the smallest. I order usually from sixty-six to seven tv_ The last witness for this session was Capt. L. E. Farley. of Spartan burg. He visited Columbia for the Herald and made the fighr with o:her newspaper men to get into the board meetings. He gave this view of how the board then sampled: Well. after sampling them around -everything in quantities from dif ferent liquor houses, and spitting it in the spittoon, and it wa;n't long be fore they could not tell what they were spitting our, and some of them would get pretty badly tangled up, and they would select this brand or that c.-ie and give a carload order, and so on. It was a week of general drunk in Columbia. It was a week of pretty general drunk? Yes, sir. Well, sir, did the members of the board entertained right nicely on these occasions? Well, yes. sir: they generally had in openng one or iwo nights during the week-pos,i ly three nights-and their friends wer'- invited into th-eir room.-s in the J-!rome P!-tel or Colum bia Hotel or Grand ( !-.ral Hotel, and the liquor drummers fiinished the li (nor. I suppose. In f,r. I know it; but I do not know that any one li quor house had any one member of the board of control: but they were plying their trade and t,heir liquor was their medium. The invitations were pretty general. Their friends from different counties and people who were around Colum bia a good deal. It wasn't a special invitation. It was general. Mr. So and So was going to have an "open ing" this evening, and let's go up. Mr. "So and So" was a member of the board of control? Yes, sir. Who were the members of .the board at that time? Mr. Cooper, Mr. Miles, Mr. Wilie Jones. Mr. Douthit and Mr. Williams. Well, sir, did Mr. Williams ever ,have an opening? Yes, sir. I do not think any of them were exempt from the opening part. All of them had it. Mr. Farley went at length into an explanationa of certain matters in which he was interesred that were brought out at Spartanburg. The committee then adjourned sub ject to t,he call of the chairman. It is not known when the next meeting of the committee will be held, but it will likely be in Coumbia after the Su preme Court decides what the rights of the committee really are and if it can imprison for contempt under the concurrent resolution. The committee has several affida vits from Greenville about the beer dispensaries there, but these will be used later. August Kohn. TILLMAN AT TIRZAH The Senator Discusses the Dispensary With Senator Brice-Charges Corruption at Columbia. Tirzah, S. C.. Sept. 7.-"I would give a year's salary as senator to be governor 3 months," siad Senator Tillman in the Observer man's ear toda:., while the Gold Hill band was belching forth its music. "May I quote you?" "Quote me," said the sen;ator. He spoke two hours to two thous and people in reply to J. S. Brice, senator from York county, and author of the Brice bill modifying the dis pensary law. Mr. Brice had spoken an hour and a half, presenting the well-known arguments against the dispensary. "I have no quarrel with Senator Tillman." he said. "except the dis. pensary, but when he gets between me and it, I intend to hit him." Tillman sat within four feet of him, watching him narrowly with that one eye and taking notes from time to time on an envelope. There were no seats but a few logs, and all the people stood for four hours. They did not look so much at Mr. Brice as at Tillman, even while the former was speaking. When he said anything :hat provoked applause, the current was turned backward by a shout, "Tillman, Tillman!" Those people dotce on Tillman, "Uncle Ben," they called him, and screwed their eyes or him as if he were a saint. When he rose to speak he stood at the railing of the band-stand, ar ranging papers. Applause grew into an uproar that kept increasing. Till '- watedA a while with his head bowed and eye cast down. Presently he waived his hand for silence. "Hogs driwn my way." he said "root wi-Ch their nnses. They don' shout. I am alluding to the state ment that this meeting was to b< packed with rooters for the dispen sarv." He did no: wish to be accused oi meddling. He explained why he hac come here to speak. He showed in vications signed, he said, by 5oo citi zens of the county. He could easilh have avoided coming, could have play, ed sick and never have been found out. There were scores of excuse! he could have given for keeping si lence; and if he had kept silence hc could have been returned to the sen ate without opposition. "But I have my opinions and I be lieve in them, and will not, after yot have .honored me with your suffrages twice for governor and twice for Ehe senate, keep my :nouth shut for al the politicians in your county." Later he said that it was at Tirzal he made his first public utterance i( years ago. "Now some of these pa pers-that treat me- so kindly-sa3 that since :I was born -here it is fitting that I should come back here to be buried." "But God have mercy on the pusillanimous man, who, when he ha, thought a problem out, is too craver a coward to declare his conclusion I have given you absolutely hones1 -service for every dollar you have giv en me as governor and as senaor I have scood up in Washington and told those Yankees what I thought of them because I thought you woul like it. And when I get too coward ly to give you my opinion when yot ask me for it you had better send mt back to Trenton, for I shall be of nc further use to you. I, when I wa younger, enjoyed public speaking I liked to throw rocks back at ever3 man who threw rocks at me. I use to be able, boys, to touch the butto! and any bell in my head would ring But I've been through so much! Tim< is beginning to give me aches an( pains." 'lihis was to show that hi had come here with serious purpost to declare himself. "Most of the dis pensary politicians have taken to th< bushes, you know, and are standing on their tiptoes and saying, 'Grea God, what is that? Is that an anti dispensary cyclone coming?' But i am a practical proihibitionist. Durini my 58 years of life I have not drunl 58 gallons o.f whiskey. And, as know that I am clean in this regard I have the courage to tell you ii judgment: that the dispensary is al right, if you take it away from th< thieves that tihe legislature has put ir charge of it." The question is: "Whether you wil have the whiskey-which you wil drink-supplied to you in a legal way or whetiher you must get it illegally if you are poor, or have it shipped i: by express, if you are rich. If yoi can't get liquor lawfully. I assert tha vou will get it unlawfully." He gave some of his time to scor ing 1Mr. Brice. and the people cried laughingly, "Take Brice home! Tak< him honie!" "If the di:spensary had been con ducted as I started it in good faitdh and had had the moral support an< active aid of the large element of the people who think it wrong to sel whiskey. by this time, instead of tak ing one step toward prohibition, wv would be ready to carry the wholi state for it. There is no use to dis pute tihe proposition that drunken ness decreased while I was governor I wasn't watching for thieves. foi God knows. I wasn't expecting Souti Carolina to hatch out a brood a th em." He explained at some length bov the thieves got there. T' was th work of tihe Brice bill. That bill pro videdl for a modification of the lav and for prohibition under certain co,n ditions, except when the whiskey wa sold for "medical. pharmeceutical. and-the senator hesitated -"Snake bites!" cried a fellow. "Snake bites ain't in the list. m: friend," said Tillman. "You'd bette keep out of the bushes." He flatly denied Brice's assertio: that a majority of the people 'had or dered the legislature to pass a pro hibition bill. "I want Mr. Brice to run for gov ernor next year. Plenty of time t< reconsider. Mr. Brice." (Laughter). He wanted Mr. Brice on the pro vote for him. He wanted another candida:e to represent the State, News and Courier and Greenvi]le N ews. on the high license ticket. Tlen. there must be one for the blind tigers: some of them are clever fellows. too. Four blind tigers have already nominated a gentleman from Marlboro. Pro hibitionists. high license believers, and tigers have all some clever people in their trains. "but, oh. ain't it a hor rible combinaition. all crying. 'Down with the damnable dispensary!' " The effort of speaking was showing some on him. He breathed deeply. His shoulders drooped some, and the corners of his mouth curved down ward. But his bulldog jaws brought his teeth square together like a vise and his single eye had that gleam in it that puts the people beside themselves When he made a point and turned to look at Brice in challenge or at Grist, a Yorkville newspaper man, they whooped him up in South Carolina style. "Ah, my countrymen," he said, feel ingly, "whiskey is indeed a devil! Whoever takes its problem in hand to solve and tries to minimize the evil has tackled the hardest task that ever confronted a public man. I did not seek it. It was thrust on me. . . . They have gone and changed the law, taken it out of the hands of the governor whom you elect and gave it to three little bob-tailed men that work for $400 a year. What else could they expect than corrup tion. Wthen the law first started, nobody knew where the whiskev was boug'ht. It came marked "X," X "XXX," and so on. But now 'they buy case goods, labeled with the names of the dealers, and so put it in the power of the dealers to de bauch every dispenser in South Caro lina who is debauch'able." He said .he could talk three hours about it; it is so blamed big and has so many sides to it. The law fur nishes six weeks' additional school to the sunburned children of the farm, and is the only scheme which has ever been devised to give back to -the country people some of the money which they spend for whiskey. "I have no doubt you are going to vote the dispensary out of York county. What will you do about your school term?" "Cut it down," replied somebody. "Yes. I'll gamble 'that you will cut it down, but God forbid that you should!" There is no way to stop the sale of whiskey: that was his theme. It is going to be sold, one way or an other. Therefore minimize the evil and let the revenue from it go to The state, not to tigers and bar-keepers. It is not blood money. Uncle Sam is in the business, and nobody tihinks of calling his revenue blood money. Pro hibition is a breeder of immorality. It teaches the doctor, the patient, and the druggist to lie and practice hypoc Srisy. We have whiskey with us and Salways have had it. Until 1830 it was as free as water, and it ,had never occurred to any man's mind in the ages before that time 'to attempt the restraint of the traffic. "I find nothing in the Bible to sup port prohibition," he said. "Arad I don't want any preacher to cram his new fangled religion down my throat." He said he has never piecended 'to be other than an honest old sinner. conscious of his own weakness and inability to size up his ideas, and trying to do as little harm in this -world as he can. The Bible does not denounce the use of liquor as a sin, but denounces drunkenness. "Don't represent me," he said, iraising his voice high. "as 'trying to lead astray boys and young men. Do Sas I say not only, but do as I do! Let liquor alone, as I do. and you'll never be hurt." ;He had a batoh of quotations from' the Scriptures, from which he read selections. One of them ran, "Let him drink and forget his poverty." "Now, if that don't fix Gris't and Brice," said Tillman, fixing his eye ron them, "what will?" r"Christ ihimself acknowledges that he drank, and yet some of the preach ers-not all of them, thank God-say I blaspheme. I stand flat-footed on the proposition 'that the Bible does not teach that the use of liquor is a sin, and I defy all tihe preachers in Sside or outside York county to prove' the contrary."~ Whatever is done with the dispen I ary, he wants some provision made for saving the $9oo.ooo that the state has in it. It is constantly layi:ng in: more stock. A clerk has recentlv or dered ii million labels. "The time has come when tihe peo ple of Sou:h Carolina ought to say te. Governor Heyward. We are sick un to death of this kind of thing.' He has power to remove from office those three men, and the time 'as come, in my judgment, when he ought to do it. He has made us a good gov ernor, and he has now an opportuni ty to strengthen himself with his people. What do you think about that?" he asked the crowd. "Take a vote," suggested a citizen, "Then, I'll state the proposition: Under the constitution, the governor has authority to remove these people, and there is enough evidence of cor ruption .to make ic necessary for him to do so at once." They pretty much all held up their h'ands, acceding. Brice made a brief reply. He said the people of the county knew his habits. In the legislature last year, I never bought a drop of liquor." "If you were in touch with those dispensary people," incerrupted Till man, drily, from his seat, "you didn't need to buy any." Brice said further that the devil cites Scripture for this ends, and euot ed from Richard III. "And thus I clothe my naked villiany With old odd ends stolen forth of holy writ, And seem a saint when most I play the devil." Dr. R. M. Kennedy, DElNTJ ST. Newberry, - - S. C. OVER NATIONAL BANK. Best Mineral As phalt Roofing. C. H. CANNON, Near C., N. & L. Depot Just received 2car loads of Buggies. 1 car load of Wagons. and a lot of up to-date and first class Harness. All to be had at REASONABL.E PRICES at A T. BROWN. Miss Hattie McIver Leavell (B. M. of WOB8'S uoi~cliffioll308, IV.) Pupil of Virgil Piano School of New York, N. 'r. INSTRUMENTAL. MUSIC. Studio over Mower Go.'s Store. School Opens September 1 st, 1905. Special Attention to Beginners. Newborry Gollege SEMI-CENTENIAL YEAR. Courses in Science, Classics, Philosophy, and Engtnearing. Thorough Collegiate Training under positive Chrlstisn In fiuences at a minimum of of expense. Next Session begins Sept. 27. Address JAMES A. B. SCH ER ER, President.