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H. H. EVANS EXAMINED ON DISPENSARY MATTERS > (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1). of them which would reflect on their standing as honorable, upright men; j thought the Ansel commission was competent to wind up dispensary, but! lie had never had any dealings with them. Said Mordecai and Hagood represented him at his trial. He denied, in toto Blease's charge against the Ansel commission and the attorney general. He was questioned at length by several members of the committee. liawlinson Questioned. tTodie M. Rawlinson, chairman of the dispensary board of control when it was abolished, was the next witness. He knew nothing about how much al- . cohol was on hand when the Ansel commission took charge: remembered.1 I , no one having talked to him about thej alcohol before Blease sent in his "Mes-j sage Xo. 4." Knew nothing of the so-called Wylie compromise, and the; Farnum trial, was never consulted j about the actions and doings of the j Ans-cl commission and was never called before the Blease commission. Had never been called in consultation by!( I Governor Blease with reference to} * " * 4 ? I I maicers 111 .ufsoag-c -x. i t ( Rawlinson said he was never summoned before the Arise' commission and knew nothing as to matters coni ' tained in Blease's message. Mr. Cary asked Rawlinson if he | could suggest any party or parties' who could prove or disprove the governor's charges against the Ansel! commission and he said "No." Stated that he consider J the Ansel commis- J sion honorable men and competent to; I Ot _ i J3 wind up the State dispensary, saiu i lie had never offered the attorney gen- I eral any money for considerations of j immunity, etc,, and knew of no one else who had. He exonerated the Ansel commission and the attorney gen-; eral of all charges made by Governor! Blease. j IVylie Testifies. Joe B. Wylie, a member of the dis- j pensarv board when the dispensary was abolished and who turned State's evidence in the "graft" trials, was the next on the stand. He was a member of th?e board with Rawlinson and i i Black. Told of hib being indicted in | Chester and Richland and his being' given immunity on turning State's evidence. Said he paid nothing for the immunity and gave no money or consideration to the attorney general. Faid money to no one IW luiuiuuiij, | and knew of no one who had paid the ? attorney general anything in connec- j tion with any of the trials. Knew; i nothing about the matters mentioned j ] in Blease's message. Didn't know Fel I <Ier and never he^rd cf him until they were out of office. Said he never saw , F^der, and 'the board of which he j was a member didn't pay Felder any . rebates. Considered the Ansel com- j mission upright, honorable men and ^ thought the}- were competent. Said, 1 "they were good as anybody and I don't believe you could have gotten any j better. I know you couldn't have . gotten a better man than J. Steele 1 Brice." , "Do you think the State was a heavy . loser under the old dispensary com- ] mission?" Mr. Carv asked the witness. ] "I can't figure where the State lost , ra-nii^d Said he knew < <A 1.1 jr s, uv i VK?>> i the State had recovered much money, ] ' through the Ansel commission. j Towill Tailed to Stand. The committee declined to excuse; < John Bell Towill from testifying and; j called him to the stand as the next ( witness. He was a member of the dis- ;? pensary board of control in 1904-1905.^ He said there was an indictment pend- ( ing against him; that he had offered! --i oft-nrnpv g'PTl- ! no consia-erauun iu v. 0 eral, the Ansel or the Blease commis- , sfon. Had never had any negotiations < irith Attorney General Lyon. Knew j ] of no one who could throw any light < on the charges. !, Asked as to the charges that Felder 1 had been favored with purchases and had paid rebates contained in the gov- i ernor's message, Towill said all he ; knew of this was that H. H. Evans told him that he and Felder had a disj??rwment over the business consider tion in the awarding of the contracts! for liquor. Could not remember the' exact conversation, or whether Evans had said that Felder paid him rebates,' but he understood that it was a dis-i agreement over something connected with the matter. He said that H. H. Evans had told him (Towill) that Fel der was interested in, or rather con trolled the liquor house of "Sydney1 Lucas," of Nashville, Tenn., from which the dispensary board, of which; iie was a member, bought a good deal of liquor. Said that this conversation took place at the time the Ansel commission was investigating the dispen- j sarv affairs and was in the Columbia J hotel. Repeated his statement that he, wouldn't say Evans told him that Fel- j i der paid rebates, but that he and Felder had fallen out over the business consideration. Said that "Evans said Felder wanted to hog th-e whole j thing." e; As Towill Figured It. Pressed as to what he understood by Evan's statement that "Felder : wanted to hog the whole thing," Towill dodged a direct answer. Said there : was a general disturbance about the: matter but finally admitted under close j questioning by Senator Carlisle that ..?,tnvL-;nrui Fnidor wns not setting AIL* UiiUV.1 OIWU *. w - w _ aiough of orders and H. H. Evans was not getting enough of money out of it. "Evans usually took care of himself," added the witness. "Mr. Evans never at any time told me he got a cent out j of the dispensary," said Towill. "Why then, do you say that Evans usually Look care of himself, and what do you mean by that?" asked Senator Carlisle, j and Towill hesitated and was evident- | ly "put to" to answer the question. He said he didn't want to be unjust to 1 Mr. Evans in explaining why he said' this and the question was not pressed. J Liquor Shipped. Without Order. Towill testified that while he was a member of the dispensary board at every award for whiskey twice and thrice rh? amnnnr ordered would be shipped UiV I every time. "While I was a member of the board very few if any purchases were made but that a few days after* the yards would be flooded with carload after carload," he said. "The last' few weeks of our term not one-fifth of' the whiskey shipped to the State dispensary was ordered," he continued, j He stated, however, that the whiskey,! while it was not ordered, was taken ; in and kept. "At the first meeting of our board,1 after we were elected, over 100 car-j loads of whiskey were shipped to the! State dispensary which were not or-; dered and that shipment and the one j made the last meeting we had were the j largest shipments in the history of the j dispensary," were part of the matters i related of the doings of the board of which he was a member by John Bell ' tt_ Towill in His testimony, ne 2>CUU. the whiskey was kept. H. H. Evans was chairman of the I board, and in reply to a question by Mr. Carlisle, if Evans appeared to have money at that time, the witness said he was always genial and ready | to -entertain his friends. Voiit Wlnsl'pv. TT I1J JUvaiu iiijH i . Explaining the great excess of whiskey shipped at the first meeting of their board, Towill said it had been recommended by the board which they j succeeded. That the estimate of the whiskey needed was made up by the dispenser and that they took the whiskey and kept it, as it appeared to be j deeded. Said that Evans dt^jiot pro- j test against keeping this large purchase. He said that he met T. B. Felder when he was a member of the legislature and a number of times while serving on the dispensary board. Said that he made no sales of liquor and had no business dealings with him. In reply to a question Towill said that he was summoned several times to appear before the Blease commission and that finally, when they sent: - " -t I a.n automobile witn a wru aiiw mm he came but the board did not compel j him to testify when Tie told them of the indictments against him and his stating that it would probably injure his case. He sa*^ that he knew nothing about the Blease board. ?n?lvin?r tr* rt rmAfition bV ^ ^ 1 I X tw U M W v- ? aa ? ? Senator Sullivan, said he did not pro- \ :est against the excessive liquor pur?hases because he thought the dispen-* sarv could use it. He was bombarded j svith questions from all the members j }f the committee along this point. j Doesn't Think Str.ie Lost. "I don't thfnk the State was a loser j jnder the old dispensary system and j lon't know whether the State was a j 1 nn/)pr thp Ansel commis-i iUOCI U1 nvt U&1VAV* V w ?? 5ion," said TowiJl, replying to a ques-! sion from Mr. Gary. "But I don't | think the State made anv money under j ! them," he continued. He said that he 1 considered the "conscience" money sent to the State by liquor houses j which admitted overcharges was "like; taking candy from a baby." Towill testified that he really knew j very little about what went on when j ha was a member of the dispensary; board, that the board frequently met i and adjourned only ordering a little I whiskey; that the clerk made out or-! ders for -whiskey during the rec-ess and he didn't know who dictated the or-, der or the orders for the large ship-1 ments. "I didn't know much more about it than you did," he told Mr. j - i?-? : Daniel, who was quectionmg nun, uuu "I wish to God I hadn't taken as much interest in it as I did," he continued, and stated that he didn't remember of having signed or read over an order for whiskey in his life while a member of the board. Mr. Cary asked; Towill if his position on the board wasn't what was called honorary, and i to this th witness assented. (Jot Letters From Feider. Questioned by his attorney, Mr. Asbill, who was present, Towill said that TT'/.l/l c\ A cr/^f 1)1 m "r-Tllll* ! r^mci uau n IUU iu Evans and Boykin to form a liquoi corporation while he was a member of the board. He referred to the three letters which he got from Folder about that time and which he turned over to the Bloase commission and whirl. Tvnintn,i tlir.ii* vpnnrt Snirl 11 ! <i i c pi in i. vu in i"<-n i- ..w... I didn't turn over the letters to th<Ciiristensen-Lyon investigating eojn- j mitt.ee on ad\ice of counsel and or.h turned them over to the Elease commission because they knew of thorn and demanded them. Said he didn't know iiow tlie B lease commission knc-'.v he had the lett rs. lie said that he talked over the letters with Feld-r 2: the Jerome Hotel in the presence oi Boykin and H. H. Evans; that he hau told several, wnom ne cuu noi nun rvmomber, about the conversation. Towill was put through a grilling examination and seemed to be nervous all the time he was on the stand. The committee plied him with questions | as to his conduct 011 th-e board and of} his knowledge of the affairs \vhich i 1 were carried on. Tt was 1.15 when the j committee finished with him and a re- j cess for dinner was then taken until j 3 o'clock. Thorite Testifies. J. L. Thorpe, of Aiken, bookkeeper! for the Ansel commission, was the; first witness in the afternoon. He explained what his duties were and ex- j plained the alcohol sale as has been j told heretofore Mr. Thorpe had,' charge of the books, vouchers, etc., of j the commission. "The committee is not resporsible for any charge and I am responsible for errors," said Mr. Thorpe, explaining the error of one; day too much in Dr. Murray's account. Mr. Thorpe made up the vouchers al-: lowing 28 clays, when April had thirty days, h-ei deducted one day for Sunday, when he should have deducted two, and the mistake was made by j him. He discovered one day too many in the account which he made for Dr. j Murray for the time in April, 1907. "Hub" Evans tlie "Feature." The testimony of "Hub" Evans, of Newberry, who was at one time chairman of the dispensary board of control, was decidedly the feature of the I afternoon session. For three hours ' the former chairman told dispensary j history, particularly concerning T. B. i Felder and the latter's alleged efforts! to get "a frame-up" to sell liquor to; the dispensary. The testimony of Mr. Evans had not been concluded when the committee, at 6 p. m., adjourned to meet tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock, at which time his examination will be continued, j Prefers Felder's Presence. "Hub" Evans prefaced his testimony with a question of personal, privilege. He said he would prefer that ti T-? T7"^l ^ Tirana nroccnt in TlPrSOn. I 1. 13. J? C1UC1 >? ti-c z for he did not like to say anything; behind a man's back. He said that he represented himself individually. He characterized as false the assertion made by former! Governor John Gary Evans, in his testiwony last week, that Governor Blease had been his ("Hub's") counsel, and said that Blease had never represented him. oicr* naiipr? at fflTsft W. P. Steven- i JL ITT U1UU iiwiivu - ? - - ? . ? son's statement that he had seen written evidence of his ("Hub's") having received graft in Atlanta, and also the statement that Felder is said to have made to Attorney General Lyon that Hub was once or twice on the verge of turning 8Ta:ers evidence. He dubbed this "an infamous lie." Denies Cliarge by Blease. He also said that he was never in ! a conference in Atlanta with Attorney General Lyon, T. B. Felder and John | Gary Evans, as charged by Governor Blease. He said that the only time he had -ever seen Lyon in Atlanta was once when he was over there to see! Felder, and while in the latter's office! Mr. Lyon came in and he told Felder j * - -? 11- ii I to Dring mm tnat iiif.y wmeu cLuvjiii, | five minutes on just ordinary topics; ! that he didn't know* Mr. Lyon was go- j ing to be in Atlanta and that was' the! only time he had ever seen him there. He said that the attorney general had never asked him any question relative to the old dispensary matter. He said that Governor Blease did not ask him about any Atlanta conference; that after the governor sent his message in which this was charged he asked him, some time later, where he got the information about any such a conference held, but did not state the source of his information. He said he told Blease tnere never was any such conference held. Known Felder 2.? Years. In reply to a question witness said he had known Feld-er for 25 years or more; that the first time he saw Felder, after he was elected, was at Nashville, Tenn; that Folder's cousin, T. J. Feld -r, and Dudley, formed a whiskey firm under the name of "Sydney LtiI J CHICAGO E. ST. LOUIJ I MabDIS i rivi*i*p~ . "SUPREME" and "SOUTHERN B BRANDS The farmer who reduces surplus land in other crops is beware of the counsel of dem duce his fertilizer bills. His ] he should make every acre of sible. 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