The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, July 12, 1906, Image 1
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VOL. XXXI.
BABNWBLL. S.C., THUBSDAY, JULY 12, 1906.
NO. 40.
Celebratiflg the
NATIONS BIRTHDAY.
FLKK IN PANIC
At Excelsior, Minn., by the prenoa-
I ture explosiOQ of a quantity of fire
' works In front of the Casino late
Wednesday nlgnt, Louts A. Dick and
,—-— i . . E D. Thompson were seriously In-
People Killed and Wounded in h a?e a andlnthe p&ntcamong the 5,-
' w ~ r ' \ oco people gathered to wltoe» the
1 display, Teddy Montgomery, 14 years
old, was tramp ed upon and badly
hurt.
SKULL CRACKBD.
Mrs. William Snyder, aged 35
years, while witnessing the display of
fireworks In bluflton, Ind., Wednes
day night, was hit on the head by an
unexpected aerial bomb.' Her skull
was fractured and the accident will
result In her death.
LOCKJAW FROM WOUND.
AtEkhardt, Ind., Riy Browning,
12 years old, died Wednesday from
lockjaw, resulting from a wound
caused by t^ ei phjslon of a blank
cartridge. Frink BstCbloet an eye
by a giant firecracker. '
THROWN INTO WATER.
At Om&ha, N. b , nearly one bun
died persons were precipitated Into
about 16 feet of water at Loke Mana-
wa, a pleasure resort on the Iowa
side of tbe river, by the collapsing of
a landing dock Wednesday night.
Mary Dtersier, sgrd 20 years, Is miss
log. Len BoseLbloom was ancon
soious when taken out and had not
recovered conscl usness at a late hour
and Mias Chamblin is thought to be
fatally Injured internally. The crowd
was watching a display of fireworks
on the water and bathlt g by electric
lignts when the duck suddenly sank
Into the lakei All the victims live at
Omaha.
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WILD DASH OF CAE.
THE FIRST GUN
In Defence of the State Dispen
sary Fired at Sandy Flats
BI SEN4T0R1ILLM1N.
38
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1
11
7
4
1
5
Thirty-Elfht Killed Outright and Two
Tbeossed Seven Hundred end.
Eighty-Nine Injnnd According
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to tbe Compilation of the
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Chicago Tfibune.
,On last Thursday the Chicago
Trtbnne published its ninth aucusl
summery of deaths and injuries caus
ed throughout the United States by
tbe Fourth of July celebration. The
following are tbe figures:
Dead..........
By Fireworks
By joannon
By firearms
By explosive!!......—-
By toy pistols {
By runaways..
Be drowning
Ilogured . v
r Bp fireworks... ..I,06«
/By cannon 281
By firearms 3S3
By explosives 897
By *97 plntola •.•••••• 394
By runaways. ... 35
Fire Ions. tb6 450.
In GhjMKo:
injured. 166
im year 42 person■> were klUeo
outright, but when 1< j aw and .other
diseases induced by It juries bad o m-
pleted their work over 400 lives had
been saerlfioed..
Tbe number of injured, 2 789, is In
exoem of last year s figures by 358.
ONB KILLED ONE INJURED.
Only one death wm» reputed in New
York as the result of celt brating tbe
noted day of the nation. Morris Sja-
plro, a Seltzer water mail.factum,
: was shot In the head by ; a stray bullet
as be waf driving In HafUm. He died
noon afterwards. The police were un
able to leam where tbe bullet came
from. At tbe Sheepsbead Bay race
track, while standing In a crowd John
Fowler of Buffilo, N. Y., was wound
ed in tbe beau by a stray bullet.
FIVE HOTS ARE KILLED
Wanamie, Fa., a mining town, was-
thrown Into a fever of excitement toil
evening when a U ud report was heard
similar to that of a mine explosion
Men, women and children ran to tb*
scene, and w on disooveied that Hvr
boys were killed and nine others In
jured by oelctrailrg the Fourth o!
July They bad placed p< wder In s
Says It’s Mach Harder to Keep Forty
Conntv Dlrpeosaries Pure Tima
Oae State DUp nsary, aud In
dulges In some Plain Talk.
—i— -Certain L«gl Gators.
Senator B. R. Tillman fired the
first gun In this campaign
On a Mountain Orade In Pennayl-
Tania ProTed Moat Fatal.
in defence
of tbe State Dispensary on Saturday
at Sandy Flats in Jreenvllle County.
He was greeted by a large and enthu
siastic orowo, and as usual the Sena
tor presented hia views with clearness
and force. He does - not believe In
OountyiDlapensarles and gives his rea
sous He outlines bis Ideas as to how
the State Dispensary can be run hon
estly and pays bis respects to the
members of the L'gislature who re
fused to v te for measures to reform
the dispensary at the last session. We
print below tbe full text of tbe Sena
tor’s speech, and «re feel sure it will
he read with interest:
Tuere is but one Important issue
Involved install campaign so far as
TSfeven map who were returning
from Portage to Puritan, both min
, were tmw oirtEer Mar
tin's Bia&oh, > spur running from
Portage to Puritan, a distance of
fuur miles, by a runaway car which
nad been started down the steep
mountain grade by some unknown
person. Tne miners had been to
Portage and were returning to their
uomes. When the oar was finally
stopped near Portage It was seen that
the wheels were covered with blood
and shreds of ciothifig, and an inves
tigation disci sed the bodies of the
men laying along tne Hack. Some
of the bodies were a half mile AP*rt.
candid icy it rests on the record which
I have made since I entered public
ofe sixteen years ago and the intimate
knowledge which the people of the
SiAte have of my oharaoter, personal
ity and qualifications. 1 am willing
to leave it there without discussion
or presentation. The fight Is State
Dispensary vs. County Dispensary, for
no one expeots the prohibition oandi
dates, however worthy and well quel
tiled they may he, to receive very much
support. With all their effjrts (and
uiey have been many and long oon
slnueo) the newspapers which have
always fought the dispensary have
not been able to drum up a candidate
3t more than two oodiesirere foundttorG;riraor who advocates local op
iu any one spot. The rsllroad track tion straight as against dispensary
is generally traversed by people going | »ul prohibition, and only In Ouarlea
contend that it Is. E /eh If one half
ol the bounties !n the State sliould
adopt tbe prohlbltlon-bliud-tlger jug
trade program It would be better,
more economical and there woull be
i possibility of corruption and pe
oulatlon In tbe purchaae and handling
of liquor in the other dispensary ooun
ties, if the buying, bottling and ship
plug should be done at one central
depot, instead of Id each o junty.
It must Dot be forgotten, b 'osuse It
kv the undemanding (and a bargain
was made) during tbe fight In the leg
Islature last winter against thd State
Dispensary, that the ultimate pur
pose la to have Charleston wholesale
liquor dealers supply the county dis
pensaries as well as tbe jug trade by
express Id dry counties; and while this
would be hotter than to have this li
quor shipped in from North Carolina
and Georgia, as It now is, because it
would keep the money at home, I do
not believe that the people of the
Btate are now willing or will ever be
Wing to see the State Dispensary
'destroyed, with the inevitable result
that liquor selling' will gradually g i
back to the old system of private con
trol. I would be glad to have Char
leston prosper, bat it is not the loss
of tbe tlquBf trade that has hurt
Charleston.. Giber things are to
bla^ne.
The Issue between private control
and control by state i til Hals mus
hinge at last on tbe qiestion of
whether or not the people of South
Carolina shall determine that we cau
not find honest men enough to carry
on the dispensary system and devise
laws to make those who are dishonest
afraid. I say we can. I do not be
lieve that every man who bandies
whiskey must become a tblef. I be
Ueve tbat the people only need to see
and £now that the dispenrary system
cau be reformed and cleansed of cor
ruptlon to make them stand by it.
I will proceed tog.vj tbe plan whlci
This it true lu a way and It was a very
great mistake, yet the Governor’t
oath of efflie r quires him to’‘set
that the laws are executed In merey. ’
And with the power to appoint oon
stables at his discretion and detec
tives also when needed It cannot b<
denied that the demoralization ant
corruption which have been so muct
in evidence would have been prevent
ed by the Governors using trust/d
agents to keep supervision over tbs
Dispensary system and see whether
the law was being oarritd out. I dir
this, but my successors seem to hav*
thought it unnecessary or too muot
labor. I not only watched the dls
peasers, but I watched the constables
too through a detective who reported
to me alone. The neoesalty for tbi
more rigid enforoem«nt of all lav
makes the coming (ration for Gover
nor Important. Things have b eu run
too loowly and too little regard pak
to enforcing the law, I criticise nc
one, but limply give tbe people tbt
facts as 1 see them and, of course,
they alofie can apply the remedy. W>
should elect the Governor who will do
this and do it fearlessly and z lalously
out there Is still small opportunity
for graft In the scheme outlined, pr •
vided the legislative committee whioi
superintends the other State institu
tions and the grand juries of tbe vart
ous counties pay attention to their
duties. No gov.rnment has ever been
devised that would run itself and
every government Is an index of thr
intelligence, public spirit and patriot
ism of Its people. If the people are
ignorant and Indlff jrent and cease to
watch and look after their affairs, thr
government they give themselves U
aevitably bad and they can blame no
one but themseivet.
The conditions In the dispensary
now are directly traceable to tbi
blundering and ne&lect of tbe legisla
ture. That body placed the State
AN IMPORTANT ACt'.
A NE«T LAW AFFEOTINO BLIND
TIGERS IN THIS STATE.
be
t _ __ _ ^ Dispensary in the hands of throe p )H
Stote’ifl^sTo’, an^aTfor^iny**own »PPtors Vine aliV agie^-d«* of
" • r thought and consideration of sugges
to fitneu, experience or oharaoter,
tions from very mapy sourcaa . to ba .thxew xio teatrtctloas whatever around
the b^st/ We will oegin on the ooun
from Portage to Puritan. Uars nevei
ruu over toe line after nightfall.
Toe car crashed Into a number of
eais standing on the track and was
wrecked Ac Investigation diselosec
blood and paulaes of clothing on the
wheels, ana stvsral mea were sent
back over the txaok to see what^bad
started the car on US wild trip,
they had gone but a short dutanoe
when they were borlfied by seeing the
mangled remains lying beside the
pipe and it failed in go off. Tney then I Li*ok.Golng fnrtiAr Miuther-body was
forced a stick of rynamite into the I fouud. ijtveral hundred feet up the
plpt iKid beufcQ pouniJiDff It. A ter ifcCiiue, two bodiea, horribly mtoglea
rifle explosion followed. Four of the w * ie M* 6 trsek. Oa ana
boys were badly mangled, and th* on toe searchers went and by the
fifth died on the way to tbe hospital ^ey ^
of the U lured are so badly hurt j-elsvin boule* had oeen counted. The
1 accident is one of the most psoultai
^Abat they may die
; HURT BY CRACKERS.
At Baton Range, La., giant (Ire
crackeis 1> juicd two msnbers of thr
LouiMkca state legislature during s
Fourth of July parade of the bcuae of
representatives. Tbe legislators light
. ed and discharged tbe crack/ rs as they
marched. One < spied/d before the
ft» of MrrGbartes^rStroudbaqk, of
New Orleans, tearing his hat and
gashing his forehead. Another ton
two fingers of Representative J7' M
Hart, of Reaerve. Previous to the
parade, a barrel was placed In the uoiw
chambers, where the members bad
been in session, and .giant oracken.
mees exploded in it, spme of thtm big
enough to jar almost the
honae. •
f
ire state-
ROCKED THK BOAT.
in rocking a boat
Boyish folly in rocking a boat led
to the drowning 'July 4, eff Plum
Beach, Sheepsbtad Bay, L. I., of two
boyi, Benjamin Gcets ano Peter Z.m
merman, and the narrow eicape of
. lour more, whotwfire rescued by pass
ing craft.
FOUR PEOPLE KILLED.
Reports from different rjtrts of In
diana showed four fatalities and >
large number of persons Injured as the
result of tbe celebration of tbe Fourth
The dead:
Boy Browning, 12 years old at Elk
tart, InQ.i blai k cartridge wound.
John Hagir, atScuth Bend, ind.,
died of over-excitement.
,» Clarenoe Gant* 20 years of ege, at
* Ml. Carmel, Ind’., urowned at plena.
George Hempers, at Mt. Vernon,
drowned in Ohio river.
Fatally wounded:
. Miaa Anna Parham, 16 years of age,
at LaPorte, led., shot in side.
Mrs. William Snyder, at Bluffton,
Ind., struck by piece of bomb.
. -. MX LIV ES LOST.
Ox bodies, those of five young wo
of Omaha, and an unidentified
ware recovered from the waters
Manawa where Wednesday
_lt more than a hundred persons,
Ue watching a display of fire works
the lake, were precipitated into
Sixteen feet of water fitm a floating
dock. Eight persons were reported
one of the mutt
ihat ever occurred in the history o
railroading in this seettonr" ~
An engine aud flat car wera sent
ever the line and the bodies gathered
and taken to a mining ttultm/nl
near Purttan. • Four'"or ff»6 nten
were iojared, but not seriously.
Officials of the Puritan mine who
have just been reached deo ared Tues
day morning that Tt is their belies
that the oar was started dawn the
.ine. by strikers, the mines having
started on a np union
wtWr ^gft *
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Will bwo« p the Uoantry.
_At AbHeoe, Texas, Wednesday
afternoou, speaking to an audienue o
over 5,000 Senator Bailey declared in
the moat emphatic and entbustautlc
way his desire and belief that William
J. Bryan will be nominated and elec
ted to the presidency of tbe Unlteo
States in 19o8 This declaration met
with wildaip.&uae. Speaking of po-
litloal oontriuutlons of tbe Imuranoc
companies, he said that tbe people’s
money was taken to elect Rooeevelt
and MvK uley. Continuing be said:
"Hear me, all the money that tbe in-
uunoi p tentates have w'il not be
able to buy toe election In 1908
Againsj Wi l am J. Bryan. I tell you
more, my countrymen,” Senator Ball-
TO PRATE.
Mich., _Jceepbine
4, was burned to death
lamee wWsh oommun-
eyooutiiued, uulesa the R-publloan
party shall recognize the proud and
Inolguant judgment of the American
people ana pass a law making It a
crime no buy an American president,
Bryan’s vote in 1908 will be more
unanimous Ujan McKinley’s was in
1896. ' ^
Alt* iiipted U# EaOapW.
Black Diamond Rigsby, a negro
unuer sentence to be banged, made a
desperate break for liberty Wednesday
whi.e being conveyed from New Or
leans to Pisquemlne, La., to be exe
cuted. Rigsby and George Poindex
ter, another negro, both under the
death sentence for onf of the most
sensational murders in the history
the States, were on their way to Pla-
quemine under the guard of Sheriff
Petit of Iberville parish. Petit’s
prisoners had teen brought to New
Orleans from Piaquemme, the scape
of the murder, to ebOape threatened
lynotang. About 70 milec from New
Orleans Bigiby sudoenly produced a
revolver and shot the sheriff in the
thigh. The officer struggled with his
prisoner until au armed peeseoger lent
a bnUet Uirougn Rigsby’§ head,
ton does that lues have any men of
fering for o ffice under it. The looai
option offered the people is between
prohibition aud county dispensary,
and the whole fight la to destroy the
State dispoeary first with no other
purpose tuan to then obtain the prlv
Uege of reopening the old barrooms
under the new guise of L'quor store
"aedlng under cons I.uticnal limita
tions.” Tue real tight is for ooutroi
of the legislature biOause the Gover
nor cannot make or change the laws
and can only try io enforce them.
His only Influence over legislation
would he In the use of the veto power.
But It is all important to get a strong
and good man for Governor. The
times distinctly demand one* -
la any event some oountie! will
itand by prohibition fwlta Its blind
tigers and heavy jug trade by express.
Ocher counties will vote, for county
dispensaries and toe cities where the
principal newspapers are published
wtHiiave the~Bghi on the issue of
•state Dispensary or County Dispense
ry with toe ultimate purpose of having
the county dlspenianer turned into
licensed barrooms If the county dls
pensarles are abolished. The scheme
is to restore toe sa'e of liquor to pri
h**!* seveia. j vate individualii rather than let it re
main in toe haniU of state ifficiala.
Tnose who o anor for cuiiaty uispen
sailes Instead of one State Dispensary
mu it demons, rate how it ulaslsr t
prevent ojrruptlon among the thirty
or forty ebunty boards than to stop it
in one State Board. I Dave great
faith in the gooo common sense of toe
people and do not believe they oan be
pertuaded to destroy toe State Du
penaary and leave each county to
purchase and sell its own l'quor. Yet
Tne State and The News and Courier
which have always hated toe Dispen
sary
"Worse than the devil hates holy wa
ter”
are advocating candidates who favo
county dispensaries. The only posal
bly good reason that oan be advanced
on tola line is that the prohibition
counties under toe constitution re
oeive a part of the profits which arise
from toe sale of irquor in the -other
counties. This Is unjust as everyone
uat acknowledge, but it oan be rem
edied very eashy by having toe State
Dispensary make no profits other than
a few thousand dollars above its run
ning expenses, thus leaving the ooun
tics and the towns to divide the pro
fits between them. This oan be easily
done and when we consider tbe ex
pence of buying liquor in retail quan
titles and paying local freights on it
instead of buying* earload lots sod
paying through freights the Bounty
dispensary cannot stand toe compart
of I son. But tola is net toe greatest ob
jection.
The leakage or stealage in bottling
of liquor at each county dispensary
would be immenss and 1 know of no
way that it cooiff be prevented, nor do
I know any by wnlch it would be poe-
slbie to prevent tbe whiskey being
watered, bottles refilled, relabeled ano
other soheases of making money dis
honestly, If toe system wen adopted.
It is not possible to prevent it end I
kilk ifinnot think any sensible man who
will aextoiBly
ties.
County DUpeosers should be elected
dn tbe Democratic pr mary the same
as other effljers. The,County Board
should be com posed of the Mayor of
the toyrn 1q whloh a dispensary is lo
oated, the Supervisor of the Canty,
who is tbe business agent of tbe coun
ty, and one man appointed by tbe
Governor. Tbe County Dlspensei
should be removable by the Governor
for cause. The State B,aid of Con
trol ought to be elected by t «e IsgU-
lature, but Hi duty ahauld be contu'd
to general direction and supervision of
i be bu laess the same as tbe Peniten
tiary and H wpltal for toe losaoe are
run. It should not purchase any
euiskey or anything else required in
toe business. Everything nqitred,
including toe whiskey, should be
bought under annual contracts made
as follows: After toe State Commls
sloner has advertise(Lln-- the manner
prescribed by law (and this ought to
be very clear and specific, leaving
nothing to the discretion of anyone,
and going fu ly Into detail/) the bids
should be opened in public by three
men selected just bef Jre the date fixed
oy tbe GjVernor and the contract
made with the lowest bidder byJtoe
year for the supplies to be ordtred'oui
jy the Commissioner as needed. Thest
three men are to serve only ones and
annually there shall or thrseruew mefi^
chosen to make the contracts. Tue
bidders will not know who will make
the awards and thertf >re cannot en
ter Into collusion in advance and even
should toe Governor, whlohJa me on
oeivable. ba willing to select a board
which would act corruptly, the specl
dcations of the bidding made witb
minuteness and tbe publicity would
-prevent any graft.
~No whiskey nr liquor—ahogli be
purchased except from' Government
bonded warenouses; In tne cose of
wines -and beer the brewers should
alone fnralsh the first direct from the
breweries, and the smail q lantitv of
toe other-used could be htdged about
in the advertleemeut so as to Insure
honesty and the purest and -best artl
ole. For the information of those who
is venue Licenses Cau Hertalter
i v. ’ ~
Used i gainst Them in the
Etate Courts.
_ The Columbia Record says collector
Mioah Jenkins of the internal revenue
offioa at Columbia haa received from
toe treasury department at Washlng-
/on -ac py of a very important act
.tassed by tbe rooent congress that will
ffaot the teatimony given by proseou-
ore in blind tiger casea. - It abould be
' xplained that all or nearly all, blind
Jgere secure a retail i’qior license
from tbe government before they at-
r .empt to violate the State dispensary
AW.
The government would not permit
the book containing the list of Been*
as to be exhibited In tbe State oourts,
biding that toe government had ex
elusive Jurisdiction over the govern-
nent books and also holding tbat gov
ernment officials should not be allowed
to testify in toe State oourts oonoern
lug the lioensesissued. Asa result
State officials in States or counties
where the sale of whiskey was prohib
ited, could never obtain prims fade
svideoce from the government that
would be admitted lu any court. Some
>f the congressman from tbe western
States, however, got together and had
the following sot passed
"That chapter three of the revised
statues of the United States be and
oereby is amendsd ip section 3.240 so
u to read:
"Each collector of Internal revenue
ihall, under regulations by toe cum
mlsildfett of internal revenue, place
and kee^bcnstlotously in bis office f i
Unahta Says He Did Not Tefl
What Was Quoted oo
paid
shat
the administration, left tbe door wide
open, limited the salary to S400 And
now we see the result. I have always
>ald and believed it was designedly/
done to destroy it. Politics and
fitness have most always controlled
the legislative elections, but no
amount of salary alone would cure toe
evil of which we complain.
The original Board was composed
of the Governor, Attorney General
HE DENIES IT.
THE WITNESS ST IND
By Parker tmi frbertsoa la the Msptt-
sary laves tJgstioe Abort Hia Bay-
•■I Bovkla. Says These
Oeatlesien Mi.aoderstood
__ WhslHsR^ - ~ ^
Mr. Wm. H. Lyles, a proatiorat
lawyer of Columbia, appeared before
he dispensary Investigating oomsaib-
tee while it was in seation last week
and made the following statement:
"Just as I same In on the train, a
paper was handed me by William
Lenahan with toe request tost I
make the statement to tot oomsuttee
that they would ba glad to have any
of their matters investigated shortly.
That they bad expsoted same to ba
investigated, but 4he subcommittee
while in Baltimore had not called -
jpon them and they would ba glad to
maka any showing that was wanted.’ 1
Mr. Lyon mads the following sa*
planation why Lanahan A 8jus wen
not investigated:
I would iika to ax plain why the
suhojmmittea did not call on Lana
han & Bona. The list of creditors *
ubllc lusp ction, an alphabetical He: 114(1 h® 80 furnished
>f all persona who shall have
special taxes in bis 44stfiet, and
»tate thereon the tiuie, place and bus
‘.ness for whloh such special taxes shal
uave been paid, and upon appltoatioo
>)f any proseouttng officer of any State
county or munlolpallty he shall fur
nish a certified copy thereof as of a
public record for which a fee of one
dollar for each hundred words or frac
tion thereof in the copy or copies re
quested shallbs charged.”
Ibis means that the State cffljlals
here interested in toe suppression or
and tita ComptrolISr General, three of lh# blind tigers may obtain from the
our highest State-officials elected by
tne people, but the vital mistake was
in not making strict rules and regula
tions for the purchase of whiskey.
The enemies of tbe D ape nsary declare
that it is inherently vicious and that
it cannot be purified. This cry is in
dicative that those who thus contend
practically ccnfesa that they have lost
all faith in the honesty of man or of
tbe ability of men to give themselves
just and honest government. I for
one do not believe that all of the hon
est man are dead.' The paopia are
disgusted and they bare a right to ba,
but the one crime whloh they should
not forgive is the failure of the last
legislature to change toe law so as to
prevent say further stealing and to
restore the dispensary system to its
original purpose, that of controlling
whiskey and minimizing. the evils in-
separaole from Its sale and use. The
enemies of tneDijpensary were bent
on-ki.ling it and tne combination of I
collector of internal revenue certified
copies of all those who have obtaintd
government llceases and tbat as they
practically contain tbe seal of toe gov
ernment may be inlrodooed in any
court in the State and thus become aa
Instrument for conviction of the lew
break ir. Tbe office In Columbia has
not yet received any requests for cer
tified copies of the list of licen e hold
ers in South Carolina probably because
the law is not generally known, but It
wHl not be long before toil kind of
evidence will be used in tbe State
courts. No change has been made in
tost section of the act forbidding gov
ernment revenue officers from testify
Inf concerning tha holdaw of these
are not posted 1 will say that the
Government beaded warehouses are
under th» control of the Ualted States
Internal Revenue officials entirely and
whiskey deposited In them cornea dl
rectly from the still and tne owner Is
not permitted to manipulate It or
handle It in any way until the tax is
paid and It is removed. We thus get
a guarantee of absolute purity without
a chemical analysis and such liquors
Are as muoh staple articles of com
merce as corn, wheat or bacon. It is
the blended and rectified whiskeys
that are adulterated and where tbe
cheating comes in. Tne blending and
mixing could be done in the State
Dispensary where there would be no
incentive to increase profits by adul
terations, besides the law would pro
vide severe penalties for that kind of
thing.
The County Dispensers being sleet
ed by tbe people will be anxious to
plsass the people as they will be beaten
at toe polls if they do not do their
duty. The County Board chosen as
indicated will be responsible to the
people also with every incentive to
give a good* administration. Tbe
whiskey purchased in that way will
be as pure and as good as oan be ob
tained under any possible conditions
end there is absolutely no way in
which corruption oan creep in, if there
is toe least effort on tbe pert of toe
people and toe Governor to prevent
Tbe trouble with tha Dispensary
now is that our Governors have neg
leebed their duties and have not kept
supervision over tha workings of tha
local dlspensars and tha Stale Board.
Excuse m%y ba found for tois by say
lag tha legislature put the Diapeon
ry bayuod the t Governor’s control.
political and other influeLoss in the
flu use having foiled In tost, ocaapell-
ed the election of a new Board because
toey refused to change the law and
continued all of the old and proven
evils. It was the most glaring betmy-
al of the people’s interests that iliave
ever known respectable white men to
be guilty of, and while many of tlem
are my fileuds, at least -pnatloally, 1
take the responsibility to say mat
every-man who refused to put safe
guards arcuad the purouase of whis
key and change toe systun of m&n-
agemeut in me ia»t kgistamre ooght
to be left at home. S^cu men cannot
be trusted. They put partl&an advan
tage above public duty.
L^glslatore are pot the masters of,
the people. I'ney are toelr seivauts
and the people had -liutT instructed’
them to abolish the h^Ate Dispensary
tor there was no Such issue when they
were elsoted; and when they them- 1
selvas were responsible or their prede
cessors were responsible for the cor
ruption wnlch tuey had reason to be
lieve existed, it is incomprehensible
to me now any man with the least
idea of obligations to the people who
elecioJ him could act as that legisla
ture did. The people have a ilgut to
destroy the dispensary, but no mete
representativs of toe people bas e
right to assume such a responsibility
as tbat would have been without
having a campaign aod making the
issue before the people and getting
instructions from them. All 1 hav;
ever asked is to have all of toe white
people pass on the question and let the
majority govern. I do not believe la
permitting newspapers to dictate to a
few scheming politicians and lo trade
among themselves and settle the
question. If tha people of a county
want no liquor sold in It, 1st them
vote for legislators to aay so and lor
the candidate for Governor who advo
cates that. Let us be open and hon
est in our politics and not vote for
fence straddlers and effloe seekers
who will say and do anything to get
elected.
Four L,« K*.d UbioReu
The Laurens correspondent of The
State says last Saturday Mr. Sam
Simpson, who lives about tlx mll«
below Clinton, brougnt quite a freak
to town in toe way of s chicken, which
h*d four well developed legs, and
tobohiag tbs ground at too chicken
stood ereet. Ojs of its legs corns out
just under tne left wing, one just
above tbe ‘‘di-bag” fod tbe otasr
twb in shM* —tnfj mmUoK'
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licenses.
Crew Lom.
-The loss of four men sod of the
three-masted schqo.qer.EJa G. Eils r rt
Backport, Maine, bound from New
Bs&ford to Windsor, is reported in a
message received from Oapt. Breen,
the-eebooner, 'torubTyr survivor.
The schooner was wrecked on Libby
island. When the ves&sl as broken
up by the surf on the submerged
Isdgs, toe captain and crew clung to
a large section of tbe-stern of the
sehooner. This was thrown against
the rocks on Libby Island and all ex
oept tbs captain were sucked back by
tbe undertow and drowned. CSpt.
Breen grasped a rope thrown out by
life savers and was drawn to safety.
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A spco'al from Wadesbcro, N. 0.,
says. "Early Wednesday morning
just acroM the line in Union county,
whloh borders Burnsville township,
6f that county, Wat Hill shot and
killed Marlon Burgees, Burgess and
his wife were in a buggy together
when be was killed and the cause of
the killing oould not be learned, but
it is supposed to have been the result
of bad blood between tbe parties.
Hill lives in Uuion county and Bur
gess in this oouuty. Burgess is seid
to have bsen a notorious whiskey
dealer aud bsars a very bad reputa
tion. Only a few weeks ago he knock
ed his wife in the head. Both mao
are White.”
V A General Mlnaghter.
*A dispatch from Warsaw, Ruttiao
Poland says the recent rumors that
the terrorists were organls ng a gen
eral slaughter of toe police, were
parnelly corroborated when two
policemen were shot dead and two
were mortally wounded simultaneous
ly In various parts of the city. lu
monscque&tifr of the attask made oo
tbe police the latter have been with
drawn from the streets, whloh are
now patrolled by infantry. Terrorists
shot and killed a gendarme and aa
infantry captain named Tobolziff, toe
latter having been accused by revqflp
tlonary papers of commanding pla
toons at sxreutiQns. Tha awittlns
escaped.
Senator Christensen al Columbia bad
Lanahan & Sons down for M00. I
knew that MOO was no inducement to
Lanahan, aod it was reported to ue
chat he said he would prefer to loee
that than auomit to an InvosUgatioe.
We have heard since tbat time that
his claims were somewhere
110,000 and 112,000—that tha
meat furnished us was not correct. I
isle phoned Mr. Tatomthis morning
to send it up, and 1 presame ho will
eentMt up some time this evenfciff.”
Mr. R. H. Welch, urther lawyer,
who wes preeent, aroee and
following statement:
1 wish to introduce the affidavit
of Mr. Lanahan lu the matter of the
testimony of Lewis W. Parker and B.
w. R jbsrtson. 1 wish to introduce it
as a pan of the record. leanaotpro
duce Mr. Labahan and this la tha
jest l oan do. Affidavits have bean
accepted under similar elrejmstanoee
before end 1 do not see how it tan be
refused.”
It will be remembered that Mr.
Parker testified to Mr. Lanahin’s en
ure dissatisfaction with ooodlihms at
toe Stats dispensary, as Laoahan had
thousands of dolare in vested in South
Caroline. Tula was easreboratsd by
Mr. B. W. Rooemon, and Mr. W. A.
dark tMOledlo otoar eoovereationa
nature whloh he had, had
of a lUm
with iff.
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Mr. Parker went mom into detalle
and testified that Mr. Tisnsiiil wish
ing to remeBy tite situation had em
ployed Mr. L- W. Boykin to wpre-
hiBvon the board, Or si least it
was testified that Mr. Lanahan had
ao stated. Furthermore ha had be-
ooms disistisfled with Mr. Boykin's
services aud had employed another
agent wooee name bes never been
made public.
Now, in reply to UUe .testimony,
Mr. Welch, representing Mr. L. W.
Boykin, presented the following
fliavit from Mr. Lanahan:
State of Maryland, County of Rich
land.
Personally came before me S. J.
Lanahan woo, upon oath, depones and
says that with reference to the leetl-
mony of Mr. Lewis W. Parker before
the dispensary investigating oommlt-
teo at Columbia, S. 0., on toe Cto day
ol June, 1916, he makes the following
statements:
Mr. L. W. Bjykin was employed by
toe firm of William Lanahan 4 Son
as a salesman, but this was months
prlgr to his election as a member of
toe board of directors of tbs State
dispensary; that Mr. Boykin had
severed his ounnecUon with said firm
as said salesman and otherwise about
a year before his srtdelseUon. White
Mr. Boykin was in our employ a said
salesman he was paid a ttlary, of
course, but tote salary oeaeed the mo
ment he severed his oonnectkm with
toe firm as salesman. He haa never
oeen in our employ since nor have 1
or any member of our firm paid him
one dollar or other wise rtam he sever
ed his ooaneottoa is above stated with
our business. I never told Mr. Park
er anything dlffsrent from this. From
what Mr. Parker has taotiflsd to hr
fore tne committee he baa evidently
saner entirely what I
nave said and meant or .his
Uon of what was said it
erroneous. I never meant by any
thing that was said to convey the 1m-
treisioa tbat white Mr. Bjykte wan*
member of thn btord jbn j
me or my firm orabai wet
nim out cent. SamtotJ
Says Its Bryww-
At Gresnsboro, N. a, W. W. Kit-
Ohio was unanimously renominated for being imprisoned six days in a*i
congress by the Desfiborate of toe flf.h
district. Mr. Kitobln bu ahead) ounsnofl
served foot consecutive terms in sap ad were weened alive
greas. In his apeeen of aooeptanae Mr.
Kitobln Mid that much prates of
President Booaeveit wit beard, bat
that it vvaa due to tbe
stood anon the main planks of the
Demoerstte
he
Tj:
mi J. Bryan In 1908.
* He predtetod i
eteotten of Wife i
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