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VOL* XXIX.
WALTERBORO, S. C., OCTOBER 24. 1906.
NO. 14
REPLY OF CHIEF HAMMETT
1*0 Charge* aa4 Inferenceaof Mr Dodd
la The New* and Courier Regarding
Constabulary Costs In Dry Coun-
tfes. . •
Last Saturday tbr Charletton News
and Courier printed a communication
. from one Dodd v purporting to be an
analysis of Chief Constable Hammet’s
last quarterly report, and making by
inevitable inference the charge that
the report had been “doctored’ , and
the expense of maintaining order pur
posely run up for those counties which
had soted out the dispensaries, the
object being.to show the alleged /oily
snd impracticability of prohibition
as compared with the dispensary reg
ime.
At the request of Governor Hey
ward—whom the Dodd article indi
rectly attacked, also, for such mani
pulation as the article charged could
not have taken place without the gov
ernor’s collusion—Chief Hamme^
replied to the criticisms snd infer
ences of Mr Dodd, pointing, out that
the figures given in hie report^ aa to
the cost of counties, related to the law
in prohibition oouties, related to the
whole period since the dispensaries
were voted oat under the Brice law,
and not to Che quarter, only.
Chief Hammet’s article, printed
this morning, is reproduced below,
with the News and Courier’s hand-
somo editorial com menu *
To the Editor of The Newt and
Courier. In your issue of Saturday
]3th, there appears e.n editorial under
the eapton, “Chief Hammet’s Recent
Report” In this editorial some “in*
terestmg” figures concerning the con
stabulary report are borrowed from,
a oorom unication publiabed b? one J B
Dodd and circulated to the people of
the state, with inainustionf jviwrih
to say the least, are very Unjust and
unfounended.
I do not wish to be understood
sa explaining. The affairs ol- this
department need no explanation*
ou. The books and pspen are
hereto show for themselves. The
office which I hold is a public
office, and it is the right and privilege
of the people to examine into matters
treated with whenever they may desire
1 shall certainly throw no obstacle
is their way, but, on the other hand,
invite the closest scrutiny.
It comes in the natnrfc of a surprise
that Mr Dodd should have seen fit to
give publicity to such statements. It
is an additional surprise that you
should have endorsed them editoially
when you haves copy of my report in
your office, which repot was furnish
ed your representative here by the
governor. I deny every proposition
submitted by Mr Dodd except the
figures concerning the total expense
of the constabulary for the quarter
ending August 31, 1906. My report
to the governor does not show that
two-thirds of the f18/201.32was spent
in prohibition counties, nor that**
more than two-thirds of the work of
the constabulrry bps been dope ip
these counties.” my report does not
shown where this amount was spent,
or any part of it, except m the state
at large. I cannot imagine where Mr
Dodd got tbs idea that $14,360.15
*&* spent in twelve counties which
had voted ont the dispensary, while
only $3,841.16 wgs expended in the
other oonnties. TJms fofbrm&tion was
certainly not
Port,
he can
Mid
send
Exhibit D of my
the following:
Showing amounts dunged against
fifinnties, jrhioh bare voted out tbs
my re
statement
a copy of
falsity of his
t* j A / X
contains
dispensary end subsequently asked for
aid of the constabulary in enforcing
the law. These figures show the
amounts with which they are charged
in exceas of tbs valne of liquor seized
and credited to them: Newberry
$216.76, Union $1,273.29, Pickens
$966 57, Marion $570.78, York $1,-
002.75, Darlington $972.16, Oconee
$1,010.49, Spartanburg 83,101.96,
Greenville $2,686.88, Anderson $178
9?, Edgefield $263 43, S*hida$P28.98
Cherokee county has a credit of
$11.27, and Lancaster, $57.82.
This statement thows the amount
expended for the maintenance Ol the
constabulary force in these counties
in excess of the value of liquor seized
not for quarter, but ever since the dis
pensaries were closed. The amounts
have not been paid by the several
counties named, and, as a matter of
course, we are compelled to carry the
balances. It occurs to me that a per
sqn with sufficient common sense to
•nfitle him to represent bis county
in the general assembly would know
enough to understand this, or if it
had been his desire to make a fair
criticism be would have informed
himself and not gone off “halfcocked.”
Yon further suggest that it would
be interesting to know whether or not
the oost of enforcing the dispensary
law in counties retaining the dispen
sary is materially smaller now than it
was before the wbiskev business was
expelled from the Brice law oonnties.
My reply to this is that, with the sin
gle exception of Colombia, where the
Recorder never fails to' impose a suf
ficient fine where there is evidence to
convict, there is no decrease in the
oost of enforcing the law in the coun
ties to which yon refer. There are at
present, sixty-two men on the con
stabulary force,, located aa follows:
Charleston 15, Colombia 3, Greenville
6, Spartanburg 5, Pickens 1, Oconee
1, Anderson 1, Chester 2, York
Darlington 2, Sumter a, Marion 1,
Aiken 2, Lexington 1, Bamberg 1,
Beaufort 4, Lee 1, Florence 1, Green
wood 2, .Georgetown 1, Marlboro 1,
Colleton 2, Kershaw 1, Newberry 2,
Union L When 1 use the term lo-
cated I do not mean to convey the
idea that these men are not worked
elsewhere. .... .
They are sent from place to place
as necessity may require. In this con
nection 1 would add that there is one
division chief less in the state than
than was before counties voted under
the Brice law, and, with the excep
tion of one county from which this
chief was dropped, every county had
voted out dispensaries. In . order to
save expenae to the dry counties I
consolidated the Pickens and Green-
villa divisions, placing them under
one chief, and whenever a constable
located in a dry county is sent away
from that territory then the county in
which he is located is relieved of ex
pense daring his absence.' Where
counties have voted out the dispensary
it has always been the policy of the
governor to remove the oounstables,
in order to give the local officials an
opportunity to enforce the law and
save expense to the oonnties. Green
ville and Spartanburg being the only
exceptions, which counties requested
that the constables should be retained.
In view of these facts, the statement
of Mr Dodd, suggesting that thu de
partment endeavored to embarrass
and handicap such counties as had
voted out the dispensaries, is ootoolj
unworthy of a fair-minded man, but
is really a silly and ridiculous propo
sition. '
As to Mr Dodd’s fling thht “there
is a negro blind tiger as every bend of
the road in counties which have not
voted cut the dispensary, but ibeae
most not be interwred with by the
constables, for they bring business to
the G M I.” I simply treat it with
the contempt it deserves. If this is a
fair sample of Mr Dodd’s line of argu
ment, certainly nothing more need be
said. I play nd favorites and dnty is
paramonat with me. If Mr Dodd
knows this state of affairs to exist,
why does he not act the part of a good
citizen and inform this department?It
frequently comes to me that Mr So-
and-So knows where there is a blind
tiger, but it is a very difficult matter
to get Mr So and-Ss to give me any
facta relative to it
Letters which should be on file in
your office, copies of which are on
file m mine, will, I believe Mr Editor,
amply substantiante the above state
ment Respectfully yours,
U B Hammett,
Chief State Constable.
Columbia, October 15.
plain. He mji: “My report does not
•how where this money was spent, or
any part of it." Weil, perhaps it doos
not; indeed I aa not quite sure that it
show* anything. He speaks of my “silly
and ridiculous proposition." If I ware
a State officer, paid to perform a given
duty and render quarterly reports of
my work, and could not make np a bet
ter report than this for the pnbiio to
read 1 would be the last man to speak
of any one as silly, or lacking in com
mon sense. ,
1 have no aze to grind, nor have I any
feeling in this matter.
1 stated that Mr Hamme .'s report did
the prohibtion oonntiee an' injnstioe.
and whether it was intentional or not,
1 still contend that they have not been
fairly treated; for if the money was
not spent in them, it was made to so
sppear, and the impreesion on the
minds of the public is the mine in
either cose. J. B. Dodd. *
Round, 8 O October 19.
We print with a great deal of pleas
ure a letter of Chief Dispensary Con
stable U B Hammett, which appears
to t}e a satisfactory reply to the criti
cisms of Mr J B Dodd, of Colleton.
The error of Mr Dodd seems to have
been that he failed to discover that
the figures in Mr Hammett’s quarterly
report, relating to the enforcement of
the dispensary law in the Brioe law
oonnties, covered the whole period
since thoee counties expelled the dis
pensaries. Frankly, we confess to the
same error. We construed “Exhibit
D” to refer to the proceeding three
Is it not possible that had the time to
which it referred been explicitly stat
ed, confusion would have been aviod-
ed?
We are quite sure that Mr Dodd
had no wish to draw an inference
from the quarterly statement which
its figures did not bear ont Mean
while the letter of Mr Dodd and the
oomments of The News and Courier
appear to have elicited an explanation
which places the work of the con
stabulary in a distinctly bettor light.
Bat, If Mr Dodd’s inference had not
been a natural one from the figures
before him, we do cot think it would
have been drawn* As for the chief
constable, we have ooofioence in him
as u faithful officer, who is enforcing
the law to the beat of his abilitv.—
Columbia Reoord.
True and tried friends of the family-
—PaWltt’a Little Karly KLern. Best
for results and best to take. Rosy cheeks
and sparkling eye* follow the use of
tbeae dependable little pills. They do aot
grip or sicken. 8old by J. M. Klein.
PREPARE FOR THE RAINY DAYS.
Hope for the
Best Prepare
Worst.
for the
Begin now to build the protecting
shelter, by opening an account with
us, it will keep you and yours in
comfort till the cloud rolls by.
A Dollar will start the account, a
little added every week will make it
grow faster than you think.
We pay 4 per cent per annum, in
terest computed quarterly in onr
months, just m Mr Dodd oonstned savings department
J C Hiott,
S M Crosby,
0 J Ulmer,
H L Griffin,
J T Polk, _
C KHiere,
Mr Dodd Replies To Hammet.
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To the Editor of The News and Cou
riers: Mr Hammers explanation took
me off my feet, bat I hare picked my
self np and palled myself together and
hare sufficiently regained my tarn -to
sp jhk. He says that my staements are
"unjust and nnfonnded.* He may think
that they are unjnst, bat I do not think
eo;forl believe that I, as a citizen
have the right to critciae the work of
any public official. He may think that
they are nnfonnded; 1 am inclined to
agree with him, for they are founded on
his report, and taken in the light which
he now puts it, the mid report Is wbree
than nothing. Ohaoe, confusion, A doo
ument which misleads rather than en
lightens.
He now mys that the figures as to the
prohibition oonntiee date back from the
time they voted ont the dispensary to
the present. The very Idea of a man who
isable to hold down the high <?) and
responsible job of ct^f constable of the
State making a quarterly and qn an
nual and a biennial report all fn one u- n Padgett
without so mnch as a # foot note to shop j q Smoak, ’
where the one ends and another begins.
Calling It a report for the quarter end
ing Aognst 81, and Chen
the nature of a suppose" that
did not know that some portions of it
were anywhere frpm sixmoitthaCo two
yean old. Am I keeping books for the
diapenrary? (God forbid.) How was' I to
know that them? conditions existed,
which he now brings to light, hot which
hiatfottifally bepl out of his report?
I hope that Governor Heyward under
stood it, but I vurUy doubt it, unlms Mr
to ex-
Our motto is: “Promptness, accu
racy courtesy, and fair dealing.”
All business with customers strict
ly confidential.
It is not safe to keep money at
home or on your person.
If yonr home burns the money in
your trunk is destroyed and if yon
lose your pocket book the money in
your pocket book is tost
The only safe way is to deposit yonr
money in a good strong.bank...^
Remember the money in the
COLLETON BAN KING .CO., Wal-
terboro, is insured against loss.
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Honor Roll for October.
The following subeoribers have
paid their subscriptions since Oct
1. Is your name on the roll?
L H Koger, J W Craven,
G W Garris, 0 A Walker,
D B Hudson. B B Platt,
Mrs M 8 Pellum Jno F Hill,
G B Clayton, W F Hiers,
H N Stokes, A Q Padgett,
J E Berry, G \V Griffin,
Henry A Ferguson J T Polk.
Mike Jalad, J 0 Griffin,
U P Crosby, Jno Kinsey,
G W Folk, J J Folk,
W E Jones, A H Langdale,
H F Beach, H C Carter,
Miss G M Grimball Jacob Pellum,
Paul K Crosby, WRThackstou,
W M Barnwell,
B G Willis,
H T Herndon,
W H Marvin.
WBSmoak,
FR Blake,
8 VY Ackerman, J M 8moak,
John B Smith SrI A Sauls,
H H Kinard,
B G Hiott, J W Avant Jr,
J E Crosby, A M Preveaux,
D L Benton, A W Bishop,
B J Crosby, E W Kinard
B H Drawdy, Isham Padgett,
■ “ “ ‘ “ tlerCros
J N Wood,
J C Smith,
, L N Hiott,
bfuBBraUnd,
H SHisrs,
S J Patrick,
J B Herndon,
W 0 Bailev,
F Padgett,
C C Anderson,
Kistler Crosby,
Mis V D Bagot,
L Bellinger, Jr,
J Ohassereau,
WF Garris,
H H Crosby, *
C W Jaques,
C J Crosby,
J M O’Bryan,
J Martin Croaby.
K H Breland,
E C Carter.
Sheriff Limehottse Removed.
Governor Heyward has removed
Sheriff M M Limehouse < i Dorch *-
ter pending his trial under indict
ment by the grand jury for malfeas
ance in office as a result of his allow
ing Will Spain to be lynched by a
mob. He will be taken to some
other oounty for trial.
Supreme Court Decisions*
The following decisions of the
Supreme Court handed down last
Friday will be of interest to our
readers:
In the case of Martha C Hiers, and
her husband against the ACL Rail
road, in which the railroad appealed,
the judgment of the lower court is
reversed.
The judgment of the lower court,
is affirmed in the case o! Drawdy
agaiust the Coast Line in which the
railroad appealed.
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This Is the Besson of decay and *waak-
toed vitality. Nature Is tieing shonr
of ila beauty and bloom. If you would '
retain yours, fortify your system with
Hollister’s R>cky Mouatsin Tea. 35
cents, Tea, or Tablets. J. M. Klein.
Honor Roll.
Honor roll ef Waltorboro Graded
School for month ending Oct 12:
Tenth Grade—Essie Hyrne, Ulmer
Fish borne.
Ninth Grade—Miriam DuBois,
Edith Fraser.
Eighth Grade—Graham McTeer,
Junior Fender.
Sixth Grade—Johnny Morrell.
Fifth Grade—Nattilee Huffman,
Angie Johnson.
Fourth Grade—Margaret Calhoun,
MoTiere Daniel.
Third Grads—Adolphus Jones,
Dewey Padgett, Chase Black.
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Death of Uttle Karey.
In memory of little Karey May
Edwards, the only daughter of Mr
and Mrs J A Edwards. She was born
May 2,1901, and died Sept 26, 1906:
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The light of onr household is gone,
A voice we loved is stilled,
A place is vacaut in our hearts
That never can be filled.
She is among the angels
On the blissful shining shore.
Where the brightest sunbeams linger,
And the gloom of uight is o’er.
Just beyoud the silver river
She u dwelling with the blest,
Since she left us all for Heven
Where the pure in heart find rest
She is among the angels
Pure and spotless one above,
Living ’mid celestial blossoms
In the land of endless love.
And with loving ones in glory
She is waiting for that day,
When the friends on earth will meet
her,
Nevermore from bliss to stray.
Her Loving Parents.
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NOTICE. *
Min Sloan is prepared to teach paint
ing, pyrography and normal drawing.
She will be glad to meet any persons
who wish to join the cuits, or to inquire
about the work, on Monday *aftarnoon,
Oct 29th in the Y. M. C. A. Hall. Hours
four to tlx.
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Married—George VV Jaques, of
Cottagerilte, and Miss Daisy W
Whilden, of Florida, were married at
Rebobeth church last Wednesday af
ternoon at 4 30 o’clock. Rev L B
Ackerman performed the marriage
ceremony. There was a Irrge crowd
present May they live a longand
nappy life* Well Wisher,
Notice.
W. Z. Ayer The well known boras
manofOlar, will be in Waltorboro
the 1 st Monday in November with
aohoioe lot of horses and males.
Good bargains.
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Index to Now Advertise meats.
Terry A Shaffer—Clothing, etc.
Ooanty Supervisor's
« Has Stood Tbs Test 85 Years.
S e old original GROYUTO Tastelew
111 Tonic Too know what you
taking. It Is Iron aad qaiaiae ia a
are
No cure uo pay 80c.
i report,
tathfti.
For Sales, wante, and business locals
lithe trials and investigations
keep on, the railiOhds will soon be so
that they will want to stop running
the country. *
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