The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 31, 1905, Image 3
BIG BRIBES
Were Offered by Jtbe Whiskey
Dealers Says Mr. Mixson.
THE CHAJMIE DENIED,
I Mr. P. M. Mixson Says That He Was
Offered Oreat Sums of Money by
Certain Houses if He Would
Buy Whiskey from Them,
Vhlch He Declined.
The legislative oommlttee appointed
to investigate the dispensary waa
at work in Columbia last week. Hon.
W. O. Tatum, Commissioner, and Mr.
Coster, of the State Treasurer's otllce,
were examined, but nothing of a sensational
character was disclosed. Mr.
Tatum's testimony showed that he
was managing the dispensary for the
best interest of the State, and that
under hi j administration things were
being honestly administered.
Some sensational tcstimouy was given
by ex S.ate Liquor Commissioner
Mixson, who was in charge of the in
stltution ten or more years ago. He
was the sole purchaser of whiskey for
the dispensary. At- that time the
b:>ard consisted of Gov. John Gary
Evans, Secretary of State D. H.
Tompkins and Comptroller General
Norton. To begin with the business
the State borrowed S50.00C, which
witness paid back In the form of meet
1QK the enpense of ttie 1895 constltu
tlonal convention.
Mr. Mjx.^on say8 he had a complete
stock taking when ho assumed charge
and also when he retired. Up to 1890
the net profits went to the State, but
after that to the school fun 1. In the
^eleven months of his administration
the gross sales were slightly less than
a milliou dollars and the net profits to
the State $160,000. There was no
limit then to the profit the institution
might make so far as the law was concerned.
As to rebates which were
called disci, u its theh, witness said that
he made a practice of dtminding a
discount of 5 par cent, which he theo
turned iuto the State. He bought
from reliable house alone, which readily
granted these discounts.
The beer bouses did not allow dis
^counts the witness said, lie saved
$20,000 to the State in rebates.s EiCommissioner
Mixson's annual report
was canvassed to show that he bought
only from reputable houses, soma of
which are still trading with the State.
"Colonel, in your dealings did auy
of the houses offer you any induce
ments personally to buy?"
"Yes. sir: several of them did. Sic
retary Ilubbel, of the whiskey trust,
connected with the Mill Creek Distil
lery, Meholovilch, Fletcher & Co., Mr
Lauahan, of Lanahan & Son, of Baltimore,
and smaller offers from smaller
concerns."
Mr. Mlxson then related how Mr.
Ilubble came to Columbia to see him
and he took him into the sample room
and offered him 8262 50 for each car
load of whiskey he bought from them.
"Did you ever accept this or any
other money or inducement?"
"No, sir."
Mr. Mlxson then went into the details
of the interview with Mr. Ilubbel.
Witness told him that if he
would credit this on the invoice that
the offer would be accepted, the rebate
to go to the State. When witness
discovered that Ilubbel intended
the money for him personally he
turned him down and never patronized
him again. "I reported the matter
to Gov. El vans," the witness asserted.
Mr. Ilubbel is now dead.
When the witness related how a
representative of Maholovitch,
Flitcher & Co., came down and made
him an offer of "810,000 a vear personally
to buy from his iirm. He re
Jected the offer and refused to buy
from the house again. Next Mr. Mixson
related an interview he had with
Sam J. Lanahan-of William Lanahan
& Sons, of Baltimore, who made him
a.i ofTer of $30 000 a year if Mr. Mixson
would buy $400,000 a year.
DENIES THE CHARGE.
A dispatch from Baltimore says
Samuel J. Lanahau fnakes vigorous
denial of the Mixson charge of attempted
bribery in the South Carolina
dispensary investigation, referring
to whip.h hft said.
"If the witness is reported correctly,
I want to make an unqualified denial
of the truth of the testimony.
MI know Mlxson, he made an effort
to connect himself with our house,
but we wouldn't have him. This fact
may account for his testimony. I
know of no other reason for it.
"Our house has done a large business
with the dispensary every month
for the last four or five years. In all
our dealings there I never offered a
bribe or other than a legitimate inducement
to transact business. I
never offered Mixson $30,000 or any
other amount. The conversation
which he is reported as testifying to
never took place and the incident he
speaks of never happened. It is a
fabrication, pure and simple. I positively
deny Its truth. If there Is a
way of makiag denial stronger, I
. would like to know it, so that I might
f make use of it."
Killed by Train,
Robert O. Shields, an operator in
the Bsltoat&ma mills, was run over
and killed |yJ* a Southern train at
Greenville on Wednesday night.
AFflSK MANY DAYH.
A Fruit Laden Steamer Eaa a Peri*
loui Voyage.
All on Board Forced to Eat Shark
and Allowed One Swallow of
Water a Daj.
The steamer Athos, 17 days late,
with eight passengers and a cargo of
rotten bananas and with the bones of
half eaten sharks on board to Indicate
the perils of her voyage, arrived off
Scotland lightship last Monday night.
On July 30, the Donald Steamship
company's steamer Athos left Port Antonio,
Jamaico, for New York, a six
days' voyage, with provisions In plenty
for this short period. Three hours cut
of port an eooentrlc rod on the engine
broke, and from that hour until last
Sunday week, proceeding sometimes
only an hour a day under her own
steam, the Athos drifted at the mercy
of the storms, in oonstant danger of
famine, once without drinking water,
and receiving supplies from time to
time off passing vessels until on August
20 the disabled steamer gave up
aud signalled the steamer Altia for a
tow. This steamer brought the Athos
to New York.
The trouble was In the engine all
the time. From Juiy 30 to August 7,
oue or two breaks dally were recorded
In the engine. The log chronicles the
fact that the dally delay was only 30
minutes long on August 5.
Two days latter the catching of the
sharks la recorded. Chinamen on board
attempted to eat the sharks but the
meat made them 111 and the fish were
thrown into the sea. During the next
two days boats were lowered from the
Athos to search for food tish.
Oo August 8 the disabled steamer
sighted the steamship Adirondack and
signalled "All well on board," hot on
the tenth the last tauk of water was
opened and was found to be tainted
with the juice of rotting bananas.
Some dolphin were caught two days
later aud ou August 13th the lnolpient
famine was further relieved by the
steamer Montevideo, which supplied
provisions.
For nearly a week between August
10th and 17th the engine's shaft was
useless, but not only was the steamer
forced to drift about while repairs ,
were under way but for two days of
this period a great Rtorm and high
t;eas broke over the helpless steamship.
The log indicates meanwhile that more
aoipnm were caugnt. Finally, en August
18, the coupling tlange broke and
the Athos abandoned the attempt to
make New York under her own steam,
after 20 days of continuous accidents.
It was decided to accept the first offer
of a tow. This did not come for two
days, during which a second food fam
ine was averted, by the steamer Vera,
which came alongside the Athos supplying
eatabks and drinkables.
AtSotland lightship last Monday
night the tow line broke, as a last
chapter in her long series of accidents
and the Athos could not repair the
broken line in the dark, but anchored
for the night while the Altai brought
her passengens to quarantine. Tuespay
tugs were sent out to bring the
Athos into port.
Passengers of the Athos, on landing
Tuesday, reported that the famine
caused small mutinies among the
ships crew of 18 Chinamen. Trouble
tirst started among the coolies over
the dearth of tobacco and rice. A
negro helper was stabbed during one
of the tights of the hungry crew, but
the officers and passengers were not
seriously menaced.
At one time the only water to be
had was ocean brlue which had been
boiled and condensed. One swallow a
day to each person was all that this
nrnnA.B ollnoiod
HerioiiM CliarKO.
According to a special dispatch to
the Augusta Chronicle from Atlanta,
siys Mrs. Ed. L. Wight, Jr., is held
at the home of her relatives there under
the care of a special bailiff, on account
of warrants sworn out by her
husband and his relatives, charging
arson and assault with intent to murder
ancl also a peace warrant. It is
claimed Mrs. Wight employed two
negroes to burn the house in which
her husband lived. The negroes gave
the plan away and were held as witnesses.
Mrs. Wight was Miss Cooper,
of Atlanta, and her relatives have
sworn out warrants charging her with
lunacy. Mr. Wight is a well known
citizen and business man of Albany,
Ga , and a son of a former mayor of
that city.
Tho Uenulnn Article,
A real daughter of the revolution
has just died in Westmoreland coun
ty, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Sarah Atchison
Ross was ninety-eight years old
and was the daughter of Thomas
Atchison, who fought under Washington
at the battle of Trenton, and
the widow of Thomas Ross, a veteran
of the Mexican war. She was one of
three women to whom were presented
gold spoons by the national society because
of being daughters of men who
fought in the struggle of '76.
Walls Collapse.
At Pittsburg, Pa., Sunday the walls
and first floor ceiling of the Avenue
Theater building, which had been
burned some time ago, and was being
wrecked, preparatory to the construction
of a new building, fell with a
crash, carrying down about twenty
Italian laborers, burying a number
under the debris. In the confusion
it is impossible to say how many are
killed or wounded, but six badly
wounded persons have been taken out
so far.
HOW HE STANDS.
Senator Manning Gives His Views
on the Dispensary.
WANTS LAW AMENDED
The Senator, Who May Become a Candidate
for Governor, Does Not Accept
System as It Is at Present.
Opposes Prohibition as It
Won't Be Enforced.
The following letter from Senator
Richard I Manning, of Sumter, who
may become a candidate for governor
will be read with interest:
Sumtuk, S. 0., August 23.?A
number of articles have appeared in
the newspapers calling on those who
are spoken of as probable candidates
for guver in the Democratic primary
next year to express themselves on
the question-which is now agitating
the public mind,^namely, the liquor
question.
As one of those referred to, I desire
to say that I have no hesitation in
stating mv position on this question.
In doing so 1 have no desire to precipitate
the campaign at this time for
aitnougn 1 have frequently been meutlened
as a candidate for governor, I
have not, up to this time, positively
decided to be a candidate, and In now
stating my position on thellq lor question
1 do not commit myself to enter
the race. 1 do so now merely to prevent
the Idea being formed in the
public mind that I am awaiting to
see which way the tide turns before
statlDg my attitude thereto.
In my opinion, a grave condition
confronts our people, and its practical
and wise solution should be of paramount
importance to the political aspirations
of any man or set of men.
Irrespective of any candidacy, I feel
that it Is the duty of every citizen
who realizes the responsibilities of
Citizenship to do his part In bringing
about the wisest and best solution of
the liquor question, to put aside prejudice,
to put aside politics and every
consideration save the earnest desire
to bring about that condition which
will promote temperance and straightforward,
honest conduct and morality,
and wiil minimize the evils of l'quor.
It Is Inevitable that differences of
opinion will exist as to the way to accomplish
this desirable end even
among those earnestly and honestly
striving after the same object. I
respect the position of the prohlblMon
1st, whn hallovna t-.Haf. !/-.?>
.* vvu vuuu ^IV'IIIUIUIUH
can be effective In South Carolina. I
admit tbat there has been a growing
tendency to curtail drink, and the
time may come when the tope of our
people will be educated up to such a
degree of self-discipline, self-restraint
and respoct for law that a prohibitory
law against the use or sale of U<i .or
may be observed, but In my Judgment
that time has not yet come In South
Carolina.
But the time has come wheh the
people of this State will no longer
submit to a continuance of the maladministration
of the dispensary law
?this condition has become into erable.
The dispensary must be purged,
and every act of administration contrary
to Its purpose of restricting the
sale of liquor must be corrected, the
officers or employe responsible there
for punished, and every act of wrong
doing wiped out.
The issue in South Carolina is dispenary
or prohibition; this does not
mean that the issue must be "dlspensary-as-it-is"
or "prohibition." but
"dispensary amended and honestly administered"
or "prohibition."
A bill will be introduced at the com
ing session of the legislature which
will, if adopted, so cnange the dispenary
law that it will be distinctly a
law to restrict and curtail the use of
liquor?will make the prohibitive features
prominent and imperative, permit
the sale of liquor only under conditions
that will reduce the evils to
trie minimum, and suburdlnate the
profit feature of the law. Tills bill
will also make the salaries of dispensers
and employes absolutely independent
of the amount of sales, will
throw every possible safeguard around
the purchase of liquor to prevent bribery
and corruption, and will endeavor
to correct such defects and eliminate
such abuses as the work of the investigating
committee may reveal, and
make such other changes as may be
deemed best.
I believe that such a law can and
will bo a great step toward reducing
the evils of liquor; that it can be
made effective and that it will not
i ^.terfere with other funotions of government.
With such a law, the issue would
be "dispensary law so amended," or
"prohibition." On this issue. I would
stand for the dispensary law so
amended; but I do not stand for the
dispensary law as It is.
Richard I. Mannino.
Wants to Help.
Governor Ileyward has received a
letter from W. II. Moms, of San Jose,
Gal., suggesting that he would like to
aid in building a home for Confederate
soldiers in some state of the South,
lie say8 he was a ''Yankee" soldier,
out he is willing to help out and
tninks he could secure several thous
ands of dollars from Northern state*
for the purp?e. Mr. Norment, in
tne abs iLC-i of Gov. 1 ley ward, will refer
the letter to Gen. Carwilo.
SLAVES OF DJiUGS.
Fearful Prevalence of the Habit in
Probitution Districts.
Not Botnc Able to Get Other Stimulant*
Ooeoalne, Morphine ana
Other Draft* Are Used.
The Washington correspondent of
the Columbia Record says Albert Lieber,
one of the most prominent cttlzensof
Indianapolis, has been In Washington
on his way to New York to
meet his father, Peter Lleber, United
States consul at Dusseldorf, Germany.
Consul Lleber and his wife are returning
to the United States after a
long residence abroad, and will spend
sometime In this country visiting relatives
and friends.
"I was appalled at some faots given
me In the Arlington hotel by a Southern
man stopping there," said Mr.
Lieber to The Record correspondent,
"and the statements are such that
they should receive the earnest attention
of the best thinking people of
the United States The gentleman
said that he had been informed that
physicians in many portions of the
South, especially where prohibition Is
in force, had found that the cocaine
habit was making slaves of the negro
race. They were prevented from satisfying
their appetites with beverages
of some kind that would stimulate
and they had turned to cocaine, which
was being consumed In immense quantities,
generally beiug put in cider or
some other drink. Physicians had
told the gentleman who had informed
me that the long continuance of the
uaou would prove more destructive to
the negro race than anything on the
face of the earth, inasmuch as it not
only wrecked them physically, makthem
despise work, but would kill
them off quickly. In the Washington
Post of July 31st was an interview
with Mr. E. J. llowen, of Little Rock,
Ark., who gave utterance to preoisely
similar views lie said that where cocaine
could not be obtained lemon ex
tract was being used in prohibition
communities. lie said he knew a man
who used to driuk it incessantly until
it kiiled him. There is often a brisk
trade in perfumes, red ink and nearly
anything that could be used as a substitute
for stimulating drinks.
"I know of my own accord," went
on Mr. Lieber, "that in many prohibition
counties in the country men and
women have begun the use of opium
and drugs that will satisfy the craving
for stimblants of some kind. It seems
to me that this is a fearful argument
against some of the existing rorms of
prohibition. Now, I believe in temporauco
myself, but 1 do not know
anything more foolish than to deprive
people of stimulating beverages of
some kind. Personally I would not
object to rigid prohibition against
whiskey in any community, but I be
| i(\vn nil unnui V-vl a nr./, ^ ...ill ? -J ? 1 *
.iwiv wn ouiiniwio jjuuj/ii; win amillL
that beor and tho lighter drinks
should not be shut out of any community.
Let us take the very communities
where good authority says the
people of a race are largely turning
to cocaine and other drugs, and the
probability is the same state of atTilrs
exist all over the South and in other
portions of the country. Suppose the
prohibition laws should admit beer
and the drinks that do not produce
drunkenness unless used to the grossest
excess? These negroes would not
desire the awful drugs that they now
use. The small percentage of alcohol
in beer would satisfy their appetites,
and they would be happy. Human
nature demands something that
stimulates, and the least harmful of
all drinks is beer.
"If the prohibitionists would deal
with human nature as it Is and recognize
the aenoaud for something stimulating
they would insist upon the exclusion
of the ardent spirits and admit
beers, wines, etc. Prohibition
now results in the surreptitious sale
of whiskey where possible and the
shutting out of wines, beers, ect., because
they can only be handled In
bulk. The effect is disastrous. Men
and women, especially the ignorant
ones, turn to opium, cocaine, nicotine,
ginger ale, with twice as much alchohol
as beer; patent medicines, containing
40 to 50 per cent, of alcohol,
and some of the soda fountain drinks
that are bad as opium."
Adrift for lOorty Hours.
Miss Zelda Stewart and her fiance,
John Chartres, were found In an oDen
boat forty miles out from Chicago In
Lake Michigan late Thursday afternoon.
They were almost famished.
They had been without food for forty
hours. Water they secured from the
lake by scooping it up in their hands.
The couple left in a row boat from the
foot of Montrose boulevard at 10
o'clook Sunday night for a boat ride 1
on the lake. When found both were
unconscious in the boat, and at first
believed the long strain and suffering
had brought death. When Miss Stewart
and her fiance were taken on a
launch both were soon revived. Up
to a late hour Thursday night neither
had revived sufficiently to give any of
the details of their mishap.
The Home Merchants.
"Who If) t.ha hnmo ?na?AVi?..)Oii
.? --w uiv&uiiauvf
Asks an exchange. He Is a man who
helps pay for the streets on which you
walk; he helps to keep up the church
In which you and yours worship; every
subscription paper that Is passed has
his name upon It; he Is the only one
who cannot afford to swindle you, self
interest if nothing elsa., would prevent
this; he bears his share of the burden
of good government and stays with
you in sunshine and darkness. Paste
these fact^ In your hat, and then stop
and consider whenever you are tempted
to send away for anything kept in
your own town.
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Best cook wood you can get.
I have headquarters at the
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Killed by Lightning.
A special to The State says during
a thunderstorm at Lincastocon Wed
nesr'ay about 12 o'clock Frank Stew
art, an employe of the Lancastei
mill, who was sitting in his tacust
mar the liro place, was struck h)
lightning and instantly killed. Hit
: wife who was In the room aearby
I was slightly shocked.*
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