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ESTABLISHED 1865. NEWBEBJRRY, S. C., TUESIDAY, (CTO1ERll 24, 189 H ) 'A OUZTS' FOURTH AND FIFTH, 1iISI'ENSARY Sill *'I NO M ' HIlsODS ANDI AN ALLEOI,U CONSI'I KACY. Ilactk's liltiudr s-liayoldlei Unllecd Itryant at rhie f I;tL UN .d I i im to Collect Eviti,v iou AK uiNst D):,ii il t. (Greenville News, 17th.) Letter No. 5 of the Ou.ts dispen sary revolation consists of copies of letters from dispensors con plaining of errors in the shipping detparttmont committed by Black. Mr. Ouzts says ho presents only a few of many such lettor's, selecting those of recent dates. Theso letters are from Dispensers W. W. Carpenter, of Charleston; G. Sanders, of Port Royal; J. T. Carr, St. George's; S. P. Driggers, Monck's Corner; J. M. Weeks, Elloroe; G. Johnson, Georgetown; B. C. Baker, Pickens; A. R. Sullivan, Lanrons; J. J. Bell, Camden; E. S. Ervin, Man ning; W. C. Rawls, Wagenor; W. A. Calvert, Abbeville; L. LT. Baker, Bishopville; M. S. Stoppolbein, Char leston; B. B. Hiller, Chapin; W. F. Wilkes, Darlington; R. C. Maybin, Newberry; Medicus Itickenbackor, Walterboro; u Ml. Phillips, Blacks burg; W. J. L -own, Cheraw; Ml. S. Scruggs, Greenville; D. B. Rtefo, Chester; Ml. J. Pate, Barnwell; J. M. Reams, Sumter; Walter Ilderton, Summorville; W. P. Brown, Spartan burg; S. E. Whitton, Pendleton. The Pendleton complaint is ad dressed to "Dear Cousin Joe." All of these corrections are since March 1899 and t hey vary in amount from 80 cents to $25. Most of them are mistakes made against the State and involving losses. The Spartanburg letter is a sam ple of the others. It reads: "Spartanburg, S. C. September 26th, 1899. "Mr. J. B. Douthit, Columbia, S. C. "Dear Sir: "I send you invoice for correction. You will see 30 cases & pints, 80 corn and 30 cases - pints X corn. There was 32 cases of 80 corn and 28 cases X corn also 15 cases of 80 corn and 30 cases of X corn. Ploaso change bill and send me at once. I send you statement, certified to by mem ber of county board. The difference to State at invoice price 121 pints this is X corn $15, 18 quarts, $8.28; total $20.28. Difference $5.28. "80 proof invoico price )- pints; $10.80,-90 proof quarts; 18 quarts $7.20; total $18. "County profits on X corn $4.22; country profibs on80 corn $1.92. This makes him short to county $2.30 and short to State $5.28. Total shortage $7.28. "Yours truly, WV. F. Brown, "Dispenser. "J. M. Rudisend, "Chairman County Board." Mr. Ouzts adds: "It will be seon from the above enumeration of the errors Black made on his immaculate shipping books that it is almost impossible for a dis penser to get a shipment of goods correct. If the proper number of cases hold out, the dozens and con tents of the same are very often in correct, and the railroad bills of lading are incorrect or sometimes not made at all. Goods are shipped and are not even entered on his books, as was the case of the bill to H. G. Bookman, Dec. 19th, 1899. Fifty cases worth $270 were sent him by Black and no entry made by Black of same until Bookman report ed it. Also the same thing occurred in the Branchville shipment on July 8th, 1899, when forty-two cases whis key worth $290.40 sent to the rail road and no charge made by Black on his shipping books until it was discovered and reported by the rail road next day. But why comment oem when they speak for them selves These orrors can be. proved by the booly and records in the State dispensary. .A. G. Onizts. The fourth chapter o \the revoela. tions was not as direct previous chapterc and others that ar -promn ised to follow, 1t is on the lb9 01o *establishing that there is a "e spiracy" or "cooked-up proceedingj for the removal of Douthit and Ouzts and relative to Shipping Clerk Black. ''ho alleged conspiracy is said by him to have been formed by the majority faction of the board of control. Tiho first section is relative to the allegod conspiracy, and reads: To the Board of Control; I have charged that there was a conspiracy on the part of the majority faction of the board of control, and I now offer undisputed proof of the same and defy them to deny it and disprove it. It not only seems from the proof of it that thero was ia conspiracy, but bought and doctored testimony and a regular "blackmailing scheme" was resorted to in order to sosuro testi mony from at least one of the wit nesses on pain of boing prosecuted and put in the ponitentiary, if he did not swear to suit them. With the penitentiary gates ajar, ready for his entrance, th.) witness swears to suit these honorable men so well that they forgot to take notice of his crime. What these conspirators want can best be judged by their actions in the past. If oflico for their friends was the only cause, it might be forgiven, but not satistiled with the offices al ready existing, must multiply them so as to extend the circumference of the ring in the shapu of jobs for cousins and friends, li<uor drum mors. Why is it that J. Dudley Hasolden does not prosecute Mr. W. II. Bry ant, superintendent of the State dis pensary, T. Christmas Robinson's friend, and put him in the poniten tiary, when he has ample and sufli cient testimony by his (Haselden's) own admission, was a " damn thief and scoundrel," and ought to be in the penitentiary, and that he was going to put him there. He, J. Dudley Haselden, would put him in the pc-nitentiary if he, Bryant, did not "make it as hot as he could for Mr. Douthit and Mr. Ouzts, and tell all that he know that they (the committee, which was Haselden) would make it lighter on him." Is this the other "dossier" Hasel den would not show the board and denied to lot Mr. Williams see the day Mr. Douthit was "bounced by the board ?" He, Hlaseldon, claims that he had no mois "secret dossi ers," but holds back information he had paid a typewriter for out of the dispensary funds as his own individ ual property, and which he, as a member, accepted pay from the tate for his services in staying here and obtaining the same. Why don't he turn it loose ? Is he afraid that it will be Bryant's downfall, whom he prom ised T. Christmas Robinson to save in order that T. Christmas Robinson would yield to a personal courtesy to the majority faction of the board to do me up ? 1 invite the attention of the public to the following certificate, which speaks muore forcibly for itself then any comment I can make. Captain Kirkland is a man of his word and will swear to this statement if J. Dudley Hasolden denies it, and I dare him to do it: The certificate is as follows: I, Walter N. Kirkland, do hereby certify that on two or three different occasions Mr. J. D. IHselden, a mem ber of the State board of control, told me that Mr. Bryant, the super intendent of the State dispensary, was a -damn thief and scoundrel and ought to be in the penitentiary and that he was going to put him there. Hie said that he had a stack of affi davits, indicating wvith his hand about two inches high. Since that time and on Sunday night, Septem ber 23d, 1899, 1 was in Mr. Hlasel den's room and he told me that the investigating committee called Mr. Bryant off and told him that if Mr. Bryant woul'd niake it as hot as he could for Mr. IDouthit and Mr. Ouzts and tell all lie knew, that they would make it lighter on him. Walter N. Kirkland. Columbia, S. 0., sept. 28. 1899. The seorot dossier is unexplored, and Mr. Bryant is not even sus pended! Mr. J. Dudley Hasel den, why do you shield a man you say is a "-- damn thief and scon -drel?" Is it because Mr. Bryant, superin tendent of the State dispensary, T. Christmas Robinson's friend; as soon as lhe moved his family here, carried away from the State dispensary one writing desk, to the value of $8.50O, the proper goods and chattels of the State dispensary, and appropriated the same to his own use and benefit; also one office chair, to the value of $ t, which cost $0 when new, that he, the said W. H. Bryant, the annnrin tendent of the Stato dispeniary, and T. Christuas Riob;isoi's friend, did carry away 'md approlpriato to his own use and bonolit wit.hout, so far as I know, the authority or cotisenit of the Stato commissioner or the State board of control to so carry away and appropriate to hi,; own use o If thero is any furt her evidenco neodod to provo thero wi.s, and i, a conspiracy on tho part of tho iajor ity of tho board to takte chargo of the dispensary, I can provo it and start part of it horo: ''ho morning the State board iot to liro 1Ir. Dou thit at gent,leman ws then in lhe city who is i memntber of the legisla ture, and ho stated that Mr. Dou:hit would loso his job andel ho would ho elected Stato comimissionor. 'I his was before the btoa.d hc'd oven act dd. This shows t.bat t ho majority fact ion of the board before they even met to consider Douthit's ciso had nu,do up their minds to do him; not only this, but had gono no far as to select his successor oven before )outhit, was fired. Tho whole thing is a cooked up proceoding from beginning to end. I believe oven beforo the investiga tion began theso honorabllo men, tho majority faction of the board, wore in the deal and they tre the instru ments the other conspirators are playing on and having to carry out their plans. Look at their actions in regard to the two Columbia disponsers and forcing the Richland county board to resign. This means that tureo menm bers of the county board and their clerks, must bo thools of the ma jority faction, and must submit with out the slightest consideration to obeying any all demands made upon them by any member of the majority faction of the State board. I. t lie majority faction of the Stato board will, without the right of a hearing and without oven giving any notice, treat the Richland dispensers and and county board this way, tiring them without cause, will they not (1o ti.a same in every county in the State? They will not stop until they have absolute control of every coun ty board and every county dispenser and his clerk, and every whim o theirs, political or otherwise. must b obeyed and carried out without question. The object of these con spirators is to perpetuato themselves and their friends in power and try to control all political oflices from United States Sonator dowi to Coro ner. Should anyone dare to enter the political field and not join in their actions and become one of t hem, PRE Wedding Birthday Fr Anniversi Cream, with gre White, with pink White, with blue White, with blue rations CAKEP New in styles decoration. PHOTOGRAPHS fr ed with great ski der beveled pIat ful frames. The: handsome to be oration of any h If you are con)siderinlg the p~ character you wvill do wvell to < youNc Illeico will It use, tot) crush him ill lavor of solu othor aspirattlt. Who will how to its dlictation. ot'ZTS PAUsl:t; vOR A nt..1".v - sAYs HE: HAS "Motl-: AND Wo"t l: ' tA1.\ri;F.s TO (tipeciatl to TIhe D)at,y Nvws.| ''olumb'.ill, S. ('., Oct. 11). --Ouzts today coicluded his "s'ries ouo" on ho <dispe llary andt say; lit has i lot mo rO iII reserve. Ilk t it+ cotll'sO of his pl'r today ho savs "a good hnuter noverg i,ts o11 of an1ununlIltiitioln. li time of war it is !ot. wise to shoot all y'ourl bullets t+ n a" t i n lil nemlIly onl the run. I do not iltl(1 to givo lth dispr,sllry c01pirittors ia chance to work thue posrs'ecuti ion1 (lodge on thle public and try and obtain public yulpalthy by divertintg Ilh, public at tontion fromn the seiotus charges I hIlve m1ladec'. "I have said (eno uigh for the .res oit and will snon1d ily "revela tious." I laivo pienty mnore Iulnlu nit ion. Ii fact I havo not, tiod my heaviest guns. '1'hI're is imuichi moro I caln say vhiclh would prove as iln teresting as what I have already said. But. I have mna(o seriouis chargos ligain:st thot ispeinary col spirators and have furnished proof. It is up to them and 1 can walit on them. If they rimain silent they plead guilty. If they answer I will further prove what I havo already clailiol and piut somio now burdeis on their sliolldeu's. .1 amd ready for themi; first come, first served." 'hon foliows a roview of the i,tlImrges. 'This,'' cont inies Mr. O)izts, ''brings the matter squarely up to the attention of (overnor Mc Swooey, who has it chtance to sig. alizo his admilniistrationl by attempt ing to piulrgo the hoard of its unil worthy iemnbers, the majority fac (ion. The stiatetiiiits I have made are true; they lav\o not evenl b< oil con I ratdicted, much loss cont rovert vd, and I think furnish th e Governorsiflicient grounl for a re<iiest, for 10ie resigni tion of t)h ni.n igianst wvhoim I havo mad1 those cha rges. If ho is not satisfied as to the proof offoroil he can obtmnlll moro. Ie is the oxecu Live head of the government and he should see that ill its brianclIs aire clean. If they aro not, they should be lopped off and the public will sus tain ald eindorso the man who thus acts. I have now passed( the whole matter up to the Governor and the people await his action." Every womani needs I>r. Mlit's' Pain Plls. I]cadielie had? Ge, Dr. Ailles' Pain Pills. 'resOnts ! Isents! ary Presents! Chamber Sets ! en decorations. decorations. decorations. and gold deco-~ and elaborate in om nature, tint 1I, mounted un a glass in grace are sufficiently used in the dec Dine. urchasec of anything of this all and examine our1 stock. SCo., " N 2 m There never was a tit could buy the best rnerchc We challenge any hi and generous stock, sucl and every department. Buy a bill from us ar less money any where in your money. There isn't a merchc better assortment of Dres outfit before the stock is A lady can come to c to match and then have"h \Vo havo enough (Irss goo(ds; to rolt ( every woman and girl in Nowberry their fall out ii, and have snoe left. La Colored dross goods at a bargain < prico. Now up to.<lin fabries, We are soling 100 pieces; of color ed dress goods on tho bargiant counter, goods that aro worth 3i) and 40c regular, any of them for 25c. MOlet's, Boys' and Child ren's 2' less than any houso ir. Nowberry. anybody. Many of the stylos are m p)ressy for us. Our stock is ntow coL lit aniybody from a boy' thIreo years < man that woights th ree hiund red poun or stout men don't cut no ico with r store is the homo of stylies anid tihe low prices: 100 Men's Suits for this week $3.50) wor 104. Boys' Knooe Su its regula r pric< lFor this w lt)( " "' " regnlar pri F'or this wt' F"or this w< SHOI I [oro is wvhero wo d willI1) beIJ compoled to renit an! (lay. Askc most of t ho best their shoes "'Why Mi mnan~ pocket book. On r shuoe dlop anin. we wnat youtn 0 .m no in the history of ti' md(:isO so cheap. >uIse in the up country an itmmence variety dc if you are offered ti the United States we Lnt in the upper Carol s Goods. Come and a picked over and brokt ur store and get lher er hat made to suit h< APES AND JACKETS. 1ies if you wat a 'tylish w om 3 to our store, w3 have it, yo~ can1 gi vo you a1 capIo or jac'ket, llt.4 abnot Iany ico i yo nt,~~ I4 r try go)ods stores cominedIPu I canu av , you u0 por cont.J* Will fit hist o m etio r ca e t i-ci o so c e ad ICI~~~ ifyoareofeed utin >hd Unt Stte ae s. onr ibodo of ' I0.1)0 er" ht mad to sui .ht' 81.50) 10.00 lart ill "o Jaion 1I :l rl m~ 200) 0 bales8 John1 ok i.50II ' 1o 2.50 5()0 .z. WhV i ck 2.11a baorgairn. > t he buinesis, if Our sho business11 '5 >thoPr storo Oi .ior o jIl dprnmu (4t g re dress mo n andi o(in t.I o 0co Ah'( of cotIrso,'' yvo can fit yocork. irb t t is complot and~ 11( w44 dton' 1bor tth is. W ill lit conilto i 4 1 . L. a big store when you to show such a great f good things in each re same goods for any Nill gladly refund you inas who can show a ;et your fall and winter mn. dress and trimmings -r dress. 1y) SlN"ish iknehS this week $1.7d 101) 31.i 0' ' 0 Ph()I'sh ca'pes iIa mmer 1.25 100 '' '' " 3.0 00 " s "t "4 .00 00 " " " " 5.00 llll Ri(I olal B11(11 'l kwep1 some( of our light. weig'ht 'odging;. nr r1 int a worth .10c~ 1s, ohilordi nak 210I., our lriCo I 5C iP. K~ in'g Son 11il:i<1 Si(3t.inlg I c 0 1Bon( Spron0le3, 3oery one( a ontinuIes to growv wtO ws8 more p)oplar overy. -y where thIly bro1gtt )Ot as well as your r11oos to be1 un<I(e(r H'S..'