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mein outljroi THE SUMTER WATCHMAN, Established April, 1850. 'Be Just and Fear not-Let all the ends Thou Aims't at be thy Country's, Thy God's and Truth's." THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established June, ISM Consolidated Aug. 2,1881. SUMTER. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 13. 1906. Sew Series-Yoi. XXY. No 4? ? , o G Published Every Wednesday;, ' -BY OSTEEN PUBLISHING COMPANY, SUMTER, S. C. Terms: $1.50 per annum-in advance. Advertisements : One Square first insertion.$1.50 Every subsequent insertion.50 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications which sub? serve private interests will be charged Xor as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respects will be charged for. GRAFTERS IN TROUBLE. OLD DISPENSARY BOARD TO BE PROSECUTED. Attorney General's Atttntion Is Called to Testimony-Malfeasance and Corruption in Office Is the Charge - Governor Deelares the Law Must Be Vindicated. Columbia, June 7.-Much addi? tional interest is added to the dis? pensary investigation by the action taken by Governor Heyward today. He has called the attention of the at , torney general to the evidence of Mr. f Parker before the committee yester? day, instructing him to take such steps as proper by entering prosecu? tion. The letter follows: 4<Dear Sir: I see through the pub? lic prints that as a result of the ^ ruling of the Supreme Court, evi? dence was produced before the in? vestigating committee charging for? mer members of the board of direc? tors of the dispensary with malfeas? ance and corruption in the discharge of their official duty. J "I direct this matjter to your atten S tion to the end that you promptly cause such prosecution to be institu? ted as shall be proper and necessary to vindicate the law. "Yours respectfully. "D. C. Heyward, Governor.' MUST HAVE LICENSE. Conviction of Former Dispenser at Marion of Selling Liquor Without Federal License. Charleston, June 8.-An important I opinion was rendered in the United ? States district court today by which liquor drummers will be compelled to tftie out the license of a retailer. The case came up in the trial of M. Manheim, of Marion, who represent? ed a Wilmington liquor house. Man? heim solicited orders a* and about Q Marion and was arrested for selling liquor without having paid the tax. The facts of the case were admitted, to the effect that the orders were solicited and forwarded to the house and shipped direct by the firm to the consignee. Arguments were made by the counsel, and then Judge Brawley charged the jury to return a verdict of guilty, with a recommendation of mercy. The decision will have much effect in the conduct of the business, and it is expected that an appeal will be taken, as the liquor dealers will prob? ably not be content to let the decision stand. The custom has been for the drummers to operate without a li? cense, the payment of the tax by their firm being sufficient. The de? cision may put a~stop to liquor drum? ming in certain communities, where the busness does not justify the cost of the retailer's tax which each drummer will have to pay. Manheim was dispenser at Marion before the dispensary there was closed by vote of the people. BLACKBURN SUCCEEDS GORMAN Kentucky Senator Selected as Chair? man of Democratic Party Caucus. Washington, D. C., June 8.-The Democratic senators have decided to elect Senator J. C. C. Blackburn, of Kentucky, chairman of the party caucus to succesd the late Senator Gorman. This position carries with it the leadership of the minority on the floor. "Washington, D. C., June 9.-The Democrats cf the senate in caucus to? day elected Senator J. C. S. Black? burn, of Kentucky, chairman, to Succeed the late Senator Gorman. Edward G. Bcylston, a white farm? er of Williston, has been forced to leave that community by a commit? tee of citizens. He was guilty of an attempt to inveigle a prominent phy? sician into a compromising situation with his wife by writing him letters in his wife's name. The physician did not fall into the trap, but sought the advice of friends and succeeded in proving the guilt ol Boylston. I DISPENSARY INVESTIGATION. AN EXCITING DAY OF THE COM? MITTEE PROCEEDINGS. Mr. William G. Childs Asks Pardon for His Bad Language and Says He La tended No Contempt-Mr. A. A. Bristow of Greenville Testifies to Case of Graft, but Gives No Names or Dates. Columbia, June 5.-The work of the dispensary investigating committee this morning was brief, but full of in? terest. It may be divided into three sections-the rounding off of Mr. Wm. G. Childs; the orthodox position of the committee as to what it would permit in the way of evidence, and finally the sensational evidence of Mr. A. A. Bristow, a prominent citizen of Greenville, in which he related that a liquor man told him that he had paid $$,000 in cash to get an order for $67, 000 from the State dispensary. Unfortunately no names, no dates and even the name of the liquor house alleged to have paid the money was j not given. In a nutshell Mr. Bristow testified that Abe Hamberger, of Baltimore, told him that he paid $8,000 to get a liquor order for $67,000 from the State dispensary. The crux is that the money is alleged to have been paid, no tell-tale checks or express records. Now the dispensary's friends already say that no- names, no dates, no cor? roboration is given, and that Ham? burger is sore because he received only j the one order. Be that as it may, he j told Mr. Bristow, a high toned citizen j of Greenville, a merchant of means, a I damning story. Why is Mr. Ham I burger not brought before the commit? tee to tell his story and to get names? He is not amendable to the orders of the committee, being a non-resident, and he is afraid to come. That is the whole situation. He told his story to Mr. Bristow and again to Mr. Jesse R. Smith, of Greenville. The testimony was simply presented by Mr. Bristow, and Mr. Lyon did not undertake to press it any deeper than he saw it went of its own accord. It is very interesting to watch Mr. Fraser Lyon in his uphill work, strug? gling inch by inch to gain evidence, and to get evidence out of the witness? es. The committee, it is to be remem? bered, has been unable to get big liquor dealers to appear before the committee, so it is said, and this fail? ure appears to be exciting comment. The liquor firms are represented by eminent counsel, but the committee \ .* would like to see the drummers and the heads of the linns. Mr. Lyon's right bower was detained today and was not p.- esent to lend him that moral encouragement he needs. ! Mr. Childs today made h's return to I the committee on the contempt writ. No one even thought he meant any disrespect. He simply got mad ar,d lost his temper, and, like a man, own? ed up and apologized. Mr. Childs, however, persisted in his refusal to repeat rumors and jokes, and the com? mittee decided not to force the issue with Mr. Childs, and there the matter ended. Mr. Childs today was very em? phatic and positive to say three things: First, that he would never and had never paid, directly or indirectly, for the freight business of the dispensary, for the business enjoyed by the Colum? bia. Newberry and Laurens railroad, of which he is president. Second, that he never owned a share of stock in the Richland Distilling company, and that he never, directly or indirectly, held in trust or for others a share of stock in the Carolina Glass company, and finally that he would never re? peat what he regarded as idle rumors or jokes about dispensary affairs. During Mr. Childs's testimony he candidly stated that Mr. H. H. Evans has held an annual pass over the Co? lumbia. Newberry and Laurens rail? road for the past 16 years, and dur? ing all these years Mr. Evans has been engaged as counsel for that railroad. Columbia, June 7.-There was brought out before the dispensary investiga ling committee yesterday testimony that did not come from a "sore head," it was not a statement made in a "joking way," and it was not hearsay. The witness was Mr. Lewis W. Parker, president of the Olympia, Granby and Richland cotton mills in Columbia, treasurer of the Monaghan in Greenville and inter? ested in banking and mill industries in other parts of the state. The state? ment which he made under the order of the State Supreme Court-and not until so ordered-was that Mr. S. J. Lanahan had complained to him th??i he could not get business from the dispensary without using unusual methods, and that when they had arrangements fixed they would not stay fixed sometimes. The testimony of Mr. Parker was secured only after the hardest work. Mr. Parker stated to a friend yester Iday afternoon that the people South Carolina owe a debt Of gr. tude to Messrs. Lyon and Christen for the -manner in which they h worked on this investigation and stated most positively that he d not know how they became aware the fact that he was in possession any information. He was very mi surprised when they tried to get so facts from him. When the committee met yest day morning, Mr. Lyon put 3 Parker on the stand. Mr. Parker i dined to testify to conversant which hE.d occurred between hims and a second party, who had sta: that he had had to pursue '"unusu methods to get business from 1 state dispensary. After a good, d of parleying, Mr. Lyon moved tl the witness be placed in arrest m such a time as he would answer 1 question. This was agreed to by 1 committee. Mr. Praker eviden had been looking for such move this and he had his attorney, Mr. J. Haynsworth, )of Greenville, w: him. Mr. Haynsworth already h had prepared a writ of habeas corr and it was agreed to argue the me of this motion before the State S preme Court at 4 o'clock, the coi having agreed to sit for that pt pose. Mr. Fraser and Mr. Gaston we delegated to represent the comm tee in t!.ie argument before the S preme Court. The court heard t arguments at the time appointe and, after deliberating not over hi a minute, decided that the writ habeas corpus should not be issu and that the witness, therefoi should answer the questions pr pounded. Mr. Haynsworth made a fine pr sentation of Mr. Parker's side of tl case, but the feature of the hearing the Supreme Court was the address Mr. Fraser to the court, in which 1 described clearly and strongly tl duties of the committee. Mr. Gaste followed Mr. Fraser, and Mr. Hayn worth made an argument in reply. Chief Justice Pope, after a m< ment's consultation with the oth< members of the court, announce that the writ of habeas corpus shou' not Issue-in other words, that tl witness should remain in the custoc of the committee until he shoul purge himself of contempt by con plying with the will of the commi tee. The members of the committe? with the exception of Senator Ha and Senator Blease, had voted at tb morning session to require the wil ness to testify. The Supreme Coui thus decided in favor of the pos: tion taken by Messrs. Lyon and Chris tensen. Yesterday afternoon th relevancy of a certain bit of testi mony was questioned, and Mr. Spive wras the only member of the com mittee who agreed with Mr. Lyo: and Mr. Christensen in this. The is sue was as to whether or not Mi Parker should testify as to the iden tity of the agent of Wm. Lanahan ? Son in this state appointed some tim last yes.r. Mr. Parker - declined t< testify further than to state thr.t th. man wis some kind of official, al though not a state official nor a dis pensa ry official. The substance of Mr. Parker's tes timony in reference to what Mr Lanahan said to him is as follows He (Lanahan) said that he wa: convinced that it took more than th( merit of the liquors to do business with the state dispensary. He saic that the dispensary bought cheap mean liquor. He said that it cos? money to do business with the board in 1D04 and 1905, and he could not afford to pay what had to be paid. He told Mr. Parker enough to make him say that the conversations im? plied that rebates were paid to get orders. He told Mr. Parker that "At the last letting of contracts, which had just passed, there was in it for the members of the board of control not less thai $5,000. Later cn Mr. Park? er explained that Mr. Lanahan said that the regulation rebate appeared to be $5 a barrel on order?, and he was not a competitor with his goods on that basis. Mr. Lanahan is quoted as having offered to sell the dispensary liquor at from 15 to 20 cents less per gallon than it was buying at, ii he did not have to give up anything, and Chair? man Evans told him that if he did not like the form of bids of the beard that he need not bid at all. Mr. Lanahan tried repeatedly to get Mr. Parker to suggest some South Carolina man with a pull to repre? sent him, and finally secured some? one who held an official position to represent him. Mr. Parker declined forgive the name of this representative, and the commitiee, by a vote of 4 to 3. de? clined t:> order him tc give the r.a.me. Some suggested he was a member <>i the general assembly. Mr. Parker y ?.: e. J thought this representative was paid $2,000, but had never learned wheth? er such a representative had ever got? ten orders or not for Lanahan & Son. Mr. Lanahan is quoted as having told Mr. Parker that "he had ar? ranged with Mr. Boykin, one of the members of the board of control, for Mr. Boykin to be his representative on the board of control, and to see to it that he got his share of the busi? ness." He did not get the new busi? ness, and Mr. Boykin is quoted as j having said that "he had not gotten . a more satisfactory offer from otners. I but that others were providing for I other members of the family than himself, and blood was thicker than water, and that a certain other liquor house employed a brother-in-law of Mr. Boykin as special representative or something of the sort, and that the other house was doing equally as well by him as Mr. Lanahan." Mr. Evans is alleged to have said that there was an agreement by which members would order from certain houses, and that the agreement was for Mr.''Boykin to see to Mr. Lana han;s business. Mr. Parker spoke of what he un? derstood to be, a "system of corrup? tion," and teemed, to have soaked down deep into his thoughts after the repeated conversations with the cautious Sam J. Lanahan, who had done hundreds of thousands of dol? lars worth of business himself with the system. Mr. Parker .said: '"I cennot say that the term rebate was used, but terms that implied rebates; just gen? eral statements as to having agree? ments with members of the board by which thay were to get it." Mr- Lanahan made it very plain In his repeated conversations that-he did not for an instant think that the dispensary orders were made on com? petitive bids. He had voluntarily of? fered to reduce prices, and thc offer was rejected. Columbia, June 7.-What were al? leged to be statements or confessions of Hub Evans that he had received presents of large amounts of money from whisky houses and occular evi? dences of the possession of big sums by him were detailed and was the sensational testimony of one of the chief witnesses before the dispensary investigating committee today. C. C. Davis, a Newberry contractor, who had worked on ex-Chairman H. H. Evans's new house in Newberry, in a cool and somewhat reluctant manner, told of Evans admitting to him that on various occasions he had been getting presents of various kinds and great wads of money from the whisky houses he took care of on the dispensary purchasing board. Evans showed him on several occasions big bunches of greenbacks of all sorts of denominations, bills as high, more j than one time, as $1,000 and several of these in each bunch. On one oe easton when witness told Evans a j certain door in the house had better be moved Evans pointed to a beaver hat sitting on the floor full of green? backs of large denominations, and asked if he did not think that would move it. Evans never did call it re? bates or graft, but admitted he got the cash as well as the presents and said they were in consideration of his services on the board to these houses. Among the presents was a handsome suite of furniture with a $500 poker table among the pieces, which Evans admitted getting as a present from Bluthenthal & Bickert, of Atlanta. Witness denied that Evans told him he bought thc big Kinard plantation in Newberry with dispensary graft, and also denied that Evans said he used poker playing as a blind; de? nied that Evans told him that on one occasion he won $10,000 in a-poker game with some whisky drummers. A whisky man named John Loeb told him tha* in order to get a showing he paid Evans $2 a case on several thou? sand cases. The most important part of Davis's testimony was perhaps that involving a dired: case of bribery against Evans' associates on the board, John Bell Towill and L. W. Boykin. Witness said Evans told him that Evans was not getting the proper showing for his friends in the purchases and he and Briggs Wilson, of the Richland distillery, here laid a trap in which they caught Towill and Boykin. Evans' whisky friends got Towill and Boykin in a hotel room here and Evans and Wilson, standing on a table in the hallway, saw the other two directors paid the money. After that Evans got what he wanted on the board. ! E. W. Robertson, president of the National Loan and Exchange bank and of a number of other Columbia enterprises and interested as director in a number of cotton mills through? out the stalte, was on the stand today. He corroborated the testimony of L. W. Parker given yesterday as to Samuel J. Lanahan having Director Boykin as his state middleman, but there was a decided difference as to what Lanahan had said about having a middleman now who is a state of? ficer, but not connected with the dis? pensary. Mr. Parker said Mr. Lana han's statement was made in New York in the presence of Mr. Robert? son, but Mr. Robertson did not re? member this and thought Mr. Parker must have been mistaken as to this point. The committee yesterday did not insist on Mr. Parker giving the name, although the Supreme Court had jus? ruled that he could be com? pelled to answer questions. Columbia, June 9.-Mr. W. A. Clark, president of the Carolina Na? tional bank of this city for the last 25 years, yesterday stated before the dispensary investigating committee that he had heard frequent com? plaints made by members of the firm of William Lanahan & Son, of Balti? more to the effect that the dispen? sary was not giving ouf its purchases properly. 8Mr. Clark presented a let? ter which he had received from Mr. S. J. Lanahan 'in which he made general charges of this kind. The letter had been shown to Governor Heyward. The latter had asked for mere specific charges. Governor Hey wa?d last night returned from Flor? ence and when advised of Mr. Clark's testimony he stated that he had not been able to act on the matter, as Mr. Lanahan would not furnish par? ticular and specific information. The committee adjourned until next Tuesday, as a line of testimony which had been planned panned out badly and the commit/tee had enough testimony along that line anyway. The witnesses who had been sum? moned and had been excused were Judge Ernest Gary ana Mr. Waties Thomas, of the firm of Thomas & Thomas, of this city. Judge Ernest Gary stated positive? ly that he knew nothing which would throw any light on the investigation and declared further that should he testify it might embarass him in the future in his official duties. Mr. Lyon, declaring that Judge Gary is an hon? orable gentleman, said that he would not push the questions on Judge Gary under the circumstances named, and he would accept Judge Gary's disclaimer that he knew nothing. The committee took recess until Tuesday of next week, and made the statement that the members of the state board would be invited to ap? pear Wednesday. An effort will be made to wind up next week, although there is a vast amount of work to be done. The sub-committee has yet to go into the matters it picked up in Cin? cinnati and elsewhere in (the distill? ing country. There will be a lot of documentary evidence, perhaps. Mr. J. M. Cantey, brother-in-law of Mr. L. W. Boykin, former member of the >oard, was present yesterday, but was excused by Senator Hay on the ground that his lawyer was out of the city. Col. Spivey did not want to excuse Mr. Cantey, for he had been summoned as a witness and what difference did it make if his lawyer were not present, he said. The com? mittee did not give the same consid? eration to other witnesses. On account of his having been mentioned incidentally as a witness to a certain conversation, Mr. A. M. Deal, stenographer of the commit? tee, made an impassioned statement in which he stated his opinion of Mr. T. W. Klingenberg, the special attor? ney of the sub-committee, that he is a "detective," "spy," "no gentle? man," and other opprobrious terms, and said that he would follow it up on the outside. Mr. Klingenberg paid no attention to the denunciation, ex? cept to smile occasionally and to coach Mr. Lyon upon some questions to ask Mr. Deal upon cross examina? tion. Mr. Deal showed determination, and stuck to his intention of de? nouncing Mr. Klingenberg, coming back to the subject later on in the proceedings. At times his remarks were such that they might have been construed as a reflection upon the sub-committee for ? permitting Mr. Klingenberg to work up evidence of the kind presented. The whole af? fair was unnecessary and therefore uncalled for. HUB EVANS HEARD FROM. Newberry, June S.-It having been published this morning that Mr. H. H. Evans, formerly chairman of the dispensary board of directors, was preparing a card in reply to Mr. C. C. Davis's testimony as taken yester? day before the committee, your representative called on Mr. Evans today for the card. Mr. Evans stated that in view of the action of the governor directing the attorney gen? eral to institute legal proceedings against the old board of directors of the state dispensary, which he wei corned, his counsel advised him to make no statement through the news? papers, and that he had reluctantly determined to act upon their advice. Mr. Evans stated, however, that he was ready to meet any charges which might be preferred against, him in any proceedings instituted under the order of the governor. News and Courier. , WERE NOT BOUGHT. Member From Newberry Declares it it a Matter of Veracity Between Ev? ans and Davis. Newberry, June 9.-The State sena? tor from this county and all the mem? bers of the house of representatives unequivocally and emphatically deny the allegations and insinuations con? tained in the testimony of Mr. C. Cv Davis as emanating from Mr. H. BL Byan*, j ^ Mr. J. W. Earhardt makes the fol? lowing statement: , "To those who know me as a pri*? vate citizen and in a public capacity I think a denial on my part of such ? charge is unnecessary. I have waited to see a statement from Mr. Evans? He, failing to make any on the advice of his attorneys, I went to see him ia person, and to me he denied the state? ment attributed to him in as emphatic a manner and in as strong language as is possible to be used, xnus the whole matter resolves itself into a. question of veracity between him and Mr. Davis, with whom I have nothing to do. "Fortunately, however, my record in the legislature is sufficient denial of the accusation on my part. I voted to retain the Brice bUl and to knock out the tax feature of the Brice bilL which I considered a barrier, to give the present investigating committee the power it-asked at that body's? hands, without limit as to the number ' of days they should receive pay, as. was attempted; to abolish the State dispensary and against the Rayspr Manning bill which appeared to me as a menace to fasten the dispensary system on the people of South Caro? lina indefinitely. ' ? "I supported the Morgan bill which meant local option as between coun? ty dispensaries and prohibition, and on all measures relating to the dis? pensary the journal of the iiouse of representatives, which I have at hand,, shows my vote recorded against what is known as the present dispensary interests as now conducted. On the record I am willing tc stand or fall. As to the vote for Mr. Evans as chair? man, I do not suppose that any one; for a moment would have expected*! me to vote for any ether than Mr.,. Evans, with no other candidate in the. field from my county, a matter, how ever, which Mr. Evans never mention? ed to me. During my 10 or 12 years of public life, neither by Mr. Evans nor any one else has an improper proposal been made to me." COTTON ACREAGE REPORT. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture States That Increase Neted is Not All of This Year. Washington, June ll.-Assistant Secretary Hays of the department of agriculture today gave out the follow? ing statement regarding the cotton acreage report of June : "The department is convinced that the estimated planted acreage in cot? ton1 of about 28,686,000, issued June 4, is near the truth; but the increase^ of 1,686,000 or 6.2 per cent, it should be understood, is not all- of this year. The census bureau's final report of the crop of 1905 was about 400,000 bales more than was estimated by the bureau of statistics cn the 4th of De? cember last. Due weight must be giv? en to this source of information and fully one-third of the estimated in? crease reported last month is attribu? table to rectification cf last year's work to bring it intQ harmony with tba census report of the amount of cotton -ginned in the respective States." The statement was approved by Secretary Wilson. | ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS. Session Will Continue Until End o? Month at Least. Washington, D. C., June 9.-While it has heretofore been the expectation of congressional leaders that fina? adjournment of this session would come on the 20th inst., recent de? velopments have caused them to re? vise this opinion. It is now believed the session will run until the end of the month, and some think it may last until the 10th or 15th of July. June 28 is, however, generally ac? cepted as getting away date. Next week will be a busy one in the sen? ate. Both the railroad rate and state? hood bills will, it is thought, be final? ly disposed pf, i ?