The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, June 20, 1906, Image 3
DISPENSARY INVESTIGATION.
CANTEY'S SALARY WAS $300 PER
MONTH FOR "ADVERTISING." .
J. M. Camey Makes Statement to
Committee -His Connection With
Fleischman & Co., Was Daring
Time L. W. Boykin Was on the
Board.
Columbia, June 13.-At the dispen?
sary investigating committee's session
yesterday. afternoon two witnesses
were put on the stand. These were
Mr. J. M. Camey, a brother-in-law
of Mr. TX W. Boolan, a former me?n
ber of the board, and Mr. Cha-?. Co?
hen beer dispenser at: Beaufort. Mr.
Cant ey's name was brc-ught into 'he
investigation a few days ago in the
evidence of Mr. J? Parker. Yes?
terday Mr. Canter admitted in a vry
frank manner chat he had represent?
ed Fleischman & Co., of CincinniM
the makers of the Congress Hall liq
! nor which has been showed up on j
former occasions during the investiga?
tion to te inferior in quality and in
other ways.
Mr. Cantey testified that his duties
were merely to see that advertising
matter was kept fresh on bill boards,
and for this he received a salary of I
$300 a month, at a rate higher than j
the salary of the governor of the j
State and nearly twice as large as the
average state officer.
Mr. Cohan's testimony was pro?
duced to show that the dispensary,
while buying Anheuser Busch ' beer
*from J. S. Farnum, required Cohen
to order it from Columbia, although j
it cost him $2.12 per cask more and ;
did not save the State anything. He j
is not now required to order from the !
State dispensary direct, but from, the j
agenfey at Savannah and he saves the j
additional cost.
At the conclusion of this testimony
Mr. Lyon moved to adjourn, as a ma?
terial witness had not showed up and
there were some witnesses with whom
he wished to confer. Mr. T. P. Coth
razi of Greenville, Mr. B. A. Morgan
an.l Mr. L. J. Browning, all members
of the house of representatives, had
been summoned here, but for what
purpose was not brought out yester?
day The sub-committee examined
these witnesses yesterday afternoon.
The committee meets again at 10 a,
m. today and will hear statements
from members of the former State
board if they care to go on the stand.
The work of the investigating com?
mittee was delayed yesterday because
of the fact that there was no official
stenographer. Mr. Deal, who had been
the stenographer for several months,
had resigned, and as there are but a
few more days of the session it has
been impossible to find a free lance
stenographer who could undertake
the work. The court stenogrphers are
al* busy. Yesterday afternoon Mr. W.
H. Macfeat filled the breach.
Mr. Pw. S. Welch of Bellinger & j
Welch, asked to make a statement to
the committee. He r?presented mem?
bers of the old board who had been
invited to be present at the meeting
and make a statement if they wished
to do so. He wished to say that he
had not yet been able *to reach a final
conclusion with the members he rep?
resented, but would let the committte
know definitely in the morning wheth?
er his clients, former members of the
board, would accept the invitation or
not or whether they would appear > in
coun at the proper time. He said
'hat he would reach a conclusion just
as soon as possible.
Chairman Hay said he wished it un?
derstood that the members of the for?
mer 'board had been invited to be
present and make such statement as
they cared to, but they would not be
required to appear in view of the re?
cent turn. It was entirely discretion?
ary whether they appeared or not.
The commitee was unable to take
any testimony at the morning session,
although there were a number of wit?
nesses present and the sub-committee
seemed cocked and primed for work.
Columbia, June 13.-The members
of the old board of control will no: ac?
cept the invitation of the investigating
committee and appear. They prefer
to wait an inquiry by the courts, if one
is ever had. Messrs. John Bel! Towill
and L. W. Boykin are represented by
Bellinger & Welch. This afternoon
this letter was presented on the part
of Mr. L. W. Boykin and Mr. Towill.
The language of the two letters is
identical:
June 13, 1906.
Hon. J. T. Hay, Chairman and other
members of the committee appointed
to investigate the affairs of the State
dispensary-Gentlemen: In response
to your invitation, if so chose, to ap?
pear be fore your committee today for
the purpose of making any statement
that I desire to make concerning: my
former connection with the State dis?
pensary, I beg- to say that I prefer
your investigation should proceed un?
influenced by any statement that I
might make. The more thorough and
searching: the investigation is made,
the more will the correctness of my
conduct be demonstrated. I am not
only anxious to see the investigation
proceed in the most rigid manner, but
I should be much disappointed if it
did not do so, humiliating as it might
be. I challenge the closest scrutiny
of my conduct before any tribunal be- '
fore which ,it can be made.
I have no fear that those who know
me will believe that I have done any
! thing that has been either illegal or
immoral. Instances in which honor?
able men might differ with me in
judgment maj*, and perhaps will, be
discovered, wrong cannot be. for it
does not exist.
While I have keenly felt the injus?
tice and the cruelty of some of the
suggestions which have been made in
relation to my former connection with
the' dispensary, I am confident that
when the scrutiny has been made
complete even those who do not know
me will reach a like conclusion with
those who do.
At a future day, and when it can
have no influence, upon the action of
your committee, it is my purpose to
send you a written statement covering
the matters that I deem of conse
j quence. which I shall ask you to
' regadl as part of this comnrunica
! tion, and which I shall ask you to file
! as part of your report
Very respectfully,
(Signed) L. W. Boykin.
The committee has heard nothing
directly from Mr. Evans and he, too,
evidently does not expect to accept
the invitation of the Committee.
The sub-committee did a good day's
work today in the investigation cf the
dispensary, but the sub-committee is
evidently getting weary and worn, and
the end if the fine work appears near
at hand, for the presen? at least. To?
day wa'5 full of matters of interest.
There was a great deal more testimo?
ny today than has usually been taken
on one day, and it was very interest?
ing. It told of how the whiskey
drummers kept open house here, how
they had whiskey and champagne,
and even money in plenty, for the
members of the board of control, and
how open rooms were kept for the
friends of the dispensary, which in?
cluded members of the General As?
sembly.
A former chief constable, Mr. Bahr,
told of how he saw rolls of money left
I r *ound for members of the Tr oard of
control to gather in. -His eye-sight
ailed him when it came to indemnify?
ing exactlv which member got the
money, but he seemed positive that
this was the purpose of the money.
An affidavit was presented from Mr.
Brevard Miller, who was interested in
the Carolina Glass Company, in its
preliminary stages. He insists that it
was the purpose of the organizers of
this company to give as a gift a block
of stock to Mr. H. H. Evans and to
Mr. L. J. Williams, both at that time
members of the board, and that in
consideration the Carolina Glass
Company was not to have competi?
tion to amount to anything. Mr. Mil?
ler says he became disgusted and re?
tired from the company, and if the
purpose of carrying out the plan of
giving gratuitous stock to members of
the board was carried out, it was af?
ter he had left the company and he ;
has no positive knowledge on this |
score. !
Mr. J. B. Douthitt, who was on the '
board of control and at one time was
commissioner, showed from the rec?
ords that the dispensary has been
selling some of its goods at less than
actual cost, including the outgoing
freight. It was plain from the evi?
dence of Mr. Douthitt, thai his idea
was that the goods of Lanahan, the
Richland Distillery and Bluenthal &
Bickert were sold to the county dis?
pensaries by the State dispensary at
less than actual cost, and then by the
county dispensaries at less than com?
petitive goods. This, he indicated,
gave such firms the advantage in .he
sale of their goods, and meanwhile
the State and the school fund was
actually losing money by the sales.
Mr. Douthitt also indicated that a
liquor drummer told him that a form?
er member of the board had directly
suggested to him that he had better
get a representative on the board, and
suggested an appointment at his room
that afternoon, and after that the
firm of Rossfcam, Gersxler & Co. did
get good business. ?
Mr. Lyon took a few turns cut of
the new board of control today, and
to say the least, brought out that the
new board is a bit Jax. This does net
mean wrong-doing, or that anything
criminally wrong was suggested or de?
veloped. He brought out or indicated
that the new board was buying from
what ho thought were .'dummy"
houses Or firms, representing firms
that had been placed on the black list.
Mr. Rawlinson, who spoke for the
board, stated that the board bought
on samples and bids, and that as
bonds were required the board has
not been inquiring into the hcu.-e.---.
but that now it has arranged to do so.
Mr. Lyon suggested that one of the
firms from which the board was buy?
ing has gone into bankruptcy, and
that others were gotten up to avoid
the embargo against buying from cer?
tain houses while they were on the
"blacklist."
Mr. Lyon insisted that the new
board did not pay proper regard to
*If your stomach troubles you do
not conclude that there is no cure, for
i great many have been permanently
cured by Chamberlain's Stomach and
Liver Tablet?. Try them, they are
certain to prove beneficial. They only
cost a quarter. Sold by a^l druggists.
i the Legislative instructions relative to
I getting bids for the glassware, and
Mr. Rawlinson insisted that the board
?bought from where it thought it
j could ge*: the best and cheapest con
! tracts, and that it did not worry
about the back contracts or past ar
! rangements, although Mr. Lyon
thought some of the old contracts
! were foi less than the new prices.
?Mr. Rawlinson, said that the board
did not, as far as he knew, make any
actual comparison between the sam
plts by which liquors were bought,
and the goods after their arrival. He
i said that the idea seemed to be to wait
; for complaints.
There was considerable controyversy
?with regard to the declination of the
new board to give the Christensen
Lyon committee copies of the lists of
purchases. Mr. Rawlinson urged that
the board was ready and anxious to
supply all posible information, but
?that the board preferred -to know ex?
actly whet was wanted. ?
Mr. Lyon presented Mr. Jesse
Vance, who conducts a brokerage
business in Newberry, to show what
he knew about the claim of Mr. H.
H. Evans that he made a lot of money
in cotton futures. Mr. Vance declined
to know or say anything. He did say
that he could tell something if he had
his books, but he declined to produce
his books, and with the usual good
luck the majority of the committte
declined to order that he present his
J bc oks to show whether Mr. Evans
! had m?:de or lost money on cotton
futures in his place.
Mr. j^yon said he thought in this
way he could show what merit there
was in the claim of Mr. Evans that he
had gre wn rich on cotton futures. The
committee thought it ought first to be i
shown that Mr. Evans has the money,
and that the cotton future phase
would simply be a defence.
Mr. W. W. Starr, the general man?
ager of the Savannah Brewery, testi?
fied that the disptnsary has been pay?
ing mere for Xo. 2 beer than it had
been offered at. Analysis were pre?
sented by the committee, without the
knowledge of Mr. Starr, to show that
j the Savannah beer was better than
I that i?or which the dispensary paid
more money.
Dispenser Corey, of Fort Fremont,
complained of the price of Acme beer,
and the result of his correspondence
j was that he was advised that he must
i have been buying it cheaper from the
dispensary than it had been priced at.
! At the very round-off of the testi
j mcny this afternoon Mr. Lyon pre
! sented an affidavit from S. Grabfelder
!& Co., large dealers, bought labels
! from Nivission & Weiskopf, the very
! firm from which the famous label or?
der was got, at $1.50 ' per thousand,
that were thought to be fully as
handsome embossed and all, as those
bought ly the dispensary at $3.50.
These labels bought from Navisson &
Weiskopf were used on Glen Lily
whiskey and are considered as hand?
some as any bought by the dispensary,
and were bought by Grabftlder for
less than half. Some pretty labels
were presented that were bought
from the Louisville Courier Journal
people, at 40 cents per thousand.
These were body labels and had no
neck piece.
Mr. Lyon thinks that this shows
very conclusively that the State paid
more than twice too much for its big
lot ol labels as it ought to have paid.
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land, much of which was in ponds,
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for from $1 to $5 per acre, but none
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About the year of 1894 Robert R
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decade, was to play an important
part in redeeming the country from
debt and setting it upon its feet. At
that time even the roads were few
and inferior, the lands, much of them,
poor and neglected, the churches in
keeping with %their surroundings and
the .schools very ordinary, little atten?
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is planted today in the same territory,
was the beginning of a new era, the
dawn of a new day. Go there now
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and still the end is not yet.- As in
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equipped academies, where the best
talent in the land was employed in
the instruction of the youth, so that
in a few short years Pudding Swamp
finds itself almost, if not fully, abreast
from every point of view with any
other rural district of our great com?
monwealth. Hagood.
June ll, '06.
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The Kind Yon Have Always Bought, and which has been
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