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BLACK EXPLAINS CURE DEAL
< FORMER DISPENSARY DIRECTOR
MAKES A STATEMENT.
He Declares an Injustice Was Done
Him by Not Allowing Him to Ex?
plain, the Purchase of Whiskey
From the Peoria Firm.
Columbia, March 9.-Major John
Black, member of 'the State- dispen?
sary board of directors recently leg?
islated out of existence, and also re- j
moved from office by the governor on
the suggestion of the general assem?
bly, today made his first public state?
ment in regard to the purchase of
whiskey from Clarke Bros. & Co., of
Peoria. lill., the purchase which
brought upon him personally and
upon the board of which he was a
member so much adverse criticism.
Major Black returned home from Hot
Sprinks, Ark., a few days before the
general assembly adjourned and since
that time he has had nothing to say
in print except that he has been quot?
ed as sayng he could justify his ac?
tion in the* matter of the Clarke pur?
chase. He has now given out a full
statement of the affair, along with
statements from the firm in question,
to show that he was fully justified by
the state of affairs at the State dis?
pensary in taking extraordinary steps
to secure a supply of liquor badly
needed.
The statement follows:
To the Public: The best evidence
where a record exists is the record
itself; therefore I will not attempt at
this time to say anything only in con?
nection with what has been so much
talked about; that is the Peoria pur- i
chase. I have never purchased, nor
has the board of directors -purchased,
one dollar's worth of goods while one
or any of us were out of the State.
Unless you consider the way the Pe- j
oria purchase and arrangements j
made with Messrs. Clark Brothers & J
Co., at Peoria, was made. We pur- j
chased cheap goods from several
firms to run through the Christmas
holidays. They failed to ship, saying
that they were afraid of the credit of
the institution-that payments had
been held up by the committee last
year, that the profit was too small to
warrant them in taking the risk, and
.we failed to get the goods at that
time to supply the trade, only as we
tax paid for goods.
Mr. C. W. Dudley wired me from
Peoria, III., to come there. I did not
reply. A few days later, when I
found that the goods were not being
shipped, I sent a messenger to Mr.
Wylie and statt d to him the condition
of affairs. He wrote me to act at
once. Mr. Rawlinson was here. Mr.
Tatum said we either had to have the
goods or shut the plant down-that it
was an emergency case. There had
been 2,100 barrels of cheap goods
cancelled; we needed over 100 barrels
to dump and bottle daily.
Mr. Dudley said his house, Clark
Brothers & Co., would ship us these
goods if they could see some of the
members of the board and make sat?
is factory arangements as to the
payments, and suggested that two of
^is go to* see the firm. Mr,"1 Rawlinson
said he could not go, that tr. Wylie
was not here, but thouj it very
necessary for me to go; id shov
Clark Brothers & Co. how t dispen?
sary stood in a financial way. This I
did, and they shipped us the goods,
and continued to ship until I wired
them, on December 21, to discontinue.
Now, these are the facts-the pur?
chase was made here, the agreement
for payment of said goods and the
final consummation made at Peoria.
At the time of this investigation I
was wtrst of the Mississippi River,
very ill. As soon as I was able to
travel I came here, anxious to be
heard. I found that without a trial
I had been condemned. I tried in
every way through my attorneys to
be heard. The governor allowed less
than 24 hours for me to get witnesses
from Illinois and other places. That
committee-the legislature and the
governor did not dare hear me-I
could and would have convinced the
committee, the governor or the leg?
islature in ten minutes of the fact
that they were doing me a great in
justice. These people would get up
snd beg that a rapist be given a trial,
yet these lawmakers and the chief ex?
ecutive of the State refused me what
they would give a brute. They did not
want the truth. With me on the
stand they would have been put in
possession of facts that would not
have suited one man that planned
this-that is too much of a coward to
face me in an honorable way. Now
I want to ask the newspapers and all
people that have any justice in them,
don't take the advantage of me in
your columns. Let the governor and
attorney general bring me to trial and
prosecute me. The legislature said do
this. Let me be tried in a court of
justice before a jury and if I fail to
show to the world that I am not
guilty then say what you please.
Don't intimate that all people are
thieves; quit crying graft; put up or
shut up. I don't believe that there
were twenty members of the general
assembly that went to see for them?
selves what the state of affairs were
at the State dispensary; twenty of
them could not tell you now.
Thirty years ago carpet-baggers,
arm and arm with the negro, with
their heels on the white men's wom?
en's and children's necks, their wives,
some of them, teaching negro schools,
would not have been allowed in your
mother's kitchen-but now. Well,
after I. have been heard I will say
something that is the real goods. I
will call a spade a spade and not in?
timate infernal hes.
If there is anybody who wants to
say anything- about me and cannot
wait until I can be heard, notify me
when to meet you and tell it to me,
face to face, like a' man. I guarantee
satisfaction. Now to go back to the
purchase of goods. I have done no
wrong, and I don't believe it is a
technical wrong, much less a real
wrong. The board certainly acted as
any other business men would. The
purchase was made ir good faith and
I would do the same ?^ain if supplies
were needed. If this was not a legal
purchase, then every purchase made
since the dispensary startend has
been illegal, in my opinion.
>ik HULL OF PEORIA. " *
Head of Whiskey House Declares He
is Innocent of Any Conspiracy.
Mr. W. F. Hull, president and gen?
eral manager of Clarke Bros & Co.,
distillers, Peoria, EL, arrived in Co?
lumbia yesterday, for the purpose of
appearing today before the dispensary
commission in regard to the claim of
his firm against the State dispensary
for $68,760. A representative of Ar?
thur Lehman & Co., the firm which
handled a part of the famous pur?
chase which has come in for so much
notoriety of late, is also here. The
claim presented by this firm is for
$23,284.65.
Mr. Hull is very much worked up
on account of the publicity which
the press of the State has given
Clarke Bros. & Co. in connection with
their transactions with the State dis?
pensary. He also expressed himself
yesterday in strong terms concerning
the criticism made of his house for
sending Mr. C. W. Stancill, chairman
of the Sumter county dispensary
board, a case of "samples for per?
sonal use," a present which he re?
jected.
He filed an affidavit with the dis?
pensary comission yesterday concern?
ing this-matter, in which he recites
that the samples were^ shipped from
Peoria to Mr. Stansill before he was
appointed and therefore his firm
would not be guilty of violating the
law.
He said that blacklisting his con?
cern? and keeping them out of this
State mattered little to him, they
were not anyways anxious for the
business. He said that Clark Bros. &
Co. did an annual business of $8,000,
000 and was one of the most substan?
tial houses in the country.
"We have been perfectly innocent in
this whole transaction," said Mr.
Hull. "If there was anything wrong
or irregular in this transaction it was
not known at our end of the line."
It is understood that Mr. Hull has
had some spicy correspondence with
Attorney General Lyon. The State
made an effort last night to secure
this correspondence from Mr. Hull,
but the reporter was informed at the
Colonial hotel, where he was stopping,
that Mr. Hull was sick in bed. At?
torney General Lyon had not returned
j from Abbeville, where he was called
i on personal business.-The State,
I March 12.
TWO SHIPS GO DOWN'.
Thirty-Four Seamen Perish in North
Sea Gale.
Berlin, March -Two German
steamships, the Wettern and the Joer
gensen, have foundered during a gale
on the North sea. All hands, num?
bering 34 men, were drowned.
ANSEL WARNS EXPRESS CO.
Liquors Must Be Delivered to Con?
signees, Whether They Will Be
Seized or Not.
Columbia, March 8.-As a result
of the recent refusals by persons in
Charleston to receive whiskey ship?
ped them through the Southern Ex?
press Company, knowing that it
would be seized as soon as delivered,
Gov. Ansel has written Mr. O. M.
Sadler, superintendent of the South?
ern Express Company, a letter in?
forming him that the law must be
observed. He writes as follows:
March 6, 1907.
O. M. Sadler, Express Superintend?
ent, Charlotte, N. C.
Dear Sir: Enclosed I send you a
clipping in reference to certain li?
quors that were shipped by express to
certain persons or firms in Charleston
and it seems were not delivered be?
cause an officer was present ready to
seize it. I would like to know wheth?
er the liquor was not delivered, be?
cause the consignee would not accept
it or because the company's agent be?
came aware that it would be seized
when delivered.
It is the duty of the express compa?
ny, as I consider it, to edliver the
goods and it should not matter to
them whether it is seized or not, after
delivery.
Please investigate this matter at
once and let me know the facts and
oblige. Yours very truly,
, ? M. F. Ansel, Governor.
ROBBER KILLED AT COLUMBIA.
Edgar Marshall, Son of Eminently
Respectable Citizen, Holds Up
Charlie B. Green, a Shandon Store?
keeper, at Midnight, and is Shot to
Death hy Green-Fire is Returned
hy Marshall or a Confederate, and
Green Falls Dead.
Columbia, March 10.-An attempt
to waylay and rob Charlie B. Green,
a Shandon merchant, resulted in the
death of Mr. Green and of the would
be robber, who was identified as Ed
! gar Marshall, son of Mr. P. G. Mar?
shall, an eminently respectable and
! highly respected citizen of Columbia.
The robbery and double homicide
took place within sight of Mr. Green's
home, in the suburb of Shandon,
shortly before midnight Saturday
night. The bodies, lying feet to feet,
were not found for several hours, and
the affair has created a trmendous
sensation in Columbia, as it is possi?
ble that there was. another robber or
robbers.
The facts as brought out at the
coroner's inquest and elsewhere today
are as follows: i.
Mr. Green ran the store on the
Garner's -Ferry Road, in the pretty
village of Shandon, about two miles
from the city of Columbia proper. On
Saturday night he locked up the store
: and left in company with his clerk, J.
B. Ward, who also lives in Shandon.
They walked two blocks together
along Woodrow street, and when
they reached the corner of Woodrow
I
and Preston streets Mr. Green turned
to his right to go to his home, one
block down' on Preston street. When
about half way of this block, just at
the rear gate of his neighbor. Mr.
Toney, he was accosted by a man in
hiding and was probably struck
across the head with a slung shot,
the man being concealed behind the
open gate.
'Green it is thought, was carrying his
pistol in his hand, as that was his
custom when going home late from
the store, with money in his posses?
sion. He evidently threw up his left
arm to ward off the blow, and fired
with the pistol in his right hand at
very close range. Four chambers of
his pistol were fired, and three of his
shots took effect in Marshall's body.
One entered just below the left col?
lar bone, another entered his face
just where the lips join, making, a
flesh wound on the left side of the
face, and the third entered at the
back of the neck, on the left, also
making a flesh wound.
Green was also wounded three times,
each of the three wounds being in
his left breast and one of the balls
probably piercing his ehart. The last
shot was evidently fired after Green
had fallen to his knees, and it is sup?
posed that the first shot which struck
him killed him.
MILLIONAIRES INDICTED.
New York Central Railway Officers
Held Responsible for Wreck.
New York, March S.-An indict?
ment for thirteen muUi-milionaires,
officers and directors of the New
York Central railroad, held by the
coroner to be responsible for the re?
cent wr^ck. in which 23 lives were
lost, will probably ge asked for next
Monday when Assistant Attorney
Slythe takes the case before the
grand jury.
SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION.
The Thirtieth Annual Meeting to Be
Held at Georgetown March 13th
and 14th.
Your paper has already announced
the date and place for the Thirtieth
(30) Annual Sunday School conven?
tion, for which we are obliged. I wish
now to accentuate the fact that .the
programme is one of the best we
have ever issued. Notable experts
naving been engaged to present every
phase of the modern Sunday school
movement, from the cradle roll to
the adult Bible class, inclusive.
Rev. A. L Phillips, D. D., of
Richmond, Va., widely known
throughout the south, and Mr. W. C.
Pearce of Chicago, Ul., highly es?
teemed everywhere, are the two vis?
itors who will speak and instruct sev?
eral times during the two days ses?
sion. .It will be worth while to travel
hundreds of miles to sit at the feet of
these experienced and consecrated
teachers.
Prof. Hand, of the South Carolina
University, will speak twice on a vital
topic, "Principles and Methods of
Teaching," and no one is better fitted
than he to handle this subject. There
are others who will share in the at?
tractive programme. It is therefore
hoped that every superintendent who
chances to read this letter will pre?
sent the matter to his school next
Sunday and endeavor by all means to
secure representation ,which may be
done by sending delegates. This con?
vention will be held under the aus?
pices of the great International As?
sociation, which has done so much
for thebetterment and enlargement
of the Sunday schools of our country
irrespective of creed. Its purpose is
far-reaching; results heretofore have
been gratifying. A warm welcome
will be extended by the hospitable
people of Georgetown.
Date of convention March 13th- J
14th.
The railroads have promised spe?
cial rates.
William E. Pelham,
Chairman of Executive Committee.
Newberry, S. C., March 7.
PERKINS REFUNDS MONEY.
Returns to New York Life $54,019.19
Contributed to Republican Cam?
paign Fund.
New York, March 7.-George W.
Perkins, former vice president of the
New York Life Insurance company
and now a member of the firm of J.
P. Morgan & Co., has sent to the New
York Life his personal check for $54,
019.19 to reimburse the company for
the Republican campaign fund con?
tribution made from its funds in 1904
in connection with which Mr. Perkins
was recently made defendant on a
charge of larceny. Announcement of
tne restitution of the principal of
$48,500 and the interest to date was
made today by President Alexander
E. Orr of the New York Life, to
whom Mr. Perkins yesterday, before
leaving on a trip to the south, ad?
dressed a letter inclosing the check.
President Orr also gave out the letter.
In it Mr. Perkins declares that in dis?
missing the criminal proceedings
against him the court intimated that
the campaign contribution was not
for a proper corporate purpose. He
again asserts that he was acting upon
a request of the then president of the
New York Life when he advanced the
money)for the campaign contribution
in 1904, and says that when the then
president of the company reimbursed
him, there was no thought on the
part of either of any personal ad?
vantage, but a belief that they were
"acting for the best and broadest in?
terests of the policy holders, both ^at
home and abroad."
Washington Officials are Curious to
Know if Perkins Will Be Reim?
bursed.
Washington, March 8.-Officials
here are anxious to know whether the
Republican national committee will
reimburse George W. Perkins for the
$54,019 he has just turned over to
the New York Life Insurance compa?
ny in restitution of the amount con?
tributed to the ?Rpublican campaign
fund in 1904. The committee is un?
derstood to have over one hundred
thousand dollars on hand.
If the Republican national commit?
tee were called upon to reimburse
Perkins and also other defendants in
the suits to recover insurance funds,
it would be a big drain on the treas?
ury.
Three cadets were expelled from
the Citadel Thursday for breaking
garrison Monday night.
The Crescent steam laundrj and
Rice's grist mill were burned at Un?
ion Thursday.
Walter Dickey shot and seriously
wouded Sully Buggs, at a negro frol
[ ic in Manning Tuesday night.
/
Balling^Powder
ABSOUJmX PURE
DISTINCTIVELY A CREAM OF
TARTAR BAKING POWDER
it does not contain stn atom of phos?
phate acid (which is the product of hones
digested in sulphuric acid) or of alum
(which is one-third sulphuric acid), un?
healthful substances adopted for other ba*
king powders because of their cheapnes?e
SOUTH CAROLINA'S FINANCES.
The Next Legislature Will Face a
Deficit of About $184.020.54.
To the Editor of the State:
In my card which you kindly pub?
lished some days ago in reference to
the appropriations by the legislature
at its recent session I wrote largely
from memory.
There is one item, which is not in
the general appropriation bill, but
which is really an appropriation,
which was not included in the totals
which I gave, and of course will in?
crease the deficit to that extent. I
refer to the legislative appropriation
bill which caries $48,000 and which
should be added to the totals in the
general appropriation bill.
The general appropriation bill, as
it pased, carries a total appropriation
of $1,423,465.54, to which should be
added the $48,000 in the legislative
appropriation bill, making a total for
1907 of $1,471,456.44. From ,**his
should be taken the amount for com?
pleting the State house, to be borrow?
ed from the sinking fund, which is
not payable out of the revenue for
1907, of $12,361, and a small appro?
priation of $*75, to be paid out of the
dispensan- fund, which will leave the
total appropriations for the expenses
of the government for this year^ at
$1,459,020.54.
The exact figures as estimated by
the comptroller general of the reve?
nue of the State for this year are
put at $1,274,150, which would make
che appropriations exceed the proba?
ble revenue by $184,020.54. When I
placed the deficit at from $100,000 to
$125,000, which would face the next
session of this legislature, I did not
take into account the $48,000 in the
legislative appropriation bill.
As stated above the deficit will be
apparently $184,020.54, which is
about $30,000 more than my estimate
when you count the $48,000 carried,
in the legislative appropriation bill.
In reaching that conclusion I estimat?
ed that there would be several items
in the general appropriation bill
which would not all be used and
would therefore be convered in the
treasury at the close of this fiscal
year.
The figures given here are correct
as taken from the bill as it finally
passed the legislature.
The deficit which will face the
members at the next session will at
least be sufficient to make those ex?
travagantly inclined stop and con?
sider.
It is well to know just where we ?
are at in the matter of the State ?
finances and for that reason I write j
this additional card and ask that you
publish it so that the figures may be
accurately and fully stated.
E. H. Aull.
Newberry, S. C., March 7, 1907.
HAVEMEYER BUYS LAND. *
Fuller and Timothy Tracts in Beau?
fort County Sold to Sugar King for
Game Preserve for $35,000.
Beaufort, March 8.-Mr. H. O.
Havemeyer, the sugar king, has just
concluded the purchase of the two
tracts of land at Sheldon Station on
the line of the C. & W. C. railroad,
formerly the property of the Fuller
families; also the Timothy plantation,
formerly the property of Col. Charles
Hutson. The price paid was $35.000.
The land will be converted into one
continuous hunting preserve, to
which it is well adapted.
Mr. Havemeyer will erect a mag?
nificent mansion on the estate for his
hunting and sporting purposes.
The way to convice a man is to
make him think he is convincing you.
I HEARST LEAVES DEMOCRACY.
'
I Announces Independence League Will
Act Alone.
Albany, March 7.-William Ran?
dolph Hearst read himself out of the
Democratic Party here today. A
meeting of all the Independent
League leaders of the State was held
at the Hotel Ten Eyck, and he again
accepted its leadership. In the course
of his speech he said:
"I am happy that our league has
continued to increase in strength. By
first allying itself with the Republi?
can Party and then with the Demo?
cratic Party it has been able always
to advance the principies of
the league, and I feel sure that it
has reached a point where it can now
advance those principles independent?
ly."
Mr. Hearst's term as a Democratic
Representative from the Eleventh
New York District expired yesterday,,
and he is nov/ free from all ties to
that party. He especially invited his
followers and the public to be vigi?
lant in anticipation of next year's
campaign.
The Hearst men gathered \> dis?
cuss legislation, and also to confer on
! a plan to nominate Independence
League candidates for the Court of
Appeals this year. All were anxious
to hear what Mr. Hearst would have
to say, and they cheered his utter?
ances enthusiastically.
Some of the leaders in their
speeches told the league people that
the other parties would probably split
the nominations for the Appeals
Court or each nominate through the
State Committee. The League, they
said, would nominate candidates with,
whom the organization could seek
support on a platform of protest
against present conditions.
One of the first things Mr. Hearst
did was to call on Gov. Hughes.-, The
former rivals talked beside the big
desk in the executive chamber for nf?
teen minutes.
"ELIJAH" DOWDE DEAD..
The Famous Founder of Zion City
Goes the Way of AU Flesh.
Chicago, March 9.-Prophet Elijah
Dowie died at 8 o'clock this morning;,
In the past six years Dowie receive
ed mililons in contributioneL He.
maintained a private yacht, touredi
the world and used more money than
King Leopold. According to his en?
emies he led a dual life of apostle and '
licentious voluptuary. When Dowie
signed full power of attorney to Glenn *
Voliva he "marked the beginning of"
his downfall. Mrs. Jeannie Dowie
'joined Voliva and they were subse
quently joined by Dowie's son" J?.
Gladstone Dowie, to depose him.
Dowie died at "Shiloh House," ap?
parently in little pain. He was at?
tended by three faithful followers,
Judge Barnes. Freeman Halhnel, a
servant and John Herschfield, a ne?
gro. The burial will probably be at
Shiloh Park, Zion City. ,
Tlie Founder of Zion City Will be
Buried With Elaborate Ceremo*
nies.
Chicago, March ll.-Dowie's fu?
neral will be held Thursday after?
noon. Elaborae memorial services in?
Shiloh Tabernacle were held today.
The body will be interred in Lake
Mound Cemetery in the center of
Zion City, beside his daughtet .\isther,
who died two years ago.
Dave Gunter, white, aged 19, killed
Jake Taylor, white, 20 years old, at
Wareville, Greenwood County, . on
Monday.