The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-07-12
BAR.KEEPER FOB THE STATE.
Gov. Tulman Controls soutt Carolina'G
Rum Traffic.
From the Phtlade1phta Record. |

COLUMBIA, s. c., July LIN his
new position as head bartender Of the
State Under the how famous Evans
liquor law, Governor Tillman was
found to-day just where he should
have been-in the great dispensary or
official liquor store. In the grea'
liquor house just outside the Capital
grounds everything was stencilled
with the Governor name just as the
distillers and brewers had shipped the
goods to him.
The three enormous tuns, or watts,
into which as many grades of whiskey
are run as fast as heads can be knock
ed out Of barrels, were stencilled all
around with this phrase, constantly
repeated: ITO Governor D. r. Till
man, Columbia, S. c." The air was
strongly perfumed with the odor Of
liquor.
THE WORLDS BIGGEST GIN MILL.
Liquor splashed into the watts, shot
out Of the bottling machines, leaked
into the pools on the floor, dripped
into great oaken buckets and escaped
from the open mouths Of thodsands Of
TASKS that were being supplied to the
workmen in the labelling, corking and
sealing department. Over this, the
greatest ware house for the biggest gin
mill in the world, d gin mill the size
Of State, the Governor presided.
Now he is showing visitors how to
work the spouts that fill the bottles.
Next he is upstairs supervising the
knocking in Of the heads Of barrels to
fiji the big vats. Like most good bar
tenders, he drinks very seldom and
not at all in his place Of business
"WelT, Governor" said the cores
pondeut Of the Record; "your law has
not gone into. general operation, l
see ?"
"Well, what the - do you ex-
pect p the Governor inquired. "lt
cannot be enforced in day. 1t is not
operative in half the Counties, but
| you must remember that several Coun-
ties are dry by law and others that
will come in have not yet done SO.
| when the Governor asked "What
the do YOU expect he did not do
so. angrily or loudly, but, in d hearty
and informal way suggestive of the
rugged farmer folk Of the Alliance.
IT see Charleston is to have no dis
pensary. Why are they fighting the
law f''
"T hey are not fighting the law p
said the Governor, "they are fighting
me. They always have fought me,
and they are keeping at it,
"What are you going to do about
lit p
CHARLESTON MUST 60 DRY.
II am going to make Charleston the
dryest town on earth. If they won't
buy State liquor they shall not have
any other, and I will see that they
don't, if l have to put special con-
stable on every block in the city.
"Why do you intend to charge more
than the people used to have to pay
for their liquor Was there not
profit enough under the old way OF
selling it 2''
"Well, we do not want to sell it-so
cheap that the people would be tempt
ed to drink more than they use to. We
sell pure liquor, to begin with, and
that costs more than what used to be
sold. Then, VIE plan to make 100 pei
cent profit. To the cost Of the best
liouor we add the various charges,
freight, bottling, etc., and on top Of
that add 80 per cent for the State s
profit, and then we sell it to the Coun-
ty dispensaries at whatever that comes
to. They are obliged to add 80 pei
cent profit when they retail it, and
that is divided between the town and
the County. This is costly business
We reckon it will cost $50, 900 just to
run this new department of the Gov.
ernment. -
"Governor, I see that your whiskey
is 100 per cent proof. Isn't that
rather stronger than the average man
takes it ?"
T1LLMAN's STUFF VERY STRONG.
"It is one hundred-pound proof, .
said the Governor, "becauseit it is pure
It is none of my business how people
like it. All I've got to do is to sci
only pure stuff. I suggested the put
ting up of signs to read: Customers
can add sugar and water to suit theil
own tastes TO come back to the
prices, you see our liquor is cheap
considering it's quality. Even if ii
were poor stuff, it would come deare1
by the quantity, while to small pur
chasers it. will cost less than liquor
ever cost them before"
Governor, there is some complaint
that you bought all Of this liquor out
of the State, whereas the law declares
that home products shall have the
preference.
"I wanted to buy the liquor here
but I don't believe that there has beer
a drop of pure liquor sold in South
Carolina. l don't say that there has
not yet, mind you, but l expect te
prove that there was not drop OF