The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-05
TILLMAN TO Arm HIS SPIES
Rotten Eggs to Be Replied to With
LeadGl Bullets.

The Governor Opens an Ordnance De-
partment-He Says He Does Not
Propose to Have the Deputies
Treated Like Dogs, and win In
struot Them to Shoot When They
are Attacked.
Columbia, S. c., Aug. 4.-The spy sys-
tenn of the state dispensary is very likely
to create trouble. II is very obnoxious to
the public, and in some places it is not
improbable that these prying emissaries
will not be tolerated. The treatment
given them in Sumter yesterday, where
they were beaten and rotten egged, has
aroused the ire Of Gov Tillman and to-
day he opened an ordnance department
for the state constabulary He says that
he is tired having state officials insulted,
and that unless it is stopped some body
will get hurt. Just as the newspaper
men were about to leave the executive
chamber Gov Tlllman got up and walked
over to q cabinet and opened q drawer.
In it were lot of belts. Then another
drawer was opened and in it were lot
of large Colts army revolvers. When
! Gov Tillman was asked what they were
for, he replied: "Look at sections 517
and 518 and you win see." These sec
tions refer to arTning constables.
GLOW many have you got7'' was asked.
"Oh, all we need. They won't rotten
! egg any more state constables."
'Is that what they are for}"
"Thats one thing they are for. am
| going to see that they are not ill-treated.
| I'm going to issue instructions that they
! should use them when 1t Is necessary"
| Then Gov. Tillman was asked If he had
! enough pistols 10 go around, and he re-
| piled, There are great many constables
who are not doing any arresting, but
there are plenty more where they came
| from"
Just as the reporters were going out,
| Gov. Tillman remarked, pointing to a
small wooden box, THAT is a box Of
| cartridges"
1t was suggested that Gov. Tillman was
| trying to scare people by the newspaper
accounts, and he promptly replied, "I'm
| going to issue orders for the first one of
| them to shoot when he Is struck. I'm
| not going 10 allow the state constables to
| be made dogs of by the barkeepers and
| their followers.
NEW DIsPBNsARY RULES.
The dispensary rules have been amended
80 as TO require applicants for liquors to
state IN their requests for whom and
whose use the liquor Is wanted and
whenever an application is falsely made for
use of a minor or a person who uses intox-
| icating liquors TO excess, n warrant will
be sworn out by the dispenser against
| such person County dispensers win not
be governed by physician's certificate
making sales at night, but by their
| knowledge of the applicant and his char
acter for truthfulness. Dispensaries
must not be opened after hours, except in
cases of bona ide illness requiring liquor
as q medicine, and where physicians
certificate is presented, his character
| must be considered before filling il.
IdPoRTAT1oNs OF BEER.
Charleston, S. c., Aug. 4Qn Wednes-
! day a keg of beer was sent to J. M. james,
at Darlington, and seized on its arrival
| and placed in the hands Of the sheriff.
| To-day Mr.. James received another keg
| by the Atlantic Coast Line and 1t has re-
mained undisturbed all day.
Judge Hudson has filed supplementary
| opinion TO his last decision in the eDarling
ton dispensary case He says among
other things that Justice Pope's order
was not intended 10 dissolve his previous
order of injunction, but was intended to
stay proceedings; also that j. B. Floyd,
the dispenser. was guilty of contempt in
violating his order of injunction and in
| violating Justice Pope's writ of super
sedeas Hudson's supplementary decision
! does not alter the status Of the case.