The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-08-09

OF single \ rye, which was only worth
on that day ST 90 per gallon. They also
paid the Mill Creek Distilling Com.
pany ou the same date 81 .2G per gallon
for IL 5S1 gallons single Y Bourbnn,
tho market price of which on that day
was SSl 70 per gallon; 80 In this single
purchase we lind the taxpayers of the
State over paid.
On 1880 gallons y rye at 10 cents
per gallon $1,793 GO
On 1851 gallons Y Bourbon at 6
cents per gallon $1.114.8G
Rebate on 59.95O gallons At cents
Sd, 1876 SO.
Cash discount, 50.95O gallons at 2
cents per gallon, 81 1900
Cash discount. l,345 gallons cost aboat
$3O ~ at per cent $4,000.
Making grand total of $84230G
lost to the taxpayers of the State on
this single purchase amounting to less
than $85, 600. | do not propose to 90
over all the purchases made by the State
out simply call your attention to the
loss made on this single purchase from
the Mill Creek DistiI,ing Company.
The Governor promises that the dis.
pensary will be in full blast again at an
early day aud apparently he is anxious
to have the law in force again and
while do not propose to give my Views
ior or against 1T do think that the
State should buy Its liquors to the very
Oest advantage and not vest the purch as
ing power i'll ode who has no knO ledge
Of the business; and besides, do not
think 1t wise to have a law which opens
the door to corruption. 1T is not my in.
tenti0n to convey the idea that Cover
nor Eillman is dishonest, but / do say
That an Act that gives the power to any
one man to use The money and credit of
the State to ths extent Of hundreds of
thousands of dollars and permit his &C.
countings to the State for this trust AZ
Is done in this Dispensary report is, to
say the least, an I'M wise Act.
have only covered tho first purchase
made by Governor Ti)lman and under
stand that all rye liquors have since
been bought from this company for
the eStateDispensary and will q ono fur
thnr, but L would he glad If some one
perfectly familiar with tho liquor busi-
ness would carefully review all the
statements issued by Commissioners
Traxler and let the Taxpayers Of the
State know whether the others purchases
were made ut or above their value.
Replying to this article Governor
Tlllman said that 1t was another insin-
uation that he was either fool or a ras.
| cal; that he had been sWindling the peo-
pic or had been cheating. lie asked
Butler where he had got his infor ma
tion about the price of whiskey at the
times named. Receiving no answer he
said that Butler didn't know and was
allowing himself to be used as Il tool OF
the.Whiskey trust. Governor Tillman
| went over tho other destinations OF
Butler and answered them, demandina
| Of Butler the source Of his information
lie said he was getting tired Of these
insinuattons and wouldn't stand 1t.
lie had never attacked Buffers honesty.
The people Of Edgelield know that he
(ElllmaD) Is honest and endorsed him
two years ago by 1,5OO.majority. They
will give him 1,5CO majority this year.
The Governor said: at comes with
poor grace from Butler to insinuate
anything about my honesty when he
cannot say as much about paying
his own honest debts" Butler,
he said, charged HIM with having power
to purchase all the whiskey. This was
not so. The purchasing power Is vested
In the Board of Control. of which Ell
lerbe and buchanan are members.
They are responsible but all the respon.
sibility Is laid on me. They frequently
leave the purchasing of whiskey to me
because | am familiar with all details Of
the business, but they know that there
After finishing with Butler Governor
Tillman jumped on Grover Cleveland.
Speaking of the scarity of money he
took hand primary to sec how many
men in the audience had any money. 1t
was rather delicate question, but the
primary showed an enthusiastic majori-
ty without cent Governor Tillman
touched again today on the Alliance
ei!d the sub.treasury. lie declared that
thi9 pressing Of that demnad at this
time is simply blindness and may pruci-
pitate row In the Reform ranks which
may allow some Of our enemies to slip
In. 81 could have d9dged this sub treas
ury issue and let you go on and fall in
the ditch, but l. am not demagogue
and will tell you the truth every time"
(Cheera.) The Governor told his friends
10 Talle every man Who ls q candidate
for the Legislature tell exactly how he
stands.
Voice: "Fhey have got it to do"
The last thing the Governor spoke on
was tho Dispensary. lie said that he
had hid the 1893 law from the Supreme
Court because he didn'C want the ex.
pense Of an extra session of the IIagis-
lature to renact it. The Goveror was
sustained in what he had done In re-
opening the Dispensary by hand pri-
iuhi y. tlo Cio"u plollllScl W lO LnelT
duty as jurors when mon are arrested
for violation of the law. The Governor
told the crowd that when they know
man is violating the law to send him
word and he will send a constable to
take charge Of that man. The Cover
nor was uproariously .applauded throgh.
out his speech.
BUTLER's SPEECH.
EVoryb)dy who kuUW Senator Butler
can imagine how it must have affected
him when Governor Tillman told him
his mouth was u sewer pipe through
which other people squirt their filth at
him. knowing this the reporters looked
for hot stuff from Senator Butler. They
were not disappointed. but the Occa-
| sion was hotter than anybody expected.
IL came near amounting to q riot be.
rOro the hour allotted to tho Senator
was over. Senator Butler WAS prob ably
i little paler than usual as he faced
the crowd Of 200 men, nearly all Of
them rIllmaniloa. Gfasping the railing
in front Of him, General Butler first
paid few compliments to the old sol.
diers of Union. Then he said in stern
tones: "Since tho progress of this