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PERRY'S YARNS REFU1'ED.

PERRY'S YARNS REFU1'ED.
WHERE GOV. TILLMAN GOT THE
MONEY TO BUY HIS FARM.
Tho Alleged Liquor and Freight Rebates
Shown to be Entirely without Founda-
tlon--At Least this is the Showing Gov.
Tillman's Friends Make for Him.
COLUMBIA, S. c., Dec. 1O.-Yester-
day Gov. Tillman's friends published
the document below, which refutes
the charges made by B. F. Perry. To
begin with is the charge that Gov.
Tiflman paid cash for the Jones
plantation and liquidated other in
debtedness and that he did not get the
money honestly. First came the aft.
davit from Clerk of Court Hill of
Edgefeld, who says:
South Carolina, Edgefeld County.
1. I, John B. Hill, clerk of the Court
of Common Pleas and R. M. @. for
Edgefeld county, do hereby certify
unto whom it may concern, that l
have carefully examined the records
of my office and find upon record in
book %, page 357, mortgage given by
B. R. Tilfman to S. S. Tompkins, mas
ter, for 5000 on 245s acres.
Q. Mortgage given by B. R. Tillman
to Willie Jones and w. A. CLARK for
1000 on 2454 acres, recorded in book
so, page 156.
8. Mortgage given by B. R. Tillman
to Carolina National Bank of Colum-
bia, S. c., for $6, 105.60 on 211 acres
known as the "Jones tract" also 81
acres, also $50 acres, also 212 acres,
part of the R. G.. NJ. Dunovant lands,
recorded in book SO, page 116. None
of the above mortgages are satisfied.
These are all the mortgages ever exc
cuted by B. R. Tillman and recorded
in this Office.
JOHN B. HILL,
G. @. G. P. and R. M. G.
Yesterday afternoon, President Clark
of the Carolina National Bank, was
seen, at the suggestion of Governor
Tillman, and made the following state
ment regarding Governor Tillman's
loans through that bank:
"All transactions between bank
and it's customers are private and con-
idential and never made public ex-
cept with the consent of the latter.
This information is therefore only
given with the consent of Governor
Tillman.
governor Tillman has been bor-
rover of money from the Carolina Ma
tional Bank ever since the eraly months
of the year 1891. He owes the Caro-
lima National Bank now about $8, 900
in the form of two notes; one for the
sum of 81, 900, which has been running
for some time and which will mature
at an early day. This note is made by
Governor Tillman and endorsed by
two endorsers, who are secured by a
mortgage on one Of his plantations in
Edgefeld county; the other is for the
sum of Sc, 100, which was dated on the
26th of November, 1894, and is endorsed
by three endorsers, who are also
secured by a mortgage of what is
known as the Abraham Jones planta-
ton, near Trenton, and two other
plantations in Edgefiled county. This
latter sum of money was borrowed by
Governor Tillman for the purpose OF
paying for the plantation near Trenton
bought by him from the executors of
Abraham Jones. The money was paid
to the executors by checks upon the
Carolina National Bank and by them
distributed to those interested In the
estate.
Call of these transactions were had
through the bank. The plantation pur-
chased was included in the mortgage
given to secure the endorsers. All of
these mortgages have been matters of
record at Edgefeld court house"
President Childs of the Columbia,
Newberry and Laurens road, has come
to the front with reference to the
charge that the road that hauled most
of the liuuor allowed a rebate on the
freight rate. Mr.. Childs sent Governor
Tillman this statement:
ssHon. B. R. Tillman, Columbia, s. c.: {:
Dear Sir: In his letter to Mr.. Josh
Ashley, published in today's State,
Mr.. Ben Perry makes the statement
that he has information that you have
been allowed a rebate of freight on
liquors purchased by you for the dis
pensary.
"Those liquors have been shipped to
Columbia mainly over two lines-the
Seaboard Air Line via the Columbia,
Newberry and Laurens Railroad and
the Atlantic Coast Line. As president
of the Columbia, Newberry and Lau-
rens Railroad and representative at
Columbia of the Seaboard Air Line, l
am in position to know whether any
rebate has been allowed on shipments
to the dispensary over these roads, and
in the interest," of justice and fair play
I desire to state that no rebate OF
freight on these shipments has been
allowed by these roads toyou or to any
one else.
"As to the Atlantic Coast Line, I
have Just received a telegram from MIR.
IT. NJ. Emerson, traffic manger of that
line, emphatically denying that any
rebate has been allowed on such ship
ments over his road. I may add that
| was present at the interviews be-
tween the traffic managers of those
two lines and yourself, at which the
freight rates on dispensary shipments
were discussed and fixed and that at
these interviews, while you endavored
To secure as favorable rates to the State