The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-05

| of Spartanburg at the instigahon
of liquor dealers, and t is
with the encouragement of one os
of the aldermen. Chief Constable Fans
worked up evidence and appeared with
his witnesses. Here is what he says ef
the way Solicitor Schumpert treated
him and managed the case:
Governor B. z. Tillman, Columbia, 8. c.:
Sir:-A week or two after Constable Dayis
white and colored en-, secured written
statements from about fifteen or twenty Wit.
uesses. These statements were left in the
! hands of Trial Justice Kirby, to be presented
to the Court when the case came TO trlas.
| Invent to Spartanburg as the prosecutor In
the case, and when saw that Solicitor Schun-
! pert did not have over four or five witnesses
( sworn to go before the grand jury: went,
| ments of what would be sworn to in
! court. With these statements I went
! to the Solicitor and asked him to have the
! witnesses who had made these statements go
before the grand jury. He replied in q very
angry tone that he could manage the case
I without my assistance. Not being satisfied
with this treatment, | visited the office OF
the Hon. Stanyarne Wilson and saw M. B.
Bishop, and told h.m OF my interview with
! solicitor Schun pert. He promised to see
the Solicitor and have the witnesses
| summoned. He told NE that the So
| licitor retlSed to have the witnesses
/ sworn and treated him in rough manner.
| Finding that would not be used as a prose-
cutting witness, returned 10 Anderson.
true biils were found, and these were not the
ringleaders. Respectfully submitted,
J. R FAINT.
Is it at all likely that such aa officer
will ever convict any of the cases made
| by the constable at such heavy ex-
pense? Yet this solicitor obtained g
| verdict of murder against Bladon, a
| constable, who went with warrant to
arrest notorious colored liquor rough.
He was resisted, shot by order of the
negro (his son or wife doing it), two Of
his ribs torn away and the whole load
of shotgun lodged in his abdominal
cavity, where it still remains. Thus
mortally wounded, as he thought (and
be recovered only by a miracle and
coed attention on the part of his
nurse and physician), dazed and weak
ened, he still had strength and courage
| to shoot the negro as he broke away
and ran.
1t is impossible for any right-think-
ing man to see in this any crime other
than manslaughter; and any but a cor
| rupted or crazy jury would have ac-
quilted Bladon without leaving their
seats. Partisan spirit has run very
high, and mems minds have been
clouded with passion so that they have
not been able to see and judge clearly.
But it is a necessity that all branches
of the Executive Department should
work in harmony and to given end.
If the solicitors and sherifs are e q
| and abet those who defy.tAed edispensafl-
law, it is farce to employ constablesa
to work up evidence. Give the Gov
ernor power to suspend these officers
for neglect or refusal to dischargestheir
duty, and the danger of conflict and
| bloodsbed will be far less, while wrong
doors will be less inclined to run the
| risks they now take with impunity.
We have entered on the work and the
law is good one-the best eyer de-
vised for the control of the whiskey
| evil. Strengthen the Executives hands
| and then hold him responsible if it is
not enforced.
It will be necessary to legislate in
the matter of controlling the manufac-
ture of whiskey. The stills IN the
State, registered and unregistered, have
| in. many instances been reported as
selling their product by peddling and
| otherwise. Several of the distillers are
| under indictment under the nuisance
clause of the act. But here a compiica-.
| ton arose. They have their liquor
stored in government warehouses, and
the Attorney General Of the United
States has decided that the State
could not seize it: Hence the distiller
| is,fortifed against loss of his product.
Il isIthe confscation of the liquor, and
the loss thus entaiied, that has driven
| most men out of the business. Con-
| victions have not been secured IN
| many cases. I see no way to stop the.
sale By distillers except 20 make it a
felony to run still in this State With
out license; these to be issued in
all of the product, and stills to be SUBJ
ject to rigid State inspection. It shoald
be the policy of the State to have our
| own people manufacture IS much of
the liquor used here as possible, thus
saving the profit at home. 10 do tnis
with any degree of satisfaction the
State would have to buy the whiskey
as made by the small stills, and con-
centrate it in Colpmbia ia q Bonded
warehouse to ege and beco ne fit fur
use. - This especially applies to
corn wniskey, which is hard to get In
sufficient quantity of proper age for
use. Much that we are now selling is
raw and new, containing too much
fusel oil to be desired. With SUCH a
1 warehouse established here, enough
whiskey could be bought monthly to
age for use year hence; and as the
! United States tax would not be paid
till it comes out Of the warehouse, the
capital necessary would besmall. Thirty
or forty thousand dollars would euflce
to carry out the scheme. Isee no other
way to supply corn whiskey, to which
our people are accustomed, in a condi-
ton the least injurious. They will
have it. 1t is the duty and interest OF
the State to furnish it Of the purest
and best quality.
DISPENSARY AS BUSINESS.
I will next give figures, showing the
workings of the State dispensary since
| it's establishment I can only find
space for a brief abstract. a full re-
port, covering every detail, is being
prepared, and will be laid on the desks
of members very soon. The special
committee appointed to investigate the
books and accounts finished its labors
only last Monday.
ABSTRACT, NOVEMBER IsT.
Total cost iof liquors .......-...... $l6,s53 u
! Total expenses ...... 2o7. .05S Is
Total sale to dispensers. 6S4,ST 50
| Amount due by dispensers to. State ICE, 1856 81
| Amount cash received from disp'rs 55S,Sli 1S
| Amount cash all other sources. go. 10, ,S65 8
I
| Total cash ... 1884, 4.e76 80
| Stock at State diSp'sary (wholesale) 65455 So
Amount e by State dispensary... S3Is15 %
| Value Of assets over liabilities 147,694 SO
I From which deduct State appropri-
Iiou oo,eVo W
Net profits. ....... 5 81 ,e94 SO
| The three heaviest items Of expense are
| Constabulary. ............. S 1855 81
Bottles, denijohns and keSs--....-... So, ,9g9 u
l. AS check on the State commits
sioner ia the managemeotzof the busi-.
ness each disDenherziS REQUIRED TO re-.