The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-10-14

cial travellers. some OF whom are ire
sponsible. We are fully convinced of
this fact; that no responsible estab
lishment can do a large business
through travelling salesmen without
having imitators, and without having
their reputation assailed at sometime
or other.
The undersigned two companies
have both been successful and have
sold to the State of South Carolina
large quantities Of high grade goods;
uniformly at the lowest prices consist
ent with quality. We claim. without
exception, that we have sold the State
of South Carolina at the very lowest
margin at which we could a!ioro 10
sell. II. in connection with tins bust
ness and the desire to retain II, any
one of the salesmen or employees or
commission agents or brokers OF the
undersigned companies have made
any mistakes We wish you gentlemen
10 consider that we have to De little
charitable with our employees, ant that
we do not charge our employees WHO are
pushing the sale Of our goods, with as
higha degree of responsibility, provided
they act Eonorably in all thelr deal
ineS with our customers, and DO not
misrepresent the quality OF our goods.
A committee Of our board has new
advised that one Of the members OF
the company, who is also 8 lawyer,
give a thorough investigation to a
great many of the matters we have
from time to time learned from the
South Carolina newspapers.
We have ascertained the fact that
Mr.. Yost, who is one of the southern
managers of the Live Oak Distiilery
company, did have personal inter,
views on one or two occasions with
James w. Mixson, at Cincinnati,
OHIO. You have asked Us personally
to procure any letters Mr.. lost is able
10 furnish. We now furnish, attached
hereto. the two letters that Mr.. loSt
has been able to Gnd, one dated April
29!h. 1895, from James w. MiNson to
our Mr.. Yost, and the other dated
Nav 10th, 1895, to Mr.. Yostand signed
by J. w. Mixson. Mr.. Iost has also
furnished US letter from W. I. Mix.
son, dated Dec. 10th, 1895. Both OF
our two companies wish to have II dis,
tiuctly understood that these letters
were not known of by the ether agents
of the business, and that Mr.. 4ost dis,
tinctly states that it never occurred to
him that any friendly relations that
might be established with J. w. Mix
son and W. 7. Mlxson might possibly
be construed unfavorably by anybody
in the State Of South Carolina.
You two gentlemen. as a committee,
have requested US personally to ask
Mr. Yost about any interviews he ever
had with either OF the sons OF +. NJ.
Mixson. We have the statement from
Mr.. Yost and now give it to you-that
he saw one of these gentlemen on two
or three occasions at Cincinnati, and
the other one possibly as many times
ct Cincinnati, Ohio. That without
any thought as to any possible con-
struction that might be placed upon 1t,
and in entire innocence as to any I'M
proper suggestions he did consent to
give small brokerage commission to
said two gentlemen. That each OF
said gentlemen approached him. We
have the assurance of MIR. Yost that
in neither of the interviews with either
of the sons Of T. NJ. Mixson did they
promise or assure him that they would
solicit business from their father.
Mr.. Yost also states that he was led
to believe from conversations with
others whose names he cannot recall
that the business SIS conducted in the
State of South Carolina enabled the
different dispensers to call for the par.
ticular brands Of goods they wanted
Or that there was demand for; that
these demands of the various county
dispensaries controlled the orders Civ
en- by the main dispensary. There
fore, as the Live Oak,(OistiIleTy So.
and the Joseph r. Xeebles Sons Co.
had already established the scale of
prices at which they were willing to
sell the goods, and as the suggestion
1SsaSS SMixson and James W.
nothing to do with a
Shese prices Mr.. Yost
$ by having brokers in the
in creating a demand for
or popularizing certain
- there would be no injustice to
the State OF South Carolina, even II
! IL.