The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-08-12
IUBBELL OFFERED NO BRIBE.

4utiu1aISO Ghau hiASOI, IHC Ai.luot
commissioner, was offered a bribe
from Secretary Hubbell, OF the Mill
Greek Distilling Company. Mr.. Hub
bell came out in a card denying and
denouncing the statement as abso-
lutely false. Commissioner Mixson
also came out in an explanatory letter
and winds it up by denouncibg Mr..
Hubbell should ne deny what Mlxson !;
stated. A careful reading Of Mixson's
letter will not sustain Duncan,in that
Hubbell attempted to bribe Mixson'
but shows that Hubbell was connect
ed with trust and to comply with
Mixson's wishes he would be break
ing an agreement, but that he was
willing to break the agreement If
Mixson would not make it a matter
of record by having it put on the IN
voices. There is nothing in Mixson's
statement to show that Hubbell Of
fered him any money for his personal
use. the amount of rebates AliXson
required he wes willing to give, but
wanted to pay it in cash so the other
men. 5c-s of the syndicate would not
6rd out that -.e had broken his agree
ment with them. 'Hubbell, from Mix
sion's own Statement. does not say
that the rebate he offered was to go
to Mixson, he merely says that Hub
bell said che could not pat the dis
count on the invoices and t show up
regularly; that he was member of
the trust, but for me to pay the in
voices at the regular price Of 1925
per gallon and he would return me
the 10 per cent off in cash." Mr..
MiAson says 'this he refused to do
and no purchase has been made from
him by rue.
We see no cause for Mr. Mixson,
who is Jealous Of bis honor" tothrow
up his sanity hhands in horror at Mr.
Hubbell's proposition; it is one made
every day in business where competi-
ton is close and the parties anxious to
sell, happens to be hampered with be-
ing in combination or trust. Now,
if Hubbell had said to Mixson, Il will
give you percentage if you will give
me the order" then it would have
been base proposition, but
his offer as made to Mixson
was one which he required;
and Hubbell was trying to screen
himself from the trust that he had an
agreement with. AIixson could have
made the purchase in Hubbelrs own
way and the State need not have lost
one cent of the rebate either.
There has been a great deal of rot
showed off Oh the public about this
dispensary business and we think
that there should be someS Sway OF get
ting at the proof; if any stealing has
been, and is going on. A lot Of sus-
picious whisperirgs were INDUCED in
about one year ago, when a reporter
struck up with J. w. Mixson, a son
of the commissioner, at the Denison
Hotel in Cincinnati. This reporter
obtained an interview from the son
of Liquor Commissioner Mixson and
queries went the rounds to know
what 'little Mix" was doing out there.
Some one suggested that he went out
there to show that he no longer totes
the Georgia mark, and others said it
was to chew gum and smoke cigar
cites, while others still were, SANDER
Gus enough to say that he carried with
him "please pay the bearer" Gre
dental. OF course, it is not the
friends of the dispensary law, who
are creating sill Of these suspicious,
for it is to their interests to bring the
management as well as the law into
disrepute, but when these suspicious
are being whispered about the State
and the governor concludes that it is
best for the law, and the Reform
cause to take the purchasing power
away from the Commissioner, and the
control of the dispensary out of the
bands of the State officers, it should
give ofeuse to the commissioner and
TO some of the members ofthe board
of control; then the question natural
ly arises why sho@ld they become Of
Tended? The friends of the governor
can not understand why his asking
for change in the law should give
such mortal ofense to Colonel Mixson
and Colonel Tompkins that they are
classel as being among the COVER
nor's bitterest enemies. If our recol-
lection is correct, Governor Evans
voted to make Mixson State commits