Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-12

caro- 10 SPEAK Ior lIsell.
Columbia, s. c., Aug. 6, 1896.
To the E'itor of The State: In
your issue of to-day you have a
card signed Mill Creek Distilling
Co., Geo. Hubbell, secretary, i'll
which he concludes as follows
''lf commissioner Mixson says !
ever offered him, directly or indi-
rectly, a dollar in any shape what
ever he states what is absolutely
false"
l have been drawn into this very
reluctantly and had hoped that the
matter had blown over and ]
would not be required to say any.
thing, but as a man who is jealous
of his honor and one who is moi
afraid to resent an insult, l am
forced to make the following state,
ment of facts:
I have been connected with The
dispcnsary since the first concep.
ton of the scheme and was il
charge under Senator Tillman's
direction when the building was
being put in fix for bottling, Mr.
Traxler, then The commissioner, be-
ing at his home in Timmonsville
quite i'll with typhoid fever. After
Mr.. Traxler's recovery and return
1 was retained in the capacity o.
superintendent, which position
held until Mr.. Traxler resigned
and I was honored with the ap
pointment.
During my term as superinten
dent 1 naturally discovered tba
the bulk of the whiskies bottled by
us was purchased from Mill Creel
through Mr.. Geo. Hubbell, who wa'
frequently down here. I also dis
covered that in making these pur.
chases Mr.. Hubbell, or Mill Greek
1 SHOULD say, was requiring and be-
ing paid an interest on them after
80 Gays, each 80 days calling fol-
more or bigger interest.
On being appointedcommission
er i'll January, 1895, and being in
possession of these facts of in
terest-bearing accounts, and not
intending relieving MI. Traxle,
till Feb. 1st, I commenced to look
around and see if Icould not dc
something better for the State and
save at least, the thousands and
thousands of dollars being paid in
interest to Mill Creek. About Jan.
80, some 10 days or perhaps more
before I took charge, Mr.. Hubbell
showed up and was anxious to as
certain if I intended to continue
the trade with him. My reply was,
'sThat depends. He asked, "De-
pends on what?" / replied, son
you; / want the same whiskies or
better, at the same prices or less
With 5 per cent. off as discount or
rebate" He seemed to be utterly
dumbfounded and exclaimed: "Do
you want the earth?" / replied,
''No, but this I want, and this in
tend to have" He went OH to say
that my proposition was one that
he nor no one else could entertain
and wanted to know if I had cal
culated the 5 per cent. off. He IN
quired when 1 would be in the
market for purchases, and upon
being told that it would take sew
eral days after Feb. Isl TO make
the transfer, he asked me again
for the purchases, If I shl uld need
before he returned in
February. 1 told him, "Only on
my terms"
On assuming the duties, Feb. 1,
1 very soon discovered that l need
ed some Bourbon whiskies and
wired him: Same whiskey, same
price, s off; send me X and Xxx
Bourbon" l received a wire in re-
ply evil ship at once" A few
days after this l received a letter
saying: "Your telegram ordering
Bourbon received, and knowing
from its being a wire that you were
in need, we hasten to make ship
ment, but we cannot give you The
de-" 1 Immediately wired
nim: "Order cars back; won't re-
ceive them only on my terms" In
a few hours 1 received a wire /:
'Cars TOO far advanced to order
back; receive them on your :erms." "
In due course the cars arrived and
we're received. Bill for same came
came in with 5 per cent. off and
was paiG.
1 do not recollect when nor how
often NJ. Hubbell came to see me
in the few months that followed
before the following occurred:
He asked me to take HIM into
he sample room and show him
he xxx rye that | was purchas-
ng, ] did so, and while in there
alone, he and /, he offered me his
XXX rye at the same price he had
'orlnerly sold it to the dispensary
With the interest on, fol the same
,rice per gallon, 10 per cent. dis
ount; and, if my memory serves
ne correctly, he made the follow
ng calculation there and then: