The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1897-05-11

Blumenthal g. Bickart, would pay hin
80 much per case. MIR. Bickart sale
that II am too honest man to dt
such thing, and | can't do 1t. Mr.
QUITS mover made me any such q prop
Csition. [ am tho man who made the
proposition"
am in no way responsible for the
Dear Clark" con6dc ntial letter reach.
ing South Carolina, nor for 1t being In
the hands OF the press.
L make this statement In Justice tC
Mr.. QUITS since | have been used in an
attempt to injure him.
10 J. WOOD.
LARRY CAN'T WROTE IT.
The publication Of the unsigned let.
ter brought forth very promptly the
following communication to The Reg
ister, In which Mr.. Can't makes q full
| statement OF his connection with tho
matter
SPARrANBURG, S. c., Mays
Editor Regieter In your Charleston
correspondence of to-day you publish q
letter that | wrote to Hon. Clark How
ell, the editor OF the Atlanta Gonstitu-
tion. After the last meeting of the
State Board | heard that this letter
was made public. A friend in Column
bia baving notified mo of tho fact, and
asking Its contents, and to which re-
piled by giving the substance OF the
letter. I also saw a reference to tho
same in daily paper, and wrote at
once to the Columbia correspondent to
call on tho gentleman in Columbia, to
whom | had written, and got my reply
Tor publication. Ii that party ever re-
ceived my letter he did not respond.
My letter was certainly mailed and
stamped.
Now, in regard to the Howell letter:
penned every word of it., and have
nothing to retract or apologize for. 1t
was my intention, 80 soon as the Board
had held its present meeting, to try
and get copy and have 1t published.
Information has reached my ears
that Mr.. Bi1kart, of the liquor house
of Blumenthal Is Bickart, Atlanta, had
been blacklisted by the State Board of
Control for Offering Shipping Clerk
OutZs 70 cents per case for sending out
his goods In preference to the LIQUORS
sold by other firms, and which had been
ordered by the County Dispensers
that Mr.. Outzs had first consented to
this proposition, but afterwards Bick-
art came to him and stated that he
could only pay but 10 cents per case, as
he found the profits too close. It was
then that Mr.. Outzs went to Mr.. l.. J.
Williams and complained that Bickart
was trying to bribe him. Mr.. Bickart
was summoned before the Board and
stated that he had made the proposi-
tlon to pay OutZs. Whereupon his firm
was blacklisted. My informant then
went on to say that MIR. Bickart, after
he found out that his house could not
sell the State any more goods, stated
that he wanted to supplement his first
testimony, and insinuated that Outzs
tod %
cents, but had only "blowed on him"
when ho reduced the proposition to 10
cents.
MIR. Bickart came to appear before
the Board, but one Of the members IA
friend to Mr.. Outzs) objected to his be-
ing heard. Now the inference drawn
was that had not Mr.. Outzs first
consented to take the 25 cents per case, |
why did Nj. Bickart come second |
time TO make a lower offer? AS per-
haps every County Dispenser in the
State will testify, 1t is, or has been,
the hardest work to get their Or
ders for whskey filed, as sent in, for
other brands are shipped in place OF
those wanted. | believe that perhaps
this Bickart matter would unravel the |
m }stery, aud so determined to try and
uncover it.
Just at that time was trying to get
Mr. |. o. j. Wood, Of this city, and who
had always been one of my warmest
friends, q position. He had lost his
place in the Dispensary in Spartan
burg, and knew he needed work and
had family to support. 1t occurred
to me that could secure Mr.. Wood
position with Blumenthal g. Blckart,
and, also, unravel that report about the
OutZs matter.
Nj. Wood had written to Blumenthal
& Blckart and they had promised him
place, | thought, IL they could get re-
instated with tho Board knew that
Hon. Clark Howell was an intimate
friend Of Mr.. Bickart, and could not
only help out Mr.. Wood, but might also
get that evidence about MIR. Outzs, and
which had been suppressed. So | wrote
the Howell letter. | knew that in or
der to get MIR. Bickart to tell all that
he knew it would be necessary to show
him that he ran no risk in having his
My reference to Messrs. Jones and
Miles was simply the truth. They were
my friends; had worked for the po-
litical success OF both gentlemen, and
| believed that they would help my
friends whenever they could do 90 hon
orably and without prejudice to the
States interest. would not ask them
to do otherwise, and they would not
were | 70 80 request.
In writing to Mr.. Howell had moth
ing to gain personally, and no axe to
grind save to help my friends, and, al
l so stated therein, l have never made
any secret OF standing by and working
for my friends and lighting my enc
mics. have never received, and new
or tried to get, and neither would |
receive. nnder any circumstances, one
cents rebate. But brought the Dis
peDsary Law to this State, and deter
mined to weed out rascality IL discov-
cred, and 1t was In my power to do 80.
My reference to the explanation to be
made by Mr. Wood in the letter was
that he might explain to Mr.. Howell
the position he wanted was as agent in
our State for Blumenthal & Bickart.
Mr.. Wood went to Atlanta and re-
turned to Spartanburg in a day or 80.
He came into my office and Ia reply to
an inquiry stated that he did not see
Mr.. Howell, but had left the letter with
Mr.. Bickart, and who said that there
was no necessity for delivering it, as
he had nothing to say In the Outzs mat.
ter, and that gentlemen had refused
his offer to receive pay for shipping out
his liquors fret.
| thought no more OF the letter, as
there was nothing In 1T that cared for
the public to see. But during the laet
meeting Of the State Board friend
from Columbia wrote me that certain
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