Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-10-18

to the chairman. The strength of his
pull may be judged by the amount Of
his and Gaston's orders which amount
to $l6,5SO.9S. The amount may be
larger than this because all the in
voices may not have been posted when
this amount was taken from the
books"
Ouzls says liquors were ordered from
Sachs as needed. Then he takes up
Friedman, Keller & Co., who fought
the dlspensary law and had an opposi
tion store, and shows how they worked
through Matthias, of Charleston, and
then employed w. E. Blue, another
cousin of Haselden. Blue succeeded
in getting some good orders and the
amount of his pull and that Of Mat
thias with J. Dudley Haselden, chair
man, advocating orders for him,
amounts to SIS, ,419 in orders gwen.
After the board passed resolutions
excluding local strikers, Blue was
turned down by Friedman, Keller &
Co., and J. Dudley Haselden decided
that their liquor was not as good as it
was while Blue was with them. Al
least he gave up advocating purchas-
ing from Friedman, Keller & Co., and
they have gotten no more orders since.
"Just after the death of Governor
Ellerbe and about the time Boyd Evans
was leaving his office drummer came
to Columbia 10 meeting of the board.
Sprinkler represented the Reidsville,
IN. c., Liquor company, and was cor
rallied at the first meeting he attended
by w. Boyd Evans, who got a job with
him, and upon Sprinkler's going before
the board with Evans and telling them
he had employed Evans to travel
North and South Carolina, an order
was given the Reidsville Liquor COM
pany. They got such large order
that they had some difficulty it filling
ibid not fill it in time 10 get another
at the next board meeting-but have
heen given orders at every meeting
since. If Evans ever Travelled further
for them than from Marion here to
Columbia, it has never been heard Of
Boyd Evans's pull amounts to So 1866. 0S
in orders given, besides the September
purchases. So much for taking care of
cousins.
"Now, what about yourself? j..
Dudley Haselden, did you ever make
this remark, that you had liquidated
$4,000 in debts since you had been Il
member of the board? Your salary,
according to the published report Of
the board, was not $1,000. Besides
these three cousin liquor drummers,
and before them, J. Dudley Haselden
has his brother-in-law elected one OF
the inspectors, who held his job several
months, resigned, and went back TO
college. After this, J. c. Moody, an
other cousin from Marion county, was
given the the inspectors job. He is
still connected with the dispensary.
1t has been asserted that Stelling was
given a job as dispenser in Charleston
because NJ. r. Cooper needed his in.
huence in the city to help him in his
race for secretary of state. j. ID. Per
cival was also given dispensers job
in Charleston about the same time.
Stelling was finally allowed TO run u
dispcnsary against the vote of MIR.
Douthit and Mr.. Williams and they
had him up for 80 days and tried to
prevent Slelling from running whole
sale dispensary.
QUITS says Haseden bought case OF
liquor for the Legislators and paid for it
at wholesale prices. He says Haselden
charged up for services not earned that
he plays double in the beer privilege
matter.
Friedmand, Keller & Co. offered sill
YER TASKS for orders of five cases Of
case goods and got the orders.
QUITS asks Haselden: cat the same
time were you not buying contraband
yourselfP viz: I. w. Harper whisky at
dollar and eight cents per quart, the
same price charged to county dispen-
sers and thus the town and county
losing their profits, and not paying
cash, but having it charged to your
account? When you would draw your
pay for attendance here as chairman at
the end of the week, you would have
a bill made out for it and receipted,
paying for the same. Not only this ;
did YOU not have full cases of cham
pagne opened in the state dispensary,
take out what you want and pay for
it, at prices charged county dispen-
sary? This you did while Victor
Blue was here, and you and he drank
it in the board room.