The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1899-11-01
BLACK is ON THE WAR PATH.

oC n" w tIS G1Itt.
He Hits QUITS i'm the Eye and Uses
Ugly Language-When Will the
End Come?
Capt. Black, the shipping clerk at
the State ~dlspensary, comes back at
ex-Bookkeeper QUITS In the following
communication:
TO the Editor of The State
Since X-Bookkeeper QUITS has fin
ished his book OF revelations, l wish TO
call the attention Of the public TO the
following facts | have been con-
necsed with the State d%ispensary as
shipping clerk since May, 1893. l
served d Col. Vance, the commits
s%ioner, till May Of the present year.
From the time l entered upop NV
duties in May, 1898, till Col. Vance
left, in May, 1899, there was no reason
for anybody to believe or suspect any
wrong doing; everything worked
smoothly, with the exception of one
man ; that was QUITS. He was ALWAYS
creating trouble of some kind in every
way that he possibly could he wanted
to run everything he always disliked
me, and, for several reasons, when the
board OF control saw fit to displace him
as shipping clerk, l was put in his
place this, ] have been reliably in
formed, nearly killed him. He had q
talk at the time with some Of the en-
ployes about me, said hat | was no
gentleman, etc., and that he would
have rather had his salary reduced
$25 thar to have lost his place as ship
ping clerk, getting, as | am told, so
much 8 case on certain brands OF
whiskey to ship them. All OF This
passed on till in January, 1899, when
the Legislature met there had to be
one member OF the board of control
felected to succeed now Reconnaissance
Douthit, then a member OF the State
board Of control. His opponent was
Hon. T. G. Robinson of Pickens, s. C.,
and from what l had seen of Mr..
Robinson | thought him the right
| went to work for Robinson 4; did ali
that was in my power for him he was
elected this added fuel to fire with
QUITS and others. In May of this ear
Douthit was elected Commissioners
and Ouzts was as neal heaven as he
wanted to be he said that he would
have a say when Douthit got In this
he has had, in the way Of stealing, etc,
de at once set about TO run the build.
ing-all OF the departments. found
that he was (every time my back was
turned) going through my desk, look.
ing at my private papers, trying &c
I give orders to my hands, etc. l told
my truck hands to tell me when thew
caught him In my desk looking over
my papers, books, etc. this thew aid
on many occasions. at last, a few
months ago, MIR. II. S. Thomas, one OF
my hands at that time, reported to me
that QUITS had been going through
everything. l Immediately went to
the commissioners Office and told
4 QUITS tina II | yer caught him In nv
4 office again-a Cd d-n thieyine
scoundrel- examining my private
! papers, l would shoot the TOP of his
head off. told him then and there
all knew how, and the language could
not be mistaken. l was so rough with
him Capt. Webb came down from uu
stairs and asked me to stop l told him
would stop as soon as QUITS decided
whether or not he vas going to fight,
wished, and, although he weighs
about 275 pounds and 1 weigh about lac
pounds, the %cowardly cur didn't dare
! open his mouth.
All OF these dates hat he has given
In the papers were stolen from our of.
hces, but a large majority of them are
lies. He says | was drunk and disor.
derby. Well, l suppose he must have
peer a coward and badly scared when
cursed him for all the low -
IS that | could, and told him that
he was o thief.
QUITS has taken all OF the mistakes
OF the dlspensary and laid them at nv
door; this, he knows, Is a low, coward
~ act. am free to admit that [ do
make mistakes, the daily shipments
running from 500 to 1900 cases, but
there are dozens of times when the
goods are put in the wrong stack, and
very often marked wrong at the wires:
Ihis 10 caused ina great measure by
puSti2g men to mark the cases,
and this Is in asgfassS measure due to the
fact'that QUITS was too 3 e & his
duty. Mr.. Collins, at the last of each
month ever since l have been con
nected with the State ~dispensary, had
to help QUITS with or straighten his
books. This would make 1t necessary
Tor the superintendent to put anew
man to do the marking then, of
course, the errors would be heard from
oil over the State. l have nothing
Whatever to do with the marking, and
therefore am not responsible for errors
there.
Letters from dispensers and others
are given, and Black continues as fol-
lows:
"This 10 only some as this internal
liar knows. Ihaye sent as many as Eve
cases marked wrong back to the wires
to be remarked at one time. 1 admit,
as | said before, that 1 make mistakes,
and believe every man does this, how
ever, TO not stealing. When L make a
mistake 1t is my duty to correct IT,
which 4 have always done; when O man