The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-10-18
QUITS Denounces Board OF Control.

G. QUITS has given to the public his
first installment of dispcnsary rcvcla-
tiOns, containing about 10000 words.
He addresses himself "tO the State
Board of Control AS Il preface he
says:
"As have by vote of a majority of
your members been denied the hearing
to which had q right in which had
been promised by your chairman, l
intend making my defense in the pub
lie prints. At the same time will 20
further and show the characters OF the
men by whom ! was so summarily de-
posed, and of their fellow conspirators.
1 am depOsed because | violated an
order of the Board of COntrol-an order
the board assert was modified to per-
init the very action which was alleged
as tho reason for my removal. | will
show how members of the board violate
the dispensary law and how employees
ut the dispensary, who are pets Of the
majority faction Of the board, violate
the boards orders and are not even re-
primanded for their misconduct. AS
the majority faction seems anxious to
wash dirty linen, | will first prove that
mine is clean. and then give them some
dirty linen OF their own to Clean"
Then he proceeds to argue that this
action i'll selling contraband liquor,
while against resolution of the board,
had been in reality made null by sub
scQuent action, and was so considered
by at least two members of the board.
"Thc majority faction, which is plot
ting to get absolute control of the dis
pensary, filling all positions with its
henchman, had decided to remove all
employees who were not tsubservient to
it. They did not intend to fully and
fairly investigate the conduct Of such
employees, but preferred ono sided
testimony. At the September meeting
Williams were appointed to invcsti-
gate the contrabahd room and its ac-
counts. Mr.. Haselden wanted Mr..
Williams to meet him in Columbia OH
Wednesday following the adjournment
of the September meeting of the board.
Mr.. Williams said he had important
engagements up to aud including
Haselden in Columbia any day after
Wednesday. They parted with the
understanding that Mr.. Haselden was
to notif.7 Mr.. Williams when to come
to Columbia to go to work on the in
vestigation, which he never did, but
/ returned to Columbia before Wednes-
day and gave to the newspapers a
statement that he was going to Harris
Springs. Mr.. Williams saw that state
wait for q notification when to come to
Columbia. The next thing he saw was
q statement that he had been supplanted
Oh the committee by AR. Robinson,
without notice to him.
"1t was then two of q kind and MI.
Haselden was at liberty to proceed with
his one-sided Investigation. Neither l
explanation of the charges cOncocted
bV the one sided DrOcPSs
'On the night of the Goth or 21st of
September, r.. e. Robinson, who had
lo0sened his tongue with liquor, told
me III front of Higgins store, OH Main
street, that Haselden had set a trap for
Douthit and had caught him in it.
After asking him several times what
the trap was, he said it was in selling
contraband liquor at the State dispen-
sary and not having it entered upon
by the resolutions Of the board at the
last board meeting Was the trap the
addition of the words, through the
regular chennels9' Probably at the
time Of that conversation Mr.. Pobin-
son did not know that Chief Constable
Haselden wanted my scalp also and,
therefore, spoke as a strong friend,
cially since 1896. l and my relatives
worked for and carried EdgeGeld coun-
ty for him as the candidate for State
Superintendent of Education. But
when Boss Haselden popped tho whip
over his back he forgot his friendship
and sense of obligations to ME, and
also forgot his statement to me after
that bottle OF gin, that he did not see
how could have done otherwise than
obey the instru lions Of the commits
siOner.
81 have shown that there was no just
cause for my suspension. But ! was
not suspended for what did, though
that was alleged rs the canse. l was
suspended because a political clique
wanted me removed from the dispen-
sary. They are bound together by
community of interest, their predomi
nant feeling being IL thirst for revenge
and desire to get complete control of
the dispensary for use as a political
machine and more venal aims, which
can be understood from the charges
and specifications which will make.
When Haselden and Robinson, the in
bic they left the work OF conducting
the investigation as to the cOntraband,
which q committee wRs appointed to
do. to B0Okkeeper Mobley and Inspector
Moody and spent their time caucusing
with Chairman Miles and the conspira-
tors. A caucus was held in the office
OF State officer, and it was decided to
suspend me. without giving me any
notice or asking me for any explana-
ton OF the. charges against me. This
determination was talked around CO.
lumbia nearly nm hour before I was
notified of my suspensions; q friend of
mine heard it at tho upper end of Main
street and walked down town to tcle-
phone and told me that the gang had
fixed to make it hot for me and to do
me.
"The day. after my temporary sus-
pension Chairman Miles gave the news
papers an interview which contained a
lie and n slanderous insinuati0n, whose
absolute falsity he could have easily
informed himself of. He said: Il did
missionOr Douthit had heen loin0r fha