The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-10-25

1 kis siews pretty effectively.
a Interesting chapter 10 tae
isssry of The dispensary and, as will
seea, blingsl lout eomeaof the points
ne managsment Of the great moral
siinssisutisn. ''s3
Black comes from Walterboro
~ S really : good man. He was at
sss, sssse tine inteDdans Of the town OF
.lterboro
SHIPPING CLERK BLACKS
REPLY
ss Here iiss vhat he has to say:
Since ex. Bookkeeper Onzts has fnish.
a kis book 81 revelations / wish to call
Eshes asse11ioD of the public TO the fol-
esine ffases have been connected
B B iii isi she State dispensary as chipping
sr sines May. 1898 I served
"a snce. the commissioner,
sssli Nay Of the present year From
s6e 4ime entered upon my duties in
3lsy 1885. TIL Col Vance left, IN
1899 there uas no reason for
ssssybody 10 believe OF suspect any
yl sylro1g dong J; ssefyfhipg worked
smoothly With the exception Of one
lnaa that Nan was Onsts BE was
aays creating trouble Of some kind
5a every 1sy that be possibly could
1anted 10 run everything he
siiWsys disliked me aud for several
ssiessons ~ hen The board Of control
Ia 70 displaos him as shipping
sadexk sss pus in his place This, /
i,ave bsen, reliably informed. nearly
him. He had . talk at the time
iiEllit siEliith some OF the employees about me !;
ssid uss 40 gentleman. esc.. and that
lse nouid have rather had his salary
reduced 25 than 70 have lost bis place
al chipping clerk. getting, as | an
sold % much cese on certain brands
A, ahiskey 60 ship them. all Of this
,passed On tili ia January, 1898, when
legislature met There had to be
member of the board Of control elected
:ss6 succeed peH ex- Commissioner Doa-
'tkit. then member of the State board
o control His opponent vas the
Hon. G. Robinson, of Pickens. and
from what had seen of Mr. Robinson
thought him the right man and 3
better man than Doutbit I wens to
1ork for Robinson did ali that was
il my power for him. He vas elected
This added fuel to Ere With Oazss aud
Others In May. Of this year, Douthis
mas elected commissioner aud Oczss
wa as near heaven as be vented to be.
He said that he would have say when
gDoushis go. IN This be has bad IN
Nthe way Of stealing, etc.
OMNlPOTENT OCZrs.
He at once set abou. to run The
:baildiog-an of the departments l
found that be was (eyery time my back
mas :urned) going through my desk
looking at nay private papers, trying to
give orders to my hands. eso. told
my truck hends to tell me when they
caught hiu in my desk looking over
my papers. books, etc. THIS they did
On many occasions At last. few
months ago, Mr H s. Thomas. one
of my hands at that time, reported to
me that QUITS tad been going through
everything. l Immediately vent to
the commissioner's Office and told Oats
that If I ever caught him 10 my Office
again examining my private papers
Cd Sd-o thieving scoandrel-l
!, would shsos the top Of bis-head of
told him thea aod there all | kuew
how. .nd tue language could not bs
mistaken. I vas so rough With bin
Capt Webb came down from ap-stairs
.nd asked me to stop I told him l
would as soon aa Ooz,s decided whether
OF not be VAS going to fight. | offered
to 6gbt him 10 soy way be wished aud.
although be weighs about 275 pounds
aud l weigh about 14o pounds. the
eosardly cur didu's dare open his
mouth. ALI of these dates that be has
given 10 the papers we're stolen from
oar Offices, but large majority of them
are lies he says | vas druok and
di,osderly. Well. / suppose be must
have been such coward aud so badly
scared wheo I cursed him for all the
low things that l could, and told him
that be vas thief.
Ousss has taken all of the mistakes
Of the dispensary and laid them at my
door. This he knows is low. coward.
u act. I am free to admit that do
make mistakes ia the daily shipments
running from Eve hundred to fifteen
huudred cases. on, there are dezeos O.
simes when the goods are put 10 the
wrong stack and very often marked
wrong at the wires. This is caused io
. great measure by putting new mer
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