The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1899-11-02
Haselden as public Of.

h16 connection with the board OF con.
troll hundreds OF bottles of ell kinds of
liquors and wines and lager beer by
the barrel have been shipped to Sellers
to him by various liquor houses for his
own personal use. In every instance
the freight is prepaid and he has moth
Ing to do but take 1t out. or course 1t
is q physical impossibility to drink it
all himself, while he dOes his level
best to do 80, and the balance 10 dis
tributed about free, where it will do
the most good. I am told that he has
q room In his house fixed up for the
the display OF his goods and has large
bottles on which appear, In large gilt
letters, such labels as the following
"Haselden's Night Oap." Haselden's
| Private Stock" HRselden's Dew
liquor houses and 10 sent to him abso.
lutely free. Many young mon have been
offered liquor In his house and often
come away in all stages of intoxication
and l, myself, have seen Older men,
men with families, come from his house
as drunk as the prOverbial fiddler's
bitch. The books Of the express COM
pany at Sellers will show the many
shlpments. The influence Of q free bar
In that community is worse than q dis.
pensary or a blind tiger. All
the above facts and many more similar
can bs substantiated by record and un-
impeaohed testimony. You might also
inquire who was it-Haselden or
Cooper-who had the box Of samples
shipped to Spartanburg for certain
candidate during the last State pri.
mary and about which 80 much was
said at the time.
The second is from another town in
Marion under date of October 18, 1899,
and ts as follows:
| Mr.. ID. A. G. Ouzts-Dear Sir: The
people OF this county have read with
much interest your chapter on the
perhaps surpriee and shock to other
sections OF the State only creates q
smile down here, for the people have
long been talking that some people
were feathering their nests. In ad-
dltlon to the many relatives of Mr.,
daselden whom you have mentioned
as getting Office under him, you might
mention another cousin by marriage,
L. L.. Bass, dispenser at this place. AT
the time Gov. McSweeney took Office,
Q large part OF the constabulary of the
state nailed from this county. Through
whose influence they were appointed
do not know. Perhaps you do. They
were Chief w. w. Sellers, Division
Chief John G. Watson, Privatee J. Rich
Hayes, - Game j. r.. Dosier, being
near neighbors OF Mr.. Haselden.
At the time Mr.. Haselden became o
member OF the board of control he
owned Q judgment against him of be-
tween 81, 900 and $500. That judg
ment has been paid. 1t has been re
ported for months that packages O
elden from various liquor houses, o
the very fanciest kind put up in bot
ties marked Haselden's Best" ," Has
elden's Pride," etc. It has alsotbeen re
ported that MIR. Haselden has q collee,
record equal to that Of his dispensary
record.
Messrs. Mobley and Webb join ir
did not work hard and that I made
L., Mr.. Mobley is one Of the bookkeepers
| tn the SIa.,S, hoard Of control. His
home is in Winll shsHr" ssHr" !apl he goes
there nearly every Saturday evening,
losing time from his work. SometImee
he does not return until Monday even-
tng. or Tuesday morning. Captain
Webb also pays visits to his homo in
Charleston. When here he docs not
hurt himself with work. He and Mob.
Icy often get behind with their work,
and then an inspector 10 taken off the
road to help them. This soft snap
usually falls to Inspector Moody, one
OF Mr.. Haselden's cousins.
He hes no regular work in the State
dtspensary, but heips MesBrs. Webn
and Mobley. They 60 to work at O.
M, and leave at p. M, for dinner,
often staying from one and half to
two and half houre. On October 20
Capt. Webb went to dinner at l D. M,
and returned at 4:30 p. m. Mr.. Mood y
seems really afraid they will catch up,
or, at least, | suppose he has euch q
fear, for l and others have seen him
enjoying quiet nap In the dlspenoary
Ia the afternoon. But as he 10 Mr.,
Haselden's cousin he can sleep on his
job. His maps come high, for the State
pays him 500 o month.
| Mr.. Mobley 3alks of mistakes, Here
ls one In which he figured. 1t is his
duty to furnish inspectors the state
ments they use In checking up dispen,
sers' accounts. He furnished one to an
inspector to check up the Allendale
dispenser, bat charged against that
dispenser about 5000 worth of liouo,
which had been sent to the Abbeyille
diepensary. Naturally the Allendale
dispenser was scared nearly to death
for he seemed to be badly In tho hole
He refused to accept any such inspec
tion and another trip had to be made
The State lost the expense of the extrs
trip to Allendale, besides the inspec
tors time.
All the invoices 1 made out for the
dispensers were verified by some one
In the board Of control office. The
reason Tor having such q verificatiOr
was to detect errors and correct them
II In the rush of business I made mis-
mistakes the notification by them wa.
do this. Such errors, therefore. sre a.
much, III not moro, theirs than mine.
am willing to compare my record fol
correctness with any of them in the
dispensary. and am willing. to 20 tc
the books for my proof. But this has
no bearing on my case for was moi
fired for incompetency, but was done
up as I" as o peraOnal cnurteau y To Mr