The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1899-10-25

} me, and, for several reasons, when tn
! board of control saw fit to displace hin
as shipping clerk, l was put in h
place; this, ] have been reliably IL
formed, nearly killed him. He had
talk at the time with some OF the en-
ployes about me, said that l was n
gentleman, ETC., and that he woul
1926 than to have lost his place as ship
ping clerk, getting, as 1 am told, s
much case on certain brands @
whiskey to ship them. All OF thi
passed on till in January, 1899, whel
the Legislature met there had to bt
one member OF the board Of contro
elected to succeed now XCommissione
Douthit, then member of the Stat
board OF control. His opponent wa
Hon. T. @. Robinson of Pickens, S. G.
and from what | had seen OF Mr.
Robinson l thought him the righ
man, and a better man than Douthit
| went to work for Robinson F.; did al
that was In my power for him he wa,
elected; this added fuel to fire with
QUITS and others. In May of this year
Douthit was elected commissioner
and QUITS was as near heaven as he
wanted to be; he said that he would
have say when Douthit got In !; this
he has had, in the way of stealing, etc.
He 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 to
give orders to my hands, etc. l told
my truck hands to tell me when they
caught him In my desk looking over
my papers, books, etc.; this they did
on many occasions. AT last, few
months ago, Mr.. 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
QUITS that II / ever caught him in my
Office again-a Cd d-n thieving
scoundrel- examining my private
papers, | would shoot the top of his
head off, told him then and there
all knew how, and the language could
not be mistaken. | was 80 rough with
him Capt. Webb came down from up
L would stop as soon as QUITS decided
whether or not be was going to fight.
offered to fight him in any way he
wished. and, although he weighs
about 275 pounds and l weigh about 14O
pounds, the cOwardly cur didn't dare
open his mouth.
All OF these dates that he has given
In the papers were stolen from our of
noes, but large majority Of them are
lies. He says was drunk and disor-
aerly. Well, suppose he must have
oeen coward and badly scared when
cursed him for all the low --
- that | could, and told him that
he was a thief.
QUITS has taken all OF the mistakes
OF The dispensary and laid them at my
aoor tnis, ne Knows, is d io~, coward
ly act. | am free to admit that [ do
make mistakes, the daily shipments
running from SOC 20 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:
this Is caused in u great measure by
putting new men to mark the cases,
ana this ls In great measure due to the
fact that QUITS was too lazy to do his
duty. Mr.. Collins, at the last of each
month ever since | have been con-
nected with the State dispensary, had
to help QUITS with or straighten his
books. This would make it necessary
Tor the superintenden. to put q new
man TO do the marking then, OF
course, the errors would be heard from
oil over the State. [ 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 rs fol-
lows:
This is only some as this Internal
llar knows. | have sent as many as five
cases marked wrong back to the wires
to be remarked at one time. | admit,
as said before, that l mako mistakes,
and believe every man does this, how
ever, is not stealing. Wnen | make a
mistake 1t Is my Guty to correct it,
which have always done; when u man
steals he should not be allowed to 90
at large like this fellow QUITS, but the
penitentiary Is the proper place for
such criminals"
Statements from Capt. sc. Webb
and Mr.. nj. 81. Mobley are printed to
show that QUITS also made mistakes,
and then Black goes on to say tnat
QUITS has on several occasions sent
cases OF whiskey from the building
this he might say was sent to him, and
no doubt some Of it was, but too much
went away. There is now locked up In
the desk that he worked at, at the State
dispensary, twenty or twenty-one bot.
Ties OF Whlskey-a regular "blind IT,
GER" He is mean enough to say some
thing about Mr.. Earhardt getting a lit.
tie over his regular wages in the ab-
sence OF superintendent, when. must
say he has on all occasions made, when
left In charge OF the bottling depart
ment, as good a superintendent as ever
saw the building; still QUITS goes North,
visits whisky men, and stays three
weeks and on his return draws his re-
gular salary and Mr.. Collins, who took
ais place, | am informed, only received
$500 for doing QUITS work for three
weeks. Why did he visit for three
weoks whiskey men at the Northp Who
paid for the trip? or course, we all
have an idea. He %, too, tn all of
the members, though that he
only mentions in number, have
relatives In the III, rensary. Suppose
that they have, If they are competent
and honest, whose business Is it but
theirs ? The fact of the matter is,
QUITS has nephew there himself and
while he didn't have the power to put
him there it was his influence.
One OF the most cowardly things that
l ever heard OF was whom he tried to
stab Mr.. Miles In the back by slapping
at Mr.. e. e. Young In the newspaper.
Mr.. Young is an orphan boy, working
hard to support his mother and aunt,
everybody likes him In the building,
he is as true as at. el, the right kind OF
blood runs through his veins, he Is
| hOnest and uDriDht In overy poonoot