The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1899-10-26
THE WAR Is Still GOING ON.
THE LAST EPIsrLE OF DANIEL.
X QUITS Reviews His Revelations
and Asks the Governor to Act on
Them-Ae Has q Quantity of Am
munitiOn in Reserve.

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Them-Ae Has q Quantity of Am
munitiOn in Reserve.
TO the State Board of Control:
A good hunter never gets out OF am
munition. In time of war 1t Ia not
wise to shout all your bullets, even at
an enemy on the run. do not intend
to give the dispensary conspirators q
chance to work the persecution dodge
on the public and try and obtain the
public sympathy, divorting public at.
tention from the serious charges
have made. I have said enough for
the present and will suspend my Gre
velations.' I have plenty more am
munition. In fact, have not fired my
heaviest guns. There is much more
ing as what l have already said. But
] have made serious charges against
the dispensary conspirators and have
furnished proof. 1t is up to them and
I can wait on them. If they remaip
silent they plead guilty; II they, an
swer, will further prove what | have
already charged and put some new
burdens on their shoulders. / am
ready for them; first come, first
served.
Now, let me briefly review what
have said at length, 80 as to impress the
salient features upon the public 10 nd,
for the public can remedy the evils and
abuses [ have pointed out.
have charged that there Ia q con-
spiracy to get control of the dispensary
as a political and money. making ma
chine. The conspirators are bound
together by self-interest. Their plans
and purposes can be judged by their
performances. They play for high
stakes and are not all scrupulous as to
their methods. Their only excuse for
dismissing me was obtained by doctor
ing the minutes of the board. That is
a small matter for such honorable
gentlemen. The surreptitlous addi-
tiOn Of few words to q resolution was
nothing to men who would resort to
blackmail to manufacture evidence to
suit their purposes. It Is but short
two members of the board of telling
me- to perjury. They solemnly pro.
missed me hearing. The other mem
ber of this well-assorted trio said he
did not know how he would vote on my
case until after I had hearing, and
ne tuUk precious gnuu care nuI ~ ieb
me have a hearing. Pshaw, any sensi-
| BILE man who has kept up with the
matter knows that before the board
met the majority faction had fully de-
| termined to depose Commissioner
Douthit and myself by hook or crook.
We were not puppets, who would bow
blind eyes to their questionable pro-
ceedings and violations of the law with
whose administration they were charg-
ed, therefore we must be gotten rid Of.
l have shown L was guiltless of any
wrong, and that Mr.. Douthit was
never given any chance to defend him.
self.
ask the public to contrast our treat
| ment with that accorded Webb, Black,
Bryant and Young by the majority fac
tion. Had we been guilty Of any OF
the things they were guilty OF, how
quickly they would have been used as
the basis of our removal instead Of the
trumped.up charges to which they
finally resorted.
Webb drinks on the premises, violat-
ing special order OF the board, pla-
carded throughout the building.
Black keeps him company in disre-
garding that rule, and gets drunk and
disorderly. But they are henchmen
of the majority faction, and rules of
the board do not apply to such. They
are privileged to violate the boards
rules and even to help themselves to
the States property as I have shown
Vance and Bryant did. Haselden said
Bryant was a ed id thief and
scoundrel" and boasted that he could
put him in the penitentiary. II he
had any such power over me or Douth-
it, would he not have used it ? Why
this leniency to Bryant? All, Bryant
is Robirson's friend and Haselden
could not anger Robinson to the point
tf not voting with him. But he bagged
both he made Robinson believe 1t
necessary for him to vote as Haselden
directed to save Bryant's scalp, aud he
made Bryant believe he could not
escape tie yawning gates OF the peni-
tentiary unless he swOre against Dout-
hit and myself and made 1t "hot as he
could" for US.
I have not only charged Black with
drunkenness, but l have proved his
utter incompetence beyond the shadow
of a doubt. He made scores Of errors
which would have cost the State OF
the dispensers heavily, had they not
may not have been caught. Had
made one hundredth of his errors
what would the majority OF the boart
have done to mep But Black work!
in with them, he is one of them, anG
so they do.not care how Incompetent he
is nor how much OF bis mistakes may
rob the State or the dispensers. Black't
pull is shown by the fact that, though
Douthit time and again reported him
to Miles for drunkenness, Miles did not
check his drinking, much less suspend
him. The partiality they show their
henchmen is further instanced by the
way Elmore Young's ignorance and In
competence for the position of receiv
ing clerk are overlooked. But he IL
! Miles's nephew, and therefore privl
legged to do as be pleases. And wher
he pleases to worry and annoy mer
working in the dispensary, throwing
water on them and padding them
they must smile and look pleased al
receiving such marks OF attention
from the nephew Of the chairman
otherwise the chairman may do as he
did to one who objected to such plea
santries, whom he vilely cursed and
. whose heart he threatened to cut out