The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-10-25

penSary revelations concludes with
the recapitulation he gives below. Mr..
QUITS winds up by calling on the gov
ernor to do something which he has
no more power to interfere with than
Mr.. QUITS himself, SO the lawyers say
Mr.. QUITS stops to catch his breath
| after he has SO extensively "blOWcd of
his month"; but he says he has much
ammunition left for shcllng the enemy
| if they leave the trenches ard try to
return his preliminary shclling. Here
| is his conclusion:
a good hunter never gets out of am
munitiOn. III time OF war it is not wise
to shoot all your bullets, even ut IN
enemy on the run. do not intend to
give the dispcnsary cOnspirators Il
| chance to work the persecution dodge
on, the public and try and obtain the
public sympathy, divcrting public at
tcntiOn from the serious charges have
made. | have said enough for the
pesent and will suspend my ''revcla-
tiOns." | h6ve plenty more ammuni-
ton. In fact, | have not fired my
heaviest guns. There is much more |
can say which would prove as inter
esting. as what | have already said.
against the dispensary conspirators
and have furnished proof. 1t is up to
them and can wait on them. If they
| remain silent they plead guilty; if they
| answer will further prove what have
already charged and put some new
burdens on their shoulders. Lam ready
for them: first come, first served
Now, let me briefly review what |
have said at length, so as to impress
the salient features upon the public
mind, for the public can remedy the
evils and abuses have pointed ont.
have charged that there is con-
| spiracy to get control Of the dispensary
asa political and money making ma
chine. The cOnspirators are bound to-
gether by self interest. Their plans
performances. They play for high
stakes and are not at a1l scrupulnus as.
to their methods. Their only excuse
for dismissing me was obtained by
dOctoring the minutes of tho board.
This is a small matter for such honor
able gentlemen. The surreptitious
addition Of few words to resolution
to blackmail TO manufacture evidence
to suit their purposes. 1t is but Il
short step from the lies l have con
victed two members Of the board
OF telling me to perjury. They solemn
ly promised me Il hearing. The other
member OF this wcllassOrted trio. said
he did not know how he would vote on
L I'll y,
and he took precious good care not to
let me have q. hearing. Pshaw, any
sensible man who has Kept np 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
charged, therefore VIC must be gotten
rid OF. have shown was guiltless Of
any wrong, and that Mr.. Douthit was
never given any chance to defend him
self.
ask tho public to contrast our treat
ment with that accorded Webb, Black,
Bryant and Young by tho ajority fac
ton. 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 trumpcd-
up charges to which they finally resort
ed.
Webb drinks ON the premises, vio-
lating special order of the board
placardel throughout the building.
Black keeps him company in disrc-
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
States property, as / have shown
Vance and Bryan did. Haselden said
Bryant was a cd d-n thief and
scoundrel,' and boasted that he could
put him i'll the penitentiary. IT he had
any such power over me or DOuthlt,
would he rot haze ::ssa It? Why this
1enSle;ncy S; to Bryant9 All, Bryant is
not anger Robinson to the point of not
voting with him. but he bagged both;
he made Robinson believe it necessary
for him to vote as Haselden directed to
save Bryant's scalp, and he made Bry-
ant believe he could not escape the
yawning gates OF the peritentiary un-
less he swore against Douthit and my
us.
have not only charged Black with
drunkness, but l have proved his utter
incompetence beyond the shadow Of
doubt. He made scores of errors which
would have cost the State or the dis
penscrs heavily had they not been dis
covered. ALI of his errors may not have
been caught. Had i made one hum
drcth OF his errors, what would the
majority of the board have done to me9
But Black works IN with them, he is
ono of them, and SO they do not care
how incompetent he is nor how much
his mistakes may rob the State or the
dispensers. Blacks pull is shown by
the fact that, though Douthit time and
again reported him to Miles for drunk
enness, Miles did not check his drink
ing, much less suspend him. The
partiality they show their henchmcn is
| further instanced by the way Elmoro
Young's ignorance and Incompetence
for the position of receiving clerk are
overlooked. But he is Miles nephew,
and therefore privileged to do MS he
and annoy men working in the dispen-
sary, throwing water on them and nnd-
ding them, they must smile and look
| pleased at receiving such marks of at
tention from the nephew Of the chair
man, otherwise the chairman may do ae