The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-10-18

board You voted unanimously With the
rest of the members to abolish shem
Mr.. Miles alone reserved the right to
change his vote }; you did 0ot, but you
remarked wheu Mr.. Miles reserved this
right With halo of beneGttiug glory
overshadowiog your face. ''ie We 6no
we have MADE mistake We can
change If it was right a year ago
to abolish them. pray Why not now :?
Besides these three cousin liquor
drummers, aud before them, j Dudley
Haselden had bis brosher-in-law elected
one Of the inspectors. who held the job
several months, resigned and wens
back to college. After this, MIR. j, c,
Moody. another cousin from Marion
County. was given the inspectors JOB.
He is std connected with the dispen-
sary, and he, with Mobiey, one of the
bookkeepers to the State board. did
most of the work the Haseldeu contra.
band committee was appointed TO do,
but still the committee gets the 81 per
day and mileage just the same. have
gone to Toe trouble to prepare CON,
plete list os all merchandise. which is
whiskey, sold the two years Col. Vance
was commissioner. and | fad during
Col. Vance's first year, while Haselden
was not member of the board, there
was sold as entered on the petty cash
book, S25l,O0 Tee next year, under
Haseldea's administration as chair
mao, there was sold. as entered CO
petty cash book, 1888 sc Worth, nearly
fou times more than when Haseideo
vas not oo The board, and still be tried
to stop it. Haselden on July 10, 1898,
while you we're chairman, you bought
coutrabaud whiskey to the tune OF
$500, and yet you tried to stop it
Agaip, November 10. 1898, you
bought consraband, I. W Harper whis'
key and champagne to the amount OF
Sl9.41, paying for both at the end OF
the week after you had drawn your
pay, and paying for it less the toWD
aud county profits. Then again, after
the adjournment Of the Legislature,
you 'elepboaed to the State disoensary
10 have q case of Lapahan's AAAA
monongahela rye sent to you at the
Columbia hotel tc give your friends
among the legislators. and it not being
Sent to you because Col Vance was not
then at the building you had to get
case from Dispenser Cartledge and you
paid the State dispeusary for it, less
town aud county profits. aud ano'he'
had to be given Cartledge without
charging it to him to take the place o'
the one you got from nim and paid fos
at the State dispeosary, the towa and
county losing $3.50 profit by this ope
ration. And this is the way you stop
ped it +?
When Hon. William Jeoninss
Bryan was at Due West Haselden aud
Coope: were in Columbia, a committee
oa building the new story on the
present dispeOsary. They both went
to Due West aud Haselden while there
told the county treasurer of Green vile
county that he. Haseldeu. would be
elected chairman Of the State board Of
control, aud 1t would Just suit him ; he
could leave home about night. after
attending to whole days work OF
the farm, and come to Columbia and
get pay for that day, and when be Weni
home his train LETT early 10 the norn
iog and he could get home in time fol-
breakfast and get pay for that day
and be at home looking after his farm
This arrangement enabled him to get q
whole weeks pay for attending to the
daties as chairman of the board and be
at home TWO days out OF six. attending
to his private business, and yet be paic
for services not rendered here. You
said you lived long ways aud your
mileage was S cents, and you could
make enough out of that to pay your
expenses
J. Dudley Hsselden betskes himself
and bookkeeper to Charleston to gel
afidavits from dispensers there sbou
the conduct Of the management of the
dispeussries in Columbia Why doD''
be commence nearer home, and get afi
davits from dispensers at Dillon and
Marion as to Why they order Cape May
and Golden Grain and other whiskies
which are sold BY houses his various
cousin liquor drummers represent
There is resolution of the board o'
loug standing forbiddiog whlskey
drummers or their houses from trying
to induce dispensers to order goods sold
by them, aud it would be we'll for the
board to investigate this matter aud See
if the resolution has been broken ;
apply the remedy prescribed. stop buy
Jog from such houses which violate it,
then these violators would have to gel
other houses. D. A. G.. Ouz,s