Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-10-19
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HIS MOUTH .DlsPENsARy AS STATES
AyGEAH STABLES THREE CHARTERS. 81
The WHOLE LAYOUT LIARS and
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Thieves OF the First Water--He Tells Of Sup.
posed Private Conversations. ,.E%l
CHAPTER ONE,

CHAPTER ONE.
Ex-Bookkoepor D. A. g. QUITS, of the
State Disponsary has commenced his
threatened revelations. The first in.
stallment was published on October 18th
and tho public is given to understand
that thero viii bo moro to follow BY
way of Introduction Mr. QUITS says that
during his long connection with the dis.
pensary he has observed q number Of
things that he knew to. DO wrong. He
reported those things as he found thom
out to members Of tho Board of Control.
Thoy, however,, did not take action, and
considering that hs had done his duty
he did not SEQ fit to carry tho matter any
further He says that on tho night OF
tho goth or 2lst of September II. G.
Robinson had told him that traps were
| being laid for Douthit. Robinson was
at tho time under tho influence of liquor.
QUITS goes ON to say that Chairman
Miles IL ")iar by his own confession" !"
having once said that ho had told more
| lies since ho became member OF tic
State Board than ho had told in all his
life before. Ho goes on to say that
Miles had givon tho position of roceiv-
ing clerk TO his nephew, f. Elmorc
Young, of Clinton, a young man who
docs not even know tho multiplication
table. Furthermore, on tho occasion
whom visiting Congressman wore entor-
tanned in Columbia, Miles, in violation
of the law, rotailod from tho disponsary
S1O3.S5 worth of champagne, wine, rum
and brandy, charging for it tho price
that is asked Of disponsarios rather than
of consumers. He mentions several
othcr alleged shortcomings and promises
to give big sensations later on. Thoro
is nothing in tho first installmont, how
ever, that is calculated to raiso much of
n row.
CHAPTER TWO.
COLUMBIA, S. c., October I'D. A.
e. QUITS has givon ont chapter two of
his statement. 1t deals with Chairman
Hasolden almost entirely, and QUITS says
there will be other chapters to follow
for several days. Ho starts ont by say
ing:
I'D. Saci & Sons, of Louisville, KY.
llrst had John II. CASTOR, ox-Acting
State Commissioner, as State striker.
striking tho board for orders for thom.
lie was paid for ono or two purposes,
and their regular drummer, Micklo, dis
charged CASTOR during tho meeting of
tho board. Castor told mo that ho i'm
mcdiatcly left Micklc's room in tho Je-
romo hotel and won't to the board room
and called Mr.. Cooper, monbor of tho
State Board, out, and told him of his
treatment. Cooper went back into tho
board room and had tho board to coun-
tcrmand an order for twenty-five barrels
of whiskey which had been given to d,
Sachs & Sons.
"Tho next deal Sachs e. Sons or their
drummer mado with local strikers was
with young Evans, n cousin of j. Dudley
liaselden, then chairman of tho board.
tbs young man was scarcely 81 year old
and had mover sold whskoy before and
'.nows just about as much about travel
ing for a wholesale house as tho average
country youth, and they know nothing
about trado and commerce. IIo could
never have gotten q Job if hc had not
been related to the chairman. The
strength of his pull may be judged by
the amount of his and Gastons orders
which amount to SIT, ,5S0.0S. The amount
may be larger thaI this because all the
invoices may not havo been posted when
this amount was taken from tho books"
QUITS says liquors were ordered from
Sachs as needed Then he takes up
Friedman, Keller & Co., who fought tho
dispcnsary law and had an opposition
store and shows how they worked
through Matthies, of Charleston, and
then employed w. T.. Blue, another
cousin of IIascldcn. Mr. Blue succeeded
in getting some good orders and tho
amount of his pull and that of Matthics
with j. Dudley IIaseldcn, chairman, adj
vocating orders for him, amounts to
S10,110 in orders given.
After tho board passed resolutions
excluding local strikers, Blue was turned
down by Friedman, Keller & Co. and j.
HuhCJ IlRSClticll NCCluCu Un;lC JnClr
liquor was not as good as it was whilo
Blue was with them. At least he gave
up advocating purchasing from Fried
man, Keller q Co. and they have cotton
no moro orders SINCE
Just after tho death of Governor
Ellorbc and about tho time Boyd Evans
was leaving his Office drummer came
to Columbia to meeting of tho board
Sprinkler represented tho Reitlsvillo, N
G., Liquor company and was corraled at
the first meeting he attended by w. Boyd
Evans, who got job with him, and
upon Sprinllor's going before the board
with Evans and telling thom ho had en-
ploycd Evans to travel North and South
Carolina an order was given the Reids-
vile Liquor company. Thoy got such a
largo ordor that they had somo difficulty
in filling ibid not I'll it in time to get
another at the ncxt board mceting-but
have been given orders at cvery meeting
since. If Evans evor travelled further
for them than from Marion here to Co.
lumbia it has mover been hoard of. Boyd
Evans's pull amounts to $S,8G0OS in
orders given, besides the September pur-
chascs. So much for taking caro- of