The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-10-25
THE REVELATIONS OF QUITS
Sixth and Last Chapter Of the Dis.
pensary Exposure.

Ex-Bookkeeper QUITS book OF dis
pensaly 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 "Dlowed OIL
his month"; but he says he has much
ammunition left for shelling the enemy
if they leave the trenches and try to
return his preliminary shelllng. Here
is his conclusion:
A good hunter never gets out OF am
munition. In time of Wal it is not wise
to shoot all your bullets, even at an
enemy on the run. do not intend to
give the dispens;lry consplrators Il
chance to work the persecution dodge
on the public and try and obtain the
public sympathy, diverting public at
tention from the serious charges have
made. I have said enough for the
pesent and will suspend my 'revela-
tions.n | have plenty more ammunl-
ton. In fact, I have not fired my
heaviest guns. There is much more |
can say which would prove as inter
esting as what | have already said.
But | have made serious charges
against the dispensary conspirators
and have furnished proof. It's up to
them and | can wait on them. II they
remain silent they plead guilty; if they
answer will further prove what have
IL oh
burdens on their shoulders. lamready
for them; first come, first served.
Now, let me briefly review what l
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 out. :.
have charged that there, is con-
spiracy to get control Of the dlspensary
as a political and money making ma
chine The cOnspirators are bound to-
gether by self interest. Their plans
and purposes can be judged by their
performances. They play for high
stakes and are not at all scrupulous as
to their methods. Their only. excuse
for dismissing me was obtained by
doctoring the minutes OF the board.
This is q small matter for such honor
able gentlemen. The surreptitious
addition of q few words to resolution
was nothing to men who would resort
to blackmail to manufacture evidence
to suit their purposes. Tt IS but a
short step from the lies have. con,
victed two members OF the board
OF telling me to perjury. They solemn
ly promised me a hearing. The other
member of this well-assorted trio, said
he did not know how he would vote on
my case until after had hearing,
and he took precious good care not to
let me have hearing. Pshaw,. any
sensible man who has kept up with the
matter knows that before the board
met the majority faction had fully de-
termincd to depose Commissioner
Douthit and myself by hook or crook.
We were not puppets who would bow
down to them; neither would we turn
blind eyes to their questionable pro
ceedings and violations OF the law with
whose administration they were
charged, therefore we must be gotten
rid of. have shown | was guiltless OF
any wrong, and that Mr.. Douthlt was
never given any chance to defend hlm-
self.
| ask the public to contrast our treat
ment with that accorded Webb. Black,
Bryant and Young by the majority fac
ton. Had we been guilty OF any OF the
things they we're 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
Webb drinks on the premises. vio,,
lating a special order of the board
placarded 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 | have shown
Vance and Bryan did. Haselden said
BRYANT was Il CD t-n thief and
scoundrel," and boasted that he could
put him in the penitentiary. IT he had
any such power over me or l1outhl!,
would he not have used it, Why this
leniency to Bryant. All, Bryant IS
Robinson's friend and Haselden could
not anger Robinson to the point OF 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, and he made Bry-
ant believe he could not escape the
yawning gates OF the penitcntiary un-
less he swore against D0uthit and my
self and made it "hot as he could for
US. =,
have not only charged Black with
drunkness, but | 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 All fhis errors may not have
been caught. Had made one, hun
dreth of his errors, what would the
majority OF the board have done to me.
But Black works i'll with them, he Is
one 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, Niles did not check his drink
ing, much less suspend him. Inc
partiality they show their henchmcn IS