The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1899-10-25
THE WAR IS Still GOING ON.
THE LAST EPlsrLM OF DANIEL,

X QUITS Reviews His Revelation
and Asks tho Governor to Act OF
Them-He Has a Quantity of Am
munltion in Reserve.
To the State Board of Control:
good hunter never gets out OF am
munition. In time Of war 1T Ia no
wise to shout all your bullets, even a.
an enemy on the run. do not intenC
to give the dispensary conspirators 6
chance to work the persecution dodge
ON the public and try and obtain the
public sympathy, diyorting public at
tention from the serious charges |
nave made. | have said enough for
the present and will suspend my ere
VelSt1ons.' L have plenty more am
munttion. In fact, have not fred nv
heaviess guns. There is much more |
can say which would prove as interest
Ing as what [ have already said. But
nave made serious charges against
the dispensary conspirators and have
Iurn1shed proof. 1t is up to them and
can wait on them. IL they remaip
silent they plead guilty; If they an
swer, 1 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
nave said at length, 30 as to impress the
salient features upon the public m nd, +,
for the public can remedy the evils and
abuses [ have pointed out.
! have charged that there is a con-
sp1racy to get control OF the dispensary
as political and money making ma
chine. The consptratOrs 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
small matter for such honorable
gentlemen. The surreptitious addi-
t1on OF few words to q resolution was
nothing TO men who would resort to
blackmail to manufacture evidence to
suit their purposes. 1t Is but short
step from the lies l have convicted
two members OF the board of telling
me to perjury. They solemnly pro.
missed me hearing. Tho other mem
ber of this ll.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 sensi-
matter knows that before the board
met the majority faction had fully de-
termiped to deLose Commissioner
Douthit and myself by hook or crook.
we were not puppets, who would bow
down to them {; neither would we tIrn
blind eyes tc their questionable pro-
ceedings and violations o. the lev win
whose ad ministration they were charg-
ed, therefore we must be gotten rid Of.
l have shown [ was guiltless Of any
wrong, and that Mr.. Douthit was
never given any chance to defend him
SELF
l ask the pu Nlic 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 a 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 have shown
Vance and Bryant did. Haselden said
Bryant was cd id thief and
scoundrel" and boasted that he could
put him in the penitentlary. II he
had any such power over me or Douth-
it., would he not have used itp Why
this leniency to Bryant? All, Bryant
Ia Robirson's friend and Haselden
could not anger Robinson to the point
If 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 the yawning gates of the peni-
tentiary unless he sTOre against Dout-
hit and myself and made u "hOt as he
could "for us.
have not only charged Black with
drunkenness, but | have proved his
utter incompetence beyond the shadow
of q doubt. He made scores of errors
which would have cost the State or
the dispensers heavily, had they not
been discovered. All OF his errors
may not have been caught. Had {
Amade one hundredth of hie errors,
Awhat would the majority OF the board
E3have done to me? But Black works
jim with them, he is one of them, and
s 30 tney DO. not care now Incompetent he
! Is nor how much OF bis mistakes may
rob the State or the dispensers. Backs
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 Gilmore Young's ignorance and in
competence for the position OF receiv-
ing clerk are overlooked. But he is
Miles's neDhew, and therefore privi-
legged to d. as be pleas And when
hoTpleases to worry and annoy men
working In the dispensary, throwing
water on them and padding them,
they must smile and look pleased at
receiving such marks OF attention
from thu nephew of the chairman,
otherwiss the chairman may do rs he
did to one who objected to such plea
santrieL whom he vilely cursed and
whose leart he threatened to cut out.
But avoritism TO dispensary en-
ployeeta and officers who toady to 1t is
not tn whole extent OF the majority
factions favoritism. Fayorltism In
the plcing OF orders for whiskey has
been poven and Is subject to much
To-. 4. l.