The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-04-30

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graccd the State let him hold UP his |
hand.
To this there was no response and
the SenutOc replied that if lie had not !
punched McLaurin he would have !
been called coward. He WAS ready !
to make a special dispensation in be- !
halt Of this Judas in order to give /
him relief or the opportunity to 60 Gil
and iiang himself. lie was ready To
propose that the State convention /
pass 4 special resolution allowing Nc
Laurin to take or not take the pledge
Just as he saw lit. He demanded OF
the convention a revision OF the con-
stitution that would guard against
traitors in disguise.
wHISKEY REBATE CHARGES.
Then Senator Tillrnan took up fully
the whiskey rebate matter and said
when he took hold of the diSpenSary
failure was predicted. 1t was a simple
business matter. He had $50, 900 ap-
propriated on which to start a busl-
ness that has since grown to over two
millions. Twenty thousand dollars
was used to equip Agricultural Hall
and buy machinery and supplies: that
left $50, 900 to buy stock, and it would
have bought practically nothing.
These blessed papers fought the dis
pensary and trey and the dealers warn
ed the whiSkey people not to sell US,
and it was only through the confidence
OF George IIubbell, Of the Mill Creek
Distilling Company, that the State
could get its supplies on credit. He
insisted that the State get pure IL
uuor. and no concoctionS, and full
measure. He wanted as good liquor as
could be gotten for the price and mix
ed barrel of cologne spirits with
barrel of two-Stamp liquor. One of these
grades bore ne rebates, as he remem-
bered. and the two were mixed and
averaged up about 81 35 and was the
best kind Of liquor. The State gave
nc note or other evidence of debt. and
he thought it fair for this credit
and the averaging of prices that the
State waive it's rebate. 1t got none
and that has been known all along.
There was no use to get rebates: what
was wanted was the liquor and as
cheap as possible. What hurt him
was that this charge was not openly
made, like brave man would have
made it.
NO REBATE WAS EXPECTED.
No rebate was expected. He kept
close watch on the Mill Creek Com
pany and it always dealt fairely with
him and the State. Without this
credit the dispensary would have
perished for lack of supplies. The
only reason they charge that rebates
were gotten was because a dishonest
man could have gotten them. They
thereby confess, he supposed, that
they would have taken them.
After winding up on the first re-
bate question be said: ''Do you want
all these question answered."
Appelt: i don't think it neces-
Sary."
Senator Ti!lman: so even you
are satiSfied?"
THE PENITENTIARY NATTER.
Senator Tillman then took up the
Penitentiary matters, and in brief he
said that the sworn statements in the
Stevenson Penitentiary report answer
ed every charge. The Penitentiary
Investigating committee had five OF
his bitterest political opponents and
they found nothing against him. He
presented the full report in the Mix
son investigation and showed that it
was not there charged that he ever
got any rebates. Last session, at his
suggestion. a resolution was offered
looking to an investigation, but
it failed. AS to the refusal of the
Mill Creek Company in showing its
books he knew nothing. He was not
surprised il it was so, because the
company had been shabbily treated
after it lad sold the dispenSary when
it had nothing.
He explained that he had always
paid every bill he ever made at the
| Penltentlary or OGIlerWlSS.
HIS OIL STOCK.
As to holding stock in the Sabine
Oil and Marketing Company, he had a
right to do so. The insinuation was
that he bought it with money he stole.
\ friend OF his, Mr.. Lockwood, from
PENNSYLVANIA. went to Beaumont and
wrote him that he had a good thing,
and thinking that he had been in the
oil business all his life he might make
something. he accepted Mr.. Lockwood's
offer and sert him 81 200 for twen-
tv-fourth interest. Lockwood was
an oil man and had always fought the
Standard Oil Company. He always
would gamble little, never at cards or
races, and this was pure speculation,
and he was afraid the Texas OIL craze
had made him lose 81 200. He had lost
money in cotton futures and was not
ashamed to tell it. Congress has moth
ing to dc with a Texas oil company.
After he went in the company made
him a director and organized in New
Jersey, that was all. He had nothing
to do with Texas oil company, except
to lose money or possibly make some,
He then took up the dead-head frank
stamp on the telegram and explained
that the law did not prevent its use
outside of the State, and that he was
not to be bought with three dollars
worth OF telegraph courtesies: Every
Senator and Congressman received such
courtesy. At first he thought the
act did not apply to Federal officers,
but was shown that it did by Mr.. Ap-
pelt.
He read a letter dated April y, from
Nj. Burris in which he said Il have
no recollection of Senator Tlllman per-
sonally ordering me not to open an ac-
count against him, and if l have so
stated in the Certificate given to Col.
Neal did not mean to say positively
that he had so ordered me. My recol-
lection is that I received such inStruc-
tions through Col. Neal and supposed
that he had been so directed by Gov.
Tillman."
HE IS STILL IN DEBT.