Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-04-30

administration large quantities Of IL
quor was purchased. Was there any
rebates recorded on the books Of the
institution?
9. Why do not the rebates appear on
the books?
10. Did you ever get cotton seed
meal and have 1t charged to the peni-
tentiary, and insist upon that institu-
tion paying for it, and only paid after
two years and then by compromise?
II. What authority did you have to
buy for your private use and have it
charged to the state?
H. Did you not get brick for your
private use that belonged to the peo-
pie Of the state? Would you have Of
fered to pay for those brick had it not
been exposed through the Neal inves-
tigation?
13. How many bushels of oats did
you get from the state farm and have
shipped to you at your home in Tren-
ton?
IA. Did you have the right to run a
private farm at the expense Of the
state?
| Is. By what right in law or morals
did you get the authority at state ex-
pense to get wood, coal and vegeta-
bles?
16. Did you not continue to receive
products from the penitentiary at your
home in Trenton as late as 1897, not
even paying the express charges?
II. Did you not denounce your pre-
decessors in Office and charge rotten
ness" because of alleged pilfering from
the penitentiary?
Is. Was not committee sent to in
vestigate the dispensary transactions
refused the right to examine the books,
and did not the members Of the trust
refuse to be subjected to an exami-
nation on oath?
10. Was not your dealings with the
trust questioned, and did you ever de-
mand Of the trust that they permit an
investigation of your transactions?
20. Did you not on the hustings Gre
ate the impression upon the minds Of
the people that the cause Of their op-
pressed condition was largely due TO
corporate greed, and that the state Of
New Jersey was an incubator for
fraudulent corporations?
q. Are you not a member and d.
rector in a New Jersey chartered cor
poration?
%. Did you not denounce the in
reference of a United States senator
with our campaigns?
%. Is it not against the law for you
to use free pass, express or telegraph
frank, and do you use them?
"a. Did you not, as governor Of the
state and, as such, chairman Of the
board Of directors Of the state peniten-
tiary, instruct the bookkeeper Of that
institution not to charge anything on
the books to you or to open an account
against you?
| Senator Tillman In Reply.
| Senator Tillman's answers to the
foregoing questions are summarized by
August Kohn in special to the Green
willie News as follows:
AS to the dispensary matter, Senator
Tillman stated that the state got no
rebates. Neither did he as governor.
That the dispensary started with $780,
900 capital; that $4,000 Of that amount
was used in the equipment; that it was
out of the question to get stock OF
goods for less; that he had the opposi-
ton newspapers and whisky dealers to
fight, who said that the dispensary
would be q failure, and through the
kindness of George Hubbell, of the
Mill Creek company, who had faith IN
him, he got the supplies and he waiv-
ed the right to rebates 80 as to get
the necessary credit. The, state did not
pay for its liquor for year or two af-
ter it got it, and by mixing cologne
spirits with two-stamp liquor the
amount Of the rebate was absorbed,
and this cost the state $1.35 per gallon.
This, Tillman, said, was the purest,
cheapest whiskey that the state ever
got. He emphatically denied any re-
bates. He said there was no proof, and
that time and again efforts had been
made to get proof against him which
did not exist.
| AS to the penitentiary charges, he
showed that upon the report he had
provided that he had paid for every
thing. Or it was given to him by Col
onel Neal personally, who had per-
| feet right to give him whatever he
pleased, and that the report showed
| that the state had never lost anything
by him. And that he himself called
the attention to the oats purchased by
him and to his failure to pay for same
on account Of not being able to get the
bill. He stated that If he went to
stealing, it certainly would be for
more than a few potatoes, tomatoes,
| etc.
Relative to his connection with the
Sabine Oil and Marketing company,
| he stated that he was simply gamb-
ling; that Lockwood, the president OF
the company, was friend Of his, and
| that he had gone to Texas, and that he
had always fought the Standard on
company. When Lockwood went to
Texas he offered to take him (Tiilmap
| in as a stockholder and Tillman invest
ed $1,000, all Of which he now believes
to be lost And that it was after he
had gone in the company that his
name was used as director. And the
company was organized in New Jer-
sey This company, he said, was
amenable to the laws Of Texas and
| that he, as senator, had nothing to do
! with 1t.
AS senator, he of all men, would not
advise the people as to choice of cam
didates: this was the chief objection
to Hampton in 1890.
He said that the use OF the frank
was not prohibited in Washington and