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

| April ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ! - !0c
| June ~. 10
July &c.,. ..............-...- " !oe
| July II. - loS
August li......---. ............. - loS
August l6-. -...........-......... ! 20 20 Ivy !0c
august S!....... $500. -. % loS
october r2......................f - q No Rebate
Corn whiskey was sold at 81 IS to 81 20 pei
gallon and on the basis o! high wine from 81 4
1t is a fact that whiskies to
other concerns were sold on 80,
60 and 90 days credit, invoices
often dated one month after the
goods were shipped, and no in
terest charged until after matu,
rity of bills; this being the case,
| interest accumulations could not
have been, as the sales kept
abreast with the purchase &C,
counts. We therefore see no
good business reason why South
Carolina should have waived its
right to the rebates, and in hav-
ing done so, it was to say the
least of it. paying the Mil Creek
Distilling Company a tremen-
dous bounty for the credit it ex-
tended. Senator Tillman said
he was not surprised at the Mill
Creek Distilling Company in re-
fusing to show its books. because
the company had been shabbily
treated after it had sold the dis
pensary when it had nothing,
but according to our view from
the Senator's own statement, the
State was not under any special
obligation to the Mill Greek Dis
tilling Company because, if the
Senator is correct. that company
exacted the pound Of flesh
from the State, and received
more than usurious interest for
all of it's accommodations. Then,
when the newspapers were full
of suspicious and charges regard
ing these transactions, is tnot in
deed wonderful that although the
"trust" had refused to exhibit its
books, that Senator Tillman was
not supplied with sworn state
ment from the "trust" going to
show just what he claims now:
Especially is this amazing when
we consider that Senator Till
man had given the ''trust" a
tremendous business, was on
friendly terms with it, and his
character was being questioned.
At no period since the estab'
lishment Of the dispensary has
it not had a surplus amount OF
cash on hand to run the busi.
ness, and the business is such a
money-maker, that the present
board found it advisable to deal
largely in future purchases, to
the extent that some action was
taken by the Legislature to
require the distribution of the
profits oftener, and keep the
stock down to a limit. What
business man would relinquish a
rebate of 5, Z and 10 cents per
gallon, or pound, or yard, to buy
on credit, when he could borrow
money at 4 per cent, or say
twice four per cent, and thereby
take advantage of dating. dis
counts and rebates. The way
the distin guished Senator put it
was clear enough to understand
by his partisans, but we cannot
help but think it remarkable, that
the business should have been
conducted in such a ramshackled
way unless the members Of the
trust in anticipation of the big
scheme they we're being let into,
took too much of their own
"pizen" while the South Carroll
MAN kept sober; but even then,
those people would not stay
drunk during his entire admins
tration, when purchases on the
same basis, we're being made
every month.
Senator Tillman's explanation
of the penitentiary matters did
not vary much with the certif-
Gates we produced; what he ad-
mitted getting without paying
for, he said was nobody's business;
other things mentioned in the GER
tiicates he claims to have paid
when he got the bills, and he
also read from the reports
where he paid for the cotton seed
meal, but the certificate charged
that he only paid after about two
years, and then by compromise.
He brushed aside the wood and
coal, and the vegetables he re-
garded a small matter, but all
the same it took twenty dollars
to pay the express charges.
One matter erupon which Senator
| Tillman laid considerable stress,
was our writing him two letters
and marked them ''private", when
in fact every thing statedin those
letters had already been stated
in this paper, we do not know
why we marked the letters pri-
vate, unless it was from force Of
habit. Our experience in writ
ing to Congressman is, that the
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