The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-10-13
Senator TiIlman Renews the AL
legation He Made at Batesburg.
ABOUT STATE BOARD
Not Being Definite In their Advestlse'
ments Calling for Bids, to Supply
the State With Whlskey. News"
papers Asked to Print
this Article.
this Article.

TO the Editor OF The News and Cou-
rier: At the B%atesburg meeting Satur-
day, September 30, l made h stale,
ment that the State board OF control
Of the %dispepsary has violated law
and been doreliot, as they did not pur-
chase liquor under q competitive sys-
TEN Of buying as required by tho alta
tute. I further declared that the sys-
ten followed msde 1t possible to sell
to tho State Xxx rye and NIX rye
out Of the same barrel that the board
on Its advertisements did not describe
what x, Xxx or xxx rye meant, and
that the State was left at the mercy
Of the bidders to deliver anything in
the shape Of whiBkoy with no guaran
tee whatever az to IS goods coming
up to the sample, +: ttts reason that
the chemist himself G-s trcd that he
could detect adul-erat. but that he
could not tell anythi,y about tue
grade or quality.
The Hon. Jchu Bell IT. ~ worry ex
oitedly declared that my statement
was mot So" and, according 60 tone
of the newspaper reports, sid posi'
lively st was also" Quite a heated
coll. guy ensu'.. fcelirg SO sure OF
my ground, for / r. Il 'rHd tho adver
tisemont the weaA 1888. / bad not
armed myself with phe n'>of, but |
requested the reporter + The State
newspaper, In whose columns l had
read the advertisement, to send q copy
Of it to each Of the Lexington and Sa
luda papers with the request that they
publish it in order that. the people of
the two counties represented at the
meeting might see for themselves
whether Mr.. Towill had any right To
dispute my word as he did. For some
reason this has not been done, and as
the widest publicity has been given to
the issue OF ~veraclty between Mr..
Towill and myself / ask you to pub.
lish as much OF the enclosed ADVERTISE
ments as / have marked in pencil
and 1t Will be seen that / had warrant
tOr every word I said. and Mr.. Towill
Is convicted Of dence Ignorance OF
what his own board is doing, to cay
the least Of it..
(The part Of advertisement referred
to follows:)
NOTICE TO LIQUOR DEALERS.
Onice OF SIT. ENard OF Directors OF
the South Carol g D.ipensary, Colum,
bia, s. @. August IA, 1905.
To Distillers and Liquor Dealers:
You are hereby reQuested to submit
bids and samples, In accordance with
the terms OF the dispensary law, upon
the various kinds and grades Of liz
uors produced or handled by you for
supplying the South Carolina dispen
sary forsthe quarter. ending November
30th, 1905. 1t Is to be understood
that the directors Of the dispansary
shall have the.right to accept any
quantity Of any article bid upon to be
ordered. shipped at u pleasure, with
the right to supplement such orders
any tine during quarter, according to
the needs OF the dispensary, the di.
rectors retaining the right to ri ,ct
all,or any part Of any bid.
AS IL Is necessary to establish uni
formity in values Of grades donomin-
ated as KS, the following schlo must
be observed by BIDDERS: The acsual
minimum Of intrinsic value Of
K rye must not be less than....$l SO
or Xxx rye not less than. :. / 60