The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1905-09-12

county or court officials to do any
thing towards having the provisions
of the dispensary law carried out.
State And County Boards Refuse TO
Enforce Laws.
All seemed to appreciate the truth
and merit of the formal complaints OF
Mr.. Miller. but the result was a series
OF goose eggs. Nothing, nothing,
and so on to the finish OF the game!
Mr.. Miller's testimony ought to go
very long ways in showing the Diff
cultv of having the stare board or the
county boards do anything, even when
proper appeals are made to them'
Mr. Williams wrote that the state
board had no right to make any rules
where the law was plain. Then the
matter came back to the county board
and that august body simply voted
down the motion to have the dlspen-
sers use the request books or have the
labels cancelled upon the making OF
each sale on the ground that 1t was
not done elsewhere. Mr.. Miller wait
ed, and when the personnel OF the
state board in Columbia changed, he
made another appeal. The local au-
thorities appeared in Columbia and It
IS said swore that they were using the
request books. Mr.. Evans, however,
told Mr.. Miller that he did not be-
lieve their statements and added that
he did not care what they did in Sum-
ter, as he had never gotten out one
vote from this county as member OF
the board. and that it was not their
business to warch the dispensers any
way. Mr.. Towiil, WHO was engaged
here at one time in Y. NJ. c. A. work,
it appears, had little resolution pass
ed calling upon dispensers to use re-
quest books, and this resolution was
sent here more than a year ago, but
it might as we'll have gone in the
waste basket.
The county board and the dlspen-
sers insist thai they are not gong TO
use request books and bother with
what Senator Tillrnan claims is the
onlv real check on the dispensers,
and give as their main reason thar
these books are not used IN othef
counties.
A Curious Development
here today was that Mr.. Sanders, who
was retired from the county board,
seemed to have the impression that he
was left in the cold because OF his
desire to have the law enforced. The
members of the Sumter delegation,
all of whom were in the court house
at the time, did not like such an i'm
preston to be made, and they one and
all testified that Mr. Sanders was not
reelected simply because they thought
thew had selected a better suited
member of the board, and that they
reallv did not know how Mr.. Sanders
stood ON issues in the board, and II
he thought he was left off the county
oo.-d because he had tried to enforce
the law, it was all mistake and tina;
thev were all in favor of the enforce
ment of the law. Mr.. Fraser, 1t ap-
oeared, heard OF the suggestion and
promptly advised Mr.. Lyon so that
he might look into the matter. 1t is
evident that Mr.. Sanders impress
sion que to the fact that he made ef-
forts while on the county board to
have the request books used, and ;hat
he could not even get seconds to his
motions to have so plain provision
Of the law enforced.
Bribery Charges Holly Denied.
Dispenser Windham was on the
stand several times today. and insist
ed that it was fake about his being
influenced by the approaches made to
him. He insisted that he got no
money; that Capt. Gailliard apologize
ed to him for having broached the
subject, and that. he never voted for
Raffield. in whose behalf the offer
was alleged to have been made. Mr..