The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-08-16

The way to rid the State dispensary
OF corruption and graft is to put one
honest man in charge of the whole
business and hold him responsible for
) Sts honest administration. There are
honest men in South Carolina and we
believe that one of them could be in
duced to take charge of the business
and purge it of rascals and corrup-
! tion. A. salarv would have to be
paid that would compensate him for
his time, bat a gh-priced, honest
man at the head of the dispensary
would be worth more than any
reasonable salary he might demand.
It is evident from the disclosures
made In Spartanbarg that the Dispen-
sary Investigating Committee has
been making a. real Investigation.
H the Hon. Cole L. Blease, Senator
trom Newberry county. represents JEFF
Dunwoody, the beer man and whiskey
drummer, what right has he to servs
on the Dispensary Investigating COM
mittees
Hon Cole Z, Biease to Ex. Beer
dispenser Morris: "You boys told
TOO much. . That is queer line OF
talk for member of an Investigating
committee.
The case has been made out against
the spartanburg Journal, mainly by
the admissions Of the owner and edi-
Tor Of tina. paper. He published, for
u consideratice, reading matter, not
marked to indicate that it was paid
adsertising, n advocacy of the dis
pensary system. This fact being ad-
mitted, explanations are useless.
The graft and corruption that per-
sneates the dispensasy system is fully
asgreat as suspected for long time
and the next legislature cannot longer
ignore the facts. The state dispen-
sary is rotten to the core, ana the coz
Sions uncovered in Spartanburg indi-
cate that the corruption has extended
AZ
The establishments of the Columbia
Georgesown boat line will tend to
make Columbia the interior distribnt-
ing point Of the state and the advan-
Eage o. water rates will enable that
city to distance all other Towns as
wholesale market, unless they can find
way to obtain equally as low rates.
Sumter has built up promising
wholesale business and it can be in
creased if the favorable freight rates
and maintained. This city is near
enough to the Santee river for it to
De possible to build an electric line
or reeuler rsilroaa to connect with
the river boats and haul freight IN
competition WITH the railroads.
q at is late in TIE season to undertake
80 lease fire Opera House, and the Citg
Council sid we'll To chance the time
: ~
FOR executine the lease from Septen-
Der to January.
The Dispensary Investigating COM
snittee held meeting here and
Messrs. Lyon and Christensen of the
special sub committee on county dis
pansaries spent several days here, but
so far as is known nothing ,otten was
anearthed. But if it was the habit of
whiskey houses to send extra bottles
sn every case to all dispensaries what
became of the extra bottles that come
60 Sumter?
The Isle of Palms Is SAID &c be the
Monte Carlo of the Atlantic coast,
having Coney Isand and all other re-
sorts d;starced. Perhaps this accopnts
Tor the nnusual popularity of the Isle
this seasons Folks who 60 on pleas
are trips are usually out for sport.
* sCandidly. we do not believe that
Ghe Sparsanburg disclosures have so
gar damaged ary mans reputation
News and Courier.
This should be referred to the
Hono,ables Cole L. Bease and H. Il
Evans
If II is unlawful for beer dispen-
ser to permit drinking on the prem
Sses, or in q room adjacent thereto
owned or controlled by the dispenser,