Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-08-23
nLLMAn RaPs CROOKED WORK.
Plans Suggested for Buying Liquors that will
Stop Rebates plspensaries Must Go.

Anderson, August l6.-Senator
Tillmau, the daddy of the dispensary
system, to-day outlined what he re.
CARDS as essential to the salvation of
the dispensary and to kill the "graft."
His position is. very much the same
as that outlined at Gaffney, except
that he has gone more fully into the
details.
Chairman Landrum at Spartanburg
thought the county boards were
humbugs and Senator Tillman thinks
that of the State board. He seems
to put the blame for present troubles
of the dispensary fret on the State
board of control and second on the
General Assembly, and if there be
any to complain, let it be with Till.
man.. lie said the State board had
been lax and altogether censurable,
and then went on to say, "Is is a
wonder we have not had worse
carnival of corruption than seems to
exist" and he expects worse things
to come out than developed at Spar
tanburg.
In brief, Tillmsn's remedy is to
place the purchasing power in the
hands of board consisting of the
Governor, Attorney General and the
Comptroller General. He is abso-
lutely opposed to the present plan of
Legislative elections. Then he wants
competitive bids and copies of the
bids, with bonds, sent to the board,
the Chief Justice and the Speaker
of the House. These bids are to be
opened in public during the legisla-
tive session and the lowest bidder is
10 get the years business under
heavy bonds as to quality and purity.
No orders are to be placed outside
of the order placed at the beginning
of the year. No case goods, what
ever, are to be bought, except on di-
rect personal order. Only X, Xxx,
xxx and XXXX liquors are to be
sold under dispensary labels, and so
as to avoid changing labels the grade
is to be blown into the bottle and it
is to be hermetrically sealed. He
thinks this will prevent drummers
going about pushing their liquors be-
cause everything to be sold will be
known as one, two, three or four-X,
and no special brands are to be sold
through the dispensary, except in
cases and on orders. He would
abolish beer dispensaries. He would
have the county board composed of
the Mayors of cities, the County Su-
pervisor and one appointive Office.
Senator Tillman thinks that most
of the trouble of the dispensary has
come from the Legislature electing
its own members to Office and he
wants cleaning out aud fresh start
made, but with officers elected by the
people.
Senator Tillman came here to
make an important dispensary
speech, but when he was finally called
on the audience had heard six or
seven hours of speaking and he and
everything else was tired and worn
out, and the old time campaigner
said that the next time he wanted to
make speech he would have meet
ing of different sort. The Farmers
Union, under whose auspices the
meeting was held, was so anxious not
to have the dispensary situation
brought into its meeting that it ad-
journed it's meeting several times,
and President Glenn and others ex-
planned and kept on explaining that
the ry-prohibition speaking
was not under its auspices and that
it had nothing to do with that part
of the program. 1t was really funny
how the Farmers Union end tried to
dodge the liquor issue, and, although
the liquor talk was side tracked until
near o'clock, some of the folks got
hopping mad because Mr.. Sherman,
who seems to be sort of organizer
from out West, was not given a
} chance to talk until after Tillman