Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-06-13

on the board of control, and to see
to it that he got his share of the
business. He did not get the new
business, and Mr.. Boykin is quoted
as having said that she had not got
ten a more satisfactory offer from
others, but that others were provid.
ing for other members of the family
than himself, and blood was thicker
than water, and that certain other
liquor house employed brother-in-
law of Mr.. Boykin as special repre-.
sentative or something of the sort,
and that the other house was doing
equally as well by him as Mr.. Lana
ham,"
Mr.. Evans is alleged to have said
that there was an agreement by
which members would order from
certain houses, and that the agree
mont was for Mr.. Boykin to see to
Mr.. Lanahan's business.
A SYSTEM OF CORRUPTION"
Mr.. Parker spoke of what he un-
derstood to be "system of corrup-
tion," and that seemed to have
soaked down deep into his thoughts
after the repeated conversations
with the cautious Sam. J. Lanahan,
who had done hundreds of thou
sands of dollars worth of business
himself with the system.
hT. Parker said: ~ cannot say
that the term rebate was used, but
terms that implied rebates; just
general statements as to having
agreements with members of the
board By which they we're to get it. !"
Mr.. Lanahan made it very plain in
his repeated conversations that he
did not for an instant think that the
dispensary orders were made on
competitive bids. He had volun-
tarily offered to reduce prices, and
the offer was rejected.
The people can no doubt appreci-
ate the terrific uphill work of the
sub committee, Messrs. Fraser, Lyon
and Niels Christensen, Jr., as we'll as
their detective, Mr.. Klingenberg.
During the afternoon Mr.. Parker
again declined to answer who Mr..
Lanahan had employed as his agent
in this State, on the ground that he
did not know that this representa-
tive had ever sought or done any
business and he might do him gross
wrong. Messrs. Blease, Hay, Fraser
and CASTOR upheld Mr.. Parker, and
Messrs. Lyon Spivey and Christen-
sen voted in the minority in their
effort to force a reply as to the name
of this special agent, and they were
apparently all the more eager for the
name when Mr.. Parker said this
agent held an official position in the
State, not an executive position nor
one connected with the dispensary,
and further that there were others
in the same class of officers.
This set some to thinking that
possibly it was member of the
General Assembly, but Mr.. Parker
persisted in refusing to answer the
inquiry unless made to do so, and
the majority of the committee did
not think the question pertinent. II
was not brought out in the testi.
mony that Lanahan's recent agent
was member of the Assembly, but
that seemed to be an inference that
scattered around.
Graft Gaiore.
Columbia, S. c., June THE
most startling revelations that have
yet characterized the dispensary in.
vestigation were disclosed this morn.
ing when the much talked of New.
berry situation was entered upon TO,
the first time in really aggressive
manner.
@. @. Davis, Newberry con.
tractor, who had worked on ex- Chair.
man Fl. III. Evans's fine new house ir
Newberry, in cool and somewhat
reluctant manner, told of Evans ad-
mitting to him that on various occa.