The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-05-29

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Evans and this member Of the gem
eral assembly, whose, name 1 do not
care to mention, as he is not party
to this transaction. t..>
Letter to Governor.
The committee adopted this letter.
which will be sent to Governor Hey
ward: .HE
"To His Excellency, D. c. Hayward:
"Dear Sir.-Thc committee appoint
ed to investigate the affairs of the
state dispensary would respectfully
call your attention to the following
testimony, taken before the commit
tee. (Testimony attached).
"The committee would request that
you investigate this matter and take
such action as may appear to you to
be proper, the control of the lircc-
tors of the dispcnsary with absvlutc
power of removal of such officers. he
ing in your hands.
"Signed.
All of the papers, will be ready 10
be turned over to Governor Hayward
upon his return to the city: He is
now on his plantation in Collcton
county and will no doubt take up The
matter as soon as it is formally pre-
scnted to him.
Major John Black Talks.
Major John Black, this afternoon
after hearing what Mr.. Lyon stated
to the board, said that he had never
heard anything about the allegation
that he and Evans had attempted to
bride Il representative from Walter
boro. He said he was incensed at
Mr.. Lyon because it appeared to him
Mr.. Lyon was attempting to hound
him down, and blacken his personal
character because he had refused to
allow Mr.. Lyon to run the state dis
pensary to suit himself.
When he went to the dispenSary
he found the institution half mil
lion dollars in debt for whiskey for
which it had no use. He wiped ont
a large amount of this debt by fore
ing number of houses to take back
their unstable whiskcy, and had
done this against the protest of Lyon
and Christensen, which they lclc-
graphed from the West. They want
ed the whiskey kept to suit their con-
venience. They also had been I'M
able to force him to buy at loss to
the state, from firms they favored.
He had blocked their little game to
force the board to buy from their
henchmen and let them usurp the
powers the legislature had given to
the state board.
When they found it impossible to
get anything against his official rec
ord to crafty their spite, they en-
deavored to blacken his personal
character. He had copy Of the
taking of testimony in Cincinnati in
which this attempt was made and i'll
which they attempted to blacken su-
premc court justices and circuit
court Judges of this state by asking
if they had received presents OF
whiskey or other things from It
house he had once represented in II
clerical way.
Major Black said he had always
tried to live a clean life, and his off,
cial record as sheriff, mayor and In
other capacities would show he had
never done anything dishonest in his
life. His character was his proudest
possession, and the best thing he
could hand down to his children was
clean name. He had no intention
of permitting anybody to blacken it
to crafty their personal spite.
The letter referred to was from
Ills brother, Fl. w. Black, Jr, of
Walterboro, in which he said: "1
am told that morning, that Lyon of
the investigating committee, was here
Saturday, last. From what L can
learn he was trying to find out some
thing about conversation Walter
had with his wife over the long dis
tancc phone the night of your elec-
| tion.' That conversation was aEper-
fectly private conversation between
man and his wife, in which the
former said he was glad that Black
was elected, as he was a friend and
had helped him and would help hin
with his personal influence in cas-.
he ran for solicitor.
Major Black said this was a pure
ly personal and private conversation