Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-05-29

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has held up. These are accounts due
by the dispensary. We have had some
conversation about this matter before,
and he renewed the conversation there
and wished me to give him some def
mite information about when we could
reach 1t. AS l was standing there
talking to him, Mr.. Black, Of the dis
pensary board of directors, appeared
before me. really could not state
from what direction he came. l could
not say whether from the back or
rear I was intent In going on with
my conversation with Mr.. Solomon.
Mr.. Blacks face showed decided an
ger and he used some very insulting
language towards me. He said that he
understood that had been spying out
on him on his private life and things
Of that kind, and 1t was his purpose to
kill me on the spot. I do not care TO
use any Of the particular language he
used on that occasion, but he said that
he had a notion then and there to
Shoot me and blow me up on the
spot to use his expression. There was
in his company a person that I do not
know to have seen before. My recol-
lection is that there was a person in
his company with a straw hat, blue
suit of clothes, and red mustache.
while he was making his threats
against me and daring me to investi-
gate his affairs, he also used very VI
olent language against Senator Chris
tensen, which I suppose were In the
nature of a rebuke to me for attend
ing such a person about the streets.
remarked that there were three Of them
there, that I did not care to discuss
the matter with them that was inves-
tigating the dispensary and expected
to continue to do so. He was so i'm
petuous, though, that I scarcely had
any opportunity Of putting in a word,
and believing that he intended to make
an attack on me, and his running his
hands about his person, and that he
intended to do violence, turned and
walked back to my room.
He used very unpleasant epithets
towards me, and told me that I might
go and arm myself. I returned to my
room and shortly afterwards returned
to Wright's hotel. AS I passed the
Columbia hotel did not see Mr.. Black
or the gentleman with him. l pre-
sumo. Mr.. Chairman. that Mr.. Black
exhibited or attempted to exhibit a
letter from Manning. which I under
stand was from Mr.. Blacks former
home, Walterboro.
81 found it necessary to go to Wal
terboro a few days since, for the rea-
son that had heard and I can recog-
nize the difficulties that 1t Is likely to
place us in, and / heard that Mr.. Black
and Mr. H. H. Evans had been par
ties to bribing a member Of the gen.
eral assembly, who lives in the town OF
Walterboro. l do not know the facts
in that case. I had some information
along that line, and I went there to
get some additional information In re-
gard to the matter. That was the OBJ
ject Of my visit to WATERFORD. and I
presume that Mr.. Black has been in
formed by those Of whom I enquired
there of the purpose of my visit.
81 wish to say this: That did go to
Walterboro for the purpose Of inves-
tigating Mr. Black and Mr.. H. H. Ev-
ans, and this member of the general
assembly whose name I do not care
to mention, as do not think this prop
er, as he Is not a party to this trans
action"
Letter to Governor.
The committee adopted this letter,
which will be sent Governor Hayward:
ITO His Excellency, D. C. Hayward.
Dear Sir-The committee appointed
to investigate the affairs Of the state
dispensary would respectfully call your
attention to the following testimony,
taken before the committee: (Testi-
mony attached.
1.-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 directors
Of the dispensary, with absolute power
of removal Of such officers. being In
your hands. Signed.
All of the papers will be ready to be
turned over to Governor Hayward upon
his return to the city. He Is now on
his plantation in Colleton county and
will no doubt take up the matter as
soon as 1t Is formally presented to him.
Major Black Talks.
Major John Black this afternoon, af-
ter hearing what Mr.. Lyon stated to
the hoard, said that he had never heard
anything about the allegation that he
said Evans had attempted to bribe a
representative from Colleton. He said
he was ince nsed at Mr.. Lyon because
Ii appeared to him Mr.. Lyon was at
tempting to hound him down and
blacken his personal character because
he had refused to allow Mr.. Lyon to
run the state dispensary to suit him.
self
When he went to the dispensary he
found the institution a half million
dollars in debt for whisky for which
il had no USE He wiped out large
tamount Of this debt by forcing num-
Der of houses to take back their unsal-
able whisky, and had done this against
the protest of Lyon and Christensen,
which they te!egraphed from the west.
They wanted the whisky kept to suit
their convenience. They also had been
unable 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 pow
ers the legislature had given to the
state board.
When they found 1t impossible to get
anything against his official record to
crafty their spite. they endeavored to
blacken his personal character. He
had a copy Of the taking of testimony
in Cincinnati. in which this attempt
was made and in which they attempted
to blacken supreme court justices and
circuit court judges Of this state by
asking IL they had received presents
of whisky or other things from house
he had once represented in a clerical
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