Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-02-13
DIsPENSARY INVESTIGATION.
Committee Continues to Unearth Facts
of Much Interest.

Committee Continues to Unearth Facts
of Much Interest.
The dispensary investigating commit
tee has been pushing it's work along
the same lines as heretofore during the
past week and the information it has
developed is beginning to throw more
light on the larger operations higher
UP in the dispensary management.
Mr.. Boykin, the maker Of the big
label contract was on the stand for
several hours last Friday and gave
evidence to the effect that If he had
made any error in connection with the
label deal, 1t was an error Of judg-
ment He was still Of opinion that
his contract with the Cincinnati con-
Germ was entirely proper and he was
certain that he did not In any way re-
ceive private benefit from the deal.
The letter that Chief Constable
FAINT sent to Senator Tillman in 1901
figured in Saturdays proceedings.
This letter was sent to the committee
by Col. James H. Ti!lman Of Edge
field with the request that 1t be read.
In the letter was a statement to the
effect that one Mark Rudasill paid U.
X. Gunter $125 for a position as dis
pensary constable. Mr.. G. Duncan
Bellinger, appearing as friend of
Gunter called attention to the fact that
Rudasill had already denied the truth
Of this statement and claimed that the
matter was closed so far as Guater is
concerned. Gunter 1t appears, Is still
unable to come before the committee.
After discussion Of the situation the
committee decided to summon ]. H.
Tillman and Chief Constable Fant to
testify as to the letter. The question
of summoning Senator Tillman was
also discussed; but because there Is no
power to compel the senator to come
from without the state, 1t was decided
to merely request his attendance. The
senator had already notified a member
of the committee that he would come
whenever he should be requested to do
so. The understanding is that all
three of these witnesses will probably
come before the committee next Fri
day.
Last Saturdays Investigations were
devoted almost entirely to the rela-
tions between the Carolina Glass
Works of Columbia and the dispensa-
ry. The committee had access to the
records in the dispensary and the
books of the glass works. Among 9TH
IL llS ulopSii-
sary was paying the Carolina Glass
works higher prices for the same
goods than had been paid to foreign
glass manufacturers. 1t was shown
that the Carolina Glass Works was
charging the state dispensary $3.50 per
gross for bottles 1t was selling to Paul
Heyman Of Augusta for $3.50. The
dispensary orders were in car load
lots. and Heyman's were In smaller
quantities. 1t developed that the FLAG
Gus Glass Works Of Pennsylvania al
ways stood ready to sell bottles at a
much less price than the dispensary
was paying the Carolina Glass Works.
The Carolina Glass Works were allow
ed to take orders without specifica-
tionS, while in the case of competitors
the specifications were strict Accord
ing to figures made by Mr. Lyon, bot
ties were sold to a firm in Winston
Salem, n. c., at 50 per gross less than
the dispensary paid for the same quail
ity of stuff and this regardless Of the
fact that the orders of the dispensary
were ten times as large as those OF the
North Carolina concern.
During Saturday a statement was
made to the committee to the effect
that certain witnesses who had been
summoned had been threatened with
their lives If they should tell what they
knew, and the committee decided to
swear in a lot of constables whose
business 1t would be - at least give
the witnesses protection while they
were testifying.