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DETECTIVE TELLS ALLEGED SCHEME TO SECURE PARDON (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3). Evans, Towill and Boykin. Felder eoiri that rhp onlv time he had seen Towill was once when the latter came to him, in Washington, seeking em- j ployment as travelling salesman in South Carolina for Armour & Co. He t denounced all of the charges which i "Hub" Evans and the governor of South Carolina have brought against > him as "malicious and infamous lies." Col. Felder produced the drait or the $2,000 which he had turned over to Reed, and which the latter had de- j posited in the Bank of Commerce, in Spartanburg. Letters as Evidence. Several letters purporting to *oar on the pardon record of Governor ^ Pnldow ot +>i a of. ! Blease were feau uj rcuat tuv ui | ternoon session of the committee. Mr. j Felder said that the various cases re- ; ferred to were now being investigated by the Burns' Detective Agency, and ! that the facts and data would be placed in the hands of the committee in a few days. The first letter put in evi- j dence was written on the letter paper of Lvon & Lyon, attorneys at law, of Dubuque, Iowa. j "Mr. , Columbia, S. C.?Dear ! Sir: Your favor of the 17th addressed j v to Miss Dently at hand and turned j ? over to me to answer, for the reason I | that she prefers to have any correspondence regarding her brother's sit utation addessed to me so that all chances of her mother to know th^ predicament of her brother may be thus avoided. "We agree with you that there is ; an apparent hitch in the proceedings I to secure the pardon. What it is we j "* T+ +VlOt Wn SPTlt I . IlilVS I1U lUtCt. JLl IS li >-v ^ ~- I the amounts suggested, but as far as T | v know the draft, and it was a draft | sent payable to the governor, has never been cashed. "We have a letter from the secretary of the governor, dated in September, 1911, in which he informed me that he still held the draft awaiting the action of the governor, and that should his action be unfavorable the draft would be returned. "As you seem to be under the impression that some one has couverted the proceeds of the check to their own use, which as far I know is not >10co +V10 ohnvfl infnrmnt:nn will iliC HrMV ? V .. ? , be in full explanation and compliance j K with your letter. Yours truly, George j T. Lyon." 1 The following is the second letter j introduced, which was alligerl to have ! been written to a convict in the South j Carolina penitentiary: "January 17, 1911.?Dear Frank: Like you we have no news. It seems strange; when the governor asked to have the money sent to him, you would think he had mada up his mind as to what he wanted to do. V>'e have heard nothing from him. I suppose j we can not hurry him one bit; that i it will have to stay as it is until he gets ready to move. Surely ii has heen much harder to get you out of there than it was to get in yourself. "" ' * 1 **X 1 AVA fVl A "it nas Deen vexy wm u.^1-?mg longest spell of cold -.veather tliat we have ever had here. 1 see the South has also experienced cold weather, so suppose you got some of it. "Jake has not been feeling well for a few days?has had to have the doc . tor three times. Today he is In bed. i Doctor says trouble with his heart and j a bad cold. "Clare Mac is on ner way oacK irom the South; stopped off at St. Louis t.> visit. Will be home in a week or so. t She had a fine trip. "Grandpa is not so well again, and j I am afraid mama will have to go to j look after him, but I hope she won'{j ' during this cool weather. "Take good care of yourself. Maybe the governor will be letting you out: one of these days, when yo uare least j ?>vrver?tin<y it r v^vvv.^Q *v4 "Must close now*. Nettie." Interurban Deal. The following is an excerpt read on the stand by Felder from the fivehours' dictagraph record alleged to have been taken in the Finch hotel, Spartanburg, during a conversation between "Mr. Porter" and Nichols: "The only thing I have done since v Blease has been governor that caused j o 1r?+ nf onmment was in thi? hill that ! was up for franchises to the iuterurban railroad from Spartanburg, Greenwood to Charlotte. I was representing the Southern Power company, which was the same thing. I drew up the bill giving these powers and there was quite a lot of ioDDying to get it through. It was only carried by about three votes, just barely got enough. "Of course, Blease signed it, but I had a hell of a time getting him to do it. I got up to Spartanburg and the first think I knew they told me that it was rumored about that Blease had said that he was going to veto it. We ^^^^^la^^i^wfuMim^getting^^^^^^ just passed by about three vores, and if Blease vetoed it, it would take a ; two-thirds vote to carry it over his head. We only carried it by three votes. "I went over there. I said Blease has not vetoed that bill, he merely said he thought he would veto it. He hasn't acted. I will call him up over long distance 'phone. I called him up over the 'phone and I said to him: "Governor, what about that interur- | ban bill? We had an awful lot of t-rmiHIci oro+tiner tliot thrmisrh the ! u vuuiv btl-w"6 j house. . j "He says: 'I am going to veto the damn thing.' I says: 'Oh, don't fly off your nut' I said: 'Wait a minute.'j I says: 'I want to talk that bill over! with you before you finally act on it j one way or the other. I want you to I hold the matter in abeyance until you j hear from me. Of course, I don't want j you to do anything you oughtn't to ! do, but I want you to give me a hearing on the matter.' "Hp savs: 'I don't mind hearing you,j but I don't want to do a thing for that, crowd that is trying to get it through.' J He was sore on that crowd, you know; so I says: 'I will come up on the first i train. Don't veto it until I can get there.' He says: 'I will hear you on > it, but I tell you frankly, Sam, I think j I will veto it.' I says: 'All right, it's j up to you. You are governor, out l ( am going to explain our side of the ; proposition.' ; "So I went to Columbia. Everything j was up in the air. He had told me he | would not do anything with it until | he heard from me. So I went and saw the governor. Abney was leading counsel for the Southern railroad. He ( was Blease's cousiu and lived in the governor's mansion. I says: 'Blease, i here is the situation. Don't veto it. ; You are either doing this thing for one ; of two things; you are either trying to take a shot at Smvthe, or somebody has approached you representing the ' Southern railroad. Now, those are the ' two things we have got confronting j ' j the road, and after I had talked with him half an hour he saw which propo- j sition was the stronger. So we went i i into executive session, you might call i it. j "I stayed there four days with him, j iuiu L/Uie. luiu me every muiuiiig, i will let you know in the morning j whether I will sign it.' Then he said, j 'I won't sign it.' I had an awful time j about it. Finally we got through and I said: 'Cole, are you going to sign : that?' He said: 'Xo, I am not going; to sign it,' and I says: 'When are you j going to sign it or veto it?' He says: j 'I can't sign it.' I says, 'I want to tell ! you, Cole, people who fought you are , giving me hell tor supporting you. it j you don't sign this bill, I'll be damned if I don't raise hell.' "What does it mean to you, Sam, if i I sign it?" "That doesn't matter a damn. That j don't make a damn bit of difference. , If I came to you on a personal matter i and you refused to sign it, that would j be a different matter." i "But you didn't put it up to me that j way. You put it up as a matter of | right and wrong." " 'I says, 'what does it mean to me j personally?' I says, 'to me personally: it means about $10,000 a year. That's about what it means to me,' I says,; 'but that has nothing to do with it. I ' just want to tell you that you are re- j fusing to sign it for one of two rea- ] sons?which one I don't know. You | are either refusing to sign it because j you don't like Lewis Parker, Smythe ; or Smith, and you are trying to flay them over the head, and in so doing j you are flaying the best friends you ; have ever had. You have lost sight of the fact that you can't beat their brains out without beating our brains out You are either doing it for tnat or you are being paid by the Southern } railroad for not signing it. That is the j situation.' "I got my hat and walked out of the | office. I walked through his private office into the general olic^. He says, j 'Come back here a minute. Come in j and bring this G? damned railroad ; bill. I am going to sign it to get rid i of the damn thing.' THE DAY AT BARS WELL WAS BIG BLEASE DAY ; (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5). : i form. The crowd raised a mighty shout, amidst which turmoil could be heard, "Hit him!" and "Shoot him!" It was very apparent that Mr. Evans had many friends in the audience and ! he was being urged by the cries of j some one to "lay on."" Tt was equally j true that Attorney General Lyon had lianv snnnortprs who wished to sop him enter personal combat with hi? opponent. Following the interference of the chairman and the officer Mr. Lyon resumed his seat, requesting that he be allowed his right of reply. The trouble arose over the fact that k the attorney general, more bitter than usual, read vouchers on the State treasury, showing that moneys had been paid to members of Mr. Lyon's family. When mention was made of Voucher Xo. S20, for the sum of $13.-50, payable to Mrs. J. F. Lyon, stepmother of the attorney general, Mr. Lyon arose and objected, stepping to the front of the platform. Chairman Buist, after placing himself between Messrs. Lyon and Evans, told the latter that he thought it discourteous to mention the name of any female of his oppo nent's family. Mr. Evans declared it was nothing personal he was stating, but that he was reading from the records of South Carolina. Big Blease Day at Hampton. Hampton, July 11.?A patriotic band of aspiring officeholders tarried a little while today in Hampton and gratified the desires of possibly the most eager audience that has yet greeted thern; eager for the words of wisdom that should be vouchsafed from wise leaders of public thought and action. The Governor took as his text the speech delivered here on March 6 by Judge Jones, in which anarchy, as seen by Judge Jones in the Blease administration. was denounced in no uncertain terms. Governor Blease to-day proceeded on the premise that Judge Jones had charged that he and all Bleaseites were Anarchists, making it the tenor of his ringing speech, one of A# flia' r*Cx m Q 1 CT n' L.UC OU KSL tuv Many For Jones. Judge Jones, however, was not without a large following, many of his utterances calling forth hearty responses. The audience, though, was plainly in sympathy with the governor. Rain, thunder and lightning did not deter the speakers, nor did it appear to +V>a />rmrd Tll^n mPpHm? lliL/Uil y tlUCHV-C tnv w??u. JL ?c,, presided over by County Chairman P. H. Gooding, was first called in the Court House yard, the.speakers using a large pavilion. In: but a short time the crowd was forced to seek shelter in the pavillion and here all the candidates, save those for governor, addressed the voters. It was a difficult task, for the thunder rolled and the lightning flashed and the rain came down in torrents. The roof of the pavillion was leaky, but both candidates and people braved the hardship. At 1 o'clock, however, the meeting adjourned to reconvene in the graded school auditorium, where the three candidates for governor spoke. Streets that resembled embryo rivers were waded and in a little while about 700 persons had jammed themselves into the auditorium. The crowd was not ill disposed; they yelltd like mad at fllmnct pvprvthine- Governor Blease said, but there appeared to be no venom in the demonstrations. An upturned sea of faces revealed the marked effect that the governor's brand of oratory had. There was expectancy, delight, glee and a measure of hero worship to be seen on many a countenance. The social equality talk elicited greatest applause, the most continuous and uproarious, as at a number of previous meetings. When the governor began his usual talk about Judge Jones' vote on the separate coach bills and th<? charge that therein he favored social equality, the crowd went wild. "That's enough;" "You needn't tell any more." "Xo, tell it all;" "Put it to him;" and the like were yelled out from the crowd. The applause was almost aeaiening at times, led by a good sized gathering of ardent admirers, ^regated about and on the stage. 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In the accoutrement of ari admi the Santa Maria and leads his fleet of three c mutiny in mid-ocean. He lands on th<? new the enthusiastic pomp and glory of that day. at Barcelona, in which we see the famous eg amid the people he had discovered, and final ' ' 11 ? - c\?*-r\ o*TCTi7<=>r fo1?^p r (taken DacK 10 opaiu m uuuo ^ ?. . Columbus of these wonderful pictures is aliv occult power, to the long forgotten ages and The making of these pictures occupied thn gathering data concerning the life of Columt detail. William N. Selig, President of the 5 production a never-to-be-equaled masterpiece " ' /-v*-iMnr sJ n ir o TT1 iJtiere they spent monius gduicnug and the personal memoirs of Diego, Columbi Selig was able to bring these back to this coi tion, and aided by the Spanish government, counterpart of the real events. The ships of Columbus depicted in the pic I country by the Spanish government.. Mr. S of each of these vessels. They were then re made seaworthy, before being used. The cc and pver three hundred and fifty people are great picture industries expended such a sur by critical spectators as to its educational wo tacular magnificence. Perhaps the greatest endorsement which h (these lines, and certainly the highest honor t has been accorded to this masterpiece and to His Holiness, Pope Pius X, was presented and after inspecting them carefully, the Pop he had accomplished, that he sent by Father in recognition of the great epoch which this production, the Holy Father sent to Mr. Sel likeness. Feeling- that even this was inadeq (to award this ' 'wizard of picture production ured ceramic, or art plaque, removed from ii Cardinal Gibbons and many other high cl are unanimous in their praise of same. At many of the country's greatest educators, cr denied that the Selig Polyscope Co. have pr< to even equal. Pnliimhiis of Chicago wer x lie Wi a ing the original Columbus caravels, which \ historical data from which the scenario was were of great assistance in this respect. PRICES ARE ALWAYS THE S ^ wmmmam r\ n T il rr*TL] U. K. LA. V Il.i'N Newberry, i Il SIDING OF R COLUMBUS action of the Moving o be Shown Here. jrival of Christopher Columbus upon the { most expensive, the most Wonder- 1 st Elaborate Film ever made. | OLD COURT HOUSE I July 19 I [N AT 1 O'CLOCK. | | I lorical Interest, it is hoped that the Men, 1 the children) of the entire county will I , :he Afternoon and Avoid the Rush. I y the Selig Polyscope Co. and entailed an outlay j i of time. It is acknowledged to be the most exful graphic moving picture film ever made. j of Christopher Columbus, who gave a new world j exactness in vivid, all enthralling scenes. To de- | great events of history is an achievement to be to-date science. In these remarkable pictures , and move. He pleads his cause at the courts ral of Spain he stands upon the quarter deck of aravels across the unknown sea-. He quells a world. He returns to the court of Spain amid He replies to a drunken courtier at the banquet g incident. We see liim again in the new world ly we see him, dejected, broken in spirit, being iharges which have been preferred against him. The e. It is as if a camera had gone back, by some there had visualized scenes forever departed. ee years of time, the most of which was spent in - - ! )us, in order to secure Historical e-x-cujiucsa iu cvciy >elig Polyscope Co. spent a fortune to make this , i. He sent a committee of scholars to Spain. hey secured the original log-book of Columbus is' son. By signing a bond for $10,000.00 Mr. untry. From these authentic sources of informaMr. Selig was able to build this picture in exact tures are the original caravels presented to this elig signed a $100,000.00 bond for the safe return .'oointed. recaulked, out-fitted with new sails and j A >st of producing these pictures was over $50,000.00 seen in the cast. Never before have any of the a on a single picture, to be weighed and judged rth, historical value, dramatic charm, and spec.... ' 1 as ever been given any artistic achievement along j hat can be paid a moving picture manufacturer, I Mr. W. N. Selig, its maker. - [ with a set of the "Columbus" films by Mr. Selig e was so pleased with Mr. Selig's gift and what - Tonello, his personal blessin gs and praise, and \ picture is predicted to mark in motion picture lig a silver medal of beauiiful design, bearing his uate to express his full appreciation and desiring " even further, he had a beautiful, much treas ts place in the Vatican and sent to Mr. Selig. I lurch officials have viewed the pictures and they i private exhibitions the films have been shown to I itics, artists and historians and so far no one has ; I xluced a picture that it will be hard, if possible, g e of ereat aid to the Selig Polyscope Co. in secur- | vere used in the production and in preparing the ' | written. The Chicago Historical Society also > IA MP C rPNTQ AND 10 fFNTC rillTlU^ %J VU11AV AU1A/ AV VU1UV fDFR. Manaaftr )outh Carolina. I