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GOVERNOR BLEASE REPLIES j ' * TO AUGUSTA "TESTIMONY" (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1). 1 statement with that legal showing? . but the question of the jurisdiction of I, i' the committee I shall waive, in order that the people of the State may judge as to the motives and purposes of such unlawful investigation which has been undertaken. Fetter's Motives. About 15 mouths ago, information came to me that one T. B. Felder, of Atlanta, Georgia, had attempted to bribe certain officials of this State, and that he had endeavored to form a conspiracy to defraud the State and her people. Letters, written by this man, were placed with me, showing conclu sively his guilt. As your chief executive, it was my duty, if it were pos, sible for me to do so, to have Felder r piaced on trial in your courts. Seeking to carry out the law of the State, I attempted to have Felder arrested. Being a man of some ability, possessed of considerable wealth, connected with certain influences and interests in the State of Georgia, supported by some men in South Carolina who hated me more than they loved their State, be- . in? unscruDulous in his methods, knowing that tie was guilty of the ( charges that I had brought against , him and fearing to face an honest , South Carolina jury, Felder evaded j arrest and has continuously since re- { mained a fugitive from the justice of , this State. . Thinking to justify the criminal j course he has pursued and was pur- < suing, at the same time endeavoring t to prepare himself to meet the issue j* if I ever succeeded in placing him in j t H the dock, from his office in Atlanta Pel- l | ? der began to issue vituperation against i me and the people of South Carolina ^ who had chosen me to the high office } I hold. His filthy slanders were dis- * played with great glee by the news- g paper combination that has been, and j is yet, seeking to deprive me of the <j place of leadership I occupy with the a fife. citizens of this State. it Threats That Were Jokes. c Felder knew, as the whole world h knew, that the majority of the members of your general assembly were ^ opposed to me and my administration, ? this opposition mainly due to the fact t that T attempted to stav the hand of 8 ith&t legislature which was continu- * ously taking from the pockets of the E taxpayers of the State their money to t: Jjestow it in an extravagant and waste- t fal manner. This creature threatened t loudly to have me impeached and pro- ^ claimed that he would give to that ic I inimical legislature a "book" revealing r what he termed to be "the crimes of c Got. Blease." The legislature met - and remained in session for 40 dajjs. "Felder's book" became a joke, and g those newspaper editors and my other i i< I prejudiced political enemies, who were j r waiting with impatience for me to be n driven from the office you entrusted to ]\ any care, wore sore expressions on a their faces and had to confess that ^ their one-time hero was a liar and a e bluffer, and that Gov. Elease was an t lionest and upright official. But, the i ij slanderous eruptions from the impure it mind, foul mouth and slanderous peu n Tom Felder continued?and he an- t g nounced that he would appear before j ti the legislative committee in the State |j I of South Carolina and give the facts ja I* and letters to show that I had had i y tVLiuyi ueanuga vvuu iuc viu uwitr q \ * dispensary. This appearance he put off j 0 [ - tram time to time, his action being |y : sanctioned by the committee, and he jg has up to this time, so far as I am in- j 0 formed, not even paid your Stats a v visit. c ? Plenty of Money aad Scomnirels. ; d { Tr> the mpanfimp. having determined !tl to make some kind of "showing," and je 5 having been urged on by my enemies, jb f and knowing that he had notaiug, and ! G | could get nothing, that wouU be to | my discredit, either as a man or as an |s } official, Felder hit upon the plan of J' t "making a case" against 1113 even if (tl 5 lie had to resort to bribery and perjury. |it ? YT? AAIIAJ 4- /N V?ir. cccicf j do % ttfi i I j o I h \ IX<j VxXllCU. IV UlS (MOWkaut.^ IT u< ? | Burns and his associates, who are pri- j F | irate detectives and are alwaj's on the; v i lookout for the dishonorable task of j ft j: blackening the good reputation of j ? I some honest man or woman and black- io | mailing even their own employers.! S This crew of Felder's was put to n "work in South. Carolina; they had in- a structions to dig back into my past; ? to trail my footsteps and the footsteps 1 my relatives and friends; to t inquire of every man with whom I 1; had had business, as an individual or c an nffirial in their endeavors to t I find something' wrong or ungentleman- c i ly that I had done, and their instruc- t tions went further, that if no wrong I ! could be found, then to make it appear a " * ' - ' 1 A XS,,^ r '! mat wrong naa own iuuuu. xmgc 1 sums of money were given these c sleuths?Fafcter himself admitting un- e K der oath (if his oath be worth any- f p thing) that he gave one of these men t at one time the sum of $2,000; and the J Atlanta Journal, as will appear from j Its niorning edition of July 16, is au- i thority for the statement thar. the "investigations" made by Felder and his detectives have already cost him between $15,000 and $20,000. The Gallant Bod} Guard. After my speech at Bishopville, when it was seen that the people of South Carolina would reelect me to the office of governor, this Felder, the legislative committee wuicu was uaning to his every whim, and a number of my political enemies, in their desperation, decided that it would be best to bring to the attention of the people the result of their contemptible and dirty methods and matters. They realized that something had :o be done to counteract the strong wave which, from the mountains to the seacoast, was rolling me once more into the leadership of my people. But Felder and his detectives would not come to South Carolina. The excuse of this / coward for his refusal to come across the Savannah river was that he feared I would have him killed. This man, who for so long has proclaimed his bravery, with an array of henchmen and thugs to protect him, admitted his ! Pear to come into the peaceable State of South Carolina, even in the open j daylight, although he knew as all of j you knew, that I did not attend the meetings of the committee, and that I had not sent and would not send any one to represent me before it Felder termed all my friends and supporters is assassins and cutthroats; he made 20 appeal for protection; if he had lone so, I should gladly have given it I :o him and would, with pleasure, have i ippointed as an escort of honor and i joayguard tnose Drave men n. a. uar- . isle, G. "W. Sullivan, J. H. Clifton, F. J tf. Cary and J. J. Evans, and of this | jallant company I would have made ! JV. F. Stevenson (commonly known as 'Seaboard Bill") the captain. I am rure that these six men. could have >rotected their friend, "Colonel" Fel Ler, and had they failed in their efforts i _ j l a i_ ~ *4 1 J I ma iicui ne own as&assiuiueu. it wuuiu Lave happened that the proper number ?f his best friends were present to Lave become pallbearers. In the past few days, and since he . vent before the committee at Au;usta, one of Feider's famous detec ives, the man who the newspapers ay followed a daring kidnaper into he "bad lands" of Dakota, has adaitted also that he fears assassinaion in your State. Some may regret hat this daring detective' has made his confession, but I, for one, am glad, \ ecause it piay tend to discourage the ! ustom of the youths of our State to 1 ead, withv joy, the daring acts and j ourage ot wick carter. FeMer Crowd Afraid. So, the obliging commit: ee of the louth Carolina general assembly, anxdus to get "something" that would put ae "in a hole," concluded that 'if the nountain would not come to Mahomet, lahomet would go to the mountain," md they left your fair land and went o Augusta, in a foreign State, at your xpense to the tune of $5 per day each, : o sit with wide-open ears and .search- ; ag eyes, to hear and gee such revela- < ions as they hoped would blacken the < ame of your governor, although it dis ;raced their own State. Now, I want! o uncloak this committee of Felder's; | want you people to Jrnow that, in j ddition to Felder's fears of coming to j our State, because of the bribery ] harges against him here, he had an- : ther cause for not coming; I wish < ou to know why this committee of ; louth Carolinians, misre preservatives ! f the honest citizenship of your State, . tat?a ri'illirj or f roil ^iom'+Tr nf AJit* i v> 1111113 LU uail Lllv U.X^JLXILJ' VI VUi ommonwealth in the dust at the bid- : ing of a bribe-taker and perjurer, and b.is is the reason?any testimony givn by Felder or any of his henchmen i efore that committee in the State of leorgia, however false and without < >undation, would not subject the man o' swearing to prosecution for per- < irv. Perjury is a serious crime under : tie laws of our State; a conviction of ; results in imprisonment at hard laor, without the alternative of a fine. 1 'elder knew that he and his hirelings i -*ere going to swear to outrageous ' alsehoods, and the fact of their being I ilsehoods could be established with ut question. He knew that a jury of!' k)uth Carolinians would convict any ' lan proved guilty of falselv swearing way or attempting to swear away the ood reputation of an honest man. 'his vile creature and this commitee, a majority of its members being iwyers, knew that Felder and his gang ; ould testify to anything they desired o swear to at Augusta and go free f the punishment for perjury, because hat committee, acting under the ap>ointment of a South Carolina body tnd under South Carolina laws, wras iot recognized by the laws of the State if Georgia, and that committee could i tot compel any person to appear beore it in Augusta, had no power in hat State to punish for contempt, and j: \ i no power under the laws of Georgia to administer an oath and no power to bring a prosecution in that State for false swearing. I wish to remind you that, accord ing to the Columbia State, Felder was represented at the Augusta hearing by "seven able and prominent lawyers of the State of Georgia." It took not only the South Carolina lawyers who were present as members of that committee, and W. F. Stevenson, of Cheraw, (the leader of the Jones faction in the last session of the general assembly), but Feider, although a lawyer himself, had to have the assistance of seven other lawyers, before i friendly committee, to help him bring out his malicious and dirty fabrications. Taking Up "Charges" Separately. But what did Felder, his detectives, his lawyers and his committee do and say in Augusta? These are the matters which for several days you had displayed before you and which I shall now answer to the complete vindicaition of my own good name?if you have any doubt as to my good name? and to the vindication of the honor of the tSate*we love. I have not a copy of the testimony or pretended testimony taken before the committee; this testimony has not vot Konn filaH Txritli til a cc.r>rotorr nf J VV WVU AAAV/Vfc II 11.4* WUV, VUUi VI state. I must take the charges and insinuations made by Feldsr from the newspapers. I have concluded to quote them from the Colum.bia State, for I am sure none of you will feel that that paper has misquoted anything: or done anything that would be ft to my benefit, and in quoting from the acts of this newspaper I wish you also bear in mind that those reports were written by one Joe Sparks, and that Sparks is the man whom I ordered out of the governor's office last year because of his wilful misrepreeantoHAno rvf ma It is a hard task to cover everything mentioned in all the stuff printed from Felder and his associates, it being so voluminous, the purpose of the men seeking to injure you and me being to say much and write much, hoping that you would believe some one'thing; but, I shall endeavor to refer to every report, rumor, accusation auu eiaiitier uyrn tuts vne pensuu iu which he attempts to cast reflection upon me and my State. I take them u& one by one, in the following manner, submitting my answer to each of them separately. Heyward County A most ridiculous charge is that of the "Heyward county" matter, wherein Felder claims that I called the election for the proposed county of Hey ward, and after the bill passed, Fred Dominick, my former law partner, "was employed and paid a substantial fee to influence executive action thereon. . . . That the compensation received for his (Dominick's) services was substantial, and that he obtained the desired results at my hands and that his fee was divided | with TTSft " Gov. Ansel ordered the election for "Heyward county." The legislature had nothing to do with passing a bill for that county. Some of the citizens of Aiken county applied to me for an order calling off the election which Gov. Ansel had ordered, and in the matter they were represented by Col. D. S. Henderson, of Aiken; R. H. Welch, Esq., of Columbia; Geo. T. Jackson, Esq., of Augusta, and Fred. U TToft r\f VaM-Viorrv ran. I U. L/l/liilillV./IVy XJ 04., \J1. x'V. ?T WCi A J J j resenting the interests of Heyward county. After a hearing before me, [ decided with the people represented j by Col. Henderson and annulled Gov. | Ansel's order of election?m\ decision j being directly opposite to the side j represented by Mr. Dominick. Either of the attorneys mentioned : will gladly corroborate, these statements if corroboration be desired. The records in the governor's office are 5pen to public inspection, and those records show conclusively that Fei-! tier's charge is not only maliciously j false but laughable. "The Legislative Syndicate/' The statement has ueen made by Felder that he had information that, i in the year 1900, there was a legisla- ; tive syndicate in South Carolina, or- J ^anized for the purpose of controlling . legislation, and that I was,' or that 11 claimed to be, the head of that syndi- ! T vaii +r\ I.inni'rc nf #Vip ' udtc. 1 O-Div JV/U IV iu\^uftAv v*. V?| members of the general assembly at that time, If they have now, or at that time had, any knowledge of the existence of that syndicate. I never heard of it until this fugitive made his statement. If I did control legislation in 1900, when I was but an humble member of that body, I had more power than I had in the years 1911 and 1912, ' T 4-V*o4- ^/\t T?c.l/1nr nrvi* 1UI' 1 <1111 ^Uic LULCLC liv/c v ? ^11 1 AiVt | the members of this committee who axe following him, will charge that I had any control over your last general assembly. Postal Telegraph Company. Felder charges that in 1900 he visited Columbia for the purpose of op (posing the passag^ of ;i bill affecting [ the Postal Telegraph company. He asks this statement: "I vvent down to the Jerome hotel, where Senator Coleman L. Blease was stopping " He further states that in discussing the proposed legislation with me that I "de ! manded that he "come across with the quid pro quo (meaning money)." Without stopping to comment on jFelder's admission that he was the attorney and paid lobbyist of a large corporation, I will simply state that in 1900 I was not a member of the State senate, and did not become a member of that body until the session I jof 1905, and that during all the four ! ! VMrs T TL'cto o Qtafo eon'itnr T otftnnoil ! J VV%i. v3 Jk HMO M WVUU'VAf X | at Wright's hotel. If proof of these statements be desired, I refer you to the journal of the State senate for the year 1900, and to Mr. Robert Courtnay Wright, of Columbia, S. C., who, during the four years I was a member of State senate, was manager of Wright's hotel. I emphatically deny j that I ever had, at any time, while a j member of the State senate, or the j House of representatives, any transactions or any discussion with T. B. Felder about any matters of legislation. "Bickert's Four Thousand Dollars." As to the charge that the sum of $4,000 was paid by Monroe Bickert to 'H. H. Evans and myself, or to Evans in mv presence in the <;itv nf Atlanta some years ago, is 3, wilful falsehood. Mr. H. H. Evans fought me for election to the senate and did all he could for my opponent, Mr. Kibler, of Newberry, and until some time after my election to the senate, Mr. Evans and myself were merely on speaking terms. I have never, at any time, been in the city of Atlanta with Mr. H. H. Evans, and never at anv tima haA anv transaction with hiin or the firm of I Blumenthall & Bickert, ?md no amount of money whatever has ever been paid me by H. H. Evans at any time or for % any service. No money has ever been paid to him, to my knowledge, for me, and if so, he has certainly never delivered it to me, and certainly no money has ever been paid him by any person or persons in my presence for any purposes, either official, unofficial, personally or professionally, as the affidavit of Mr. Evans nereto attached will show. State of South Carolina. Rirhian/i I ' I . J County. 1 Personally appeared before me, H. H. Evans, who being duly sworn, says, that he resides in the city of Newberry. That the statement of T. B. Fel- t der or any other person that the sum \ of $4,000 was ^>aid over to him by j Monroe Bickert in the presence of Cole t i L. Blease, in the city of Atlanta, about | 1 the year 1905, is totally false Depon- * ent further says that foe has not at 1 c any time, for the said Cole. L. Blease, i or for the benefit of the said Cole. L. \ Blease, had paid to him by any person whatsoever any sum of money what- ~ ever. And deponent also says that he was never in his life in the city of Atlanta in company with Cole. L. Blease. That in 1904 the deponent was E against Blease in the race of the latter n for the State senate from Newberry a county, supporting Hon. Arthur Kib- "V ler for that position. That from that time on for about two years the deponent. and Blease were not friends towards each other. TT T.T T7*** Spartanburg about seven, years ago; later in the senate of this State, and ~ also when I was a candidate for gover- ? nor in 1906, 1908 and 1910. The reports of the investigating committee ^ referred to, will show the testimony of Mr. E. A. Smvthe, taken before that committee, in which he stated that he was present at the conversation between Lanahan and Park-*;', at which ^ time Parker claims Lanahan made the statement that I represented his S) house, and Mr. Smythe says that no such, statement was made by Lana- fi han. Soon after Parker's statement, ti I published affidavits of a number of S1 gentlemen showing conclusively that he had misrepresented both Lanahan ^ and myself. These affidavits I submit f( herewith, and a statement of Mr. v, Smythe, taken under oath before the 0: investigating committee. ^ 7' a * _ c~..4-u n - ? ouxtt? ul ouuiu v^aroiiaa?Lounty oi _____ \ (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3). H ii. xx avails. Sworn to before me, *he 19th day of jj July, 1912. B. F. Kelley, (L. &) A Notary Public for So. Ca. b u s As to Lanahan Whiskey House. s Felder asserted that I represented, several years ago, Lanahan & Com pany, liquor dealers of Baltimore, in this State, and secured purchases for h that house frbm the State dispensary v board. This charge is hoary with ^ age and was first made by Lewis W. f{ Packer, the head of rhe mill merger e which I am now fighting. The whole o matter was threshed out before the dispensary investigating committee at j Clearin HBHUHHI Of All My Sto Gloves, Mitl They have beer that will insure tii selling. Come b< \ > gone. See My Better Goods at t M A vrc B00I lTl/tlEd VAR The House of a 1 v {0 SIS, I Ctei . GET A?PEiOIO:Z Eat AI! I Want to Now., No More . Gat on the Stomach or Sour Stomach. No More Heavy Feeling After * Meals or Constipation.* No matter what you've tried without j retting relief JUST TRY simple buckhorn bark, glycerine, etc., as compounded n ADLER-I-KA! You will be surprised it the QUICK results and you will bs ruarded against appendicitis. The VERY nRST DOSE will help you and a short reatment with ADLER-I-KA will make rou feel better than you have for years. This new German appendicitis remedy intisepticizes the stomach and bowels md draws off all impurities. A SINGLE DOSE relieves gas on the stomach, sour stomach, constipation, nausea or heavy 'eeling after eating almost AT ONCE. short treatment often cures an ordinary ;ase of appendicitis. JT T?. G. MATES. TEACHER WAITED. r Experienced male teacher to teach Ixcelsior school. Salary $60 per lonth for term of seven months. All < pplications to be in before July 25. frite any one of the undersigned. D. B. Cook, Prosperity, R. F. D. J. C. Singley, Slighs, R. F. D. 4 J. A. C. Kibler, Prosperity, R. F. D. | ? ^ . Only a Fire Hero ut the crowd cheered, as, with burned ands, he held up a small round box, Fellows!" he shouted, "this Bucklen's j-nica Salve I hold, has everything i eat foJr burns." Right! also for boils, J leers, sores, pimples, eczema, cuts, prains, bruises. Surest pile cure. It ubdues inflammation, kills pain. On7 25 cents at W. E. Pelham's. AXXUAL MEETING. The annual meeting of the stockolders of the Farmers' Bank, of Silerstreet, will be held in the presient's office at Silverstreet, S. C., on ! [onday, July 29, 1912, at 11 o'clock, - ? Al* ? *1 A.% A ^ /VMM 3i" cue yji- uiicbivia I.ULX? nsuing year, and for the transaction f other business. Please attend in person or by proxy. W. A. Asbill, Cashier. OBSON'S LITER TONE BEATS CALOMEL __ o >*eed Kow to Bisk Tour Healthj Taking Dangerous Drug?Kew Eemedy is Guaranteed. Next time your liver gets sluggish nd you feel dull and headachy go to < 7. G. Mayes drug store and get a bote of the successful medicine, Dod- : :>n's Liver Tone. It will start your liver, gently but rmly, and cure an attack of constipaon or biliousness without any re triction of habit or diet Dodson's Liver Tone is a pleasant ? isting vegetable liquor, for both chilren or grown people. Its use is not >llowed by any of the bad after-effects < rhich sometimes follow taking cal- < mel. j W. G. Mayes drug store will give you mnnttr Kor?v if vnij dn rifvt find it UU1 xuvuvjr uuvu, a.? * ~ ? ? ? perfect substitute for calomel. Sow is the time to subscribe to The x-rald and News, $1.50 a year. ] J' ' . - - V " -;--j ?'' . . . ' >. : ' ig Sale j j aIt nf PqcaIiqII ' t/li U1 UfldCUOU j s and Bats ' = 1 te fastest kind of ' < _ ? ?? ; ? . store they are all - - j-<X 4 r- ?Window : 'm I : ,vr. he Same Price at housand Things ? .'. -5 <S> BABBECUE NOTICES. ? + (Barbecae notices $1.00 each np to eight lines; all oyer eight lines at the rate of one cent a word.) 11 ' we win give a first class barbecue at Keitt's grove August 20. A good dinner is guaranteed. 0. A. Felker. ? B. M. Suber. I will give a first-class barbecue at my residence Tuesday, August 13, State campaign day. WiH sell meat and basil at 11 o'clock. 7-9-tf. . J. M. Counts. We will give a barbecue at Mt Pleasant on campaign day, Tuesday, July 23. Dinner 50 and 40 cents. We will also serve cold drinks during the Jntf rpl>ir* ? ? ^ ^ I will furnish a first class Barebue at the residence of Col. D. A. Ruff, Thursday, July 25, 1912. Enjoyment for young and old. Good dinner i$ guaranteed. David Ruff. ' We will furnish a first class Barbe- 4 cue at Perry Halfacre's Mill, Saturday, August 3rd, one of the regular campaign meetings and will furnish all conveniences for the public and candidates. T. T. and C. L. Ruff. We, the undersigned, will furnish a first-class barbecue at the residence of W. W. Kinard, known as the Jno. B. Fellers' place, one mile north of Prosperity, Thursday July 25. A good dinner guaranteed, air invitation is extended to all. J. D. H. Kibler will cook the-'cue. Wilbur W. Kinard, I. H. Wil son. . . Wilbur W. Kinard. I. H. Wilson. We will give a first-class barbecue 4 at Williams' Store Friday, July 26, campaign day. Good dinner guaranteed and plenty of cold drinks. Ladies and children especially invited. J. W. Sanders. ft W. fhanman. ender their annual report. J. M. Davis, Chairman. S >Tow is the time to subscribe to The fferald and News, $1.50 a year. < ' . --I " c We will give a first-class barbecue at the residence of B. H. Wilson on Wednesday, July 24. A first-class dinner guaranteed. W. H. Suber. ? B. H. Wilson. NOTICE SCHOOL MEETESG. nf Newberry graded X J-A V> VI UW l/V VM V4 V W w w schools desire to give due notice that ;here will be a citizens meeting in the lountf court house on July 23rd at 11 >'clock at which time the trustees will " via. *. mis is out; ui/eumg ui IUB county campaign, and we will prepare a Sne dinner and expect a large crowd. - v G. H. Cromer and Son. I will give a first class Barbecue at Longshore's store, campaign day, Tuesday, August 6, 1912. ^ J. M. Counts. I will give a first-class Barbecue at my residence, County Campaign day, flfl Monday, August 26,1912. t % ih <1. 1U. VyUUatB. ^ We will give a first-class Barbecue , at Pomaria, S. C., on Saturday, July 27, 1912. A good dinner is guaranteed. - * Governor Blease and other candidates will make speeches. * J. Walter Richardson, George Richardson. ???????__?_____ ?