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FELDER ASKS QUESTIONS H* RETURNS TO CHARGE WITH LETTER DEMANDING PROBE. Says When Blease Answers These, He Will Propound Further Inquiries as to Conduct. The following letter was published by the Columbia State last Friday. Although addressed to the News and Courier, and was called forth by a telegram to Felder, it was not published in the Charleston paper: Charleston News and Courier, Charleston, S. C. Dear Sir: I received last night the following T. D.: ".Reported you offered Towill immunity from prosecution for $5,000. Please wire reply. "News and Courier." To which I replied: "Statement jg? r that I offered Towill or anybody else immunity from prosecution for $5,000 or any other amount, a base and p.. ' unmitigated lie." I beg to confirm this answer and to say that the next report, I take it, will be to the effect that Towill der " J n.f r>rmrt iciinea my unci un au < iw vi sel," the advice coming from the general counsel of the plunderbund Cole L. Blease. On yesterday I mailed a communication to you for production in the columns of your paper. As I recall, I stated in the article that I would not further trespass upon your space until after the lapse of 30 days. { Upon reflection, I feel that I should withdraw this proposition, so that I may give to the people of South Carolina through the columns of your paper some reasons why "His Fraudulency," Cole L. Blease, should approve the joint resolution creating a committee to investigate the conduct of the late winding-up commission and the agents and attorneys thereof, together with the conduct of all other persons who have had relations with the winding-up commission or the late South Carolina dispensary. The people of the State are entitled to know all the facts and the only possible way for them to acquire this knowledge is through the medium of this investigating committee, but fearing that the governor might object to the investigat Vl ing committee turning the search/ light upon the .conduct of AttorneyIk \ Blease, and that this consideration \ might impel him to veto the joint resolution, by way of emulation of his example in having recourse to the public prints, as the proper fe;,. means for ventilating these matters, I wish to propound to him a few questions which, if they should fail to i impress mm as being pertinent ana relevant, will doubtless have a conPv" ' trary effect upon the public mind. .They are as follows: 1. During your incumbency as a State senator, please tell the people Ip&I of South Carolina what vote you cast against and on what occasion you spoke in opposition to any measure pending in that body, aimed at the regulation or abolishment of the old State dispensary as an institution, or inimical to the interests of v those who managed its affairs? 2. Why did you, as a senator, oppose all measures pending in that body, having for their object and ;% purpose the investigation of the coniduct of the affairs of said institution and the honesty of the management thereof? 3. Why did you, as a member of the committee, created by joint resolution, charged with the duty of investigating the affairs of the said institution and the conduct of the i officials thereof, use every artful means and canning device to stifle the investigation and thwart the obiects thereof. 4. Why did you, pending the sessions of the aforesaid committee, meet daily and nightly during the recesses of said committee with the dispensary officials, whose conduct was under investigation, and discuss with them and their friends who at, tended said caucuses ways and means for securing for them a whitewash? Is it not true that said caucuses were attended by divers liquor dealers, who participated in your deliberations; that at said caucuses the course to be pursued by you as senator was agreed upon and followed by you to the letter? Senator for Grafters? 5. Is it not a fact that when the resolution was pending carrying an appropriation of $15,000 to be used by the attorney general in the prosecution of grafters, you opposed the passage of the same by your vote and influence; that in your opposition you spoke frequently against it and resorted to every parliamentary device to compass the defeat of the same? If you should answer this question in the affirmative, then I would ask if the course you pursued in Tolotirm thprptn was not thp rpsnlt of an agreement that you made with the representatives of certain liquor houses, who were oh the ground resisting in every way possible the passage of said resolution? Did \ A NEW POSTOFFICE. Modern Building Will be Provided for Barnwell's Mail. Barnwell, March 24.?Another mark of Barnwell's commercial progress is that the town will soon be provided with a modern postoffice building, with new fixtures throughout. A call for bids for a suitable building has been issued by A. J. Knight, postoffice inspector of Savannah, Ga.t to be made by April 15, the contract to be let for from five to 10 years, and to be dated July 20, 1911. It is understood that only two bids have been made up to the present time. you not receive adequate compensation for your efforts in this behalf? 6. Is it not true that between the date of your election to the governorship and the date of your message in which you recommended the raising of the joint committee you had several caucuses with your criminal associates whom you were under obligation to protect, when and where a conspiracy was hatched to thwart the efforts making for the punishment of you clients who had plundered the State, and is it not true that in order to effectuate the object of this conspiracy it was agreed that you should do certain things which you have since done? Coming from generalities to specifics, I will enumerate them: To Control the Bench? (a) Did you not agree that no special judge should be appointed to preside over any of the courts of the State where the grafters were under indictment except of your own selection; that you could afford to take no chance of getting another judge to try your clients like the one who presided in Chester? (b) Did you not agree, in these caucuses to pardon any citizen of South Carolina who might be convicted under pending or future indictments, and that you would issue no requisitions for foreigners. (c) That you would dismiss the winding-up commission so that they could not, under authority reposed in that body by the act creating it, continue their investigations, and in dismissing these commissioners were you or not influenced by the further consideration that they had issued a subpoena for one of your political lieutenants in the State; that he had ignored the same and they had issued a rule nisi requiring him to show cause why he should not be attached for contempt? (d) In these several caucuses, when the difficulty in obtaining the approval of the prison commission of your State to the course to be pursued was under discussion, did you not advise your confederates that you had at hand the means for overcoming this difficulty, to-wit: ignoring the prison commission? On Horseback. (e) Did you or any of those who were in caucus with you, suggest that on the theory that "the end jus tified the means," in effectuating the object of this conspiracy, you could safety resort to any means, from character assassination to personal assassination; that after so long a time you "had the whip handle," or were "in the saddle," or some phrase of similar or substantial import? 7. What compensation did you receive from the .liquor dealers and what "rake off" did you get from the dispensary officials when you were "senator at law?" The Campaign Fund. 8. While perhaps not so pertinent, j I consider the following relevant: What campaign fund did you have; at your command when you were a candidate for governor? How much was raised before the first primary on/1 Vi nnT Katniaan flifl fircf anH auu uv/rr muvu vvu tuv uiut second primaries? What liquor houses or dealers, corporations or the agents of corporations, contributed this money? If you should answer (which I do not think you will, because it is the truth) that very large sums of money were raised, kindly state whether it was used to debauch the electorate of your State. In conclusion: You honored the State of Georgia recently by paying her an official visit. What ex-dispensary officials and liquor dealers entertained you in the city of Atlanta and in the city of Augusta? What conferences, if any, did- you have with them with reference to your future official conduct? Lastly, why don't you approve that joint resolution that you demanded? I understand that you say that the senators appointed on the part of the senate as members of the committee are not satisfactory to you. Would you be willing to approve that resolution if the names of all of the senators and all the members of i the house should be put into a hat I or box and shaken up and the names ' f f A m i f + aa Via I iur IlltllilUCldiiip uii ^v/munticc uc I | drawn therefrom? When you have answered the above and foregoing, I have a few more questions to submit for your consideration. Yours very truly, T. B. FELDER. HOT TIME AHEAD. So Says Thos. B. Felder in Letter to "The State." To the Editor of The State: I desire through your columns to asknowledge receipt of numerous letters, telegrams, lettergrams and telephone messages, couched in the most commendatory and laudatory terms anent the Blease controversy, which have come to me during the past 24 hours from hundreds of citizens throughout the State of South Carolint. When these messages began to come, naturally my first impulse was to make separate answer to each, but to do so would require a large increase in an already expensive steographic force, more time than I have personally to spare from other duties, besides a large outlay for postage stamps. In my pursuit of "his fraudulency" and his clients, the colossal fee (?) received by me from the State of South Carolina has suffered great diminution, and with the prospect of having to use more of it in my efforts to scourge from the "high places" of your State those who disgrace them, I must husband my resources and content myself with tendering to those citizens of your State who commend me in my course in the premises my grateful asknowledgements through the columns of your paper. From the deluge of communications pouring in upon me with every mail delivery, and through other channels above mentioned, I am constrained to think that Blease secured his election to the governorship through public neglect of a sacred private duty, to wit: The exercise of the elective franchises. Many of those who have been kind enough to communicate with me are urging me to use greater activity in "turning on the light." I beg to assure them that when I have finished that the place described in Holy Writ which has been set apart as the eternal abiding place for sinners will be a very summer resort in comparison with the "warm time" that I shall give "his fraudulency" and his allies-. I hope to find time to prepare another set of interrogatories for him at an early date. When they are ready, I shall "perfect service" upon him through the columns of your paper. THOMAS B. FELDER. Atlanta, Ga., March 24, 1911. P. S.?I note that the celebrated "gun-play artist," the "Mt. Pelee" of Newberry, is in eruption?that the seismic shocks are unsually violent and the lava which he belches forth threatens destruction of everybody, except his attorney "of the State at large." I take it that for the present at least, I will be excused from tak| ing further notice of his "frothings J and foamings," my excuse for doing | so being that I can not afford to 1 - ? i t- _ UT-i 1 M abandon my cnase or me oig iiyeua to pursue a very small mouse. I will say, however, that th9 conduct | at this time of this grim-visaged "fe, ! fo, fi, fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman,"is in striking 'contrast with that displayed by him on the occasions of his numerous visits to me during the past four years at the Colonia and Jerome hotels (my apartments in the city of Columbia) and my office in the city of Atlanta. On the occasion of each visit I arranged to Jiave reliable witnesses "hard by" to hear all that was said, "to be sure." If my recollection serves me right the name of his "general counsel," formerly of Newberry, now of the State at large, to whom he honored me by an introduction at the Caldwell hotel in Columbia in 1903; (I think this is the name of the building, situated jhst opposite the Columbia hotel in the city of Columbia) was mentioned by him on these occasions more than I once. I wonder if he and his general counsel remember this meeting in Columbia and what was said on that occasion; if so, they may find in it another "grain of sand" from their mountain. T. B. F. P. S. No. 2.?I think "M't. Pelee" can with safety cease to erupt, as I feel sure that his "governor-attorney," erstwhile "senator-attorney," will keep the contract made with him to pardon his brother-in-law, Wash Hunter, and himself, if Eraser Lyon should convict him. His recent performances no doubt have had the effect of healing the breach between him and his "governor-attorney," which has existed for many months, and which resulted from information considered satisfactory by his "governor-attorney" that he had been "telling things" to the "Atlanta law yer" and Fraser Lyon on the "senator-attorney," now "governor-attorney" and the balance of the gang. T. B. F. P. S. No. 3.?I take it for granted that "his fraudulency" has not approved the joint resolution passed by the last general assembly, which he demanded should be passed. T. B. F. If your business demands printing of the better class, give your work to The Herald office. / . . HE DEFIES THE COURT. Blease Refuses to Appoint Ernest Moore as Special Judge. "Ira B. Jones can mandamus or God-damus or do anything he pleases. "I am not going to appoint Ernest Moore as special judge for the Union county court. "You can take back these papers." Gov. Blease used this language last Saturday to R. E. Wylie, attorney of Lancaster, who called on him to se cure a commission for Ernest Moore of Lancaster as special judge for the special term of civil court in Union which commences next Monday. The papers referred to were a letter from Mr. Moore to Mr. Wylie and the recommendation of Chief Justice Jones. Mr. Wylie at once left the office. A recommendation from Chief Justice Jones asking that Ernest Moore be appointed as special judge for Union county was presented to Gov. Blease by Mr. Wylie, upon the request of Mr. Moore. Mr. Wylie was in Columbia on business and he, as a favor to Mr. Moore, who was unable to come here, made an investigation as to whether the commission had been issued as requested. Gov. Blease refused to read the recommendation of the supreme court. , Situation in Union. There seems to be some misunderstanding as to the special judge matter for Union county. Gov. Blease said that he refused to commission Ernest Moore because the Union County Bar association had withdrawn the recommendation of Mr. Moore for special judge. "I received a letter to this effect," said Gov. Blease, "and also asking that W. H. Hunt of Newberry, Chas. Carroll Simms of Barnwell or R. O. Purdy of Sumter be commissioned in place of Ernest Moore." Gov. Blease said that the letter,was received from John R. Hamlin, the secretary of the Union County Bar association. Gov. Blease said that he had later received tne recuuiuieuutimjii vy Chief Justice Jones, but "since the recommendation of the Union County Bar association was withdrawn I, of course, refused to appoint Mr. Moore." This means that there will be another controversy between the supreme court and the governor on the appointment by the judicial department of the government. The Union County Bar association petitioned Chief Justice Jones to appoint Ernest Moore as special judge for a special term of the civil court to commence in that county next Monday. The following letter was addressed to Gov. Blease by Chief Justice Jones, xl X T71 ~ -x recommending uiai niruesi, xviltuic; uc commissioned special judge: "Hon. C. L. Blease, Governor. "Dear Sir: Pursuant to section 2743, volume ljcode of laws, I have ordered special term of common pleas for Union county for the trial of civil cases not requiring a jury, for the week commencing March 27, inst. "There being no circuit judge disengaged so as to hold the court, I respectfully recommend that you issue a commission to Hon Ernest Moore, of Lancaster, S. C., learned in the law, as special judge to hold the said court. "IRA B. JONES, "Chief Justice." Ernest Moore is one of the best known attorneys in the State and has served as special judge on several occasions. He tried the case against John Black and sentenced the former dispensary official to five years in the penitentiary. Mr. Moore was J Dot namea in Liie list ui chjil/ico recently sent to the supreme court by the governor. He Refused to Read This. The following is the letter of instructions given to Mr. Wylie by Ernest Moore, which Gov. Blease refused to read: "R. E. Wylie, Esq., Lancaster, S. C. "Dear Sir: Learning that you intend going to Columbia to-morrow and being desirous of ascertaining whether it will be necessary for me to go to Union on Sunday next prepared to open court on Monday morning, the 27th inst., I beg to ask that you will do me the favor while in Columbia of visiting the offices of the secretary of State and the governor for the purpose of obtaining information upon the point in question. "I have been informed by Hon. Ira B. Jones, chief justice, that he has ordered a special term of court for Union county for the trial of civil causes without a jury for a term of -1- ? ? ? -~-v ? 1\f n 9 ? one ween CUUliliCil^ius mai^u u I instant, and that in pursuance of section 2743 of the code he has recommended me for a commission as special judge to hold said court, which recommendation has been forwarded to the governor and a duplicate thereof signed by Chief Justice Jones I herewith enclose. Forwarded Papers. "Realizing that the time was short in response to this notification from the chief justice, I forwarded to the secretary of state on the 22nd inst. the oath of office required in such cases, with the request that in order that there might be no delay in the matter and so that the commission might be issued in time to permit me to go to Union on Sunday, the 26th inst., for the purpose of opening the court on Monday morning, I enclose herewith a duplicate of this oath. "Hearing nothing thus far from the office of the governor or secretary of state and being uncertain as to whether these papers have duly reached the hands of the governor and the secretary of State I ask that you will inquire, first, at the secretary of State's office as to whether the commission to me as special judge has been issued as required by law and if it has not been issued that you will present the inclosed letter from the chief justice to the governor, along with the inclosed oath of office, and request the governor to issue a commission accordingly. "As you are aware I am not seeking or caring for this appointment, but I should regret to see the members of the bar of Union disappointed in the matter of such special term, which they seem greatly to desire and I am for that reason asking you to ascertain while you are in Columbia whether or not the commission has been issued to me by the governor in order that I may be able to govern my course accordingly. If desireij by the proper authority you could bring me the. commission on your return Saturday night. "Yours very truly, "ERNEST MOORE." DECLINES TO DISCUSS IT. Union Man who Handled Correspondence Refuses to Make Statement. Union, March 25.?When seen by a representative of The State and asked about his correspondence with the governor in regard to the appointment of a special judge for Union court,, John R. Hamlin declined to make any statement whatsoever. The desire of the bar association was to have a court to dispose of all cases not requiring a jury. J. Gordon Hughes is secrtary of the Union Bar association but Mr. Hamlin ..has been handling the request for the special court and Mr. Hughes, the secretary, knows nothing of the correspondence. ^ O'Riley is in town. IT TOUCHES THE SPOT just right, and the effect produced stays with the drinker. Don't flood the stomach with ice water and other stuff that only bring discomfort first and dyspepsia afterwards. 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