The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, March 30, 1911, Page 2, Image 2
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
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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.
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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
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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.
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