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redress. Two letters signed "Cole",
alleged to have been addressed to a
liquor establishment, one asking for
pay for services and the other acknowledging
the receipt of $500
and expressing doubt of "Hub's"
^ reliabi.ity in money matters, are
printed. It is distinctly shocking to
South Carolinians to have "coward
or thief" applied to the Governor
of this State.
While the matter has been pub- i
lished in a responsible newspaper,
we do not feel warranted in reproducing
the language conveying criminal
charges until there is more light'
shed. Mr Felder should be made
to prove his charges, or else suffer
the penalties for gross libel.
He says in part:
If the charges I make are false,
they are libelous per se, and I am
suably solvent.
Moreover, with apologies to the
shades of my departed ancestors, I
in modesty (?) claim to be your
equal, and if you are aggx.eved by
the charges, it will be my pleasure
to meet you at such time and place
without the confines of your State
that may suit your convenience, to
the end that abundant opportunity i
may be offered to redress your griev-!
ances.
If my charges are groundless and
libelous and you do not wish to seek
personal satisfaction, you can insti
in tka TTnitorl
lUie suit against mc m uiv uuiwu
States court in the city of Atlanta?
should it be objected, however, that
this is my home county, then in any
of the subdivisions of the district.
\ As soon as suit is filed I hereby
^ promise and agree, in order to facilitate
and expedite the same and by
way of circumventing any excuse
you may offer for inaction, that I
will enter into a recognizance with
good and approved security in an
amount covering the sum sued for,
the fees of your counsel and the cost
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BLEASE DENOUNCED
BY ATTORNEY FELDER.
"a bribe taker and bribe
give:*"-agent liquor houses
-some other ugly charges.
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ThA Atlanta Constitution Satur
day published a most sensational open
letter addressed "To Cole L
Blease" and signed by Thomas B
Felder. This letter follows one of
a more general character addressed
to many newspapers.
Charges of the gravest nature are
made against the Governor of South
Carolina, and he is challenged to go
thp United States courts for
mgs. very truiy yours,
(Signed) "Cole. '
Other charges about the methods
of securing votes in the primary election
last summer follow, and Felder
closes in a caustic taunt to the Governor
of South Carolina to seek vindication.
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Commenting on the letter, the Atlanta
Constitution says editorially:
I The Constitution publishes elsewhere
an interesting, though somewhat
personal, communication addressed
by Hon Thomas B Felder to
Gov Blease of South Carolina.
"Tn who know Col Felder and
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t is hard to say whi(
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visit our Millinery 1
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al expenses and the expenses of
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your witnesses, me uui; ivuuiuvu v*
the bond be that you shall finally
prevail in the litigation.
An investigation of this court will
disclose that it is presided over by
a distinguished jurist, who, in the j
administration of the laws, knows i
neither friend nor foe, and,while his1
decisions are occasionally reversed,'
they abound in such rigid integrity '
that they are universally interpret-1
ed to be "without variableness or
shadow of turning."
Then follow the direct charges on
which Blease is invited to base his
suit for libel. They affect his conduct
while Senator from Newberry
in dealing with persons selling supplies
to the State dispensary.
Here are two letters as presented
by Col Felder.
I use your own language: From
the "mountain of evidence" in my
possession I submit for your consideration
"a few grains of sand." In
doing so I omit the name of the addressee:
"Dear Sir: I am greatly surprised
that you failed to call upon me during
your recent visit to Columbia
and arrange the matter as promised.
Spoke to Hub about it and he referred
me to you. Have performed
all services as agreed,both as to matters
pending here and as to the last
purchases by the board. Let me hear
from you at once. Read and dei
stroy. Yours very truly,
i (Signed) "Cole."
! This letter was written by you dur|
ing a session of the Legislature of
the State of South Carolina, in the
month of February, 1905, to the representative
of a well-known liquor
house which has had large transactions
with the State dispensary.
Thereafter, on March 16, 1905, you
addressed another communication to
the same party, as follows:
"Dear Sir: Since writing you on
the 26th ultimo, saw Hub. He handed
me the five hundred. Hereafter
either deal directly with me or
through J F. Confidentially cannot
rely on Hub in money matters. Hope
to see you soon and report happent
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are informed as to the chaos existing
in the political affairs of South Car
olina, it is scarcely necessary to say
that the Governor of South Carolina
has,to say the least of it,taken a circuitous
r >ute to attack Mr Felder,
his allegation, as mysterious and
misty as it is,relating to an event of
seven years ago. If there has been
anything in the Governor's position,
he was recreant in his duty in not
having given the people of his State
the benefit of his information before
now, when he suddenly springs
an attack on Col Felder in a general
fusillade in which he assaults at the
same time many prominent citizens
of South Carolina.
Gov Blease seems to have a way of
running amuck,and that he has done
so in this instance no one who knows
Col Felder will doubt.
The State cannot, of course, forecast
the course of the Governor of
CntitVi Pornlinn in thia nriaie "?Tfl
| kJVUbli V?M VI1UM 114 W444W V4 iwtw*
State.
An Optimiat's Mishap.
"I try to be optimistic, no matter
what happens."
"I suppose you would be optimistic
if you lost your job ?" v
"Yes; I would try to keep remembering
that there are other jobs to
be had."
"And you would, no doubt, keep
right on being optimistic if you
were to lose your wife?"
"Why not? I care a great deal
for my wife, but if she were taken
from me I should continue to be
hopefttl. It is always possible for a
man who has lost his wife to find
anoth?confound the luck! Darn
it all! Dash, dash, dash! That's
always the way. When a fellow has
to denend on his last match a gust
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me and
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Fron
GOODS
??Hf*?f8?4?'t* *f*~*f*? $*? &caught
the cowboys. !
A Warm Reception For "the Guy That j
Took Off the Bum."
i Tor real scenic variety give me |
l the cattle town; th j mining camp i
pales before it," said Scott Cooper,
I the actor, whose earlier fly by night
years yielded generous eiperience. j
| "This town was in Montana. It was |
in the eighties, and I was doing a I
afar nart The theater was a skat
of wind is sure to come along and
blow i*; out"?Chicago Record-Herald.
Wanted One Insida.
He had evidently been imbibing
Just a little too much. As he approached
the desk in a Denver hotel
the other night he was just a bit
unsteady.
"Want a room," he said to the
clerk.
"Ve -y well, sir," replied the clerk.
"Will you have an outside room?"
"No," came from the unsteady
one. "A room in a hotel 11 do."?
Denver Times.
Her Straight Tip.
Mr. Blank, who makes many after
dinner speeches, was called to
the telephone and found himself
talking to the young woman secretary
of a very good friend, the secretary
being a quick witted Irish
lass.
"Mr. Blank," 6he said, "Mr. Jones
wants me to tell you that a meeting
of the club and a dinner are to occur
tonight and that you are expected
to make a talk."
"Is that 60 ?" said Blank. "What
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i hill ? l\j lairv uyuui.
"Well/* responded she of the
Gaelic extraction, "if you heard
what some of them said about your
last speeeh to the club you'd talk
about two minutes."
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ancy Woolens in Spi
;h are the greatest 1
ue Serge Single Coa
Department, as we
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ing rink, with canvas walled dress- I
ing room9. The boys were all there ; I
with their "forty-fours" in heir I
holsters. .
"The curtain went down ard I "
was removing ray makeup when a |
knock came on the door. Outside I
stood a crowd of a.; least twenty- I
I
DiA. ^
" 'Where's the guy that took off
the bum ?' said one of them.
"The tone was not reassuring. I
recalled a former e:cperience when
| a m.in in the gallery had threatened
! to shoot me when, a* Bill Sikes, the
linej of the piece nwde me brutal
to Nancy. i
"In that brief moment of waiting m
I concentrated as much of my mind "
as I could, trying to remember if J1
any of my lines that night might S
have offended them. (
" 'Come, get a move on you!' said *
the spokesman. /
"There wan nothing to do but 3
face it. T am Mr. Cooper/ I said. J
I have 6poken longer lines that were i
easier to get out. >
"One man took my right arm, an- I
other mv left, and we marched off f
in 6tep, the crowd with us. Not a {
word was spoken. I felt that the 2
time had come to cash my life in- j
surance. Down the length of the 1
rink we went and through a door- (
way. In front of us was a counter
seventy or eighty feet long, and {
over it were being passed things not J
called mild. 2
"'Sing out what you want!' 1
shouted one of my escorts. There's j
nothing in the house good enough I
for vou!' Then die tension was (
utstretched upon a bed of spikes. j
rhey will hold up an arm till it
rithers in the socket. Literally IT11
hey treat the bodv as though it ca
rere a slave. The devotee is salutsd
everywhere as maharaja. Men
if wealth and position constantly !pi<
n their declining years resign their
)ossessions to their heirs and wait
or death in nakedness and poverty
>y the Ganges at Benares. Nay, it
s no uncommon thing that young :ar
nen, the products of our universi- ^
ies, should relinquish their inter- Lf}1
;sts and their ambitions and join
he wandering army of devotees .
vho, literally in sackcloth and | ,
ishes, seek grace in an unending i
ound of pilgrimages."
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lifted. V
"Well, our train pulled out at )
4:30 in the morning, and the crowd )
stayed with me. The last I saw of ^
them they were ftanding on the
platform, firing their pistols in the
air as a goodby. Those westerners
are the biggest hearted fellows in
the world."?Chict.go Record-Her- f
aid. e
According to RuU. ?
"Where's your watch ?" asked the e
observant man. c
"Why, here it is," replied the r
man whose prosperity had slipped a 1
cog or two recently. c
"But that's a silver one. The one 1
you used to carry had a handsome \
gold case." t
"Well?er ? circumstances alter v
itases, you know." 1 e
Two Kinds. i
Little Willie?Say, pa, what is j
the difference between a close f
friend and a dear friend? , I
Pa?A close friend, my son, is | i
one who will not lend you any ' i
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money, vnue a aear irienu is uue , x
who borrows all you will stand for. c
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Chamberlain's S&ShSKdE c
Never fails. Buy it new. It may save life. | j
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Profits that protects the depos
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positor has. This Bank hi
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Tie woman of today who has good
1th, good temper, good sense,
?ht eyes and a lovely complexion,
result of correct living and good
estion.wins the admiration of the
Id. If your digestion is faulty
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>lets will correct it. For sale by
dealers.
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uerry wiuow is a run
an's tobacco, but you
n get get it at a poor
aiTs price from the Peoi's
Mercantile Co, 5-iM3t
t is worse than useless to take
r medicines internally for muscuor
chronic rheumatism. All that
needed is a free application of
imberlain's Liniment. For sale by
dealers.
)ld papers for sale cheap by
i hundred at The Record
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of its depositors could lose a c
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never lost a Dollar.
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F. W. Fairey, Cashier. N.
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i of our farmers buy hay year aftei
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S our county which should be kept
K purposes. We can make forage cr
k of their cost when we have to h
think it would pay you handson
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Hinduism.
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Self renunciation is one of the hea
eatures of Hinduism. A writer brij
ays: "The ascetic life is the natural the
ruit of the pessimism of India. In djg,
to other country is such transcend- WOj
int merit attached to mortification ch?
if the flesh. Ascetics press their Tat
aartyrdom to almost incredible au
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ind is going higher. Lots V
year, instead of making O
ids of dollars to go out of A
: here for other necessary Q
ops for less than one-third X
uy same. Now don't you V
lely to buy a Mower and V
her forage crops and stop O
2 THE IT
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ou prices on the same. Q