The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-03-30


you not receive adequate compensa-
ton for your efforts in this behalf?
6. Is it not true that between the
date OF your election to the COVER
norship and the date of your mess
age in which you recommended the
raising of the joint committee you
had several caucuses with your GRIM
inal associates whom you were un-
der 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,
l 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 selec-
ton; 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 con-
victed under pending or future in
dictments, and that you would issue
no acquisitions 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 is
sued a rule nisi requiring him to
show cause why he should not be at
tached 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
tilted 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?
Z. What compensation did you re-
ceive 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,
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
and how much between the first and
second primaries? What liquor
houses or dealers, corporations or
the agents of corporations, contrib
uted 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 rails
ed, kindly state whether it was used
to debauch the electorate Of your
State.
In conclusions: You honored the
State of Georgia recently by paying
her an official visit. What ex-dis-
pensary officials and liquor dealers
entertained you in the city of At
lanta 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 demand
ed? I understand that you say that
the senators appointed on the part
of the senate as members of the COM
mittee are not satisfactory to you.
Would you be willing to approve
that resolution if the names of all of