Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-05-19
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

In Spartanburg's municipal elec'
ton last Tuesday, Mayor j. B. Lee was
defeated for reelection by Owen l.
Johnson by a majority of 52S votes
The total vote was 1928 to 795.
Hon. w. H. Brawley on last Tues
day mailed to President Taft his res
ignation as United States judge fol
the district of South Carolina. Judge
Brawley has reached the age OF II
wears and is entitled to retire on full
pay.
Governor Blease on Tuesday al
ternoon gave out a further written
statement on the mill merger question
II Is as follows: IT am receiving many
letters and personal congratulatlohs
approving my course in calling atten-
tion to the dangers Of the mill merger
If the mills are in such deploraole
condition financially, it is strange to
me that the stock is held above par
and then YOU can hardly buy 1t; fur
ther. every six months the mill peo-
pie are delighted to publish what high
dividends they are paying. Thls
seems to me to be prosperity, and nc
cause whatever for reducing the wages
Of the poor people, who are making
the money for them, or for closing
down two or three days of the week
and deriving them of work, which,
sometimes causes suffering. Dema :
TO move the wheels in factories, but l
have an idea that If some of them
were to make an appeal, they might be
able to cause a good many of the
wheels to stop, particularly when tney
convince those who are turning tne
wheels that they, at the cost OF their
children's health and lives, are making
some other people rich. Mr.. Smltn, IN
his interview on the merger, used the
word sequence When some people
see the injury that this mill merger
will do, then possibly they will see
what a sequence is. / think, II the
records are examined, they will show
that a resolution was introduced at
the last legislature to look into this
mill merger, but was not acted upon.
1t is safer for the authorities to take
charge of the matter now than II
will be to wait until, like the Standard
Oil case, the people of the United
States have to appeal to their su-
preme court to relieve them from the
burdens which will be brought upon
them. not only in South Carolina, but
in the entire south, by this merger.
It is not a personal matter, but one in
which all people who are not controll-
ed or owned by mills should be inter-
ested and the farmers and laboring
people in particular The newspa-
pers, as usual, may try to cloud the
issue by lying on me, or repeating the
lies of others, but the people are on
to the newspapers, as was fully shown
last September"
Columbia, May II: II. B. Fielder
of Atlanta, who promised to write a
book about the governor, and who
made sensational charges against the
chief executive of South Carolina, has
been ordered to appear before the
state dispensary commission here on
Nav 90 and tell what he knows. The
commission passed a resolution to that
effect late today, sustaining the action
of the old state dispensary commits
sion. The new commission today
signed an order dismissing the petit
tion of the Carolina Glass company, OF
this city, for the return of about S21,-
900 taken over in Richland county.
The commission also refused to recon-
slider the Carolina Glass case. The
claim of s. w. Scruggs OF Spartan
burg, for $4,000 alleged to be due for
services rendered the old commission
was not considered by the commission
today. The claim will come up for
consideration at the next meeting. The
attorney general, ]. Fraser Lyon, was
today requested by the commission to
proceed with the case against the
Richland Distilling company OF this
city, for the recovery of the judgment
of approximately 100000 found year
ago by the old dispensary commission.
The Fielder resolution follows: BE 1t
resolved that this commission meet on
Nav 90, 1911, and that Thomas B. Fell
der of the firm Of Anderson. Fielder,
Roundtree & Wilson, be required to
appear before said commission on that
date and furnish them with all infor-
nation in his possession or in the pos
session of his firm, in connection with
all matters and affairs of any and all
claims due or owing to or by the state
Of South Carolina from and to any and
all person or persons, in obedience to
the contract made with the late men,
hers of this commission in writing by
the said Anderson, Fielder, Round
tree & Wilson. Resolved, second, that
the said Thomas B. Fielder at the same
time be required to furnish all infor-
nation in his possession in regard to
any matter or matters connected with
the said state dispensary against any
officer Of said institution or of this
state, and particularly the governor OF
this state, the Hon. Cole L. Blease, in
accordance with his communications
heretofore made, either in person or
through the press of this state, and
that he also furnish any information
that he has in his possession, showing
any connection or any dealings in per-
son or as agent for others that the said
Hon. Cole L. Blease may have had
with the state dispensary directors or
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