The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-03-30
LETTER TO BRICE.
In Which Fielder Scores Blease Hot
and Heavy.

Yorkville, S. c.
My Dear Mr.. Brice: l own receipt
of your valued favor of the 18th inst.
congratulate you most heartily
upon the fact that the governor OF
your State has recognized that you
and your associates of the winding
up commission are gentlemen of un-
sullied reputation and irreproach-
able character and has testlhed
thereto by decorating you with a
badge of honor. l feel that the un-
selfish, patriotic and distinguished
services rendered your State IN con-
nection with the winding up OF the
affairs of the late lamented dlspen-
sary fully entitle you to the very
great reward which you have recelv-
ed at his hands. You would be un-
true to yourself if you did not pre-
serve sacredly the written document
which evidences your dismissal from
the commission, to be handed down
to your children's children as a prize
of inestimable value.
When the history of the great SER
vices which you and your associates
have rendered the State, the sacri-
fees which you have made in con-
nection with tie thankless position
from which you have been dismissed,
is made known, as it shall be, and
that, too, in the not distant future,
I feel sure that you and each of your
associates will receive from a CRATE
full, though outraged people the well
come paludit, "Well done, thou good
and faithful servants
Yes, the time will come, and that
too, very soon, when the people OF
South Carolina will be made familiar
with the motives and purposes which
have prompted the governor of the
State of South Carolina to do the
things which he has done, in his mad,
insane and misguided efforts to shield
his associates of the plunderbund
from merited punishment.
He has done nothing which has
surprised me. I knew when he was
a candidate for Office; when he was
elected and when he was inaugural
ed, that he would "leave no stone un-
turned" to shield and protect the
criminals of the State Of South Car
elina, with whom he was on terms OF
professional, political and personal
intimacy, and his prostitution Of the
great office which he disgraces to the
service of these people is but the re-
aemption of prediction pledges
made by him, which were based not
only upon good, but valuable con-
sideration.
Indeed, the obligation that he is
under antedates his candidacy for
the governorship, being coeval with
the Inauguration of the dispensary
system in the State of South Caro-
lima. During it's existence his re-
lation to this institution and the men
who have conducted it, personally,
politically and professionally, have
been of such a character that the
course that he has pursued in rela-
ton to them since his elevation to
the governorship has been absolutely
unavoidable, and can be explained
upon the theory that 1.-THE OK know
eth his owner and the ass his mas
ter's crib
I see that he is further gratifying
his malevolence by slurring your dis
tinguished and faithful attorney gen.
eral, my law firm, my associates and
myself. 1t is passing strange that
this creature who has been, by fraud,
accident or mistake, or comblna-
ton of the trio, elevated to the chief
magistracy of a once glorious State,
who personally is sans the instincts
of a gentleman, professionally the
ethics and attributes of lawyer, and
who politically is hireling scaven-
ger of filth and falsehood, recreant
to every principle of honor and lost
to every sense of propriety, should es-
say to slander and befoul gentlemen,
"the latches of whose shoes he Is
unworthy to fasten.'
/ shall await Il fear in valn) the
appointment of the investigating COM
nittee that he demanded, to reply to
so much of his recent message as re-
lates to me, the absurdity and falslty
Of which is abundantly established
by the fact that during the four
years of my activities in the prosecu-
tion of your governors associates,
not a word has been uttered before
the insinuations made touching the
matter referred to by him. When
the time comes for action, as come it
must, 1 would have it understood