The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-03-23
LETTER. TO BRICE
IN ! WHICH FIELDER SCORES
BLEASE HOT AND HEAVY.

.BLEASE HOT AND HEAVY.
Makes Many Grave Charges Against
the Governor, Which He Says he
Can Prove.
Hon. ]. S. Brice, Attorney at Law,
Yorkville, S. c.
NY Dear Mr.. Brice: ] own receipt
of your valued favor Of Che 18th inst.
I congratulate you most heartily
upon the fact that the, governor OF
your State has recognised that you
and your associates of the winding-up
commission are gentlemen of sunsul-
lied reputation aud iFreproachable
character, and has testified thereto
by decorating you with badge of
honor. I feel that the nnselfish, pa
triotic and distinguished services
rendered your State In connection
with the winding up Of she affairs of
the late lamented dispensary fully
entitle you to the very great reward
which you have received at his
hands. You would be untrue to your
self if you did not preserve sacredly
the written document which evidences
your dismissal from the commission,
to be handed down to yrur children S
children as a prize or inestimable
value.
When the history Of The great SER
vices which you and your associates
have rendered the STATE, the sacrl-
fees which You have made in con-
nection with the 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"
ful, though outraged people the well
come plaudit, "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 know when he. was
candidate for Office; when he was
elected and when he was inaugurateG,
that he would "leaye no stone un-
turned to shield and protect the
criminals of the.fstate. IT South Car
professional, politicalAt.end personal
intimacy aadsthisap talaior1 of-the
great Office which he. dlsgraces to the
service of these people is but the re-
olina, with whom he was on terms OF
demption, of prediction pledges
made by him, which ere 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 CT South Caro-
lima. During its existence his re-
lation to this institution and the mel,
who have conducted it, personally,
politically and professionally, have
been Of such a character that the
course that he has pursued in rela-
tion to them since his elevation to
the governorship has been absolutely
unavoidable, and can be explained
upon the theory that ''The OK know
eth his owner and the ass his mas.
ter's crib"
/ see that he is further gratifying
his malevolence by sluTring your dis
tinguished and faithful attorney gen.
eral, my law firm, my associates and
myself. It is passing strange that this
creature who has been, by fraud, &C
cident or mistake, or combination
Of the trio, elevated to the chief mag
istracy 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 a hireling scavenger OF
| filth and falsehood, Tecreant to eY-
cry principle Of honor and lost to
every sense of propriety. should es
say to SANDER and befoul gentlemen
"the latchets of whose shoes he is
unworthy to fasten."
I shall await (I fear in vain) the
appointment of the Investigating conf
mittee that he demanded, to reply tc
so much of his recent message rs re-
lates to me, the absurdity and falsity
of which is abundantly established
by the fact that during the foul
years of my activities in the prosecu'
tion of your govern or's 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 /,
must, I would have it understood
that in my treatment of your COVER
nor I shall act strictly upon the ad
vice of the late lamented Rev. Sam
P. Jones, given in notable sermon
preached by him to his congregation
to-wit: eff you shave gentleman
use a razor; If you shave a hog, use