The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-03-28
Col. D. A. DICKERT ON
7. B. FIELDER IN 1909
WANTED FIELDER ASKED ABOUT
uSTDNEY LUCAS WHISKEY CO."
And II He Had Made Overtures for
"Whiskey House on Paper"-lr-
teresting Correspondence.

er-Evens controversy which mas oeen
raging. it is interesting at this time 70
no+o an article written by Col. D. A.
Dickert in The Herald and News IN
Auril 1909, in which he wanted Mr.
Fielder asked eff once on time ne
didn't make overtures TO some mem
5ers Of the board of control to Or
,ganize a whiskey house (on paper
YOU know, then buy liquor when II
was cheapest, and sell it to the State
when it was dearest" and wanted Mr..
Fielder asked 'what he knows about
the Sidney Lucas Whiskey Company
of Liquor Dealers etc.
He wrote the communication in The
Herald and News referred to above
under the nom de plume of Dow, Jr.
The readers Of South Carolina news
:papers will recall a number of artl-
cles under this nom de plume in pa
pers throughout the State during the
past several years.
, Col. Dickert's attention was called
to his communication.
yes" responded Col. Dickert, ''in
a day Or two after the publication OF
that article in The Herald and News
7 received a letter from Mr.. Fielder,
directed to me in my own name, not
in the name of Dow, Jr., telling me 1
must forthwith Tetract all had writ
ten or he would put the talons of the
law upon me.
"To this letter replied that I never
ret1acted what I wrote as facts, and
furthermore as this was public mat
ter, would publish his letter and re-
ply to it in the same paper in which
my correspondence was presented; !;
that charged as false his paying $780,
900 as detective fees; that he or some
one very close to him entertained a
member of the boar! and his family
during the reunion at Nashville, TAX
ing them out to the Country club;
that he had monkeyed with the State
!board, and proposed getting up whis-
key house on paper, buy Wrhiskey when
cheapest and sell the State when
dearest. and charged him with being
or trS;ns to be the head OF myth
hnrss, The Sidney Lucas.
''To this he at once replied, acknow-
Lodging that it was his cousin that en-
Sertained the member Of the board at
Nashville, and saying that he had not
paid in actual cash the $4,000, but
was responsible fSr that much. As
for the other matter, he urged me not
to publish any more at present. saying
that he was in a position to save the
State hundreds of thousands of dol
liars, and that if I kept up this as
ssault upon him it would negative his
usefulness, consequently the State
would lose that much, and he hoped
I had patriotism enough not to jeopar-
die the States interests in so large
an amount by injudicious writing in
the paper; that after all the cases
were settled, then it would be time
enough to ventilate the matter through
the press, but not now
The letter written by COL Dickert,
published in The Herald and News Of
April 80, 1909, which called forth this
correspondence between Col. Dickert
and Mr. Fielder, is as follows:
eve notice in the Charleston and
Greenville papers that Avery Patton
was doing some talking for the press
in reference of the winding up com
mittee,'' attorneys fees, etc.
"Now, Avery should fight shy of the
reporters, as they will get him sure
Such stunts as he gave the News and
Courier won't stand sitting. That pa
per calls out like SNylock of old for
"the law" "the law" only it wants
~:conIract," "the contract"
s'It seems as if one Tom Felder's
name is much in evidence. Why?
That rising genius OF the Atlanta bar
can down ali the attorney generals
and lawyers in this State, ''contract"
or mo contract" and give them cards
and spades. Because he knows.
"Avery gives out as matter of fact
that Tom Fielder paid out thirty thous-
and dollars for detective 1ees. The